Comments on: let’s make a movie

By: Tim Clague

Tim Clague — Sun, 29 Oct 2006 05:56:24 +0000

It would certainly seem to be a way of making a youtube hit film. The crapper the better!

By: v

Sun, 29 Oct 2006 04:06:37 +0000

I guess no one is as fucking creative as they think they are.

By: Phil

Phil — Sun, 29 Oct 2006 01:51:37 +0000

This theory seemed to work for such classics as “Deep Blue Sea” and “Armageddon”. There’s no accounting for the tastes of 90% of the movie-going public.

By: oliver Franks

oliver Franks — Sat, 28 Oct 2006 18:52:00 +0000

Let’s make a movie that everyone will want to see, then it will be great!
In the 1940’s, during the pinnacle of Hollywood’s movie making powers, it is said a mvie was made so amazing, so perfect, that absolutely everyoone who ever saw it said it was the best film they’d ever seen. However, as any self respecting moron knows, all governments are inherently evil, and so the particularly tyrannous office of Harry S. Truman denounced the film as ‘too good by half, therefore being 1 and a half good, or 150% excellent’ and so he ordered it buried forever in a sealed capsule along with the contents of the roswell incident and a poorly phrased note he wrote to his second cousin when her dog had passed away. The note had been a constant source of embarrasement to him, and had for months disturbed his sleep.
Anyone who had been associatted with the making of the film was were ordered to the front in the hope they would soon die, but as it transpired their silence was bought for a mere $50,000 and a lifetime pass to Bibleland (Disneyland for Jesus freaks) along with a permit to be drunk on the rides. Truman is reported to have siad: “I love those movie types. Nothing but cash and belly laughs for them. God bless America.“
But what of the film? What was it about? It centred around an everyday man’s quest to find a bathroom during a nasty bout of simultaneous constipation and diarhoea. Along the way he saves the life of an innocent shiatsu and falls madly in love with a colonoscopy.
It is, of course, a terrible idea, poorly executed. That’s why everyone loved it. But that is the enigma of film-making, terrible films are of course succesful, while meaningful, brilliant works of art are ignored by all but a select few intellectuals who try in vain to explain to the masses how the film which sent them to sleep was in reality, entertaining. But they only succeed in sending those masses into an even deeper sleep with their monotone and patronising phrasing.

By: Hugh MacLeod

Hugh MacLeod — Sat, 28 Oct 2006 16:35:36 +0000

fg– Hallam Foe is doing fine n’ dandy.
I just like dissing Hollywood, regardless…

By: Joe Valdez

Joe Valdez — Sat, 28 Oct 2006 08:35:04 +0000

I love this cartoon, Hugh. I don’t know if Alejandro González Iñárritu and Guillermo Arriaga were thinking this when they made Babel, but it’s still funny.

By: Marti

Marti — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 23:39:37 +0000

et tu, hughtus?

By: Mike Peter Reed

Mike Peter Reed — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 22:31:13 +0000

Ah, sweet new wave post-modern dada irony!

By: robert

robert — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 22:26:21 +0000

Please do not call it The Producers II

By: fg

fg — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 22:02:12 +0000

by the tone of this one, i guess that somebody’s movie didn’t quite work as expected ?