You may not have noticed that the Banal Probe has been trickling in lately, but it’s because I read too many scripts in a row. Which is what I do, so there was money, but at what price?
It’s not that the scripts are bad, or that the writing is bad. It all boils down to a fundamental misunderstanding of the form.
Please read recently produced scripts in your genre. Notice how quickly they move, the succinctness of the hook, and the dependence on conveying information visually. Notice how dialogue accomplishes many things at once.
Mostly, notice how only the stuff that really matters in the story makes it into the script, and how that sharpens the focus, the clarity and the pacing.