Archive for the 'Fanfilm' Category

The Grandaddy of all Fanfilms: Day #273 - Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Adaptation (1989)

Saturday, October 7th, 2006

Viewed September 30, 2006
I can’t even begin to go into the long, strange history of Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Adaptation.* The short version is that in 1982, three kids of about twelve or thirteen years of age began remaking Raiders of the Lost Ark, shot-for-shot. Finally completing the film in 1989, […]

Unlicenced To Film: Film #200 - James Bond: Killing In The Name (2004)

Monday, July 24th, 2006

Viewed July 18, 2006
What a strange film to have as my 200th. Oh well, it was my decision to watch fanfilms this week. And anyway, James Bond: Killing In The Name, is certainly not the worst one I’ve seen, even if it does fail to live up to its potential.
The biggest problem for […]

Like, It’s a Star Wars Fanfilm Series: Day #199 - Pink Five (2002 - 2006)

Sunday, July 23rd, 2006

Viewed July 18, 2006
So, like, I was totally going to avoid watching the “Pink Five” series, because what little I had seen of it was, like, so stupid but then, I, like, thought that maybe I’d better watch them because they’re, like, really well known and people would wonder why I hadn’t seen them and […]

Wonderful Toys: Film #198 - Batman: New Times (2005)

Friday, July 21st, 2006

Viewed July 17, 2006
Batman: New Times often gets tagged as a “LEGO” film. I want to point out right off the bat (get it?) that it, in fact, uses the C3 figures and blocks from Art Asylum (they’re compatible with LEGO). This computer animated short film was created by students at The Digital […]

Just Switch Two Letters: Film(s) #120 - Order of the Sith (2004 - 2006)

Friday, May 5th, 2006

Viewed April 30, 2006
Okay, so this is the first time we kind of bend the rules a little bit. I’d been wanting to watch a fanfilm or two as part of this project, but I found them all to be so trite as to not be worth the time. There certainly didn’t seem […]