john4films
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This is a compilation of Bill Plympton animated shorts using his signature hand-drawn, color pencil technique of animation.
1) Your Face (1987) - his first Oscar-nominated animated short; a surreal exploration of the human face.
2) One of Those Days (1988) - about a very unlucky guy.
3) How to Kiss (1989) - This one is really about kissing. A comic pseudo-instructional piece.
4) 25 Ways to Quit Smoking (1989) - 25 tongue-in-cheek methods for ceasing the habit, if you survive the attempts.
5) Plymptoons (1990) - various animated spoofs and jokes.
6) Draw! (1993) - a western gunfight.
7) Nosehair (1994) - a man at war with a nosehair.
8) Eat (2001) - the restaurant blues; a 2001 Cannes Film Festival winner. Just don't lose it. Your lunch, that is.
9) Parking (2003) - the parking lot attendant with a 'grass' problem.
Mondo Plympton is highly recommended to animation and film history buffs or anyone else with a sense of the bizarre and an appreciation of the different.
1) Your Face (1987) - his first Oscar-nominated animated short; a surreal exploration of the human face.
2) One of Those Days (1988) - about a very unlucky guy.
3) How to Kiss (1989) - This one is really about kissing. A comic pseudo-instructional piece.
4) 25 Ways to Quit Smoking (1989) - 25 tongue-in-cheek methods for ceasing the habit, if you survive the attempts.
5) Plymptoons (1990) - various animated spoofs and jokes.
6) Draw! (1993) - a western gunfight.
7) Nosehair (1994) - a man at war with a nosehair.
8) Eat (2001) - the restaurant blues; a 2001 Cannes Film Festival winner. Just don't lose it. Your lunch, that is.
9) Parking (2003) - the parking lot attendant with a 'grass' problem.
Mondo Plympton is highly recommended to animation and film history buffs or anyone else with a sense of the bizarre and an appreciation of the different.
Please have mercy on us. Another newbie, would-be writer-director, possibly just out of film school, dumps another one of these on us.
Lord love a duck. But not a turkey. Pa-leeeeze!!!!!! It seems like the massive hoard of wanna-bees graduating in mass from film schools in every state and small town think that they have to do a meaningful film about the human condition, which to them obviously means the romantic and sexual and relationship trials and tribulations and complications of, of course, themselves.
Apparently, they just don't realize that nobody cares about this except . . . themselves. Those younger than 20-something couldn't care less, and those older than that have already been through it and don't really care to watch for an hour and a half or more some newbie film school grad's self-absorbed, personal version of it. Even most other 20-somethings are yawning and watching other films that are professional and fun.
Oh, well, if you like it, you like it. I don't. I find it to be another example of why recent film schools grads seem to be able to do nothing else except something self-absorbed like this. Try getting some real life experience before attempting to make films for anyone except yourself. The fact that one of the characters is a wanna-bee film writer/filmmaker shows you the extremely limited range of life experience of the would-be writer/director of this self-absorbed and boring-to-anyone-else 20-something project.
Just another one on the massive pile. Should we just shoot these egotistical children constantly graduating from film school with nothing but fame and fortune and pretension in their limited imaginations? Or should we just wait until mommy and daddy's patience and/or money runs out and they end up in a tiny cubicle in an office, under constant stress, and continually whining and unhappy, 40 hours a week for the rest of their pompous lives? Oh, well, I won't worry about it. When mommy and daddy's money or patience runs out, reality will hit them in the head. Then, after years of struggling and suffering and hopelessness, maybe, just maybe, they'll finally have something to write about and film. But even then, they still might not have any talent.
Gawd, but this was boring. Boring story, boring characters, and poorly executed. And totally self-absorbed. Get years and years of life experience before you try again. Please. But you will still need talent, and I didn't see any here.
Sorry. For everyone involved in this supposed film and for everyone who tried to watch it. There are so many good films in the archives, and more added each year, that I don't recommend bothering to watch this one, unless you are this kid's parents. And then I highly recommend it, so that they will know to immediately cut this kid's free money off, so that he will be forced to get a job and deal with real life.
1 out of 10, and only because the actors tried real hard to produce their horrible acting. 0 out of 10 for the writing and directing. And I've worked in the film business for years, and the TV and the music industries, too. But even just as a film consumer, it was horrible.
The one reason that it is of any note at all is as a classic example of the phenomenon of recent film school graduate self-absorption and pretension to fame and fortune and talent.
Lord love a duck. But not a turkey. Pa-leeeeze!!!!!! It seems like the massive hoard of wanna-bees graduating in mass from film schools in every state and small town think that they have to do a meaningful film about the human condition, which to them obviously means the romantic and sexual and relationship trials and tribulations and complications of, of course, themselves.
Apparently, they just don't realize that nobody cares about this except . . . themselves. Those younger than 20-something couldn't care less, and those older than that have already been through it and don't really care to watch for an hour and a half or more some newbie film school grad's self-absorbed, personal version of it. Even most other 20-somethings are yawning and watching other films that are professional and fun.
Oh, well, if you like it, you like it. I don't. I find it to be another example of why recent film schools grads seem to be able to do nothing else except something self-absorbed like this. Try getting some real life experience before attempting to make films for anyone except yourself. The fact that one of the characters is a wanna-bee film writer/filmmaker shows you the extremely limited range of life experience of the would-be writer/director of this self-absorbed and boring-to-anyone-else 20-something project.
Just another one on the massive pile. Should we just shoot these egotistical children constantly graduating from film school with nothing but fame and fortune and pretension in their limited imaginations? Or should we just wait until mommy and daddy's patience and/or money runs out and they end up in a tiny cubicle in an office, under constant stress, and continually whining and unhappy, 40 hours a week for the rest of their pompous lives? Oh, well, I won't worry about it. When mommy and daddy's money or patience runs out, reality will hit them in the head. Then, after years of struggling and suffering and hopelessness, maybe, just maybe, they'll finally have something to write about and film. But even then, they still might not have any talent.
Gawd, but this was boring. Boring story, boring characters, and poorly executed. And totally self-absorbed. Get years and years of life experience before you try again. Please. But you will still need talent, and I didn't see any here.
Sorry. For everyone involved in this supposed film and for everyone who tried to watch it. There are so many good films in the archives, and more added each year, that I don't recommend bothering to watch this one, unless you are this kid's parents. And then I highly recommend it, so that they will know to immediately cut this kid's free money off, so that he will be forced to get a job and deal with real life.
1 out of 10, and only because the actors tried real hard to produce their horrible acting. 0 out of 10 for the writing and directing. And I've worked in the film business for years, and the TV and the music industries, too. But even just as a film consumer, it was horrible.
The one reason that it is of any note at all is as a classic example of the phenomenon of recent film school graduate self-absorption and pretension to fame and fortune and talent.
EXCUSE MEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BUT............Have you ever heard of "THE GREAT ESCAPE"???????????
EXCUSE ME....................BUT....................... I saw "The Great Escape" (1963), and............THAT was the defining, first and great moment in the undoubtable cinema stardom of Mr. Steve McQueen!!!!
"Bullitt" DID NOT MAKE Steve McQueen, but it certainly enhanced his career!!!!!!!!!!!!! Your lackadaisical and uninformed comment cannot be laid to rest and left to sit there unchallenged.
So, therefore, I must challenge you as to your uninformed comment about the film, "Bullitt".
I just have to challenge you.
Go watch "The Great Escape", particularly in the letterbox version.
And, then, try to re-create your comments about "Bullitt". I love Bullitt. It is an unbelievably great film in the history of cinema.
BUT............this film DID NOT make Steve McQueen's career OR establish him as a star of renown and permanence.
Bye for now,
John
P.S. Just watch "The Great Escape". You obviously missed it!
EXCUSE ME....................BUT....................... I saw "The Great Escape" (1963), and............THAT was the defining, first and great moment in the undoubtable cinema stardom of Mr. Steve McQueen!!!!
"Bullitt" DID NOT MAKE Steve McQueen, but it certainly enhanced his career!!!!!!!!!!!!! Your lackadaisical and uninformed comment cannot be laid to rest and left to sit there unchallenged.
So, therefore, I must challenge you as to your uninformed comment about the film, "Bullitt".
I just have to challenge you.
Go watch "The Great Escape", particularly in the letterbox version.
And, then, try to re-create your comments about "Bullitt". I love Bullitt. It is an unbelievably great film in the history of cinema.
BUT............this film DID NOT make Steve McQueen's career OR establish him as a star of renown and permanence.
Bye for now,
John
P.S. Just watch "The Great Escape". You obviously missed it!