Short Film showcase
Short Film showcase
Of these I was anticipating Dead@17 because I have read an issue of the comic.
Sadly this looked like some kids who liked the comic had made a fan film. Not low fi enough to amuse and not acted well at all.
We're Ready For You Now was the annual David McGillvray treat. I missed the intro, where he and Alan Jones usually treat us to their Morecambe and Wise of Camp double act - but happily they reprised it during the quiz (2/20 for me). Someone should give this man a "Tales of the Expected but Still Damn funny" series !
The Dear Hunter was a nicely delivered Gary Larson joke.
Pig Tale was a bit too earnest in the acting but a decent story.
The highlight was Little Brats. Mister Bean meets Le Boucher in The City of Lost Children.
Sadly this looked like some kids who liked the comic had made a fan film. Not low fi enough to amuse and not acted well at all.
We're Ready For You Now was the annual David McGillvray treat. I missed the intro, where he and Alan Jones usually treat us to their Morecambe and Wise of Camp double act - but happily they reprised it during the quiz (2/20 for me). Someone should give this man a "Tales of the Expected but Still Damn funny" series !
The Dear Hunter was a nicely delivered Gary Larson joke.
Pig Tale was a bit too earnest in the acting but a decent story.
The highlight was Little Brats. Mister Bean meets Le Boucher in The City of Lost Children.
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Not very good shorts this year.
We're Ready For You was a load of crap. Completely pointless.
The Dear Hunter was naff too.
Pig Tales was okish, but a bit daft.
That foreign one with the couple was ok, but was really at heart a standard scene from a slasher film. A short film needs some kind of twist.
Then there was Little Brats. If it hadn't been so short I'd have walked out. Offensive crap. Why do something like that and try and play it for laughs? Though at least the killer died, so there was some sort of redemption.
We're Ready For You was a load of crap. Completely pointless.
The Dear Hunter was naff too.
Pig Tales was okish, but a bit daft.
That foreign one with the couple was ok, but was really at heart a standard scene from a slasher film. A short film needs some kind of twist.
Then there was Little Brats. If it hadn't been so short I'd have walked out. Offensive crap. Why do something like that and try and play it for laughs? Though at least the killer died, so there was some sort of redemption.
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Then there was Little Brats. If it hadn't been so short I'd have walked out. Offensive crap. Why do something like that and try and play it for laughs? Though at least the killer died, so there was some sort of redemption.
I thought this was a delightful few minutes, absolutely hilarious stuff.
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None of the day's shorts really stood out - Dead@17 in particular was hopeless. Of them all I'd only seen Little Brats already; it's fun in a sadistic black-humoured way but hardly a great short film.
The McGillivray caused me to mutter one of my few outright expletives (for which I apologise) when the lead character woke up! The old "it was a dream" yet again. Damn, I hate that.
A Noiva - the deafening sound counts against it. It was loud with my fingers in my ears.
The McGillivray caused me to mutter one of my few outright expletives (for which I apologise) when the lead character woke up! The old "it was a dream" yet again. Damn, I hate that.
A Noiva - the deafening sound counts against it. It was loud with my fingers in my ears.