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| Pipe Breakers and Singing Bakers; On The Lot 6/5 Recap | |
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| Topic Started: Jun 6 2007, 12:23 AM (493 Views) | |
| dfleminator | Jun 6 2007, 12:23 AM Post #1 |
Dr. Horrible
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Hello movie viewers, and welcome to a new episode of On The Lot. You may recall last week, at the end of a grueling hour-long results show, Carolina, Claudia and Phil were all sent back to Europe. You may also have noticed that this week there was no Monday night show. Apparently, viewers weren’t so big on going from 24 contestants at the end of one episode, to 18 contestants at the beginning of the next, without an explanation. Am I the only one wondering if Mark Burnett and Steven Spielberg are really behind this? Anyway, because of the lack of viewers, Fox has chosen to cut the show to only one hour a week, which is a blessing for a poor recapper such as I. Since we only have an hour, the format must change, and we will only be viewing five movies tonight. Unfortunately, part of that format change is not getting rid of host Adrianna Costa. She still introduces us to the show, while the applause of the audience is too loud for us to hear her. For all I know she could just be saying “there’s a cow in our backyard”. Once the applause dies down, Adrianna introduces us to our judges, Carrie Fisher, Garry Marshall, and guest judge, director of Armageddon, (and the upcoming movie Transformers, which opens July 4th) Michael Bay. I’m all excited this week, as I assume we have no cliché dramatic pauses by our Our first director of the night is Sam Friedlander, who is apparently quite famous on the internet from his Youtube video that he made with fellow On The Lotter, Adam Stein, called Lazy Monday. As you may recall from last week, he made the film “Replication Theory”, which was a favorite of both Carrie Fisher and myself. Will he be able to replicate his success with his new movie “Broken Pipe Dreams”? The film is about a man who has issues with toilets because of some childhood trauma, in which his dad flushed his goldfish down the toilet just to spite him. He accidentally drops his engagement ring down the toilet, and a showdown, man vs. toilet ensues. In the end, he breaks some pipes and gets both the ring, and his goldfish. I felt like it was a really good film, and really well put together. I like this guy, and I look forward to seeing his next film. Carrie – I really liked it… I liked that the hero was a human and the adversary was a toilet, I thought it was very cute and very surreal. I really liked it a lot Michael – Did you kill that fish during that production? (No) Very good, cause I cared more about the fish than the guy. It got repetitive, you took a two minute movie and made it into three. Garry – I understood the plot of your film much better than the Mission Impossible films. You made the toilet a character, excellent filmmaking My Rating:  Next up is Trever James from small town Montana. Last week, he did “A Golf Story”, which got mixed reviews from the judging panel. He’s hoping to do better this week with “Teri (Blind Date),” a film about a guy who runs through all the possible scenarios of a blind date in his head. In the end, it turns out that she’s just a regular girl. I found the ending a bit disappointing… the middle of the film was full of humor, however it fizzled out in the end, with what I felt was a weak ending. Did the judges agree with me? Carrie – Very cute, the acting was over the top, you should have had a murderer at the end Michael – Good comic pacing, the ideas a bit of a retreat, you did good, but work on your photography and a bit more on style Garry – I liked the one about the golf better. The lead was excellent, but the characters were more like caricatures rather than funny people. My Rating: Now it’s time for our third director to be revealed… I know you are all on the edge of your seats! And the winner is Hillary Graham! As you may recall, her film “Bus #1” was far from a hit with the judges last week, and so she hopes that she will begin her comeback with her film “The First Time I Met the Finkelsteins. It is about a woman meeting her boyfriend’s extremely politically incorrect parents for the very first time. At times it was hard to watch, and the boyfriend kept telling his girlfriend not to get caught with the mother alone, I was waiting for the payoff of the girlfriend getting caught with mom, but it never happened. Carrie – I think you do yourself a disservice with the directing, it’s very claustrophobic, I’m worried after last weeks offering, I like the writing Michael – It’s a groaner, they’re laughing at you instead of with you. You were hurt by your acting as well, it didn’t really work for me. Garry – BACK UP! Too tight for the shots. Kelly straddling a brisket is a bumper sticker. I’m rooting for you and I hope you do well. My Rating: Well folks, there are only two more directors remaining this week, who will be next? It turns out that next will be Adam Stein, Sam’s old buddy from their Lazy Monday days. He claims that Sam and Hillary are his toughest competition, and I must question his taste… Hillary? Really? There must be someone else that he thinks is named Hillary… perhaps Zack? Hillary is no competition if you ask me. I could direct a documentary on booger-flicking and do a better job than Hillary. Anyway, I shall move on. Last week, Adam led off the show with the very clever “Dance Man”, and the question is whether he can outdo himself with his latest production: “Dough: The Musical”. It’s a musical in which there is a baker looking for love, and an unemployed woman looking for a job. They meet, and it is love at first sight. I felt it was very well done, very original, and it made me happy. Let’s see if the judges agree. Carrie – Incredibly, incredibly original. I just thought it was a really good job, and totally entertaining Michael – Very good job for five days, I had a great time watching it. Work more on your photography, get more style there, otherwise, it was a great job Garry – It was so theatrical, I was expecting a curtain to come down at the end… My Rating: I usually try to avoid talking about anything Adrianna says or does outside of the opening, however, I have to draw people’s attention to this… In encouraging people to vote for Adam’s movie, she says “If you got a rise out of Adam’s movie, call…” no one laughs, and immediately she says “sorry, I had to go there”. Of course, I think “go where?” Yes, folks, if you re-read it, it is a bad pun. Get it? Rise? Like dough rise? HA! Moving on… Our final director is Shalini Kantayya. You may recall last week that she mentioned she feels more comfortable doing documentaries, so this week, she decides to move from her film “Love in 2007” to a documentary on an East-Indian gay comic. Her film is called “Laughing Out Loud: A Comic Journey”. Her primary concern is that the audience might not connect with her film, and based on my reaction to her film, she does have cause for concern. I have nothing against the subject matter, and in fact, I thought that it was an inspirational story about being yourself, however, I just didn’t find it that interesting, and some of her shots were a little too “artsy” for me. What did the judges think of it? Carrie – Really well made, reminded me of a biopic that they do for you before the film, I thought you could do better than the advice “be yourself” Michael – You gave me a chill. Really great job, you have the most visual style than anyone up here tonight Garry – We lied about all films needing a beginning, middle and end. It has to engage, and I think you can work on that, because we really need women filmmakers. My Rating: At the end of the show, we hear from the ten remaining directors whose films were not screened tonight, and they have voted for Shalini’s film as their favorite, while (surprise, surprise) Hillary was voted the worst. Also, Michael Bay looks embarrassed to be involved in this show, and slightly disgusted at the whole thing. Judges Favorites Carrie – Sam Michael – Shalini Garry – Adam Me – Adam My Least Favorite Hillary What did you think of the show? Are you sick of Adrianna Costa too? Sign up here, and tell us all about it! |
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| kira_butterfly | Jun 6 2007, 10:10 AM Post #2 |
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Okay...I liked Hillary's all except the tight shots...that was a bit much...but the dialoge I thought was funny!
 I really like the musical one...that was really good! So, I'm really confused...does only 1 out of the 5 get to stay and the rest go home or what? |
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| chairo | Jun 6 2007, 10:15 AM Post #3 |
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Only one out of each group of five will go home |
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| kira_butterfly | Jun 6 2007, 10:15 AM Post #4 |
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Oh! Okay...makes more sense now!
Thanks for the clarification |
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