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Click here for some horrendous acting (and blood!)

Posted 18 years ago ·  Tagged: , · 5 Comments

I don’t know why I haven’t mentioned this before, but a lot of the movies made during my stay the European Film College, has been put online. One of them is “The Nursery”, a sci-fi horror movie I co-directed and wrote for our final projects (well, I made an adaptation). I’m not particularly proud of the outcome, the acting is mindblowingly bad, but at least I feel we partly succeeded in creating some suspense in the final scene. Also, our budget was 2,500 kr.

I’ve also added direct links to some of the movies I think you should take a look at, “The Sandbox” is an animated film, made with rotoscoping by a group of people who had no experience in this field, when they started at the school. Some scenes haven’t been completed, but that’s actually kind of cool, since it gives you an idea of how much work’s had to be done. You should also take a look at “A Life Depleted”, an extra-curricular (made in the students’ sparetime), written by Simon (polt).

All movies
“The Nursery”
“The Sandbox”
“A Life Depleted”

George Lucas talks to Times Online

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It’s really, really hard to like George Lucas these days. First up, he ruined the best sci-fi franchise ever with a gore fest of CGI, bad acting, slapstick comedy and ridiculous storylines. Then he ruined the best action-adventure franchise with a (wait for it) gore fest of CGI, and ridiculous storylines. In the meanwhile he’s milking his creations to the brink of a drought with releases of cartoons, animated features, and a live-action tv-series. So, I didn’t really think it was possible to dislike the man any more, but then I read a recent interview with him, on Times Online:

“Indiana Jones only becomes complicated when you have another two people saying ‘I want it this way’ and ‘I want it that way’, whereas, when I first did Jones, I just said, ‘We’ll do it this way’ — and that was much easier. But now I have to accommodate everybody, because they are all big, successful guys, too, so it’s a little hard on a practical level.”

“Really, with the last one, Steven wasn’t that enthusiastic. I was trying to persuade him. But now Steve is more amenable to doing another one. Yet we still have the issues about the direction we’d like to take. I’m in the future; Steven’s in the past. He’s trying to drag it back to the way they were, I’m trying to push it to a whole different place. So, still we have a sort of tension. This recent one came out of that. It’s kind of a hybrid of our own two ideas, so we’ll see where we are able to take the next one.”

“I can’t say yet, but they’ll be personal. n fact, I’d sooner just make them and not even release them, just put them on the shelf, like ships in a bottle — ‘Oh, look, let me show you my collection.’ Unfortunately, it doesn’t work that way. Films are a very expensive hobby. And you have to get people to want to go and see them.”

The amount of arrogance is just mind-boggling. And the fact that he isn’t making movies for the audience, but for himself, is fine, just don’t try to continue the legacy, of something good you made, more than 25 years ago, then.

Inglorious Bastards

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Being a big Tarantino fan I was psyched when the man himself announced, that his next movie may be in cinemas, at the next Cannes Festival. The flick is a WW2-movie called Inglorious Bastards, and he’s been working on it for more than a decade. We all know Tarantino is heavily inspired by his own favorite movies, and a Tarantino movie mixed with classics like The Dirty Dozen, The Great Escape, and Where Eagles Dare sounds extremely interesting to me. Anyway, a couple of movie blogs got a hold of an excerpt from the script and now I’m even more hyped. I’ll quote a bit of it, this is Lt. Aldo Raine, who may be played by Brad Pitt:

But I got a word of warning to all would be warriors.  When you join my command, you take on debit.  A debit you owe me, personally.  Every man under my command, owes me, one hundred Nazi scalps.  And I want my scalps.  And all y’all will git me, one hundred Nazi scalps, taken from the heads of one hundred Nazi’s or you will die trying.

A bigger preview of the script can be seen here.

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of WHAT THE FUCK JUST HAPPENED?!

Posted 18 years ago ·  Tagged: , , , , · 1 Comment

Holy shit, what was that?

Spoilers ahoy.

Like most people I’ve been an Indiana Jones fan since my eyes witnessed the awesomeness that is Raiders of the Lost Ark. Naturally, I had to go see the newest addition to the franchise, with out expecting much though. Since nine buddies from my Film College stay was going to the midnight premiere in Imperial, I decided to catch the train and tag along. I’ve never been to Imperial, so that was an experience in itself, awesome cinema.

After a small, but pretty cool, stage show the movie began, and I was actually enjoying it (and so was the rest of the cinema, since they seemed fit to clap at every single quote/punch/whiplash). I was still entertained though, Ford was great, the small references to the previous movies warmly welcomed, and I even liked Shia LaBeouf’s character. Further more, I bought the ridiculously unrealistic action sequences, the amount of CGI and even the somewhat farfetched storyline about alien lifeforms. But then something happened, and the movie was over. People didn’t seem to comprehend what they had just seen, the intense clapping had suddenly vanished, not a single one, even at the credits, just incredulous looks on the faces of 1000 other Indy fans. The light came on and muttering began in the corners, “Was that an alien… ?”, “Did we just see an UFO rip a temple apart… ?”, “How can we get to George Lucas and rip his head off?”. Yes, there is a full-fledged CGI alien and flying saucer in an Indiana Jones movie. It’s mind-boggling, it’s absurd. These movies have always been on the edge of occult, supernatural stuff, and that’s one of the things that make the series so great. But inserting a fucking living alien that subsequently flies off in its huge spacecraft is just fucking retarded. I mean, what were they thinking?! The movie doesn’t even end properly, the alien just comes to life and flies off!

Also, the story is kind of confusing, the whole treasure-hunt part doesn’t really work, and the last scene, the wedding, ending with Mutt almost picking up the hat wasn’t even funny, considering Lucas’ remarks about making the next Indiana Jones movie with Shia LaBeouf in the leading role. That’s the second great movie trilogy that guy singlehandedly fucks up. Thanks a lot.

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull: 5/10.

Rating movies

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I rate all movies I see using the 10-grade rating system that most movie websites utilize, and I thought I’d write a small description on how I use the grades, just to get some discussion going. It is, of course, very subjective, and if I look through my voting history on IMDb I’ll probably make a lot of adjustments. Anyway, here goes:

10 – Fantastic movie, personal favorite, high replay value. (Example: Le Fabuleux destin d’Amélie Poulain, Fight Club)
9 – Fantastic movie. (Example: RoboCop, Twelve Monkeys)
8 – Great movie. (Example: Gladiator, Batman Begins)
7 – Above average, minor annoyances, but highly enjoyable. (Example: Jarhead, Hard Candy)
6 – Average, some annoyances, but overall enjoyable. (Example: Constantine, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back)
5 – Below average, not recommendable. (Example: Cars, Deja Vu)
4 – Bad movie, often big movies with horrible scripts. (Example: Fantastic Four, Scary Movie 4)
3 – Horrible. (Example: I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry, Hostel)
2 – Painfully bad, movies that even I could’ve made better. (Example: The Seeker: The Dark is Rising, Eye for Eye)
1 – Inexcusable and not worth even discussing. TV-movies and the likes. (Example: D-War, Epic Movie)

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