I am going to take this time to explain to everyone why Akiva Goldsmith is a bad screenwriter. This may shatter some peoples' perceptions of him, but seeing as this is a comic book forum, probably not.
The first and major problem I have with Akiva Goldsmith is his lack and total disacknowledgement of a tool every writer should use: symbolism. In fact, all of his screenplays are devoid of any real meaning at all. Even A Beautiful Mind, which he shomehow won an oscar for, is decidingly straight-forward and bland. When there is symbolism, it becomes apparently obvious, and it becomes hard for the director to suggest it or hide it within in his film.
The next problem is his characters. None of them seem to go through any real changes, and when they do, it never seems real or authentic. Akiva never tries to get inside his character's heads, he seems detached from them. This makes for boring writing and generally a boring film.
Next, the dialouge. As I said before, Akiva will generally go the most obvious way with everything he does. Never have I watched a movie of his where I couldn't have predicted what the next character was going to say, and when I couldn't, that's because I couldn't have possibly come up with anything that horrid. Lost in Space, Batman and Robin, and I, Robot all have the WORST dialouge I have seen on film. In B&R it was laughably bad.
I guess what I'm trying to say is, while Akiva does occasionally try to come up with something original, most of his screenplays are incredibly cliche, boring, trite, and detached. That's why it's so damn hard to watch his movies.
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