odd release dates.
why is it that the screener was only JUST leaked, when this came out in 2009? shouldn't we have a proper DVD release by now?s.
shareThe film was shot in 2006, scrapped and the director re-shot in 2007 and added footage in 2008 and 2009. The film had a festival run from 2009 through 2010 and into 2011...20 festivals total, including 5 non-horror festivals...the film was picked up for distribution in 2011 by Breaking Glass Pictures for a DVD release on June 28th. All of this info is everywhere on their site and FB page and bloggers have been writing about the film since 2008...it was given Best Film of 2010 by two different horror bloggers and was on five Top Ten lists for 2010.
shareand yet it sucked badly. best film, pff, laughable.
"laugh and the world laughs with you. Weep and you weep alone." - Dae-su Oh
well, not everyone is going to have the attention span and intelligence to sit through a film that actually demands something of the viewer.
sharehahahahaha. hey gregg, thank you for taking the bate. that was exactly the kind of answer that i was fishing for. thank you for proving to the board that you are either involved in the making of this piece of crap or hired to hype it up / defend it. funny enough i know what you will answer next as well.
since i am a nice guy i will give you some advice:
first of all you should check peoples voting history before making a fool out of yourself by throwing such rediculous statements around. if you would, then you had seen that on the top of my list the following movies appear: oldboy, hard candy, irreversible, dear wendy, pi, cache, bennys video, white ribbon, funny games original, thirst, lost highway, dellamorte dellamore .. etc. THOSE are hard to sit through and demand something from the viewer. applying your statement to some piece of crap c-grade local cable staton level horror movie is just as stupid as telling someone that they werent able to understand the deep sociologic statements that are deeply hidden in scream 3.
secondary you should not try to hype it beyond any reasonable level. there is good, there is bad and here is debateable. this one is not even up for discussion. there are movies that some people find appealing while some others might not, but if the general consens is, that a movie is abyssmal, as it is with this movie (just check the "honest" reviews over here) then the best that you can get away with is "if you have some time to kill and if this one is running on basic cable then you don't neccessarily need to switch it off". one thing that you can not get away with is telling people how incredibly great it is, at least not to people that have seen any quality movies before.
thirdly. holtgrewe, is that you? it is rather rare around here that the director himself takes he time to write down the synopsis himself and post it, like in this case. oh, i just checked and yeah, it is indeed you. wow, dude don't you feel a bit ashamed, coming over here, hyping your own stuff and then even have the cochones to tell people that did not like it that they are stupid? wow, that's a first.
so you won awards at the st.paul minnesota and rhode island international film festivals and some blogger named this the best horror movie of 2010? wow, that's almost like winning canne, isn't it?
while we are at it? why don't you explain to us why this movie has been delayed so many time? was the screener udience not satisfied? so, additional material had to be filmed, eh? why? please shed some light.
oh, and another thing: either give yourself a fake usename that does not give away a link to your production company if you want to remain anonymous or let people know who you are upfront.
"laugh and the world laughs with you. Weep and you weep alone." - Dae-su Oh
Well, thank you for taking my "bate" as well.
Thanks for the advice, but, to be honest, it's not necessary...I'll take a released movie and pre-production on another as enough advice.
I'm sorry you didn't understand Dawning or didn't pay enough attention to get the subtleties, it's not for everyone, so I get it.
ha ha! yeah, it is like winning Cannes because Cannes and festivals like Sundance are the only ones that "matter" to the uneducated masses of film viewers.
and actually, five different horror sites put Dawning on their Top Ten lists for 2010 and two of them gave Dawning Best Film. It's been in 20 festivals...the awards have come from Solstice, Rhode Island and Las Vegas which is where it was given "Excellence in Filmmaking"...and if you just did a little research instead of taking the time to rip on the film because you're probably a frustrated "creative-type", it would add more credibility to your discussions. If being in 20 festivals, including 5 non-genre fests (just do a little research instead of downloading the film from a torrent site) means this films is not even up for discussion...and the 20 different horror sites/bloggers which have given it great reviews have nothing to do with me or anyone else involved with the film...but I suppose asking you to do a little homework before making false statements is too much.
the movie has been going through festivals since 2009 and first premiered in 2008 (again, do some research and get your facts straight) and the filmmakers wanted to add another scene and wanted to continue with the festival run...oh, and then they got a distribution deal...which is why screeners are sent out...pretty straight forward and simple.
well, as i already announced i knew in advance what kind of answer to expect. didn't take the tme to even attempt to dismantle any of my arguments, did ya? just As i expected.
yeah, it is truly hard to get into some minor festivals and its is really really hard to get some horror movie bloggers attention. from what you wrote that could easily also be about "das komabrutale duell", which was also terrible and also got a couple of good reviews along the way. even got picked up for a re release. also, i noticed in my lacking reseatch ;) that a lot of the bloggers thank you personally for providing the informations. kinda odd, dont ya think.
dude, you are the filmmaker. talking about THE FILMMAKERS. you wrote it, you directed it.
hahaha. as opposed to you i do not have a personal agenda here, sugarpie. watched a movie, it sucked, wrote it down, offended the director that in exchange acted like a little child who got his candy taken away from him.
and if YOU had done your research you might had noticed that the general response to your movie is all but positive and strangely the criticism generally aims at the same flaws.
as for your other "argument": even uwe boll gets the cash to do one movie after the other. that is no indication of anything.
dude, no offense, i understand that this is your baby and that you would like to think hat is the best and beautiful of them all, but a bit of self criticism would be more than healthy if you ever want to make it in this business.
oh and btw, i get my screeners in the post, so i might send you over a printed version of my review. ;)
"laugh and the world laughs with you. Weep and you weep alone." - Dae-su Oh