North Hollywood was an objectively terrible movie

[Madam, I'm Adam]

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I watched 15 minutes of it and almost threw up... Whoever says this isn't a bad movie must think Battlefield Earth is an academy award winner... My god...

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if you think this is throw-up worthy then you haven't watched very many movies.

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I have a bfa in film and am a video editor for a living... I have watched a lot of movies.

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lol I have a bfa in film as well and am a video editor for a living... i too have watched a lot of movies.

And here I was thinking that I am the only one who has a bfa in film and am also a video editor for a living, as well as someone who has watched a lot of movies.

[Jehoshaphat Augustus]

i hear there is a full page ad in newest thrasher with an entire sticker sheet of different 'marital aids' that you can stick to his face however you want!

Marketing, baby! 

[Miller92]

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I watched 15 minutes of it and almost threw up... Whoever says this isn't a bad movie must think Battlefield Earth is an academy award winner... My god...

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if you think this is throw-up worthy then you haven't watched very many movies.

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I have a bfa in film and am a video editor for a living... I have watched a lot of movies.

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lol I have a bfa in film as well and am a video editor for a living... i too have watched a lot of movies.

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And here I was thinking that I am the only one who has a bfa in film and am also a video editor for a living, as well as someone who has watched a lot of movies.

[Youoverthere]

Ok I’m kinda realizing that the main character basically doesn’t resolve the conflict with nico or the crew and is running of to be homeless in sf.

[Mike Oxwelling]

Starring Josh Brolin........

[Francis Xavier]

Starring Josh Brolin........

Illegal Civ is a memory
...for wimps

[RichardBarkley]

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Starring Josh Brolin........

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Illegal Civ is a memory
...for wimps

Lol

[Chana]

Mikey Alfred is more productive with his time versus all of us... I thought the film was pretty good and they did it on a budget. Like 50 said, "If they hate, let them hate and watch the money pile up."

[larry sanders]

There could be some value gleaning from watching North Hollywood to see why no distributors touched it with a ten-foot pole


I'm interested in this part.

The movie looks very dumb but would have at least some commercial appeal, if it can't get distribution that really says something

[Beeda Weeda]

Mikey Alfred is more productive with his time versus all of us... I thought the film was pretty good and they did it on a budget. Like 50 said, "If they hate, let them hate and watch the money pile up."

hi  mikey

[Uh Oh]

Like 50 said, "If they hate, let them hate and watch the money pile up."

His lyrics are so profoundly enriching.

[Atiba Applebum]

Mikey Alfred is more productive with his time versus all of us... I thought the film was pretty good and they did it on a budget. Like 50 said, "If they hate, let them hate and watch the money pile up."

Is investing a lot of time and money into an unsuccessful enterprise really considered productive?

[Miller92]

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Mikey Alfred is more productive with his time versus all of us... I thought the film was pretty good and they did it on a budget. Like 50 said, "If they hate, let them hate and watch the money pile up."

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Is investing a lot of time and money into an unsuccessful enterprise really considered productive?

that's...how you become successful.  You fail.  You try again.  You get better. 

like do you not know how filmmaking works? Not everyone's first film is fucking ET. 

not saying the movie is great by any means but it was a pretty great first outing for a young person working with a small budget. 

[Miller92]

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Mikey Alfred is more productive with his time versus all of us... I thought the film was pretty good and they did it on a budget. Like 50 said, "If they hate, let them hate and watch the money pile up."

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Is investing a lot of time and money into an unsuccessful enterprise really considered productive?

honestly, this comment is such a slap in the face to anyone who ever tried and failed at ANYTHING. 

how old are you?

[RichardBarkley]

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Mikey Alfred is more productive with his time versus all of us... I thought the film was pretty good and they did it on a budget. Like 50 said, "If they hate, let them hate and watch the money pile up."

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Is investing a lot of time and money into an unsuccessful enterprise really considered productive?

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that's...how you become successful.  You fail.  You try again.  You get better. 

like do you not know how filmmaking works? Not everyone's first film is fucking ET. 

not saying the movie is great by any means but it was a pretty great first outing for a young person working with a small budget.

I think the guys a douche from what I've seen but I mean he can't be faulted for effort. As you say it's a learning process
 

[Miller92]

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Mikey Alfred is more productive with his time versus all of us... I thought the film was pretty good and they did it on a budget. Like 50 said, "If they hate, let them hate and watch the money pile up."

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Is investing a lot of time and money into an unsuccessful enterprise really considered productive?

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that's...how you become successful.  You fail.  You try again.  You get better. 

like do you not know how filmmaking works? Not everyone's first film is fucking ET. 

not saying the movie is great by any means but it was a pretty great first outing for a young person working with a small budget.

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I think the guys a douche from what I've seen but I mean he can't be faulted for effort. As you say it's a learning process

totally. Not a fan of any young kid that comes in and talks trash about Spike Jonze.  But to be so callous...god damn

[Atiba Applebum]

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Mikey Alfred is more productive with his time versus all of us... I thought the film was pretty good and they did it on a budget. Like 50 said, "If they hate, let them hate and watch the money pile up."

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Is investing a lot of time and money into an unsuccessful enterprise really considered productive?

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that's...how you become successful.  You fail.  You try again.  You get better. 

like do you not know how filmmaking works? Not everyone's first film is fucking ET. 

not saying the movie is great by any means but it was a pretty great first outing for a young person working with a small budget.

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I think the guys a douche from what I've seen but I mean he can't be faulted for effort. As you say it's a learning process

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totally. Not a fan of any young kid that comes in and talks trash about Spike Jonze.  But to be so callous...god damn

Wooah easy now.  The contention here is someone saying he’s so much more productive than all of us and I made a flip comment about that.   Not bagging on everyone everywhere for trying anything.   Fuck. 

And aspiring filmmakers tend to cut their teeth making short films first.  No one should just start out on a feature film, but his arrogance and the cheapness of shooting a movie led him to believe he should.   

[alex]

Mikey Alfred reminds me of a character in GTA that you'd do zany missions for/with, who eventually ends of getting himself killed or something.

Definitely the type to fall off a building as you're walking away from the mission complete banner

[mushroom slice]

Failing at something is always better then not trying. Maybe his movie sucks. Maybe not. You have to watch it before you can critique it. Even if you use smart words and shit you still sound like popcorn water.

[Atiba Applebum]

Failing at something is always better then not trying. Maybe his movie sucks. Maybe not. You have to watch it before you can critique it. Even if you use smart words and shit you still sound like popcorn water.

Again, no one is criticizing him for trying something, it was that poster’s comment that he’s more productive than us because he made a movie

[Nosferatu]

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Failing at something is always better then not trying. Maybe his movie sucks. Maybe not. You have to watch it before you can critique it. Even if you use smart words and shit you still sound like popcorn water.

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Again, no one is criticizing him for trying something, it was that poster’s comment that he’s more productive than us because he made a movie

@Atiba Applebum , stop flooding the boards with bad takes and you will stop getting called on them. It's pretty simple.

[Atiba Applebum]

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Failing at something is always better then not trying. Maybe his movie sucks. Maybe not. You have to watch it before you can critique it. Even if you use smart words and shit you still sound like popcorn water.

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Again, no one is criticizing him for trying something, it was that poster’s comment that he’s more productive than us because he made a movie

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@Atiba Applebum , stop flooding the boards with bad takes and you will stop getting called on them. It's pretty simple.

Yeah I guess if you twist what I said into a condemnation of anyone who’s ever tried something it’s a bad take.  Shades of “you didn’t build it” in the 2012 election.   But fuck it, I’ll disappear from this thread

[childhood]

Go watch Minding the Gap

[urbneathme]

how small can the budget of a movie be if fucking vince vaughn appears in it?

[Miller92]

how small can the budget of a movie be if fucking vince vaughn appears in it?

the budget was 1.8 million which is really tiny for shooting in LA. 

Vince probably shot for 5-6 days and did it as a favor for an elevated day rate

[drewdown]

Does those dude skate? Can he do a kick flip?

[Atiba Applebum]

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how small can the budget of a movie be if fucking vince vaughn appears in it?

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the budget was 1.8 million which is really tiny for shooting in LA. 

Vince probably shot for 5-6 days and did it as a favor for an elevated day rate

That’s not tiny for shooting in LA.  That’s tiny for a studio feature, but not for an indie/super indie. Sure it’s under the $5M threshold for SAG, but it’s hardly a micro-budget.  I assumed he shot it for like 300k because it certainly looks cheap.  They shot in LA and in the 30 Mile Zone.   Most budgets tend to get eaten up with above the line talent (director, writer, actors, etc) which this movie didn’t have.  Paying Vince Vaughn his day rate was probably the only big cost run on the film and if it ran over 20-30 days, I’d be shocked.   

To compare, Palm Springs cost $5M because it shot outside of LA which means you have to provide transportation, lodging, per diem, etc, plus it had name talent in it shooting a large percentage of the shooting schedule.    That budget will go up when the distributor acquires it because Prints and Advertising runs (iirc) 50% of what the budget was on top of the budget, but that isn’t reported in public budget costs. 

[childhood]

You watch Minding the Gap yet?

[Youoverthere]

Can you numb nuts stop watching this movie and supporting this idiot?  Ironic views/rentals don’t go in a different category than sincere ones.

there was a free hd link posted earlier in this thread. You think we’re paying for this?

[jgonzalez]

shout out them garden boys