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I have a strong love for indie film, however. . .


This movie may be too amateur for it's own good. I'm 11 minutes in and witnessed the most atrocious jump cut this side of the 1970s. Seriously. It is a still shot of an actress speaking lines, and it abruptly cuts mid sentence, skipping one or two words, and she continues to finish the sentence. This movie is shot on digital video, and edited with something akin to Final Cut or Avid. It is really inexcusable in this day and age. Even the lowest budget student production does not subject viewers to this kind of atrocious film editing. I thought this kind of mistake disappeared with the extinction of amateur film splicing. With modern technology there are literally hundreds of ways to fix this in post production, and most of them would take no more than five minutes, so I am baffled. My only conclusion is that they did not care about the film. If they did not care, why should I?

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So I finished watching this thing. No. . . Just no. I understand that this was a no budget movie made amongst friends. So was Peter Jackson's Bad Taste, and Trey Parker's Cannibal The Musical. The only talent evident anywhere in Bone Sickness is in a handful of the effects. Paulin does not have a shred of talent as a film maker, and should burn his cameras. However, perhaps, I'm a bit harsh on him. He did pull together the people to make this possible, finished the thing, and got it distributed. . . . Maybe he should think about producing, and leave film making to film makers.

"Live FAT, die YOUNG, and leave an ENORMOUS corpse!" -Jesus H. Christ

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I'm with you Chunkie. I mentioned in another thread (before reading yours) how "amateur" this film comes off, not because its shot on video, but the editing, especially the sound editing. The movie is GARBAGE.

Only credit I'll give the "film" (use that term loosely) is the zombies, they did look cool and straight out of a Fulci film, but that credit probably belongs to the costume designer rather then the filmmaker.

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