Film Fighter Spotlight: Smooth Films

Hey all! Today I’m interviewing Smooth Films, who won our 3:30 Fight with their film 3rd Floor.

1. So, what inspired you to make this film?

Our friend (and writer) actually got the inspiration from his personal life. He says his father would keep his brothers and him in the backseat of his car and do drug deals all night because he couldn’t find a sitter. He says most of the time his little brothers crying would keep him awake so he remembered most of it. Ted was 17.

 2. Anything you wish you could change, or do differently?

Just the audio and certain jumps. We didn’t think we had time to sync.

3. What would you say the biggest influence on your film would be?

The abuse of alcohol

 4. What are your favorite films?

Too many to list but “A Bittersweet Life” is one of the best films I’ve seen this year. It didn’t have the English subtitles so we had to have our Korean friend translate as we watched.

5. On a scale of 1 to WINNING!, how would you rate Film Fights?

We’d say you guys were full of tiger blood.

Motherfuckers.

6. What was your rig for shooting this?

These contests are rigged?

7. What the fuck is up with those Gogurts!?  It’s like yogurt in a tube, for like, 8 dollars. Seriously, I mean, in this consumer market, what are they thinking?

Alot of my friends like to do ecstacy. I prefer taking ecstacy without taking ecstacy, so pass me another go-gurt.

8. Woah, I’m finished. Was it good for you too?

Best 3 and a half minutes of my life.

9.Well, I have to run, I have work in the morning. Thanks for answering our questions! Hope to see you around Film Fights!

Cheerio!

Hello, Hello!

Yesterday was a day big for lazy people (like me.) Yesterday was the day The Beatles’ complete discography was finally released onto iTunes and I’ll be the first to admit, I splurged. Fucking Apple.

For those of you who haven’t read the media buzz yet, the press seems to think that up until now, nobody has ever been able to buy a single Beatles album anywhere in the world. Lo’ and behold, Apple comes in to rescue us from our silly primitive ways, and as such Humanity has entered into the next Renaissance. Seriously though.

In all honesty, I am pretty excited about this. Apple and the Beatles seem to go hand in hand, and I think this is a big development for Apple. I’m not sure why, I’m not sure how, but it feels important. Hm.

 

Series Of The Week: The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (2006)

Over in Japan, shit is wacked. You can find it all, hostess clubs, whale burgers (yum!), vending machines full of panties with dookies in them, I love it all. But most importantly, in Japan there resides a very powerful young woman who’s subconcious abilities may just shape the entire universe.

Some organizations call her a temporal distortion, some call her evidence of self-evolution, some call her god. The only thing we do know for sure is that her name is Haruhi Suzumiya and like all things in Japan, she’s goddamn nuts.

Haruhi is for all intents and purposes your normal 16 year old girl. Well, maybe not normal. Utterly bored and frustrated with anything normal and mundane, she stubbornly stands by her belief of espers, aliens, and time travelers.

As it turns out, she’s right. They exist because (theoretically) she wants them to exist. Haruhi possess the power to create and destroy matter and entire universes based on her emotional and subconscious state, what’s even scarier is she doesn’t even know she can do it.  If she gets too angry, depressed, or spiteful, she could theoretically destroy the entire universe. It’s up to a few chosen individuals and one poor, poor, boy stuck in the middle of it to keep her in check.

Among this crew lies (ironically enough) an esper, an alien, a time traveler, and Kyon, a freshmen boy who wants nothing to do  with it.

The shows quirky humor and beautiful animation make this a bit of a cult favorite, although watching it in anything but Japanese with subtitles is a proper crime. In fact, the shows popularity has spawned a spin-off religion called Haruhiism, a fun little group if there ever was one. It’s one of the more inventive shows out there, and is certainly well done.

If you’d like to buy it, feel free to check out the DVD, although you can just as easily watch all the episodes for free online. It had a relatively short run, so it shouldn’t take too much time to go through. Make sure you’re watching it in chronological order though, it’ll be rather confusing if you watch it according to it’s release schedule.

So come on in, the S.O.S. Brigade is always looking for new members…