Well, personally, I still wish they'd make the original comic books into a movie. Personally, though, I'm just happy to see them together on a 40-foot-wide screen. I'd been waiting for the AvP franchise to produce a movie since some time around 1992, so by the time the movie came out, it could have been stick figures and I'd have gone to see it. There were some nice bits in the first one - the interior design of the pyramid was pretty cool - but having to assume the audience were a bunch of clueless morons who needed an hour of exposition kind of hindered that one. I'm not that happy about the setting of this one - what is this, the Blair Witch Predator? But I'll make do.
I would kill for a good Colonial Marines story - I think I'd have to kill Uwe Boll, given the choice... Anyway, yeah, I'd be up for that in a heartbeat. I've been tempted to make a Colonial Marines fan-film, I'd just be afraid of it turning out crap like so many others have.
The bar on fan-films is actually pretty high (with such things as Troops!, Batman: Dead End, and that Star Trek: TOS episode somebody filmed. There's some good, Hollywood-quality stuff out there (I was going to say near-Hollywood, but then I realized that most of what Hollywood puts out is crap these days anyway).
You'd need three or four good actors, and either a place with steam tunnels, or a nice thick forest.
And a guy with an Alien costume and a desire to not appear onscreen for more than a couple seconds and never in full, because they work better that way.
Someone was talking about doing FanFilm production panels at a con recently.
Yeah, that, plus a good camera and editing software, a semi-skilled director, and maybe a halfway decent script. I'm sure I can find all of those things, right? :-)
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Date: 2007-08-27 05:16 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2007-08-27 05:24 pm (UTC)The bar on fan-films is actually pretty high (with such things as Troops!, Batman: Dead End, and that Star Trek: TOS episode somebody filmed. There's some good, Hollywood-quality stuff out there (I was going to say near-Hollywood, but then I realized that most of what Hollywood puts out is crap these days anyway).
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Date: 2007-08-27 05:31 pm (UTC)And a guy with an Alien costume and a desire to not appear onscreen for more than a couple seconds and never in full, because they work better that way.
Someone was talking about doing FanFilm production panels at a con recently.
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Date: 2007-08-27 05:37 pm (UTC)