Make Your Own Damn Movie
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Movie Reviews of Make Your Own Damn Movie
Movie Review: Entertaining!
Summary: 4 Stars
This is a very entertaining set of instructional DVDs. I would say the only downside is there is slightly more comedy than useful information, but that should not hold you back from purchasing. There really is a lot of very good and incredibly useful information in here, especially in the marketing/funding segment and tip for getting the best audio possible on a very low budget.
It's just as enjoyable to watch as it is educational! Four out of five stars.
Movie Review: Worth What I paid for it
Summary: 4 Stars
Make Your Own Damn Movie
A good companion to the book. Entertaining and well organized
Movie Review: Repackage Your Own Damn Material
Summary: 3 Stars
This has 3 full-length materials already available on other disks. I already have all three of these and most Troma fans would at least have the Making of Terror Firmer documentary if not 2 or all 3 of the these. A big percentage of the 5 disks is wasted on content already available.
It also has the entire BATTLE OF LOVE'S RETURN movie which was terrible although you can turn on the commentary of Lloyd Kaufman so I guess that counts for teaching you to make your own damn movie.
The rest is different interviews and documentaries of other filmmakers, video makers, writers, special effects artists, cartoonists, theatre owners, video store owners, etc.
It is nice helpful information but I don't see how it could all add up to really teaching you how to make your own damn movie.
However, it is a nice collection of stories/experiences/how-to's by various filmmakers of varying types.
I wish they had not included the already available material and that Lloyd himself would instruct different aspects along with his humor such as he did in the books. Maybe taking 5 disks for this.
And include the other artists segments and putting it on maybe 3 disks.
Get the books first. They are excellent. This box set is nothing like the books but still helpful although disappointing.
Movie Review: A typical Kaufman work
Summary: 2 Stars
If you can get past the brashness of Lloyd Kaufman it has some very good pointers behind the crude approach.
The bottom line is Don't think just do it!
I would not like to meet up with any of these people on a dark street either day or night.
But all said and done. The Troma approach is tramatic. LOL
Movie Review: The Lowest Ebb of Mankind
Summary: 1 Stars
Utterly useless. I will summarize the "secrets" of this DVD set:
1) When doing ADR, use a microphone.
2) When recording sound for your movie, don't use the microphone on the camera because it sucks. (Kaufman then goes on to record all 5 disks with the camera mike.)
3) People are stupid and will work on your movie for free.
4) People are stupid and will pay $50 for 5 DVD's that are only useful as coasters.
I don't think Kaufman edited any of this garbage. I believe he just popped a tape into the crummiest video camera he could find and then just let it run. When the tape was full he transferred it to DVD and gave it a random title like 'Lighting Your Set'.
Most of it is him driving around or walking around, getting lost and every dull moment is on the DVD. It seems like hours of that. It's like getting stuck in a car driven by your senile grandfather - funny for about 30 seconds and then you realize it's a 7 hour trip.
Kaufman's camera work can only be described as if it were shot by Katherine Hepburn, doing the cha-cha during an earthquake. I'm not sure if I vomited from the motion sickness or the content of this DVD set.
Never buy it. Never see it.