I think that regardless how artistically fulfilling Canadian movies are at this point. We should support them! If we were at the same stage as America. Then I too would say no to movies like this and I would want more artistic endeavours. However, since we can't expect that yet, let's try to get to that point. (first you give them what they want, then you give them what you want ----- Stanley Tucci in Big Night
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You misunderstood. I agree wholeheartedly. I think we should see whatever looks remotely interesting. That way, when studios see that Canuck films can make money, they'll take more chances and make more risky (less marketable) films.
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The preview for the movie says it's "In theatres everywhere" is it actually or "Everywhere in Canada"?
Decoys looks like a great movie, the posters cool. Not just support Canadian moives into more Canadian theatres but for them to go into American as well. There's a slight possiblity it'll happen for "Cube Zero" but it's unlikly.
http://www.freewebs.com/demonictoys/index.htm
Can any of you *beep* morons compose an intelligible sentence?
shareAs much as I agree with the statement "Support Canadian Films". The stigma still exists about them. I've even gone to empty theaters to see "Duct Tape Forever" and that one by Paul Gross "Men With Brooms"...
But to me, this film looks like "yet another stereotypical teen slasher flick where all the girls are pretty and all the boys are stupid". It's an American cliche, but it's different for a Canadian film. (Unless it's another homage to the 1950's creature horror films like Eight Legged Freaks was).
I have to admit, the little insect icon at the end of the trailer looks cool. And I like the concept of "Skinny-Chicks" actually being hideous underneath!!Much like the Canadian Northern Pikes song "She Ain't Pretty".
I might rent this film, but I think I'll avoid the movie experience. (I don't need to see twenty-something female flesh...)
I'm gonna see this one in theatres, mainly to show some local pride, the movie was shot in Ottawa, and I'm gonna see it here. :) I guess my best friend was right when he said people think nothing ever happens here (Ottawa), well guess you were right Taich. :D.
shareI would like to support this movie but I don't know where it's playing! It's not playing in the city I live next too and the closest theatre I have found so far is 2 hours away! Crazy...
If I go into filmmaking I hope my films would be playing in more theatres than 'Decoys'!
But why support it if it's bad? If you do that, you reduce the incentive to make a good film. It becomes easier to make a mediocre work, and then guilt-trip people into seeing it because they "should" support Canadian film. There are a million things we "should" be doing in this world, but if I have to choose between seeing a flick I "should" see versus one I "want" to see, I'll go to the one I want to see.
share"Why support it if it's bad?"
Absolutely right. I'm sure we all know Canadians are just as adept at making GOOD movies (heck, one just won an Oscar last night). So why throw your support behind something that just looks so damned...mainstream American?
Guess I'm just a sucker for a cheesy film.
shareCanadian films will get better when the industry gets off the asses of Canadian filmmakers.
The Canadian filmmaking industry currently is like the Canadian theatre industry. My meaning being the organization is comepletely self contained and exsists only to provide entertainment for themselves and not the public.
Canadian filmmakers need to break away from their industry crutches and make movies that they want to make not movies that their investors want to see.
Problem:Candian movies suck!
Solution:Create something that isn't the cinematic equivalent of a soap opera so you and your gaang of pretentious art film fu ckers can have something to drool over!
(PS: Stop working on American TV movies...)
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I always support Canadian film, and I supported this by buying it, but it's pretty bad. It really doesn't even feel like a Canadian film beyond the accents. It feel like standard Hollywood dreck. Cronenberg and Egoyan have nothing to worry about here.
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