I'm still happy to see that the emphasize is on the story.

Some of these super shorts were well made and and so on, like the "special effects" guy's stuff, however I felt that about half of these shorts were not really stories. Some felt like a joke and others like a commercial and then there was the "trailer". Yeah sure, some of it was impressive considering the short time they all had, but few of the films were actually stories with a beginning a middle and an end.

Who did I vote for?
I can't believe it, but I voted for the "fart" one, Replication something. Second for me was the "Lucky Penny".

I voted for the first one.  The 'dance' one.  The story was complete and original.  Production was good.

The penny one was an old joke filmed.  If the guy dated the piece to make it look like an old movie, I think he would've done much better.


Phil

The Dance one was my third pick and the airport security, seduction thing after that.  

i voted for the Saftey Lab because it looked like the hardest to direct and he pulled it off very nicely.

i also liked Soft, Fart Replication, the erotic Airport fantasy,  Lucky Penny, and the Dance one.

Come on, no1 liked the drunken aliens? That was comedy!!

If the alien one had a stronger ending, I'd agree with you, JD.

What does everyone think the worst short was?  The taxi short was my least favorite.


Phil

Yeah, I didn't like the Cab one either. He should have got his cab story from Helio's Cab's Tales.....

I also did not like the light bulb changing one. That girl looked like she wanted her film school money back.

I liked the idea of the lightbulb one.  It just fell short in it's execution.

I also think that the guy who did 'Getta Rhoom' will be packing his bags tonight.  That film was pretty offensive... and I'm hard to offend.


Phil

Quoted from dogglebe If the alien one had a stronger ending, I'd agree with you, JD. What does everyone think the worst short was?  The taxi short was my least favorite. Phil

Yea, did need ending high point.

I also really like replication. " It was me" was great to end it on!

yea taxi guy/kenny is gone....

I hope getta room guy sticks around, i think his story didnt come out how he thought

Honestly, I got bored during the second hour and elected to watch Kevin Arnold parallel park in "The Wonder Years" instead.  

My beef is that this show is the exact same format as all of Fox's other crappy reality shows(minus Hell's Kitchen) and, I don't know, I just got bored with it all last night.  

And two of the filmmakers ticked me off.  The first film with the dancing guy was fun, but the filmmaker came off as a jackass to me.  When they were giving his bio he said "Derrr derrrr I got accepted to Harvard hehe hahaha and on the first day I decided that I wanted to make derr derr derr films instead derrrr derrrrr snort."

As a student who is currently going through the transfer process to a university and experiencing all of the crap of real colleges, that ticked me off.  Call it bias, but I hope he loses because I think he's a loser.

And then the Marty Martin kid who made a TRAILER instead of the short, and then comes out on stage with an exaggerated bow to the mandatory not-so-great applause.  That also bugged me.  These things remind me of the OWE, and alot of the time we see people(myself included) stretch the theme, i.e. comedy instead of drama for example.  But this guy is going for THE million dollar deal, THE life changing event, THE ultimate prize, and he's coming out all lackluster and basically telling the judges "hey, I can't think of anything nor can I do the directing tasks because I lack imagination and I shouldn't be in this competition anyway, so, instead,  I'm going to apply for an editing position."  The trailer wasn't even that good, either.

So yeah.  I felt disappointed, but I'll probably keep watching because, well, the concept is still interesting.

End rant.

I can't believe that guy Kenny what's his face got to stick around last time. And Carrie Fisher commended his 'cinematography'?? My high-school graduating film had better cinematography than what he did. What a joke.

He did the Whack Alley Cab this time around and look at it. The editing is awful, there's no dynamic or flow. He obviously doesn't know how to direct the actors neither. This guys is a walking ad FOR film school.

I loved the Dance Man film. It was hillarious even if it didn't have a real punch-line. Marty Martin's trailer had high production value and had pretty witty dialogue and execution, but at the end of the day it was a trailer. And a very generic and unimaginative one at that.

Spaced out was funny but again, didn't have a good enough punch-line.

I hate to say it but I think those who's shown most artistic vision has been a couple of the ladies. A lot of the guys have got the craftmanship down but not an original thought in their heads. But that's a rather sweeping statement considering they are mostly guys.

Zach Lipovsky - the FX wiz kid does show some promise, but he needs to prove he can do a film without relying on effects.

My favorites are:

Adam Stein
Carolina something von something de San Martin
Andrew Hunt

And I really like Jessie Brillhart but she needs to do better than the lightbulb movie next time.

By the way, I agree that the show is pretty much cut and paste from every other FOX reality TV show even down to the cheesy presenter voice. But it's about movies, so I don't care how they wrap it, I'm still gonna watch it.

Unless they start eating buffalo testicles and forge clandestine alliances to win a date with that pouty chick from For Love or Money...

Quoted from dogglebe I liked the idea of the lightbulb one.  It just fell short in it's execution. I also think that the guy who did 'Getta Rhoom' will be packing his bags tonight.  That film was pretty offensive... and I'm hard to offend. Phil

Just out of curiosity, what was offensive about it?

I re-watched it twice after reading your comments, but I just don't see it?

The main character in Getta Rhoom was supposed to be a nerd, trying to fit in.  Unfortunately for the director made the guy look like he was mentally retarded.  This made the short seem like an attack on retarded people.


Phil

Oh.

Did you ever see American Splendor though?

The character of Toby Radloff came off as 'retarded' to some viewers, but that's how he is in real life. Fact is, there are real people like that out there, even if he is a stereotype.

Suffice to say, I wasn't offended. But then again I don't get offended, so I guess I don't really count.

Yeah, but when you're in competition, you don't want to upset those who rate and judge you.

Also, the director said he wasn't going for retarded but nerdy.  This means he wasn't successful in what he set out to do.

Also, that guy irritated me with his silly-assed urban appearance.  He's from Kentucky!!  And, as George Carlin put it, no guy over the age of fourteen should wear his hat backward.


Phil