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"People who play video games score considerably higher on IQ tests, on average, than those who don't. Do you watch TV? I'd argue that playing a video game is a much more healthy pass-time." Sorry, grasshopper. Your fortune cookie wisdom has been laughed off. And, no, I don't waste time with...

Black Swan (2010) Absolute masterpiece, and I’m jealous of Darren Aronofsky. This is not a “political film,” but I’ll talk about it anyway. Natalie Portman is outstanding, and since there are spoilers you should run right out and catch this film before anyone says any more about it. Continued

"A story about a guy playing a video game can be interesting " Says you. To me, there's a 90% plus chance of pure garbage. A whole generation of idiot loser uneducated douche bag morons sitting on their couches clicking at pixels is not something I want to subject myself to, in any capacity...

Dear Skitzo, You realize that your two posts are less than 8 hours apart, and that this is a global forum where very few people would actually be in London?

"This is my theme: I'm trying to show how some people waste their time playing video games by going over the limit. The issue here is addiction and poor time management." I look at this pitch and I think utterly banal, boring story set in someone's apartment with lots of sitting there playing a...

How do I write a script? Get an education. Learn incessantly, explore nature, biology, psychology, physics, crime, law, sex and violence. Work every kind of job the suburbs has to offer. Meet a lot of whack jobs. Read a lot of books. Film some shorts. Try and adapt concepts from other...

No. Of course not.

Real feedback? 1) Bad low light characteristics. Just shoot under optimal daytime conditions. 2) Get a guy with a boom shotgun mic. 3) Think up much better questions. 4) Edit out yourself. Less you, more of the best answers. 5) Interview 100 people to get 10 good quotes, not vice-versa...

"Charlie Kaufman?"

"Would people take me and my films less seriously if they knew because I had a completely unrelated degree?" Do you check the CV of filmmakers before you go to the movies? Define "people." My take is that science is a necessary foundation of competent storytelling nowadays. Ignorance is not...

The Panasonic TM-700 could work out. It's a little more than $500, but it supposedly has better low light and sharpness than more expensive dslrs. One issue I read is that the 60fps mode looks awesome, but other modes not as good. The plus side is that it DOES 60fps. The down side is that...

... Huh?

All Cronenberg, all Gilliam, all Lynch, everything based on PK Dick's stories. Naked Lunch Brazil The Wall Crash (Spader) Fight Club Waking Life Vanilla Sky (and its Spanish original version) Dark City and I almost forgot: Jacob's Ladder ... and all Charlie Kaufman's stuff

Unfortunately all that is cliche and already done in every bomb disarming movie out there. 1. Why should we as a disinterested audience give a shit if these people live or die? 2. What are the stakes if they fail, beyond the characters already mentioned? 3. What if the character disarming the...

Well I've got my own pet peeves, and I'm sure there will be disagreement, but here goes. When the first thing I see is that you have 5 guns, all I think is that this will be yet another of the thousands upon thousands of silly little white boys playing shoot em up with a camera. These "films"...

Did no one notice that all your footage appears to be shot in interlaced mode?

You lacked visual demonstrations of what was being talked about. It wasn't actually being talked about, but put in text. People don't like reading their movies. 1) How was the overall feel? Too many disparate concepts all thrown together with nothing concrete to demonstrate them. 2) What...

Life is short, and soon you'll be old and/or dead. Leave something worthwhile behind.

"sinereos" Scenarios? Anyway, I think more than punching, kicking and shooting (the banal staple of most low-rent "action" films) it's far more important to do several things, related to the story: 1) Make your action sequence in some way unique. This is probably the hardest thing to do...

I think the footage is mostly overexposed and over saturated. You could try the flat settings and careful to avoid clipped highlights.