Category: Editorial
-
Classic action films aren’t always brilliant
Some days, you feel like the stuff you’ve produced is utter crap. Maybe it’s a comment someone made, or a bad review, or something unrelated like the weather. So if you’re like me and your genre is action, you owe it to yourself to watch an action classic during these times. You’ll find they made…
-
Thoughts on the Expendables 2 trailer from someone who hated Expendables 1
Expendables 2 trailer shows some faces that I’m happy to see return to the screen. But let me explain my inclination not to bother spending eleven bucks + parking + gas + meal to go see this. Expendables 1 was hyped up as our generation’s Commando, or supposedly a return to the 80s action film.…
-
The Anti-Hate Post
Quintin Tarantino argues you shouldn’t hate films: Never, under any circumstances, hate a movie. It won’t help you and it’s a waste of time. … There’s plenty of reasons to not to like a movie. But if you hate them? Meaning if let them bother you? Then they’ll do nothing but bother you. Who wants to be bothered? There’s…
-
Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol fight scene emerges, and it kinda blows
Watch Lea Seydoux’s back fist magically turn into a hook punch at 0:31. Maybe they chose to promote this fight because it’s two good looking women trading fists. Guys like that, but we also like stuff we can see, and we want time to focus on what the hell they’re doing. That’s why we liked…
-
Swordplay Bias
I came across the end fight for Star Wars Episode 1 today and remembered something I thought of a few years back. American films treat fencing and swordplay differently than empty handed arts, especially non-boxing arts. Fencing and swordplay seem to have always received the royal treatment with wide shots, long takes, and long fight…
-
Sometimes, real martial arts IS flashy – UFC 101 Silva vs. Griffin
In response to a forum post about UFC 101, I just watched Anderson Silva vs. Forrest Griffin. If you don’t want to know the result of the fight, stop reading here and don’t watch the video clip. In what you could call an “utter massacre”, Silva used some martial arts straight out of Flash Point…
-
Capitalising off the Studio System
Now that I’ve made the case that even in this economy filmmakers are still incredibly well off, I thought I’d go a bit further… no, more like jump off a cliff, and make the case that because it’s so easy to make films, it’s possible to make money (hopefully profit) at the cost of the…
-
Information, technology, and economy as it relates to filmmakers
Recently my post celebrating the 10 Year Anniversary of KWOON sparked some discussion on the forum about the state we’re in today compared to 10 years ago. Not in general, but as filmmakers. For those who have been hiding from the news (for good reason), we’re in a recession that’s probably the worst since 1929.…