http://culturalsnafu.wordpress.com/2007/01/29/five-things-aboot-canadian-movies/ Taking Back Aboot One Eh At A Time Wed, 15 Jul 2009 07:17:45 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://culturalsnafu.wordpress.com/2007/01/29/five-things-aboot-canadian-movies/#comment-2370 Canadians Invented Hollywood: What You Need To Know Aboot Canada’s Movie Industry — Part Two: A New Hope « …cultural snafu. Thu, 28 Jun 2007 16:27:18 +0000 http://culturalsnafu.wordpress.com/2007/01/29/the-five-things-you-need-to-know-aboot-canadian-movies-part-one/#comment-2370 [...] [Part One: A Talking Beaver & A Jesus Alien] [...] [...] [Part One: A Talking Beaver & A Jesus Alien] [...]

]]> http://culturalsnafu.wordpress.com/2007/01/29/five-things-aboot-canadian-movies/#comment-1583 Six Canadian Movies You Need To See That Don't Suck -- Part Two: Phil The Alien « …cultural snafu. Thu, 31 May 2007 03:20:28 +0000 http://culturalsnafu.wordpress.com/2007/01/29/the-five-things-you-need-to-know-aboot-canadian-movies-part-one/#comment-1583 [...] “And who doesn’t love Candy?”… asked the clinically depressed hunter. “My parents.” replied the prostitute. “Phil The Alien” is a perfect example of why the Canadian movie system sucks. Phil The Alien has an excellent cast, first time director Rob Stefaniuk does a great job with his zero budget, and he has written one of the funniest pure-Canadian humour movies ever put on screen. But there are two problems with Phil The Alien… 1) the pre-production budget. Stefaniuk had to take the main role because he couldn’t afford a leading actor. Very few Canadian movies can raise enough money during pre-production to sustain a movie through to the end. So Rob became “Phil” and a stuffed toy became “The Beaver”, Phil’s best friend. The two special effects were not bad in an Apple iMovie kind of way, but the “ray-guns” were toys. Literally. 2) the distribution. English-speaking Canadian movies are not distributed to English-speaking Canadian theatres so much as left at their door where they may be picked up and adopted by a kindhearted manager who may play the movie for a few days but, really, he has so many better paying movies which have all sorts of pre-production money and who can afford to have their characters carrying real guns with real blanks and not cap-guns. If you want to learn more aboot why Canada’s movie industry mostly sucks I wrote all aboot this a while back in: Five Essential Facts Aboot Canadian Movies. [...] [...] “And who doesn’t love Candy?”… asked the clinically depressed hunter. “My parents.” replied the prostitute. “Phil The Alien” is a perfect example of why the Canadian movie system sucks. Phil The Alien has an excellent cast, first time director Rob Stefaniuk does a great job with his zero budget, and he has written one of the funniest pure-Canadian humour movies ever put on screen. But there are two problems with Phil The Alien… 1) the pre-production budget. Stefaniuk had to take the main role because he couldn’t afford a leading actor. Very few Canadian movies can raise enough money during pre-production to sustain a movie through to the end. So Rob became “Phil” and a stuffed toy became “The Beaver”, Phil’s best friend. The two special effects were not bad in an Apple iMovie kind of way, but the “ray-guns” were toys. Literally. 2) the distribution. English-speaking Canadian movies are not distributed to English-speaking Canadian theatres so much as left at their door where they may be picked up and adopted by a kindhearted manager who may play the movie for a few days but, really, he has so many better paying movies which have all sorts of pre-production money and who can afford to have their characters carrying real guns with real blanks and not cap-guns. If you want to learn more aboot why Canada’s movie industry mostly sucks I wrote all aboot this a while back in: Five Essential Facts Aboot Canadian Movies. [...]

]]> http://culturalsnafu.wordpress.com/2007/01/29/five-things-aboot-canadian-movies/#comment-1555 Six Canadian Movies You Need To See That Don't Suck -- Part Three: Heavy Metal « …cultural snafu. Wed, 30 May 2007 05:53:27 +0000 http://culturalsnafu.wordpress.com/2007/01/29/the-five-things-you-need-to-know-aboot-canadian-movies-part-one/#comment-1555 [...] other country except America. But even that’s not specific to Canadian animators, Canadian filmmakers — regardless of genre — are sucked into Hollywood as through Hollywood were a fifty [...] [...] other country except America. But even that’s not specific to Canadian animators, Canadian filmmakers — regardless of genre — are sucked into Hollywood as through Hollywood were a fifty [...]

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