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Spielberg's Reality Show!! ON THE LOT Is Taking Applications From Aspiring Filmmakers Now!!
I am – Hercules!!
You say you’re not yet sleeping with Hollywood’s hottest actresses??
Mark Burnett (“Survivor”) and Steven Spielberg (“Raiders of the Lost Ark”) are teaming up for a new reality show called “On The Lot” that’s sort of a cross between “Project Greenlight” and “American Idol.”
And apparently its website went live within the last few days. Find submission applications, rules and other info here!
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It's too bad that I have zero equipment and only the knack to at least tell a great story and nothing as far as writing, as far as I'm concerned.
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Sorry people, it had to be said. I promise I won't follow down that dark path and continously act annoying.
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Sounds alright.
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The irony is that they are making reality tv (lazy tv making) about people who have to make movies (an art that requires some more creativity). Put a bunch of morons together and film them. Morons, yes, 'cause of all the reality tv I've seen (not too much, but a bit of all), there wasn't realy a bright light among them. You'd have to be a fucking loser to participate with this kind of shit...
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why his last 6 movies have largely been souless, heartless, uninspired affairs? And why he cant finish a movie anymore
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You might not ahve liked them. But I never left a theater after one of his movies and thought..."wow, that was bad."
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I rate Spielberg higher than any other director working today, but Always and Hook are absolute stinkers. 1941 is a mess, but those other two are certainly bad movies. Really bad.
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Great opportunity. I passed the site along to a couple of friends who will make the jump. Thanks Herc!
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I agree that he wasn't at the top of his game with Always...But Hook? Come on. It was a great take on Peter Pan. Weel shot and great cast. Hoffmen was just great. It wasn't his top ten...but it was good. But look how many movies he has made and then ask yourself how many were just so awful that you couldn't watch. I think if Quentin Tarantino or whoever else the kids like these days made as many movies as quickly as SS does I guaranty they would make some stinkers.
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A bit underwhelmed, but the movie has faced so much hatred since its release that I watched it once more on DVD a few months back. The only thing I would have done completely differently (and I think that it wasn't Kubrick's intention) was the final 10 minutes. Especially the voice over, which was annoying. But I rank A.I. quite high. Flawed, yes, but interesting (which is more than you can say of more than half the movies released nowadays).
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Because the general audience doesn't care about some dude or gal behind the camera. The public doesn't want to peak behind the curtain to see the Wizard, so to speak.
That's why Project Greenlight didn't last more than a couple of seasons on HBO, and it's also why movies about the movie business almost always tank. -
...and it would be considered one of the best children's flicks ever.
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He brags about how he can shoot a movie in 90 days, have it in on time and on budget. But i think this efficient skill has made it that hes kind of like a movie making robot now. The rate he's making them as well is as if hes just trying to make as many movies as possible but with no indepth feel or insight to them. His last few movies have been technically perfect and were good movies. But there was always that "something" that set spielberg ahead of those who were "technically great." Something that got him where he is today, and in my opinion i think he hasnt shown that "something" in his last 6 movies. Instead of genius film making that weve come to expect, hes just good.
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The Spielberg who made that string of great movies in the late 70's and early 80's is a different person from the director we are familiar with today. The dude is much older, a family man, and his head is likely in a different place. Enjoy his early movies on DVD because he's not likely to make another JAWS or CLOSE ENCOUNTERS again. Although, I thought MUNICH was a great movie, and MINORITY REPORT a fantastic science fiction thriller. The Spielberg of the present is still better than 90% of the present filmmakers working today.
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Hook was *by far* the worst movie Spielberg has made. I've actually watched it more than once because I thought there may be something there I may have missed the first time, but I was right on my first assessment. There were parts of the movie that were OK, but I despised the work done with the kids. It all seemed so forced. Julia Roberts was clearly not into this movie - her performance was like cardboard. Robin Williams was serviceable, but nothing could save the movie from the kids. Those awful, awful kids. Oh, and the ending where the croc fell on Hook and "ate" him? Terribly done. Yuck! *************Aside from Hook, though, I generally enjoy Spielberg's movies, both old and new. Granted, I still haven't seen Munich, Memoirs of a Geisha, or Amistad.
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Means i'm going to have cut 3 minutes out of the short I'd like to use... so much for buildup.
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Christ. I thought it was going to be on in January.
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The strangest sci-fi horror film ever. I loved it.
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Maybe I shouldn't have given away my video camera, all those years ago. Oh, well. What are the odds, anyway???
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I was just thinking about this idea this morning!! Seriously, this exact idea, right down to it having to be on Fox and produced by Burnett and Spielberg. God I wish I had a 5 min. short to submit... Time to get cracking!
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I'll give Steven credit. It took him a long time to get around to making a complete piece of crap, something so far beneath his level that it defies explanation. But man, if the criteria here is walking out of the theater going "that fucking SUCKED", then WOTW has to take the booby prize. Even the tacky and problematic HOOK had its own internal logic and worked on its own terms. WAR OF THE WORLDS is nothing more than a plot hole disguised as a movie. Sure, it had a sprinkling of brilliant moments - it's Speilberg, the man's naturally gifted at this, and Tom Cruise covered in ash was a powerful and disturbing image - effectively cancelled out by the goofiness of Tom Cruise and his Hand Grenade Versus The Space Anus near the end. And don't even get me started about the last scene, possibly the nadir of Speilberg's whole career, unless it was intentional self-parody - and I don't think it was. Now to be fair, I never saw THE TERMINAL, so that may have beaten WOTW to the suck punch - but I bet that TERMINAL was at least coherent. Don't confuse me with some random hater. Speilberg's still the man - WOTW just goes to show that like MC Paul Barman said (paraphrasing Michael Stipe), "everybody sucks... sometimes." How many directors of his stature crank 'em out at the rate Spielberg does? And cutting on film, no less. He's like Wong Jing's more talented American cousin.
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I remember leaving Amistad and thought "wow that was bad". Munich is also very overrated on this board like History of Violence. Speilbergs best film is still Close Encounters.
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So hes cranking them out as fast as he possibly can. There was a time when a Spielberg pic was an event pic, if not the event film of the year. Now news of another Spielberg pic is met with almost apathy, as if its a case of "what? Another one?"
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And no, I won't settle for another film of mine. It's this or nothing.
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Send that clip you made with Juliette Lewis... You know, the one with the Bob Marley song. That lasted for about five minutes, which is less than what I last while watching it and touching my parts. BONG!
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A grotesquely sentimental, smug and self indulgent water balloon of a movie. A.I. was Hook with robots.
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Why would any self-respecting fledgling filmmaker want to whore themselves out on a nationally televised contest, begging for votes from midwest yokels who wouldn't know a good film if it bit them in the ass? You'd think that if Steven Speiberg was at all serious about searching out new talent.....I don't know. There HAS to be a classier way of going about it than THIS. I might submit a film and then turn down their offer to appear on the show. Fuck that shit. Have some dignity, up-and-comers! Pay your dues! Fight tooth and nail! This shit is embarassing.
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Sounds more exciting than bitching on a message board.
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"Sometimes I want to watch a great Spielberg movie, like 1941 or Always..."
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the shit films that will be 'voted' on...good god - I can't even bring my self to think about the type of films that would come out of this...American Idol...only with movies...and 'directors' who'll yak about their personal lives and the struggles they've gone through...fucking hell...somebody just remake Soul Man already and be done with it.
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With the twinkling toes, send it in! Represent AICN. I'd vote for it. Oh and fuck Taylor Hicks.
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Rockstar had to finish on VH1. The Contender failed miserably. The Resturant is used as something to show besides Blow Out on Bravo. Really, what has he got behind that did well after Survivor and The Amazing race?
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and have a little girl thank him when he gives her back the kitten. Then it fades into a waving US flag dry humping an Iraqi flag with God overhead pumping His fists in glory. That ought to hold the little s.o.b.s
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was one of Spielberg's best. Right up there with Jaws and Raiders.
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I am bitching on a messageboard AND shooting a short film to enter into Sundance next year. Not at the same time obviously, I bitch on messageboards when I'm NOT shooting stuff. You get what I'm saying. Anyway, I fuck you where you breathe.
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actually Rockstar didn't finish on VH1...they just moved the Monday in the house show to VH1 because of lower rating on that day...the other 2 shows (performance & bottom 3/performance/vote off) still aired in their entirety on CBS....
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Oh yeah making a film would be cool too.
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In reverse order of release: War of the Worlds, The Terminal, Amistad, Hook, Always, and The Color Purple (sorry, Oprah, but it's true). Frankly, I don't even think 1941 qualifies as outrightly "bad". It has some whimsical, crazy-ass charm that has aged all right in a campy way over time.
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Perhaps the projects all suffer from higher expectations. The one thing I admire about Burnett is that he at least he gives these things simple names instead of mouthefuls like America's Next Top Model of Trading Spousea: Meet Your New Mommy. Hmmm... On the Lot is sort of a shitty name, too. Guess he is losing his touch.
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...don't have the vision, faith, balls, or skills to make it on their own. If they're really passionate about what they're doing, and willing to make the sacrifices necessary to turn their dreams into film (or video as the case may be) - AND they don't suck - then these guys wouldn't need a reality show to get noticed. Seriously, if you want your shit to get noticed there are ways.
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mad I can't think of anything to say... Oh... Spielberg owns all of you!
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on every other "reality" series?
Do the aspiring "directors" have to eat ants or jump from helicopters?
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