[Gary Huff]

[Clint Wardlow] “I guess at least the Lone Ranger employed a lot of people.”

And some people enjoyed the Lone Ranger. Not everything can be a great movie, but there is a problem with acting like this, or Transformers, or Battleship or whatever isn’t any better than, say, The Devil of Blue Mountain. And that’s not the case.

There are people who would lump Pacific Rim in with those as well, but, well, we have an example of someone who actually went out and purchased the Blu-ray of it because of how much they enjoyed it.

[Gary Huff]

[Michael Sanders] ” He did most of the post and VFX at home.”

Which shouldn’t be the litmus test for upcoming filmmakers (although I do agree that if you can run with most of the post yourself, you’ll do better). He’s a special case that not everyone can follow.

But kudos nonetheless.

[Gary Huff]

[Morten Slemdal] “The Lacie Rugged get some good reviews; tried it?”

Yes, I replaced mine with the WD Passport Ultra because it was a faster drive. The LaCie Rugged was clocking in about 20-30MBps slower in read/write.

[Gary Huff]

[tony west] ”
Ahhh man, where did you find that hehehe”

A similar thread to this one somewhere else. It’s brought up as the ultimate “ace in the hole” argument that not everything should get made :-p.

[Gary Huff]

[Michael Sanders] “I think “Monsters” was shot by Gareth Edwards himself on a 5D, and he did all the post and VFX at home.”

It was shot on a Sony EX3 with the Letus 35mm adapter. And not at home, he traveled South America to shoot it.

[Gary Huff]

[Jeremy Garchow] “It was the worst looking film I have ever seen.”

I found it on YouTube and skipped through it. It is decidedly poorly made. And, yes, it is apples to oranges. It’s a documentary film about a subject that people are passionate about, and the genre allows it to have something of a pass.

But the poor technical aspects of the film would never fly as a narrative work. So, in that regard, what do you think about this? The Devil of Blue Mountain

[Gary Huff]

The Delightful Universe Trailer

Luna Mesa Trailer

I would term “looking pretty good” as something that’s, at least, cheap network/basic cable narrative TV show. Maybe something from the 90s, like X-Files in its earliest seasons. Or is that too much to ask?

Baghead was $60,000 to shoot and $200,000 to deliver, according to this.

[Gary Huff]

[shawn Bockoven] ” Both of my oldest own no physical media with the exception of Pacific Rim. He fell in love with the movie and wanted the extras on the physical media.”

Okay, so Pacific Rim, an old-media megabudget production, inspired enough love from him that they were able to monetize his enjoyment of the film.

Did he at least contribute to some of the lower tiers of the Kickstarter campaigns for FreddieW’s attempt to monetize his Call of Duty and Mario FX videos into something more along the lines of original content?

[Gary Huff]

[James Ewart] “But just because we all have keyboards and word processing software that does not mean we can write best sellers.”

Exactly, yet there are still plenty of “novelists” out there not selling their Kindle versions.

[Gary Huff]

[Clint Wardlow] ” And with today’s software and equipment, you can make it look pretty damned good.”

Do you have any examples of which movies shot for no more than $6,000 look pretty good?