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| Downtown |
Posted - 11/25/2006 : 19:11:00
I'm looking for movies that are about cutting things. Not just movies that include someone cutting something like Edward Scissorhands...movies that are really ABOUT cutting, where all the action in the movie is nothing but cutting something. Of course if someone can think of one (other than the film my review was about), I lose because it means my review was indeed generic...I'm prepared to accept that. I'd rather resolve it and lose the review, knowing it was declined with good cause. But I'm pretty sure the film I'm thinking of is the only one that my review could really be about. |
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| Downtown |
Posted - 01/26/2007 : 18:32:10
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Originally posted by Shiv
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Originally posted by Downtown
Okay I appreciate the effort here but...
It's been a week. It's over.
And in any case, I did say movies that are about cutting, not every movie in existance that might have had something sharp in it.
I actually disagree that this could apply to the other movies. Warhol's movie, if I remember rightly, has as it's only content/topic the haircut - isn't that right? So essentially Warhol literally calls 'Action, cut'. What other movie could that truly apply to?
Thanks for your support Shiv, but I'd prefer this matter be dropped. |
| Shiv |
Posted - 01/26/2007 : 05:02:48
quote:
Originally posted by Downtown
Okay I appreciate the effort here but...
It's been a week. It's over.
And in any case, I did say movies that are about cutting, not every movie in existance that might have had something sharp in it.
I actually disagree that this could apply to the other movies. Warhol's movie, if I remember rightly, has as it's only content/topic the haircut - isn't that right? So essentially Warhol literally calls 'Action, cut'. What other movie could that truly apply to?
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| Sludge |
Posted - 01/25/2007 : 22:31:51
I thought there was one for Psycho, but couldn't find it. Since that is basically the only "action" scene, I think it would be fair for that one. If you name the director, that would narrow it down.
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| Montgomery |
Posted - 01/22/2007 : 18:23:48
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Originally posted by Downtown
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Originally posted by Tori
What was the review?
"Action: Cut!"
I tried "Action. Cut." for Edward Scissorhands. (Or something like that. Pretty close to that, if not exactly.) And was told -- Too generic.
I gave up fixing it. Good luck, Sean.
EM :)
P.S. Could have been "Action. Cut. Cut. Cut." Not remembering too well. |
| randall |
Posted - 01/20/2007 : 14:25:41
You know what this really is: a great 3-4 minute Abbott & Costello- like sketch for a comedy show. The "barber" [a doofus actor, think good old Lou, or today, Horatio Sanz] can't distinguish between the exasperated director's [Bud's, or maybe Fred Armisen's] call for "Cut!" ["stop"] and "cut" ["cut the guy's hair"]. So he DOESN'T respond to "Action!," only to "Cut!"
A beautiful, fun premise. Now if we only had an ending. [How many times has that been said in the SNL comedy writers' room, and how many times have they said, "Screw an ending. Let's just put it on the air anyway."? ]
ATTN Seth Myers: PM me for the ending... |
| Sean |
Posted - 01/05/2007 : 22:41:40
Yikes! My mind erased that one shortly after I made that post 6 weeks ago and gave it no further thought.  I didn't submit it, as it ain't my review, and won't be submitting.
I think it was something like:-
"Action!" Clip. "Cut!"
or something. I.e., the middle word described the movie content, and was also 'movie-related', but couldn't apply to Beheading Chinese etc.
Yeah, I suppose not as punchy as the two-worder, but often I find myself adding an extra word to de-genericise a concept. I mentioned in my earlier post that I thought it was worth working on, it looks to me like the kind of review that could end up with many layers with carefully selected punctuation. I.e., the word "action" applies to the act of filming and haircutting, the word "cut" applies to the haircutting and the end of filming (as per your original intent, I assume), and the word "clip" refers to haircutting and the movie clip being generated etc. There may even be a better word than "clip", but I think that was the one I had in mind at the time. |
| Downtown |
Posted - 01/05/2007 : 15:11:08
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Originally posted by Tori
What was the review?
"Action: Cut!"
Sean said he thought of a way to tweak it but he was keeping it to himself unless I asked, but I invited him to simply submit it as his own review because I already have another one approved for this film. Either he lost interest, it was still declined as generic, or it simply hasn't been approved yet. I must admit I'm very eager to see what he came up with! |
| Tori |
Posted - 12/08/2006 : 23:37:23
What was the review? |
| Downtown |
Posted - 12/03/2006 : 13:44:47
But I am waiting to see Sean's review of "Haircut" |
| Downtown |
Posted - 12/02/2006 : 13:08:10
Okay I appreciate the effort here but...
It's been a week. It's over.
And in any case, I did say movies that are about cutting, not every movie in existance that might have had something sharp in it. |
| TitanPa |
Posted - 12/02/2006 : 03:30:47
Silence of the Lambs? |
| Downtown |
Posted - 11/28/2006 : 01:19:42
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Originally posted by Se�n
I bet there's a word or two that are somehow movie-related that you could add to the front of that to make it non-generic.
Actually, I've just thought of a word that you could put in the middle of it to make it pretty specific to that movie, without losing it's 'punchiness', although I won't say what it is as it ain't my review.
It's a good concept and worth working on. 
Knock yourself out. I'm not interested in saving it. I only like it the way I wrote it. I already have a completely different review anyway. |
| turrell |
Posted - 11/28/2006 : 00:56:48
Breaking Away was about the kids of Stone Cutters in Bloomington, IN that beat the college kids in their annual little Indy 500 bike race - Barbershop movies too - more similiar to your choice. |
| Sean |
Posted - 11/28/2006 : 00:27:08
I bet there's a word or two that are somehow movie-related that you could add to the front of that to make it non-generic.
Actually, I've just thought of a word that you could put in the middle of it to make it pretty specific to that movie, without losing it's 'punchiness', although I won't say what it is as it ain't my review.
It's a good concept and worth working on.
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| Sal[Au]pian |
Posted - 11/27/2006 : 09:49:59
If it is too 'generic' as a review, then you could always use it for an accolade featuring some of the above films. |
