A few 20ish friends get together, clean up the old barn and make a movie!
"Gosh, Judy!"
"Idd'n it Swell, Mickey!?"
Purportedly a love child project 10 years in the making. That fits the timeline perfectly.
So, in spite of the admirable technical accomplishment of actually making a movie in the first place , let alone one with occasional flashes of inspiration and on a budget that probably cost someone his second year of college...at a good school, which should not be skipped!!
In spite of all the "yeah buts" this is, finally, what it is - a precocious twelve year old'a idea of a thriller. Unfortunately the concept never matured.
The interesting thing, the thing a committed artist prone to useful analysis might glean from a bunch of mostly negative reviews is what matters. And what's interesting.
Outline it:
Lessons learned:
They hated it:
Bad pacing
Poor storytelling
Bad dialogue
Silly plot devices
(All sounds pretty bad, non?)
But, as an artist, the question is: what does that mean?
Well, almost every one of us who hated it watched it all. We all sat through a movie we hated.
Now, what does THAT mean and what do the viewers potential motivations, their internal approbations that we're triggered, offer as useful insights?
We get good reviews from morons as often, bad reviews from them. You can't succeed on good reviews alone, they're poison and can kill your creative souls faster than bad reviews.
Artists learn about the impact we have by ignoring the superficial "hurrays" and "calls to be banished" and instead, in strong reactions, good or bad, try to understand what buttons we've succeeded in
pushing and which buttons are not even wired up.
I'm surprised to see this movie has stuck with me. It really stinks...but! It's still eating my lunch and that suggests I need to look at what strength this movie maker has that got such that some aspect of his piece got in...and more deeply than I might've considered right after I finished watching it...I mean, after I finished throwing up...
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