Get Over It

A little late, but I'm pretty pissed that South Park episode 201 will not be shown anywhere legally for at least three weeks. South Park creators received what could be considered threats when they portrayed Mohammed on episodes 200 and 201. Honestly I think it's ridiculous that extremists would threaten people who made a cartoon portraying their god, when it was not even in a derogatory way. If the catholics killed Trey Parker and Matt Stone every time Jesus was shown, they would have been dead many many seasons ago. I think everyone who would kill over a cartoon needs a serious fucking mental evaluation and some heavy prescriptions to bring them back to the real world.

Remakes

With the new Freddy movie coming out friday, I find it interesting that there is a growing trend in remakes of horror movies. In the last few years, there have been Halloween, Firday the 13th, and now there is a new Nightmare on Elm Street remake. I know the directors of these movies are trying to pay homage to the original films, but sometimes they take it too far. In my opinion, the new Friday the 13th, was the worst of the classic horrow movie remakes. The acting was sub par and the story lacked what the original had. One of the only remakes I really enjoyed was the Texas Chainsaw Massacre. I feel like directors are only remaking these types of movies, because people will see them because they had seen the old ones. This will bring in more at the box office than if there was a whole new horrow movie with new characters.

Youtube

After hanging out with my friend Mary Jane, I ended up on youtube just being bored. I think it is amazing how a site like that which started with nothing became such a phenomenon and a household name. Literally anything that one could possibly think to search for is available in multiple videos. Example would be searching "silly strining cats" and youtube sent me hundreds of pages of videos to choose from. I feel with things like this, people are getting a lot less original, but they are seeing work others have done and work off of that. I just feel youtube and the internet as a whole is killing originality.

Campus Movie Fest

I have been trying to make a decent movie for Campus Movie Fest since I started at this school 3 years ago. After 2 failed attempts I believe this year I will successfully make a movie because the team I am working with is motivated and determined.
I find it is very hard to get everything done in a week, and people like me who are just out to have fun and make a movie are at a serious disadvantage. Did the winners from last year film and edit everything that they shot in a single week? I know the answer to this question, and if you watch the movie, I think you will too.
I think the guidelines should be stricter and people who have more money and more time on their hands should not be rewarded for starting the project early and not adhering to the guidelines. This is just my opinion, but I think people who play by the rules and film everything in a week should have just as good a shot at winning then people who start filming and editing months beforehand.

Dinosaurs

I recently purchased the dvd of the show Dinosaurs because I liked it a lot when I was little and I was wondering if I would still like it. I found the show to be more adult oriented and a bit preachy but overall it was a lot different than I remember it being.

Disney produces the show Dinosaurs, so as soon as that came on the screen, I knew there would be underlying messages. Watching it now I know there were so many things that went right over my head when I was younger. I thought it was just a show about a family of dinosaurs but I now realize that they covered subjects such as drugs and sex.

The messages portrayed in the show were forward and it was clearly showing right from wrong,

which would be visible to younger children. This show was obviously more based for adults , but it was

also watchable for children, because the children would think it was funny and the adults could actually

understand the plot and most likely relate to it.

Failing Communication in Real Life

I am writing this blog after bringing my friend to the store today. He needed to go to the mall to get his paycheck, so I agreed to give him a ride. I was upset when he got in the car and barely talked to me because he was texting someone the whole time. I believe the craze in text messaging is ruining face to face communication all together.

Before texting, people had to call each other to make plans. Now it is simply just easy for them to make plans or talk without any verbal communication. People are more likely to text than call because they feel it is less awkward.

A good example of this was my next door neighbor left a note introducing herself and giving her phone number. I started texting her and she seemed normal but when she actually came over to hang out she was a complete psycho. She started by being really quiet, then she was telling us wayy too much information than anyone should on the first time you meet them. I feel like texting lets people hide behind the screen and it makes people all around less sociable.

Kids

I want to talk today about a one of my favorite movies that I had forgotten about for a year or so and just recently watched. I'm talking about Larry Clarke's 1995 debut film Kids. This movie was the most realistic movie I had ever seen involving teenagers. Clarke set out to make the movie equivalent to the great American novel.

I want to talk about this movie because it is probably my all time favorite and if you have not seen it you probably should. This movie was before it's time in terms of content and subject matter. This movie covered aids in youth and just showed a gritty real perspective of what is going on in the world.

This film was slapped with an NC-17 rating, but it is now on dvd with just an unrated version. This was by far Larry Clarke's best film and I recommend it to everyone that I talk to. I felt like writing a blog about this because I feel like it is just such and underrated and realistic movie that pretty much anyone that has not seen it hopefully will and enjoy it.