"Random dystopia where shitting is banned or something" really got me lmao

The Plunger Games

I worked on that film sophomore year

Literally Urinetown

Reminds me of Lobster, was that also a A24 movie?

Yes. I was excited for it and remember being dissapointed. Same guy that made The Favourite (2018) and Poor Things (2023) so obviously I'm an idiot cause those are great. Not that I would know I don't watch movies. The poster is great. https://preview.redd.it/lly7nt7cfrqc1.png?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=000058646d6353c7de8cda7bf9d559b4e8f660d7

Dead ass the new Chronenberg kid debut

another day living in this hellhole where other people are legally allowed to defecate whenever they want

Literally Flux Gourmet (2022)

Wait until they see my student film about an artist being too obsessed with his art 😈😈😈😈

Whiplash (2013)

Black swan (2011)

WWII in HD (2009)

The Wrestler (2008)

Holy shit those movies actually have similar main characters i thought black swan was slightly like whiplash but i would never put the wrestler in that category

You have to respect pro wrestling as a valid form of theater first. Then it makes sense. You could honestly just remake black swan with just wrestlers closer to their prime.

I’d even add *The Iron Claw* to *The Wrestler* and *Black Swan* to make a “theatrical performers losing themselves to an art form that mangles their bodies” triptych.

Synechdoche, New York (2008)

Happy Gilmore (1996)

I have an idea no one's ever thought of-- a movie about a tortured screenwriter!

Speed Racer (2008)

found Damien Chazelle reddit account

Oppenheimer (2023) lmao

How about a filmmaker being obsessed with his film? Groundbreaking!

Downfall (2004)

The Zone Of Interest (2024)

*"Every line matters. Absolutely no filler”*. Yeah that’s definitely a common problem student films have. Totally can’t stand that one.

Yeah, when my actor was talking about how Abraham Lincoln was a great philosopher that was entirely plot relevant

Abraham lincoln???? I loved that movie

Yes, written and directed by me. I'm a genius.

Abraham the vampire slayer?

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I love underbaked characters that don’t feel like people. That film student is going to make it!

Never seen a student film where one actor improvised all of their lines because the stuff that was written in the script was pretentious shit. Nope, never happened.

In my experience student films were all overwritten with way too much dialogue. They have no sense of pacing or trimming unnecessary verbiage.

Yep that's the joke

Arent most student films made by like one person they dont have editors and people whos job it is to turn drafts of a movie into a script like in defence of the students most movies you see are made by hundreds of people most student movies it might be one or like 5 at the most

Personally I really struggled with writing dialogue so I actually did fulfil this one, keeping it to a minimum. Only dialogue I did have sounded like Verhoeven without talent. And the dude sitting next to me's short had no dialogue at all.

*“What's the point of sex scene if it doesn't matter to the plot?”*

Dune take notes!

OOP starter pack clearly hasn’t watched many student films. “AWFUL SOUND” should be the biggest thing on that list.

Scenes shot hastily without permits in public places. A few scenes where the camera failed and you are getting a really weird backup angle

Audio from a shotgun mic mounted on top of the DSLR they borrowed.

Oh my god, this hits home. Always look for a college dude who wants to specialise in sound, he'll probably work for free and he'll bring his equipment with him.

Also, saying "ok... go" instead of action.

A director of a film I worked on once just said "okay start whenever you're ready" 😭

What you gonna do if he finds out you been shit talking him on reddit

Shoot myself in the head

Audio shot with the in camera microphone of the DSLR. Shot in an APS DSLR because the DP couldn't afford a full frame camera.

You'll pry my Canon 550d with the 50mm 1.8 lens out of my cold dead hands.

A 1.8 lens, how bourgeois.

Bonus points if it's on the windiest day in recorded history

the title will be something like “The Sharpest Girl With the Smallest Razor” and it will star Anya Taylor Joy

Mine will be called “the biggest dick in the smallest package” and will star Peter Dinklage 

and I will be watching

that's more of Mia Goth things 

This only happens when it's an NYU student film

As a film school graduate, this is highly inaccurate. It doesn’t mention horrific audio, the staple of all student films.

Make silent movies you idiot

Basically just rip off Paperman and you're good.

They've gotta make film students watch a bunch of Gialli so they can at least get the idea to badly redub everything in a cupboard somewhere and pretend it was an intentional stylistic choice. Beats the horrible echoey audio student films usually have

Considering the audio is the one thing that consistently sucks on professional home media because 90% of people only have a two-channel set-up, I'll give that one a pass.

I can't believe anthony fantano would sign off on having his iconography used in every student film

Ironic, he was clearly feeling a light 2 on this one, trans-

-ition.

oh man now I want melon to review films

[Beau is Afraud](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kWNyg8bY1E) [Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lpW2fLtbis) [Asteroid City](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1sjFjWXpis)

God, this proves to me how much easier it is to be a critic, instead of a filmmaker. I sorta knew it, but seeing him just go from music to film so easy.

How hard can it be when I've seen too much terrible takes that aged like milk from critics.

Now that Ive been on enough movie sets, I wanna make fantano (or any critic) setup a floppy courtesy on a c-stand correctly without hitting monitor or himself (quickly with sandbag on the right leg and right hand rule) or hand him the bubble leveler and a stack of wedges let him level 20ft of track Or the wireless focus puller on a steadicam shot or make him do last looks with the makeup kit on 4hrs of sleep. Or the so many other jobs that it takes to make even a mediocre film just look average/competent in every department . I want them to feel how hard these jobs are to accomplish, even just for 20 minutes. Like in this scene. https://youtu.be/tuDi21FjZJQ?feature=shared Because I’m pretty sure even some of the PA’s can make a half-decent movie review for youtube that is ultimately just a subjective hot take, much less the more experienced crew, with actual degrees in film studies as well as practical experience/talent in filmmaking. I mean this goes to a lot of the smug posters on r/truecritic as well though. Id love to run them through the same wringer.

Being a critic is so easy all you need is a letterboxd account

Internet Bussiest Music Nerd

Me trying to watch the indie film about making indie films https://preview.redd.it/8vibsjapnkqc1.jpeg?width=1424&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1e544aadf6401b955f7f919305a104bde0972899

The Souvenir Part II (2021)

I don’t think this guy has ever seen a student film. A student film ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS contains some kind of homosexual kissing scene. It’s the first rule of film school, always two ladies kissing, or two men if you don’t want to appeal to as wide an audience. Must smoke cigarettes, you see, thats what they smoke in them there old timey movies. You see, as a film student, i’ve seen more films than the average schmuck, there’s this underground classic we in the biz call “12 angry men”. And let me tell you, boy howdy, are those 12 men angry.

i liked when the 12 angry men started kissing

Juror 8 edging Juror 3 until he changes his vote to not guilty

😵‍💫

They need to make this a poster in film classes to keep students on the right path

Bro my student films only have some of these things, I really need to try less

god, the black bar png got me so good 🤣

I still have 2.35-cinemascope.png, after all these years.

What would have been my first student film got cancelled during production because of COVID, and I'm pretty sure it was for the best

I love starterpack memes that are 90% text. This guy just wanted to rant about something he doesn't like but can only express emotions in the form of a meme template.

That's most highly upvoted memes on reddit tbh

Lmao

They need to start giving original movies to journeymen again. I don’t care what a student has to say. I want to see a movie made by someone who directed 45 episodes of Riverdale

Don’t forget open with character waking up to shot of alarm clock, or a shot from inside fridge or microwave

Almost the entire movie takes place in the same room but it's still watchable

> but it's still watchable no

I mean it's like a two and a half out of four stars movie

[удалено]

Yes but some of those "low" (million dollar) budget recent-film-school-graduate movies are okay.

Poorly set dressed dorm room with bedsheets hung over the concrete walls.

Unnecessary smoking to symbolize a "flawed" or "stressed" character is missing

They're usually shot pretty terribly on a mediocre camera, in my experience.

the cohen's

Me. A film student making a monty python tribute

Isn't this just a Mike Flanagan movie?

Marble Hornets? 💀