They didn’t learn their lesson with Hugo The Hippo. Brady’s Escape further proves that co-productions with communist Hungary were a bad idea.
Archive for July, 2016
How low can you go?
Jul 31
Year by year, movie budgets continue to escalate; year by year too, the names of certain producers and directors become synonymous with bloated, over-budget productions. Sometimes it seems as if it’s more about how much you can spend, rather than the quality of what you spend it on.
But what about those film-makers at the other end of the financial spectrum? – those people slaving away in the realm of the micro-budget, for whom overcoming artistic and technical limitations is part of the challenge, and who succeed in making an entire film for around 0.01% of the budget of the most expensive movie ever made*?
Join us as we take a look at some of the films that prove you don’t need to spend obscene amounts of money^ to make a good movie…
…or in certain cases, to make a right stinker…
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It’s A FISTFUL OF PENNIES—all throughout August at the B-Masters’ blog!
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*Currently considered the most expensive movie ever made: Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides ($378.5 million)
^Upper limit for this Roundtable: $50,000
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Liz Kingsley is the insane genius behind And You Call Yourself a Scientist!Great pumpkin?
Jul 21
Special effects guru Stan Winston made his directorial debut with the engaging horror movie Pumpkinhead.
Jabootu correspondent Mr. Rational disproves his name by writing what I call a Guest Dissertation. Getting Hollywood to recognize even glaring flaws in popular works (I’m looking at you, James Cameron) is a daunting task, but Mr. Rational rolled up his sleeves and dived in anyway. It just goes to show that if you star in one of the most amazingly successful TV movies ever, you have a glamorous life of Robot Chicken episodes and appearances in Sucker Punch and Machete Kills in your future. Anyhoo, as this was made in 2006 (!!!!), its fittingly time for the 10 Year Reunion of their
It’s a mystery worthy of Sherlock Holmes as to why Murder By Decree has drifted into obscurity over the years.
Bits and pieces
Jul 7
A few new things around the blog:
There is a new review in Science In The Reel World.
College Coach (1933) is chiefly a look at the state of American college football in the early 30s, but makes the grade due to the team’s star quarterback being also an aspiring chemist.
There is also a new set of short reviews in Et Al. No overarching theme this time, mostly just what I’ve been watching on the Midday Movie – I can do that now! – although you’ll note a few points of accidental overlap.
And there are a few new bits in Random Film Stuff, but I’ll let you find those for yourselves.
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Liz Kingsley is the insane genius behind And You Call Yourself a Scientist!
Barely released to theaters and little seen in the decades that followed, The Phynx all the same has built an extremely bad reputation. Is it really that bad?