Sunday, April 02, 2006
LDS Themes, Dreams and Schemes
I found some interesting stuff while trying to find pictures of conference today (specifically of the guy dressed up as the Dark Prince. Really odd, ask Allison). First, I discovered that this girl Summer that I went to high school with is all over the LDS market. I've seen her in the "Light of the World" video, the Tuacahn commercials, and most recently, the "Esther and the King" video from "Liken the Scriptures series. Um, it's weird. She's super talented. It's just weird.
I also ran across an article lamenting the horrific quality of the dying LDS film market. "When 'God's Army,' a missionary drama made for $250,000, made more than $2.6 million at the box office, [Richard] Dutcher envisioned an opening for other Mormon filmmakers to tell their stories. Instead, he saw 'an avalanche of mediocrity."
"I feel like I built this pool, and I thought, 'Hey, let's all have this party.' And everybody came over and said, 'Hey, that's a really cool pool,' and they all jumped in and started peeing in it," Dutcher said. "And the people who peed in it are now saying, 'We don't want to swim in that pool anymore because there's pee in it.' " He indicts HaleStorm movies specifically for sucking.
And lastly, as if his dubious reputation as an "Mormon" filmmaker didn't upset him enough, this also sucks. His office burned down two weeks after relocating from Provo to Mapleville.
He went to Hillcrest, too.
I also ran across an article lamenting the horrific quality of the dying LDS film market. "When 'God's Army,' a missionary drama made for $250,000, made more than $2.6 million at the box office, [Richard] Dutcher envisioned an opening for other Mormon filmmakers to tell their stories. Instead, he saw 'an avalanche of mediocrity." "I feel like I built this pool, and I thought, 'Hey, let's all have this party.' And everybody came over and said, 'Hey, that's a really cool pool,' and they all jumped in and started peeing in it," Dutcher said. "And the people who peed in it are now saying, 'We don't want to swim in that pool anymore because there's pee in it.' " He indicts HaleStorm movies specifically for sucking.
And lastly, as if his dubious reputation as an "Mormon" filmmaker didn't upset him enough, this also sucks. His office burned down two weeks after relocating from Provo to Mapleville.
He went to Hillcrest, too.
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R.I.P. No, really, please.
Halestorm is the apocalypse. Of course, I am not a Dutcher fan either.
Jared Hess is the future.
Your FACE is the future.
Allison is totally going to punch me for that.
Mercy, Allison . . . but your MOM'S face is the future. AAH!
Seriously though, there are a few out there that are passably good, but by and large -- kill me now.
Seriously though, there are a few out there that are passably good
As far as Halestorm goes, I respectfully disagree.
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Wait...no it wasn't. I am of the opinion that "Single's Ward" by itself would have been a novelty if it hadn't been heaped upon by low-budget, unmistakenably not funny films. But it became part of a lackluster genre, the insipid pool that Dutcher talks of.
Hey, I'm not saying that anything Halestrom made was good, just that there are a couple movies out there that were passably good and also fell under the so-called 'mormon' title. Although most of them don't have much to do with Mormons . . . what irony.
Justice before mercy.
PUNCH!
"OW! Am I bleeding? You really clunked me there."
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