So if you remember my post about the short film I entered in Steven Spielberg’s reality show On The Lot, you probably figured I’d be super-geeked about watching the show, even though I didn’t get on it.
Hey, I won’t hate. The audio in my short sucked and the camera work could have used quite a bit of improvement. I might not have picked myself either.
But the format they’re presenting the show in makes it hard to watch, if not impossible to watch. I’ll stick through the bloody end, but here are my reasons why I don’t think this show is going to catch on.
- The first episode took two hours to screen 18 1-minute films. And that’s all they did, other than give us a thirty-second intro to the filmmakers. No behind the scenes, no drama, nothing that makes a show like Project Runway so addictive.
- The results show dragged on and on. And then they brought a dead horse back to life and rode it around the stage some more.
- Carrie Fisher, god bless her gold-bikini, martini drinking soul, is the worst lead judge ever. She stumbles across her words, she looks lost and she rambles. Worse, her criticism doesn’t even make sense. She’ll awkwardly rip someone for a minute, and then say “so, congratulations” at the end of it. I can picture Chewie roaring somewhere.
- Is George Marshall even relevant anymore?
That said, I think some of the people they have on the show are brilliant. I’d easily pay 8 bucks for a ticket to see what Zach Lipofsky would do with a million dollar development deal.
I’ll watch the whole thing, but I don’t think America will. There goes my shot at getting on the show next year.
This could have been good but they are trying to get the audience that watches American Idol. This is a different audience; we don’t need dramatic pauses and a witty host. We watch because we want to see cool shorts or maybe a little glance into how movies are made. Like you I’ll watch to the end but it sucks to know this show won’t be coming on next year because they messed it up from the start. And really, if the kid Zach doesn’t at least get a deal after the show, something is really wrong.
Left by Cecil on June 3rd, 2007