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how can we make this guy never make movies again?


Yea, we gotta do somethin about this guy. He's a terrible director and terrible producer.

There's this one scene in Corpses Are Forever around like 1 hour into the movie, where a guy plainly walks right by in the background, and you can tell it wasn't planned because the guy was so out of focus and walking normally.


It was bad.


This movie is bad.



PLEASE Jose, STOP!

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Oh come on now. Uwe Boll? THere's no reason to be this mean. Uwe Boll makes his movies with huge budgets. Things like stunt shots being obvious or characters crossing into frame where they don't belong are the trials of indie filmmaking. Check out the street scene in the trailer at www.hocfocprod.com/deathplots
I had written a movie with guys sporting guns in the middle of the street. Try getting a permit for that on no budget. We wound up having to shoot on private property, so our street scene has only three cars in it and no background movement. Some of these things were not directorial decisions, but things that got missed and could not afford to be shot over. At least that is what I thought.

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Things like stunt shots being obvious or characters crossing into frame where they don't belong are the trials of indie filmmaking.


Yes, but that doesn't mean you have to USE THE SHOT. You want to see a well-done low-budget horrow film? Check out "Dog Soldiers" by Neil Marshall. That film was shot for so little, I bet he had to ask all the actors to bring sandwiches with them to the set.

In "Monty Python and the Holy Grail", they couldn't stretch to the budget to horses so they figured out how to make it work.

Saw was made for $1.2 million.

Part of making a low-budget film that people respect is learning how use what you have to best advantage. Big budgets don't make good films... just ask Michael Bay or Jonathan Mostow.

On the other hand, plenty of great movies were made on ridiculous budgets.

The most important part: a good script idea with good dialog.

Next comes a good cast with good chemistry. They don't have to be big names, but they have to have ability.

Once you have these things, then you hope for a director who understands how to tell a story visually, how to communicate with an audience and how to get the best performances out of the cast.

Last, you need producers who won't get in the way of the creative people.

Combine these ingredients and failure isn't an option.





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I do believe I included the answer to the above question in my review for Prendes' 'Monster Man', which was:

'Someone really should take all his cameras and equipment off him to save us more grief. Oh, and his pens and pencils too. Not to mention any computer/word processing equipment he might have. In fact we'd better chop off his hands and rip out his tongue while we're at it. And can't people communicate with their eyes too? Let's pluck those out and slice off the eyelids just for good measure. And what if he's telepathic and could still communicate his ideas to someone else? I think the only way we're all going to be safe would be to decapitate him.

I'll volunteer.'


And I would still volunteer. I really would!

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Yeah, this movie was definatley a waste of video store space...the plot was almost ok...i dunno I got to sidetracked by the crappy acting and the fact that we got people in a night of the living dead situation, and people are running right by the zombies who also cant act (how freakin hard is it to play a zombie? I mean really!) it wasnt the budget that blew on this flick it was everything but...I dont remebr it all because it was broing and I bout fell into a stupor trying to pay attention to it...

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I was really insulted by this skinny, wannabe tough guy persona he tried to inject into the character. The lame, cliche tattoos, black and white artsy flashbacks, randomness, and horribly narration. I'm appalled. Indie filmakers should try to develop their story and screenwriting skills before trying to jump into different parts of the filmaking process. Directing, acting, fx, producing, blah blah blah...should definetly way until he has some sort of writting skills down. I could go on but I don't think I have to.

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if you're talking about the scene right after they split up and Jose/Malcolm/Quint is walking around by himself, then I'd say it was on purpose...as a teaser...ya know, since he ambushed him 30 seconds later?

and he walked normally because it was the crazy "great day for a murder" old guy, who was more of a ghost (like the bloody chick) than a zombie

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