How come everyone has to have a damn gun in their films???? Don't let the gun tell a story let the story use a gun. Get it? I'm saying don't screw your movie and story by throwing a gun into for the "cool" aspect; instead use a gun if it is necessary for your story.

S.Tyler Wilson

perhaps that person felt it necessary. Granted there has been alot of guns in movies but just yelling about it will not make it easier to find a weapon.

How was I supposed to know it was a guy in a suit?Besides, anyone willing to wear a Mickey Mouse suit deserves to get hit by a car...that and my brakes failed, kind of.

I can relate. I dont mind violence. It can be quite entertaining, but anyone can shoot a guy kicking in doors, and pointing guns. Ask Robert Rodriguez. When he made "El Mariachi" people asked, "How did you do the majority of the shooting on one take?" He replied, "How many times do I need to shoot that guy kicking in a door? If he kicked it, and it opened, good enough. One take. I can make it more exciting in post with foley, and editing."

He was admitting, action is small minded. It is hard to do very well, but almost anyone can do it. Great stories arent that hard to find. Their all around you. Just strive for creativity, and originality. Dont steal an action swequence from a movie, amke your own sequence. Trust me, it will be ten times cooler.
R. M. McWhorter

And you shall know us by the trail of dead.

I keep on hearing about this "El Mariachi" What is it?

Ok, its a foreign action film, sort of. Robert Rodriguez was a film student, who wanted to make a feature. He raised $7,000 and went to Mexico. He shot a 90 minute action film, on that budget, 16mm, for sale into the spanish video market. He planned to make three, each having a higher budget, due to the profit from the last, and in the end, hopefully, have a reel to take to Hollywood. Instead, the film was seen buy an ICM agency exec. who got it to every studio worth talking about. They proceeded to start a biding war over Robert. You may be familiar with "El Mariachis" bigger budget sequel, "Desperado" with Antonio Banderas. There is yet another installment due out early next year titled, "Once upon a time in Mexico".
If you want to see the film, I suggest renting (or buying) the special edition "Desperado" DVD which also has"El Mariachi" on it, as well as commentary on both. (El Mariachi is just Robert telling you how he pulled it off.) his Ten minute film school, and his award winning short "bed head" In addition, whethere you see it, or not, you MUST buy his book "Rebel without a crew." Simply put, read that book, and no one will be able to convince you that you cant make it in this business. It is a must have for indie/student film makers. Any time I lose steam, I pic up that book, and get fired up all over again. Best of luck.
R. Michael McWhorter

And you shall know us by the trail of dead.

Thankyou. I shall look for both the DVD and book.

I agree
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Rad films drew...I liked the editing, um...good editing.

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Tizzy, I want you to know, that book changed my life. I got it after reading this post to see what it was all about. And wow. Not only did I think it was possible to make it in film after reading it, but decided I would make my living in film. That and "El Mariachi" is the greatest foreign film ever. EVER. I suggest everyone on this board follows his advice.

yeah enough with the guns already!
axes are much more fun. they make a bigger mess....

How about another 'Chainsaw Massacre'? I mean, there's twenty 'Lock Stock...' rip-offs yet no Texas Chainsaw Massacre rip-offs? c'mon!

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I will have to agree that violence is not the best way to fill up a movie, but why say it's worthless? If you think a film has too much violence, tell someone that, but don't just kill the movie once you've stated that flaw. Was the violence done well atleast? I have two films on the site right now, Slayer and Execution, and yes I know, both are glorifications of violence. In my defense though, both films were originally an hour and had a ton more dialogue and character development, but for this site I had to cut both down to thirty minutes. I agree with most of the reviews given to me that all the violence was overdone, but the hour versions don't dwell on it as much. Whatever, there's my two cents.

Chandler Mays

That's right, I'm a "newbie". And I mark this as my first post!! You can blame breent baird for the mayhem, and destruction I'm about to cause. I have gone on forums before, and on the last one, I got everyone saying moop. (not on purpose mind you). And now I come to sprend my plague of. . . I'm not sure what.
Anywho, Back to topic. Guns are used too much sometimes, and people DO make them stand out. We really need to tone this down.

To all but one.
To one but all.
you know what's funny?
Watching Brent fall!

Sorry dude...but I'm the POST MASTER. Lord of the Posts...

I have already caused all mayhem with my so-called "immature" attitude and "unessecary" posts like this one.

WORTHLESS VIOLENCE>> Violence kicks ass. My film that will be done 1st week of June isn't gonna be "violent" as in blood and guts flying everywhere...it'll be more dark and crazy...all I'm gonna say is that it involves a hammer & some nails.

I wanna see more films like TAKEBACK 2 - That film is the best action film on this website...EVER.

TacoWagonProductions

"So I like I said, you win, your the post master or whatever your goal is on this site..." The glorious white Ninja MD.

That was good. I just want to know what happened to takeback 1.

To all but one.
To one but all.
you know what's funny?
Watching Brent fall!

The guy who did Takeback 2, Stephen Reedy, said on the old message board that he didn't like Takeback 1.

TacoWagonProductions

"Good. Bad. I'm the guy with the gun." - Bruce Cambell in Army of Darkness

I wonder what happened in takeback 1 though....

....perhaps there was a gigantic man eating eggplant, that keeps growing, and eventually spawns a bunch of man eating zombies. Or not.

To all but one.
To one but all.
you know what's funny?
Watching Brent fall!

Takeback 1 was just two guys having a way-too-long gunfight in some parking lot over a teddybear or koala toy or something, (thus, take back). Funny premise, boring movie...the second was doesn't have anything to do with 1...cept for the main character.

A really long gunfight eh? Nothing to do with the sequel eh? I'm canadian eh?

To all but one.
To one but all.
you know what's funny?
Watching Brent fall!