I Guess You Had to Be There.
Friday, August 28th, 2009For those of you that went to the movie thing last night in Huntington, you may have not seen me. I had a bit of an emergency that I had to deal with so I couldn’t make it. Sorry if you showed up to say hello and I wasn’t there.
Last night in being a programmer I got to the good stuff. These are the films that make me look at my work and think to myself “What the hell am I doing?” Two especially absolutely amazed me. There is some great stuff out there. I already knew that, but I always welcome a good reminder.
I’ve been working on my resume to look for work on a film crew. Of course, me being a graphic designer I have to make it incredibly complicated and fancy. What actually started as a work project has evolved in to part of my resume. I’ll post it when I’m done with it for you guys to check out. It should be quite glorious. I’ve also been hard at work on the press kit for Do Nice Guys Finish Last. It’s kind of fun. Right now I’m just trying to get the information down, when I’m done with that, I’ll make it fancy. I’m very tempted to design it like it’s a bunch of scrap paper Chris (main character) scribbled his ideas on. Why not, right? I think it would work.
The deadline for Sundance is coming up. I’m probably going to enter Censored. Will it get in? Probably not, but what the hell, right? If I can get Do Nice Guys Finished Last done on time, I’ll enter that as well. My hopes are, that Do Nice Guys Finish Last is much better then I think it is. Not that I think it’s bad. In fact, I love that short film, I just don’t think it’s all that festival appropriate. Hopefully, I’m wrong, festivals love it, and audiences laugh so hard, their stomachs hurt. As I’ve figured out though, it’s very easy to become delusional about how funny something you and your friends think something is vs what the public thinks is funny. Often times, something you and your friends think is funny, isn’t really all that funny to other people. Many groups of people I’ve met have told me that I could just put a camera on their friends and have comedic gold. Have you ever told a really funny story, only to have the person you’re telling it to stare at you with a blank stare? It usually ends with you saying “Well, I guess you had to be there.” It’s kind of like that.
I still haven’t seen Inglorious Bastards. I want to see that movie so badly. Maybe I’ll check it out tonight. Right now, I’m going through all of the movies that I should have seen already, but haven’t for some stupid reason. For example, I just watched The Shining last week. Jack Nicholson was a creepy looking bastard. Even in the beginning, when he’s acting all normal, he’s freaky looking. With age, I think he became less creepy. In As Good As it Gets he wasn’t all that menacing. His character was kind of a prick and he sort of looked the part. Maybe he’s just that amazing of an actor. His actual demeanor alters his appearance. Or does he just pick roles that fit his look at the time? It’s tough to say. Either way, the guy is an amazing actor and often times, I’ll watch a movie just because he’s in it. I always thought Keanu Reeves was good at picking his parts. He’s not an amazing actor, but the roles he picks fit him so well, he can almost pull it off. For example, The Matrix. Could you think of anyone, who could have played Neo better then him? I think he was absolutely perfect for that role and it’s hard to believe that he wasn’t the first choice to play that character. Think about it? Lonely computer hacker, limited social skills, finds comfort with computers, not sure of anything really. He pulled it off. Same with The Day the Earth Stood Still and The Devils Advocate. Again, not really an amazing actor, but all of those roles fit him very well. It works for me.
I went off on a bit of a tangent there. I tend to do that. I could probably spend days talking about movies and once I get going it’s tough to shut me up. Anyway, sorry again for not showing up at the SoCal Film Fest Movies by the pier thing, I’ll be sure to make it out to the next one.