The script stuffs the characters' mouths with talking points that are no less schematic for being rendered in a profane, macho, pseudomilitary vernacular.
Cyberspace will certainly be part of any future war, he says, but an apocalyptic attack on America is both difficult to achieve technically ("movie-script stuff") and implausible except in the context of a real war, in which case the perpetrator is likely to be obvious.For the top brass, computer technology is both a blessing and a curse.
The media comes up with favorites and underdogs, but you can't script this stuff, man".
We went into rehearsal with what we thought was the finished script, but stuff kept being added or edited out.
So far there have been no reports of hackers taking advantage of any of these bugs, though — it's not exactly script kiddie stuff.
That's what me and my dad were thinking, too, when we were reading the script and stuff.
The adults obviously don't have to go to school, just be at rehearsal, so they have all that time to work on the script and stuff.
The risk of smugness is offset by a script generously stuffed with jokes, one or two irruptions of beguiling oddness, and the presence of three weird, strong personalities playing together beautifully.
As ever, the script was stuffed with jokes, including one where Reardon's bad photocopying resulted in pupils in his literature class being given a paper entitled "Hard Tim by Charles Dick".
As ever, Rudd exudes a relaxed confidence and makes a potentially joyless role, as man weighed down by past miseries, a dynamic part of proceedings; Roberts gives a lively, nuanced performance even if the script has stuffed his character with indie-stylebook gimmicks.
