Making Of (2007)

⭐⭐⭐ 63min Mockumentary about a bunch of deluded college boys and their ambitious movie project.

Recap

So there are these deluded college boys who want to make a movie. They don’t have skills or experience, they don’t have actual costumes or actual sets, but they have an artsy script and they even have somebody who follows them around to shoot a making of. Reality is not gentle with them, at one point, for the duration of a lunchbreak, the director even ditches the project.

Yes, this is a valid way to deal with the fact that you cannot make an actual movie: you just make fun of yourself. In The Claire Wizard Thesis they made a parody of a found footage films, and it was okay, a little lukewarm and cowardish maybe. In How Not To Make A Horror Film they had wasted all that they had without a result, and now they were trying to make the most of this, which was a legit approach (even though in the end it felt like they were just plugging their upcoming t&a exploitation flick).

In this mockumentary, however, they are (sometimes painfully) honest when they are making fun of themselves, and also these people are extremely skilled compared to most indie filmers. Small wonder that this one is so much better than all those indie abonimations that are made and marketed for profit. Seven years later the makers of this one went on to make one of my favorite indie movies, The Paranormals.

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