Alright I saw Psyburn's two movies and now time for commenting.
Rap Battle 2000 is pretty awesome in its strange way. The actors don't take the film seriously, the storyline is just wack. But the films seems quite downbeat and "serious" this makes for an interesting and sometimes hilarious combination. Other than that I'm not sure I can say much good about it and Psyburn is right in saying that it's "shitty". It could be youtube messing it up but a lot of the cutting seems pretty choppy.
But anyway on to the other one.
Last Laugh of a Dead Man looks pretty nice. The lighting and cutting is miles beyond Rap Battle (it's probably good to see rap battle first and then Last Laugh) and overall it's a nice moody piece. I for one like the CGI-ish effect on. It makes it look... well it makes it look CGI, which adds another part to the film.
I'd like to comment more but I honestly don't know what to say. But I'll edit this post to add in the rest of the films in this thread later. Because I'll get to watching them all.
EDIT:
Now I watch the rest, in this order pretty much:
Now
Mr. Astma is my kind of film. Short and to the point. Commercials are obviously the best thing there is. All that was missing was a logo at the end with a price or perhaps a phone number to call.
Stop Motion (first attempt), I really liked it for the most part but in some places the camera was just that tiny bit too shaky for anyone really to see what was going on. But in the places where it worked, it worked very well and i can't really imagine what kind of work it really is to do stop motion. It must be hell...
Le Buisson du Grand Zor, this is probably my favorite so far. I have thing for hor... ehrm, for silent movies and this one worked really well. In fact I think I have to see it again right now. The movements are just the right kind of overdone and for once the acting is pretty decent for one of these films. (Although doing acting silently is usually easier than actually saying anything. Or so it seems) Doublepluspoints for the credits, a fine way to end a fine short.
Mort opened quite nice but kinda went donwhill from there. The storyline seemed to call for panic but there really wasn't any it was just more like "yeah I'm hangin'", the sound was weird too, it seemed slightly out of sync. With more gore this film would have been awesome, but it just didn't have it.
(gore can save any film)
In
Looking glass I liked the opening and the end. The middlepart was slightly destroyed by crappy acting. The shaky pictures I didn't mind so much, except of course that it WAS assorted randomness which isn't always too great. The part with the best actin gin the film was probalby when the main character sat down and talked to that other bugger.
Now I've seen and commented on them, now I just need to make a movie myself and watch it being butchered
I have to admit though that when you only have crappy actors it's usually best to make a comedy film that uses the crappy acting to an advantage because making serious stuff with bad actors usually isn't enjoyable.
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