I really laugh my ass off when I hear my exchange with Louis CK but it's still unfair

[thepaulo]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAC3QrAQ8b0&feature=related

[MacVittie]

More people have watched that youtube video than have watched Gap.

[TheMojoPin]

Oh, yay. More anti-threads.

[thepaulo]

More people have watched that youtube video than have watched Gap.

I have some Gap youtubes that have done good...but you're right...few people have actually watched Gap in a objective fashion.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxdYAKRB7q0&feature=related

[TheMojoPin]

It's impossible to do anything objectively.

[thepaulo]

It's impossible to do anything objectively.

I think I know whatyou mean but I'm not sure.

Some people go through life blithely without a preconcieved notoin in their head but not many.

[TheMojoPin]

We always have preconceived notions about what we like or dislike. We will discover new things for either side along the way, but movies are ultimately rather finite creatively and unless someone has seen no films, they're not going to be able to watch a film truly objectively.

If you're talking about people seeing the film who have no idea who you are or your past antics, OK, fine.

[Gvac]

There's not even an amusing animation to make this clip seem light-hearted and bearable?

I'll never make it through the whole thing.

Sorry Paul.

[thepaulo]

We always have preconceived notions about what we like or dislike. We will discover new things for either side along the way, but movies are ultimately rather finite creatively and unless someone has seen no films, they're not going to be able to watch a film truly objectively.

If you're talking about people seeing the film who have no idea who you are or your past antics, OK, fine.

One could split themselves into multiple pesonalities.....

one could be smart-knows-all-about-the-movies guy...


one could be slingblade-semi-retard guy.

[MacVittie]

I have some Gap youtubes that have done good...but you're right...few people have actually watched Gap in a objective fashion.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxdYAKRB7q0&feature=related

Has anyone watched Gap in a subjective fashion? What would the major difference be?

[thepaulo]

Has anyone watched Gap in a subjective fashion? What would the major difference be?

now I'm getting confused.

[MisterSmith]

You were given complete freedom to answer questions, defend your choices, and make a solid pitch for your movie. You simply did not do that. In fact, I have heard people with head trauma answer questions more clearly and coherently.

And if you say "I was going with the bit," then you have absolutely nothing to complain about. You made the choice to play a character and sacrificed defending your film for the bit.

[thepaulo]

You were given complete freedom to answer questions, defend your choices, and make a solid pitch for your movie. You simply did not do that. In fact, I have heard people with head trauma answer questions more clearly and coherently.

And if you say "I was going with the bit," then you have absolutely nothing to complain about. You made the choice to play a character and sacrificed defending your film for the bit.

You're right I made the choice to go with the bit....but I didn't sign any contract that said I couldn't complain.

[John Galt]

Paul, I'd like to offer my services: I have no personal feelings about you whatsoever. And I have a film education. So I could give a solid impartial review, which could in turn bring you more sales. However I'm a recent college grad and unemployed, so I'd need a free copy.

Send a free copy and get a review from someone you don't know: it sounds like a winning situation.

[thepaulo]

There's not even an amusing animation to make this clip seem light-hearted and bearable?

I'll never make it through the whole thing.

Sorry Paul.

If you were truly sorry you wou;d crawl through the streets of New York City while whipping your bare ass.
Repent.

[Gerald]

That was phenomenal radio.

I'd feel honored if someday a comic genius like Louis C.K. tore to ribbons something I poured my blood, sweat and tears into.

You have to understand, Paul, that it just wouldn't have been entertaining radio if the break had been all about giving you the benefit of the doubt on what you tried to accomplish artistically with the project. O&A is the lion's den and not just anybody gets the designation of being fresh meat for them to pounce on for an entire satellite show.

[thepaulo]

That was phenomenal radio.

I'd feel honored if someday a comic genius like Louis C.K. tore to ribbons something I poured my blood, sweat and tears into.

You have to understand, Paul, that it just wouldn't have been entertaining radio if the break had been all about giving you the benefit of the doubt on what you tried to accomplish artistically with the project. O&A is the lion's den and not just anybody gets the designation of being fresh meat for them to pounce on for an entire satellite show.

I actually agree with you...I was somewhat honored to be so "roasted".

[hammersavage]

I objectively think GAP stinks.

[thepaulo]

I objectively think GAP stinks.

Did you see it? I actually have no problem with legitaimate criticism. The film was never meant for everyone and probably not for this audience.

[Gvac]

If you were truly sorry you wou;d crawl through the streets of New York City while whipping your bare ass.
Repent.

I guess you saw video from last night.

[MacVittie]

Did you see it? I actually have no problem with legitaimate criticism. The film was never meant for everyone and probably not for this audience.

oh I see, so its for people who don't know who No Filter Paul and East Side Dave are and wouldn't recognize a WOW sticker.

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What's the audience it was intended for then paul? I will happily go down to ARC and get them to watch the movie.

[Gerald]

Not many of the internet movie nerds have bragging rights to the existence of a feature length film fit for distribution under their belt. I'm not going rip anybody for walking the walk even if I think their traveled path resulted in a venture that wasn't worthwhile. Everybody online is an armchair Kubrick when they're snobbishly turning their noses up at stuff that doesn't meet their rigid standards of acceptance even though they would never have the resourcefulness, assertiveness or constitution to take command of a film set.

[thepaulo]

Not many of the internet movie nerds have bragging rights to the existence of a feature length film fit for distribution under their belt. I'm not going rip anybody for walking the walk even if I think their traveled path resulted in a venture that wasn't worthwhile. Everybody online is an armchair Kubrick when they're snobbishly turning their noses up at stuff that doesn't meet their rigid standards of acceptance even though they would never have the resourcefulness, assertiveness or constitution to take command of a film set.


My feeling about Gap was that I was trying to make a film that I had never seen and It was a very specific thing and I achieved the goal of making that thing. so I am happy with the film. It may not be the easiest thing to understand or appreciate but I understand it. Hopefully it will find it's audience.

[epo]

Paul, would you say that Gap is a film or a movie?

[TheMojoPin]

Not many of the internet movie nerds have bragging rights to the existence of a feature length film fit for distribution under their belt.

Nobody in this thread has done that.

[thepaulo]

Paul, would you say that Gap is a film or a movie?


a film.

[hammersavage]

Paul, would you say that Gap is a film or a movie?

A coaster.

[thepaulo]

A coaster.
I would like a 300 word essay from you in the morning, young man.

[TheMojoPin]

A coaster.

Sir, I will not sit idly by and let you slander something as wonderfully useful as a coaster.

[epo]

a film.

I have no intention of seeing Gap, but I can guarantee its not a film. In fact you'd love for it to be considered a "popcorn movie".

[CofyCrakCocaine]

I have no intention of seeing Gap, but I can guarantee its not a film. In fact you'd love for it to be considered a "popcorn movie".

He'd love it if it were a huge fucking turd because even shit makes a splash.

[thepaulo]

I have no intention of seeing Gap, but I can guarantee its not a film. In fact you'd love for it to be considered a "popcorn movie".

see it....live it ....love it.

[thepaulo]

an actual review....about time someone actually sat down and watched the fucking thing



As a fan of horror movies I can honestly say that the horror genre is in a lull right now mainly due to PG-13 ratings and the never ending remake pool. GAP was a refreshing viewing experience mainly because it was so raw and so intriguing. GAP has that magical substance that many of the horror films today lack. I highly recommend this movie because it feels like a throw back to the days when the horror genre wasn’t afraid to take risk.


-oliver, houston, texas, United States

[west milly Tom]

I saw it and it was one of the best films I ever saw.

[thepaulo]

I saw it and it was one of the best films I ever saw.

pithy, insightful, unironic, to the point.

[MacVittie]

I made it 30 minutes in and I can't watch it anymore. It's so bad. You didn't put any thought into making this movie. I think you liked the idea of having made a movie but you didn't actually want to put the painstaking effort into making one, so you just threw something together as fast as you could, rushed it out, and now all you do is make excuses for it. It was shot in three days, its an anti-film, it's not meant for everyone to enjoy. The concept of the movie is boring, but beyond that its not done well at all. It's completely inorganic, everyone sounds like their reading lines to one another. We have no idea how you capture and tie up these people and why when you kill the first girl there's no blood on the couch afterward. I've seen college freshmen upload more creative, engaging, and aesthetically better videos onto youtube. The fact that you thought that this film was worthy of months of promotion on the Ron & Fez show, a premiere at the Hard Rock, and a DVD release baffles me. The whole thing is tragic. Not the film itself, but the entire storyline from the first mention of GAP on Ron & Fez to the finished product is just a sad story. Maybe I'm a rube in the whole bit is radio gold, but I never want to watch another minute of this film again. That's my objective criticism.

[TheMojoPin]

I made it 30 minutes in and I can't watch it anymore. It's so bad. You didn't put any thought into making this movie. I think you liked the idea of having made a movie but you didn't actually want to put the painstaking effort into making one, so you just threw something together as fast as you could, rushed it out, and now all you do is make excuses for it. It was shot in three days, its an anti-film, it's not meant for everyone to enjoy. The concept of the movie is boring, but beyond that its not done well at all. It's completely inorganic, everyone sounds like their reading lines to one another. We have no idea how you capture and tie up these people and why when you kill the first girl there's no blood on the couch afterward. I've seen college freshmen upload more creative, engaging, and aesthetically better videos onto youtube. The fact that you thought that this film was worthy of months of promotion on the Ron & Fez show, a premiere at the Hard Rock, and a DVD release baffles me. The whole thing is tragic. Not the film itself, but the entire storyline from the first mention of GAP on Ron & Fez to the finished product is just a sad story. Maybe I'm a rube in the whole bit is radio gold, but I never want to watch another minute of this film again. That's my objective criticism.

It was worth it just to inspire this one post.

[lleeder]

The unfairness of Louis CK tearing Paulo became apparent to me today. Louis CK is the best at talking in the history of the planet. Everytime he speaks about anything I instantly agree and accept all his information as fact. His boat stories were amazing to me. That being said I'll never watch Gap he said it was crap so it must be.

[Knowledged_one]

I would rather watch Dr. Acula filmed on jd's camera phone

[lleeder]

I would rather watch Dr. Acula filmed on jd's camera phone

That took less time to edit, much longer to shoot, and had an actual script.

[Knowledged_one]

That took less time to edit, much longer to shoot, and had an actual script.

dont forget he also lost his financial backing because of an accident on the audubon

[thepaulo]

McVittie's post is fair enough but the point of this particular movie was to look rough and raw and thrown together....but I appreciate the somewhat half hearted attempt to give the movie a fair hearing.

[DolaMight]

gap 2, the abduction of louis ck.

[thepaulo]

gap 2, the abduction of louis ck.

Hmmmmmm.

[MacVittie]

McVittie's post is fair enough but the point of this particular movie was to look rough and raw and thrown together....but I appreciate the somewhat half hearted attempt to give the movie a fair hearing.

I wouldn't call my attempt half-hearted since I couldn't even make it through half the movie. But in order to give the effect that a movie look rough, raw, and thrown together, you can't actually just throw it together. The movie is not pleasant to watch, and its not because of the subject matter of because of a desired effect, its because of the shoddy production and minimal amount of care that went into it.

[CofyCrakCocaine]

I wouldn't call my attempt half-hearted since I couldn't even make it through half the movie. But in order to give the effect that a movie look rough, raw, and thrown together, you can't actually just throw it together. The movie is not pleasant to watch, and its not because of the subject matter of because of a desired effect, its because of the shoddy production and minimal amount of care that went into it.

my one critique of your critique is that your critique is not objective critique

('cuz you fucking hated the movie)

[NewYorkDragons80]

Louis is wrong about one thing; I'm in Japan, and not only do I know about the movie, but I was at the WORLD PREMIERE EXTRAVAGANZA

[Gerald]

I hope you can find some consolation in the fact that you were the centerpiece of what has to be one of the Top 10 breaks in O&A history even if Louis CK's merciless critique of your magnum opus contributed to a groupthink mentality where everyone who saw it thereafter was out to get it. Hope might also spring eternal from the example of Paranormal Activity which nobody knew what to do with after its original unveiling and is now taking off on a wide scale two years after the fact.

[Furtherman]

I hope you can find some consolation in the fact that you were the centerpiece of what has to be one of the Top 10 breaks in O&A history even if Louis CK's merciless critique of your magnum opus contributed to a groupthink mentality where everyone who saw it thereafter was out to get it. Hope might also spring eternal from the example of Paranormal Activity which nobody knew what to do with after its original unveiling and is now taking off on a wide scale two years after the fact.

jesus tap-dancin' christ, you love that movie.

[hydee]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAC3QrAQ8b0&feature=related

I just want to point out that perhaps you should take Louis CK's advice. Although the delivery of his critiques might not have been sensitive, he had a lot of really good points about how you shot stuff and your story writing. Perhaps instead of thinking of yourself as a victim you can think of the how many people that are making movies that would have loved to have been roasted the way you were and wouldn't be whining about it several months later. Pointing out this vid isn't going to improve your sales that much.

Other film makers would have taken everything he said and run with them to either fix the current project, or to use on future projects.

You got a gift that most movie makers would love and you are whining about it and calling it unfair. Seriously think about it and find the positive in it, I think that is something Ronnie has been telling you for a while now.

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Wow, you see paranormal activity and dig up a old paul'o thread just to rub his face in it.

Jinkies.

[Gerald]

Wow, you see paranormal activity and dig up a old paul'o thread just to rub his face in it.

Jinkies.

I dug it up because PO referenced the infamous incident two days ago during his Fez-confronting appearance and when I revisited the audio I was reminded of how epic it was. If you listen to it again I think it illustrates what a radio-savvy good sport he was for going along with and fuelling the bit.