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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
All three of these submissions are perfectly edited. The stories are quite nice, as well. Some of the acting I could do without, but I especially like it when the girl gets halved by the car: I've always wanted to film a scene like that.
hmmm... pi meets 20bucks... seen them both before.
how does blatantly copying themes from other movies fly in a film competition?
i guess you could call it tribute, but i thought it was pretty tacky
How can the guy be giving the 5 bucks to the drug dealer while some other guy is giving what is supposedly the same 5 bucks to the liquor store clerk? It does me head in.
Horrid student acting, plagarized editing, hamfisted "messages," and a central conceit that could only sound good to underexposed undergrads; hardly worth mention, let alone recognition.
I will be sure to note the names of the filmmakers, if only to protect myself from ever accidentally viewing any of their visual cliches in the future.
Equals what?
Overearnest Teenagers With Something to Say. Or something to copy. Awesome, dudes!
Oh, and look at that; it all took place in the guy's head. Neato.
Way to Deus ex machina, kids. Problem solved in an unintriquing way.
Maybe your next film should have a car chase where all the bad guys die.
Hey! Let's get him!
That an important part of Campus Moviefest is that the students only have a week to create these films from start to finish. Give them a break, y'all.
I guess I'm not as picky as others are, as I thoroughly enjoyed it, but I will say this about Tangent. The $5 bill that travels is NOT the $5 bill the dealer gets. It is a DIFFERENT $5 bill that the buyer has. Or am I missing something? (Yeah, it sort of copies Requiem for a Dream but so what? It was so succinct.)
Hi, I'm one of the team members that actually made this movie. We were pretty excited when one of our friends found it posted here, it's nice to see that people outside of CMF will actually see it.
In response to Humbert, the $5 bill is the same throughout the movie. We decided to play with time in the movie - the timeline is actually a circle starting and ending at the same point. We leave it up to the viewer to decide whether everything happened in Jake's mind or if something else happened resulting in a second chance. That's where the name of the movie came from: a circular timeline, but he takes a different path (or tangent) at the end... Plus the team was mostly engineering students so we like math terms haha.
Anyway we appreciate the comments, especially from those who understand the amount of work that went into making this movie in the allotted week. We had a lot of help and not much sleep! Check out some of the other films at campusmoviefest.com ... there are some good ones.
-Mike Doran, Northeastern University
Reminiscent of Requiem for a Dream, Run Lola Run and Donnie Darko. Those who have posted negative comments about copying from others need to get a clue about filmmaking. There was no blatant copying involved here. It seems to me that you are just jealous that you don't have the passion to create something worthwhile yourselves. These are college students, for christ's sake. Give your egos a rest.
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