Sometimes the spur to creativity
is anger.
I watched
this movie tonight on Netflix tonight: Apartment 143. The tag line
says:
Hired by a family to investigate
supernatural activity in their apartment, a paranormal research group find
themselves haunted by a malevolent force. Their investigation is derailed as
the strange manifestations become gradually more violent
It actually
had several good reviews. It also had Rick Gonzalez in it. I've enjoyed his performance in many movies and TV shows. Since I'm a big horror fan I thought I would give it
a try. No more than 10 minutes in I realized it was a complete piece of
junk.
But I kept
watching.
Why? Because
the more I watched this piece of crap, the more I realized I could do this.
I've never made movies before but after seeing this I realized that I
could. The writing is atrocious. Nearly all the "special
effects" are pieces of furniture being moved by strings. The
character motivations are completely flawed: they changed depending on the
scene. In one scene, the "Doctor" talks at length about the wonders
of science. He saws there is no such thing as the supernatural; that everything
can be studies as part of science. In the very next scene he says
"sometimes we can't look to science for the answer". Then he brings
in a psychic.
Wow.
Did they bother with a script? If so, this one was in complete need of
several rewrites.
And then back to my anger.
If the director Carles Torrens has the audacity to film this garbage and
release it, why don't I? The more I watched the movie the more serious I
got. No matter how bad my first movie is it HAS to be better than this. So often creative people are worried that their work won't be good. And maybe it won't be. Maybe it will be absolute drivel. But you won't get better without practice. Maybe the directors' next movie will be better. I pray it is.
So thank you
Apartment 143. Your complete lack of quality made me want to make
movies.
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