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Dire!! Typical vanity production

posted 14 years ago by edenonline
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I hope whoever put up the funding for this was after a tax writeoff because that would have been all they would have gotten.

Raybon Kan is a fair to middling stand up comic, but he's not an actor's thingummyjig. Kan appears to have scripted this and put himself in it always a fatal mistake for a noob. Someone with big mobs of cinematic success under their belt prolly can script and produce a movie t5hat they plan on starring in, but for anyone else the impossiblity of taking an objective eye to their script and/or performance means that the odds of layin an egg are about 100 to 1.
This movie went with the numbers. If you listen very closely you can hear the occasional faint cry of "Timber!" when Raybon finishes his line.
I suppose the FOTC blokes were given parts to make the movie saleable outside NZ since Kan is unknown except to kiwis.
You'd have to say that this movie will probably cause him to become unknown inside NZ as well. Kiwis can be pretty unattractive when they feel someone has taken em and irate kiwi buyers of this unfunny comedy, unscary horror will want someone to blame.
Kan is gonna be their scapegoat. Oh well maybe he can still become whatever it is his parents had planned for him before he made the mistake of thinking he was a comedian.

[–] glenn-299 12 years ago

Not knowing anything about Raybon Kan (who, as you say, is unknown outside of New Zealand), I didn't expect anything from him but I thought his acting was ok, not particularly wooden as you imply and certainly up to the standard you would expect from a low budget comedy/horror movie.

BTW, surely the expression 'to lay an egg' means to be unsuccessful, in which case you're saying that that film has odds of 100 to 1 of flopping - in other words it's likely to be a hit. Didn't you mean it the other way round?