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Downtown 
"Welcome back, Billy Buck"
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 Posted - 12/03/2006 : 13:44:47
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| But I am waiting to see Sean's review of "Haircut" |
Edited by - Downtown on 12/03/2006 13:45:15 |
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Tori 
"I don't get it...."
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Posted - 12/08/2006 : 23:37:23
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| What was the review? |
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Downtown
"Welcome back, Billy Buck"
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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! |
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Sean 
"Necrosphenisciform anthropophagist."
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Posted - 01/05/2007 : 22:41:40
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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. |
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randall 
"I like to watch."
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Posted - 01/20/2007 : 14:25:41
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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... |
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Montgomery
"F**k!"
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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. |
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Sludge 
"Charlie Don't Serf!"
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Posted - 01/25/2007 : 22:31:51
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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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Shiv 
"What a Wonderful World"
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Posted - 01/26/2007 : 05:02:48
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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?
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Downtown
"Welcome back, Billy Buck"
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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. |
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Someone prove my review is generic
