John Q. Phats Entertainment

Well, I’m taking a little break.  I’m visiting my Dad in Maryland, so I can’t really film anything this week.  Possibly when I get back.  To be honest, the scene that we shot for my current project is still setting in.  I have a feeling that I’m going to be fired up and ready to go by the time I get back from my trip.  I am kind of worried that it will become stale.  Mainly because it’s not getting touched for awhile.  I’ll stay in touch with everyone though while I’m on vacation and try to set stuff up.
I had a chance to see Taken, tonight at the 2$ theater.  I passed it up, so that I would have some time to pack and get ready for my trip.  I think Taken, is a pretty exceptional movie.  It’s pretty much Liam Neeson beating the shit out of people for roughly an hour.  That was what I signed up for and that’s what I got. 
I saw the new Terminator flick with Christian Bale.  A lot of people are bitching about it.  I was entertained and God damn it, that’s all that matters.  Awesome special effects, of course.  All I want to know is, why did they give away the fact that one of the main characters was a machine in the previews?  The movie would have been so much better if they didn’t show us that.  Seriously, what a shitty marketing idea. 
“I’ve got it.  Lets give away a REALLY integral part of the plot that the writers and film makers went to a great deal of trouble to hide from the audience in the beginning of the movie.  That sounds like a great idea.  Lets do that.  By the way, I just found out that I’m something called ‘Legally Retarded’.”
You’re fucking fired Terminator marketing team/trailer makers.  That would have been such an awesome reveal if the God damned trailer hadn’t shown it to everyone in the fucking world before the movie even came out.  Assholes.  That would be like the Sixth Sense showing a preview of it where in the end some random guy comes on screen and says “Hey, by the way, Bruce Willis is a ghost in this movie.  The film makers didn’t want you to know that, but what the hell, I just told you.  So you can eat a dick.”  Imagine if they did that?  Wouldn’t that have sucked?  Yeah, thanks for that Terminator Trailer Team.

Ever since I figured out that you can make two shots look like one, I’ve had sort of a hard on about the idea.  This short actually consists of 4 shots total.  This is just something we thought up on the spot.  I like stories that don’t really have an explanation because they don’t need one.  This is the shoot where God damn Chris moved the beer and made us shoot the entire thing all over again.  Bastard.  It actually wasn’t that bad.  Everyone knew what to do at this point, so all the shots went extremely fast.  We shot a little extra where Caine is screaming at Chris about moving the beer while doing an impression of Christian Bale yelling at that DP on the set of the new Terminator flick.  I might post that a little bit later.