This movie sucked.

Saying it sucked is a little over the top. My totally honest opinion: The best actor in the movie was the unemployed guy. (he seemed the most naturalistic). There were a number of shots that went on too long. Some of the wipes and dissolves were a little lame. There were many scenes where there was just too much dead air between the lines of dialogue. The kind of movie that this seems to be striving to be, has bang bang bang bang dialogue, just one zinger after another.

I have to admit, I groaned at the ViewAskewniverse references. One would've been enough, shrug.

The best shot in the movie was the one with David behind the counter and Tara playing pool. The biggest laugh I got in the flick was the shot of him grabbing the green chalk with the naked guy standing there. Very funny. The part where Zack scratches his junk and then smells his hand...also very funny. (real stuff that people do, that never ends up in a film, like the hot chick picking her nose=pure gold).

The first 10 minutes you could compress into about 5 minutes, you can dive into the characters a lot faster.

Honestly, it seemed padded at 80minutes.

Now all that crap said: I admire you for writing to your assets, getting auditions, getting some actors who have worked elsewhere, getting the thing shot, cut and produced, and getting the distribution deal. You did some amazing things. You've acheived a lot more than 99% of us!

The DVX footage was for the most part okay, but there were certain shots (like the cutaways of the dog in the beginning) that didn't match the other shot. Pretty good utilization of the DVX though.

The Helium short was also pretty dang funny.

Anyway, I remember reading a lot about this on Indieclub and just wanted to give my .02 in a more complete way than "this rules" or "this sucks"

It's lots of fun to walk into Hollywood Video and see K&K or Mike Conway's War of the Planets on the racks.