Anyone watching 'On The Lot'?

damn that one dude's special effects are AMAZING HOT SHIT WOW.

also, film major girl from new york city: hotttttttttttttt.

The first short they showed last night (homeless guy in laundromat) would have been better without the narration. But that and sfx dude were both pretty good for a movie shot in 24 hours.

this is probably going to crush my soul, right?
i kind of want to watch it though

or maybe i'll just watch the episode clips on the fox site

also, film major girl from new york city: hotttttttttttttt.

i guess if you like anorexic nyu cookie cutter girls. also, she is way obnoxious.

actually i prefer overweight rural women, but she'll do. why because she look interesting. also, who cares about obnoxious, i'm not searching for a soulmate. just watching a dumb show.

yeah it's kinda dumb, but i only watched the clips. i do like carrie fisher.

best 24 hr shorts: 'ding' & 'sponsored by'

okay and anyone can upload their films to the website? oh man...

my wife is horrified @ carrie fisher's appearance but i dont care, she's a writer now not an actress

also i'm calling myself out 4 being a dick 2 tehresa, wtf me

just sayin, there were plenty of more interesting women on that show alone! apparently the cast is not up on the site yet though.

did u think she was really cookie cutter? i thought she was v.pretty

that hannah looked like a poor person's ally

yeah, take a walk around nyc and you will see 30000 of her.

She didn't seem all that skinny, but I thought her country-girl partner was cuter (got booted, right?)

Tehresa, that's why I loved living in New York City!

yeah dumb girl was a lot cuter, i thought. though also not esp original looking. but it's her own fault for being bullied by that dude. (getting booted, not her looks)

If you want to be a director, I suspect you need to know how to yell and bully when it's time to get your shot.

Sad that both of the annoying guys (in the group where they shot in a cafe, woman having her husband killed or whatever) didn't get tossed. I would like to read the big guy's list of influences for giggles (guarantee numero uno would have been Tarantino).

yeah that whole short was really bad. they all should have gone. it seemed like a lot of the ones that they showed clips of (but not the whole things) might have been better but i'm guessing we saw the full shorts for the groups we did because they had the best reality show drama leading up to the screening.

If you want to be a director, I suspect you need to know how to yell and bully when it's time to get your shot.

no, that is AD's job

Can anyone on here explain how that guy did the special fx?

That was pretty impressive, though I could imagine him getting pigeonholed as the "guy who makes stuff freeze while other things move". Hopefully he has some other tricks up his sleeve.

did you see his audition tape? he was like 'hi i'm a filmmaker' and then a flying saucer appeared so he picked up a huge cannon and blew it up

0 for 2 tonight.

They need a bitter English guy for the judges' table.

hahaha my wife just said the same thing!

everyone on this show is too ambitious and self assured for me to like them

wow, the taxi cab and the Smoking Aces/Ocean's 11 rip were just brutal.

18 of these in one night is way too many.

yeah none of these would even be youtube hitz

it's not the 18 in one night, it's the fact that very few people have original ideas.

disappointed in cuet NYU girl's movie

I wish you could vote against people instead of for them. I've seen nothing that I'd want to vote for, but I'd totally vote against bus-pee and the two trailers.

omg i was just thinking that! they should replace the voting for your favorite thing with a vote off the weakest link thing. i would feel much more comfortable voting off crap than backing something i wasn't 100% on.

and what is with judges and double standards? girls can not do pee or fart jokes, but when the dude does puke joke, it's totally hilarious?

This is horrific! OMG! Why can't I stop watching it?!?!?! AHHHHH!

omg getta room

Surely the guy knew his actor came off as challenged and just made up 'nerd' to sound better?

so, so bad.

yes but the aliens were CUTE...no, you're right.

SPECIAL EFFECTS GUY!

Winner!

impressed by the 1 shot thing.

yeah he's awesome

SHALINI OTM

The judges are almost as bad as the films...Everyone wanting a snarky English guy OTM

if they tell this guy his fart jokes are good i will scream.

oh, there we go. ugh. i hate these judges.

high culture fart jokes

Well, on the plus side, I've never felt so confident about going into filmmaking.

I'd like someone to throw the competition and do something Brakkhage-esque

wannabe getting slugged by his granny was pretty much the peak

I knew it'd be a trainweck when he started introducing ("So, it's the hottest day in the hood..." and, uh, Mookie's hanging out on his stoop)

oh that last fart joke one was pretty good, admit it.

ehhh

you've never blamed it on the couch, tehresa? i identified with that move -- and I felt really bad for the doomed caveman. great lighting in that one.

still, there's only like seven who I think acquitted themselves well here, and only about three who I'd trust to do a whole movie

If I was Zach Lipovsky I would A) not listen to fucking Gary Marshall (whose birth name may or may not have been Marsciarelli), and B) forget the damn competition and get a MULTI-million dollar deal with whoever the fuck I wanted to, based on his work here so far. damn.

my tv reception sucks it big time so i miss a lot on things like lighting and aesthetics, so will take your word on that. i guess at some point they will be up on the internet but that is just too much effort to put into reality tv i think.

I'm not convinced that special FX guy can make a movie. The short tonight would have been an excellent commercial, but it doesn't tell us anything about his ability to tell a story, chain together multiple scenes or move actors through space.

this is very true. and aren't there tons of people in hollywood that are good at special effects?

A) I didn't say he could make an entire movie. I just said he could sign a deal RIGHT NOW. Are you arguing with that?

B) It was an assignment, which he fulfilled; it was funny and original (at least for this crowd) and well-done. What the hell else do you want at this point?

NONE of these films prove anything about ANYONE's ability to make a film.

also true. my, you are v. defensive. milo can have opinions! we must not all agree!

i wonder if they are setting it up as the 'oh he is so good' so later they can highlight it when he fails to come through on a longer/serious/whatever assignment that special effects won't get him through (just like some of the people tonight clearly aren't particularly great at comedy). classic reality "plot development".

Yes, I'm arguing that he's not going to get any kind of deal based on his ability to do some FX. You don't think there are two hundred ILM/Lucas/etc. designers with at least as much skill in CGI?

Almost every other short had multiple lighting setups, shots from different angles, etc..

True -- but he is now 'that effects guy'. And isn't it kind of impressive that he can do all that shit on his own, without a whole huge studio of people doing things for him?

Also, dearest Tehresa, I always allow Milo to have his opinions -- and you too, and everyone -- we just never happen to agree on anything. But we always keep it civil, and real.

you just seem to react so strongly! but alas, what fun would message board discussion be without strong reactions?

the guy does know how to do effects, i definitely give him props for that, but he did seem to have a crew (they all did) for this week's project. i imagine that being 'effects guy' is great for initial attention and getting audience votes. what's your take on whether he can advance a plot without the use of effects, though?

And will he make it through documentary week with his dignity intact?

I guess we shall have to see, no? I think he's got a better shot than Kenny I Don't Need Film School God Dammit Luby or Marty I Wanna Be Spielberg Martin, those guys are Ratners-in-training and yuck.

god i hate that kenny dude. what the hell was his short anyway?

I would bet money that Kenny and Marty are gone after this week. They couldn't even make movies, they made trailers!

I didn't mind the idea of trailer-as-comedy-short -- it worked in Grindhouse -- but he failed to make any comment about trailers OR comedy movies, and his execution was slack. As for the other guy...well, it sucked all around, and I am not inclined to give him a break because of his prickitude the week before.

sorry "trailers OR action movies"

Did they say when the next ep was?

results tomorrow night i think? don't know if that is going to be an actual episode or just one of those annoyingly long and drawn out elimination deals.

I think I hated each and every one of these "filmmakers".

well then you sir are a hater. congratulations on that.

Rumor has it that William Friedkin is gonna be a guest judge soon. If he really is a as big an asshole as legend has said, he'd make a good sub for a snarky English judge.

blinded by bosoms

ew two first names guy lives on

way to mindfuck the poor NYU student!

The three who got tossed weren't even in the worst eight or nine. Americans have no taste.

Who were they?!?! Not the female documentary filmmaker?!?!

Because she was kinda hot! And she was working in unfamiliar territory.

girl with long name, italian girl and british dude out.

they were definitely not my least favorite, but i have to say i'm not shocked that people like getta room and wack alley dude stayed. americans in voting for dumb people on reality shows, shocka!

lucky penny overrated

Thanks...It sounds like she's still there.

all it means is that people from other countries should never be in shows like this, any asshole us citizen with a regional fanbase can apparently get into the top 3

definitely. wack dude is from a tiny ass town in bumfuck ny. clearly everyone in the town voted for him and that's pretty much all you need because people who might care about the quality probably don't care about voting.

So many things are wrong with the show. How come in an hour we only got to see 3 clips, and the rest was taken up by long pauses before they revealed who went home? Honestly, I don't care enough about the contestants (yet? ever?) to wait for 5 minutes between each decision. They should've just shown all the clips.

Also, the judges had absolutely no insight into any of the films. Princess Leah was all like, "I liked that. I didn't like that." Thanks, Princess.

You guys make this show sound so compelling. Can I watch?

Mordy: catch up, dude -- they showed ALL EIGHTEEN last night. The reason no one had anything to say is that they said it all last night -- about ALL EIGHTEEN movies.

(not to say they had a lot of insight last night either though)

I won't be watching any more results shows, that was so dull. Repeat their names, repeat their names, show clip, cut to Carrie saying nothing [...] repeat their names, fake out NYU girl because she thinks she's going home, finish.

Who is the hostess? I assume she had an entertainment-world job before, or maybe she's Scarlett Johansson's long-lost Italian twin or something.

well her birth name is Adrianna Heber, and she was on CNN Headline News or some shit

thanks wikipedia

Oh. Weird. I saw the 2 episodes on the Fox webpage, so I assumed I was caught up. Apparently I missed an episode. I'll watch that tonight.

Here's a question: How is it that three supposed professionals in film (or at least, 3 people with supposedly good film taste) didn't realize that "Getta Rhoom" was going to win big? It may be a tasteless film, but aren't their jobs to know what the audience likes?

I mean - that's the only reason I watch American Idol or Project Runway. Because I assume the judges have more insight into the performances than I do.

Damn. It's still not on the FOX.

apparently ratings are pretty low so they are condensing the competition/results show into one night

GOOD IDEA

as long as the results are like five minutes at the beginning or end - GOOD IDEA.

yeah no need for an hour of results!

uh, michael bay is a douche! all his criticisms seem like threatened pre-teen lashings out!

wow, those were all awful

Marty in Douchebag shocka!

Next week should be interesting: Black Dude vs. Texas Guy vs. NYU Girl vs. F/X Whiz vs. "Ghetta Room" Mook.

my roommate and i just sat there last night shaking our heads at this show. all. so. bad. guess what, dude? a trailer is not a 'short film'. and hey, owego: that was like a cheesy high school band's self-made 'artsy' music video. and the slut mom was not actually funny and even though her son was cute, the lead woman's acting was terrible! asl;ekrjg;adsgk

yeah watching this show is depressingly reminiscent of some of the stuff from my college's film dept. at a screening I went to once. I missed the first few episodes, how exactly did they pick the finalists?

I am falling in love with Adrianna Costa in all her crappy host glory.

yeah, excellent question. i was thinking there are SO many wannabe filmmakers out there that surely they could have picked a better crop of finalists than this, right??

host lady annoyst he helllll out of me!

I missed the first few episodes, how exactly did they pick the finalists?

People sent in videos (some narrative, others music) which were posted on the site. In addition to having your video posted, you could comment on other people's entries. Some would spend days doing that. Some group viewed the films and--like most reality shows--picked a group that would play well on TV. They weeded out the initial picks by having giving each of the top 30(?) finalists one of three loglines, which they had to develop a story around which they would then pitch to Fisher, Marshall, and Ratner. After those cuts, they did the 24 hour Three-person crew shoot which got 'em down to 18 I think. When voting started with the 1-minute films, they bumped off a further three.

I know some of this because someone I work with entered and was on the website constantly. She didn't make it.

LOL Marty

oh man Jessica What'sHerButt's film was crapola.

oh i missed last night but i don't know if i care that much to go watch online