Neill Blomkamp's Oats Studios
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Yeah, SOME exposition.
Ruairi Robinson's Leviathan comes to mind. Very little exposition up front. Great little teaser!
Cephus
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Exactly, but there are lots of short filmmakers who can tell compelling stories in a short period of time without having to pile exposition on the viewer. Even if Blomkamp wants to make these into features at some point, nothing says he has to tell the bulk of the story in these shorts. Pick some part of the story and tell it. Or tell a side story while introducing people to the world. I don't want to have the plot explained to me, I want to experience it. He's breaking the #1 rule of writing.
Noeland
Master Member
These are experimental films. They are not meant to be seemless perfect narratives. Experimental films often have no narrative at all and are like fever dreams.
I loved Firebase. I have a thing for Vietnam films. The exposition at the end didn't bother me in the least.
BTW. The suit and prop rifle reminded me of a short film set in WW2 that was released a few years back. Project Arbiter.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MWQHBsalOM
I loved Firebase. I have a thing for Vietnam films. The exposition at the end didn't bother me in the least.
BTW. The suit and prop rifle reminded me of a short film set in WW2 that was released a few years back. Project Arbiter.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MWQHBsalOM
kristen jones
Master Member
i was really liking it up till the point where they reveal that the River God basically.... what? Got really angry... and that somehow manifested his powers?
Up till then I was thinking maybe it was something we dropped on the villages that mutated him...like a crazy agent Orange sort of thing. THAT might have worked. But this sort of anime-style idea that he just got so angry that his reality changed? that seems too far out there for me.
Was that B.D. Wong, though? Sure looked like him!
Up till then I was thinking maybe it was something we dropped on the villages that mutated him...like a crazy agent Orange sort of thing. THAT might have worked. But this sort of anime-style idea that he just got so angry that his reality changed? that seems too far out there for me.
Was that B.D. Wong, though? Sure looked like him!
mattrendar
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im very positive about all of these so far . love it . keep up the great work . love his style . everything he says mimics my ideas and child hood lol . guess that's why im a huge fan . just wish fox would have let him make the Aliens movie we wanted .
DARKSIDE72
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Love the vietnam stuff... Would watch a movie about this!
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SmilingOtter
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Well that was... brief.
Still good, though. Looking forward to the full thing.
Still good, though. Looking forward to the full thing.
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Cephus
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It was okay. It seems like the short ones are better because Blomkamp doesn't have enough time to screw it up. But I will say one thing, God is a dick.
Funny how all prop guns use 3rd gen Glocks just as all the airsoft manufacturers are switching to 4th gen!
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