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A student film made with commitment

Evening doll! Having studied film and being in the biz for as long as I have, I have become pretty jaded, and was convinced that I have seen it all. There just doesn't seem like there is any original thought left, Hollywood appears to have given up, and watching endless "student films" kinda proved that assumption.

However, every now and then a short comes along that renders me speechless, snatches the breath from my lungs, and makes me stare in wonderment at the screen. Watching a Horror Film as a Young Boy is one, and I keep finding my mind drifting back to it, playing it over and over in my head.

This is why I dig the Sift so much, and really feel connected to it and some of the amazing people here. This does more for my soul than any meeting or therapy session ever could.

P.S.Holy balls, you have 0 videos in your Personnel Que...I think I will just start referring to you as King, having @bareboards2 already nominated you to join our shared fantasy. It really does seem to be fitting!!

Yeah that was quite bad.. I am not a big fan of beeing overly political correct but this looks like a first year student film to me. Very badly written.

Well, that was kind of my point, though maybe you didn't take it that way.

The Akira film wasn't even faithful to the Manga, and even then it is still a really amazing piece of cinema. All this seems to be is a rehash of the animated film. It does nothing different or innovative.

The only time I think I would accept an Akira live action is if their little demo reel was a few scenes done in SUCH an inventive way that it completely took the story from 90-degrees from the left. Just wholly unexpected, but something you would watch and think "I recognize what scene this is, but I never even imagined envisioning it that way. That is fucking genius".

This was not genius. Most of this was hardly even on par with my College student films. I will agree with @chingalera that it's probably moderately better than anything hollywood would turn out, but I also don't think that's hard to do.

Is this a real trailer or some student film/short/fake trailer? What does it say about 'Hollywood' that I honestly can't tell?

That is fucking great, because I had heard about his "student films" (for lack of a better description), and always lamented that we'll probably never see them. Super happy he's throwing it online. I assume this is February 2014?

"In 2002, Steven Spielberg finally finished college after a 33-year hiatus. He turned in Schindler's List for his student film requirement."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-brake/movie-trivia_b_3799281.html

Give me this stuff 15 years ago when I was making shitty student films. Fuck you people of the future.

Are they trying to compare what females do with their body to make them selves presentable to the outside world, and comparing with how one would go about cooking a chicken

Normally I'm not the one to enjoy pretentious artsy student films, but this does have me intrigued quite a bit. Upvote.

http://videosift.com/video/A-Student-Film

Sorry, but fricken DOWNVOTE this shit.

a) As rychan said it's horrendously edited and directed, it is like a very bad student film
b) There is no logic
c) They fricken harmed/killed those horses.

F*ck them, F*ck this video.


I'm all for stupid action scenes, but GOOD stupid scenes at least have some internal logic, this is just filled with 'hmm, let's make a car leap into the air for no reason'.

And I am NOT for ones with intentional animal cruelty in them, get stuffed.

I'm late to this best of party, and I haven't seen 'In the Loop', 'Moon' and a few others that people have included in their lists, but here goes....

Best (in no particular order):

-Inglorious Basterds
-Where the Wild Things Are
-Watchmen
-Yeardly
-District 9
-Up in the Air
-Mr. Fantastic Fox
-The Hangover
-Capitalism (Not Moore's best, but any film that attempts to make honest discussion of capitalism less taboo in American culture earns my respect. Despite a meandering structure and the inclusion of youtube videos on the big screen, there is plenty to like here.)

Worst (It's pretty easy to avoid bad movies these days, but I managed to see a few)

-Antichrist - I usually like movies by Lars, but he seems to have purposely made this ode to genital mutilation to be unlikable/unwatchable, which must make its inclusion in my list a badge of honor. Well done, you sick pretentious fuck.
-Paranormal Activity - At 90 minutes, this over-hyped D grade student film was 70 minutes too long, with across the board failings in direction, acting and writing categories..... but still infinitely better than....
-2012 - One of the worst films I've ever seen. Mind bogglingly dumb, boring and entirely too long. Even the elaborate, expensive CGI/action sequences were lifeless, dull and uninspired. Zero entertainment value. When you can't make the destruction of the Earth even vaguely entertaining, you should probably stop making movies.

>> ^spoco2:
Oh, and you should change the embed to the google video one: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8786521104625863614#
As it's the whole thing in one vid.


Done and thanks.

Come on... this is some *quality student film making here... stop motion robots, what's not to love?