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CLICK HERE to watch and rate my film on the MTV Movie Awards site. A WORD FROM CHRIS SAW-entology was made litterally 48 hours before the deadline for the MTV movie awards spoof contest. With not much to go on, I made what I thought was the best out of three possible spoofs. The other two were "Blue Beetle's X-Men 3 auditions" in which poor Mr. Beetle has a luncheon with Bryan Singer back in 2005, but unfortunately, Singer left X-3 to do Superman and did not tell anyone. The idea was cute, but too comic booky for mainstream audiences to get, so I didn't do it. The 2nd idea was "Cooking with Leatherface", a Rachael Ray approach to vegan cannibalism with your host, Leatherface. Yes the idea was funny, but I just didn't have enough knowledge of cooking shows to pull it off in that short amount of time. So I was left with SAW-entology. Yeah, I know all about Saw, and it just so happened I know a guy who does a great Tom Cruise impression. So I went with it. So with about an hour of filming, a few minutes of editing and a trip to the video store to rent Saw so I could steal the Jigsaw puppet footage, the movie was complete. But upon posting the film on the MTV spoof site, I suddenly realized the audience that would be watching my film. It's really no secret, my film is rather intellectual and polks fun at a very mature subject in a very mature way. Whereas MTV's audience..... well let's just say they aren't the most evolved of creatures. No disrespect, but how do you expect me to take anyone who watches Meet the Barkers or Brittney and Kevin: Chaotic, serious? Come on, MTV's programing is like retardation with commerical break. Anyhoo, moving on. Though my film did moderately well and if ranked, probably came in 10th place or something, it was clearly no match for the more Hollywood-esk projects. You know, the ones with the 1000 dollar budgets, the obscure real celebrities trying to further their career etc. Let me put it this way, when you have Comedy Central's Skylar Stone in your film, you have a hell of a better chance at winning than when you have a Tom Cruise impersonator. That aside, Cruise nowadays isn't too popular with the kids, or so I hear. Am I bitter? Sure. Who wouldn't be. Most of the films nominated had been up there for over a month gaining more popularity every day. I on the other hand had really only 8 days to get any notice. I didn't stand a chance. My only regret is that I didn't find out about the contest sooner.... that and FUCK MTV for allowing it's audience to choose anything. They don't know what they want. They don't know anything. If they did, they'd petition the reality shows and rally for the network to play music videos again. Uh hello, MTV = Music Television. |