| From what is cinematically a great central idea, the scriptwriters don't half strangle the film's potential, eliminating any shade between the bad and good guys. |
| Imagine spiking the special effects crew's Ovaltine with an hallucinatory drug and telling the scriptwriters to lose their inhibitions. |
| American scriptwriters, too, simply dwarf even the best French writers. |
| And its recent past is not fraught with the kind of conflicts that scriptwriters drool over. |
| And then, this meeting between Australian scriptwriters and funding bodies, which took place last year, comes to mind. |
| By this stage, the scriptwriters are into their fourteenth magic mushroom, as the plot ricochets between schizophrenia and plain stoopid. |
