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IMDb Member
20 years
Reviews
Freezerburn (2005)
Ineptitude at its finest
I almost never comment on movies, but I saw the 5 glowing reviews of this "movie" and decided I had to weigh in with my own review. An instructor of mine received this film in the mail, mixed in with his Academy screeners (AMPAS, aka the guys who vote on the Oscars), and was so floored with how terribly constructed this movie was that he brought it in to our class to demonstrate to us how NOT to put together a movie.
This film has no plot, the scenes are horribly, horribly edited (oftentimes using faux "24" style picture-in-picture techniques), and the performances (particularly the lead, who even fails at acting like a bad actress) are for the most part, obnoxious. Someone truly failed to understand the point of an introduction, namely, the setting up of the plot. There is no setup! Halfway through the movie neither myself nor the rest of the class knew what this movie was supposed to be about. The opening crane shot, which sets up some kind of murder, is never addressed, and now that I think about it, was possibly meant to be a flash-forward, with the rest of the film being a flashback, but it cuts from that scene directly to the next without any indication as such.
Bah, I could really go on and on. At the very least, this movie gives me renewed confidence in my own film-making ability.
This film has no plot, the scenes are horribly, horribly edited (oftentimes using faux "24" style picture-in-picture techniques), and the performances (particularly the lead, who even fails at acting like a bad actress) are for the most part, obnoxious. Someone truly failed to understand the point of an introduction, namely, the setting up of the plot. There is no setup! Halfway through the movie neither myself nor the rest of the class knew what this movie was supposed to be about. The opening crane shot, which sets up some kind of murder, is never addressed, and now that I think about it, was possibly meant to be a flash-forward, with the rest of the film being a flashback, but it cuts from that scene directly to the next without any indication as such.
Bah, I could really go on and on. At the very least, this movie gives me renewed confidence in my own film-making ability.
Mr. Payback: An Interactive Movie (1995)
Interesting idea, but was ultimately "meh"
I experienced this movie at a test screening probably 8 years ago. I don't think it really ever went farther than that, I sure never heard about it again. Seeing as I was only a kid at the time, I thought it was relatively funny, but it went right through me and was forgotten, ultimately. It didn't help that you'd often be sent to the "wrong choice" by people in the crowd who thought that choice sounded kinky or something like that. I remember the "bad choice" during one part involved audio surveillance of 3 apartments. Two of them sounded like a crime was being committed, but one consisted of a woman gasping for air and yelling "oh yeah! take Petey out!"
So the immature crowd obviously goes for that one, and we're treated to an obese couple taking their cat "Petey" out of a box. This happened all the time, and ultimately we "lost" the little point contest the movie had. I'm sure this happened every time, and people left feeling gypped. So it goes
So the immature crowd obviously goes for that one, and we're treated to an obese couple taking their cat "Petey" out of a box. This happened all the time, and ultimately we "lost" the little point contest the movie had. I'm sure this happened every time, and people left feeling gypped. So it goes