This Won an Award?

[soupcan]

This was on my town's website:



Click here to view it

Curious, I clicked on the link to view the 'film'.

Now, I'm all for kids being given license to be creative but after watching this thing, I was shocked. Why the hell would this thing win any type of award? How about a script? How about a story? How about something other than profanity? Is there any talent in this? To me its 3 kids with a video camera cracking themselves up with 9th grade humor. Am I wrong?

I suppose it just speaks to this 'Youth Film Festival' being completely lame.

[Edgy MD]

Looks like someone saw Observe and Report besides me.

[soupcan]

I didn't see that - guess I'll pass now.

The thought of these kids thinking they actually created something worth watching, and then having that legitimized by winning an award bothers me - "Yay, let's hear it for substandard crap made with little or no effort!"

I was going to comment on the website, but then I thought that all that would do would be to bum out those three kids who were clearly excited they won something and I would just end up looking like some bitter, jealous, frustrated artist myself (not that I'm not, but I don't need my community knowing that).

Maybe its better to just let the winning of this award let them think they have 'something' and leave the the reality slap to some college film professor down the road.

[Frayed Knot]

Show biz kids making movies of themselves
and they don't give a fuck about anybody else ... they're outrageous
-- Becker/Fagen