Brittney and Ally have been best friends for years. Brittney is a genius and Ally is the best athlete in school. She's even the star of the football team. But when Chris, a boy from Los Angeles, moves to their small town, their friendship falls apart as they both get drastic make overs and complete for his attention.While most of the actors appear to be of high school age, the hot popular blonde girl looks much older which makes things slightly confusing at first as I thought she was a teacher.
Chris is very charming and all the girls want to date him. But it turns out he is not what he appears to be. In fact he's really horrible and a lesson in friendship is learned.
If you're like me and saw the trailer with the killer robot and thought "wow a killer robot movie!", be warned - the robot is only in it for two minutes at the most. So disappointing since it was the robot that made me want to see this.
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Hey Chris, thanks for checking out our movie. Sorry you felt disappointed there wasn't more robot action. I can totally understand this, believe me. Tim and I wanted a lot more in there but the visual part of the post production team was just he and I for pretty much the whole movie. A mutual friend of ours animated the big robot, which I then lit and comp'd for its shots, and another friend did a brief bit for the macro body fly-thru, but that's it. Everything else was just the two of us.
This was our first film where we were the creators. We raised its small budget with the help of our brother Jon from local business owners and did this thing completely independently. Just went out and did it. We cast it and got the crew together and shot it in about a month with brand new, infant-level HD equipment. It was likely a lot more than we should have bit off but we were ready to do anything to get a movie made of our own.
Originally we wanted to do a horror movie but our investors wouldn't go for that so this was quickly brainstormed based on our mutual love of Japanese animation (anime). The lead investor's 14yr old daughter liked to script so we got the "green light", lol, and so we were like, "let's do this!"
I know it's got problems, and likely the version you've seen has more problems than it should. We ended up with a total bargain basement distributor thanks to investors that were tired of waiting for all the stars to align for something good. They didn't involve us with the packaging and didn't (if this is the N.American DVD) even use the right tape when they went to disc duplication. Ugh.
Anyway, like I said, I know it has its problems but we put a lot of effort into what you've got there and are really proud of what we were able to do, basically on our own. Just two guys with no money and good day jobs.
cheers
Sean Cunningham
PS> From the looks of your other reviews, keep your eyes open for SICK BOY. It only took us ten years to get around to making another movie :)
Thank you very much for your comment and all the information. I'm always interested in the film makers experience, especially with low budget, indie films.
I did watch the North American dvd, which you mentioned didn't use the right tape for duplication. Frustrating, I'm sure, but honestly even though they messed up, it wasn't a bad film. The production was competent, there were no major flaws that jumped off the screen, and the robot looked good. I've watched a lot of extremely crappy movies, and this was not one of them.
The biggest issue for me was that the preview made it appear that the robot was going to be a big part of the story. Heck, even the cover states, "girl builds giant robot to smash other girl." So when the robot is only in it for two minutes - and that was my impetus for watching - my expectations were not met. It's too bad you didn't have a say in the packaging, or finances to do exactly what you wanted. Isn't that the story of most indie filmmakers though?
I definitely applaud anyone who can get their movie made. There is a lot of effort and dedication that goes into it. I'll have to keep an eye out for Sick Boy.
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