Movie Schlockmeister Christopher M. Long on the not so great state of film

 Movie schlock master Christopher M Long on film

By Reif Greene


Reif Green So, Chris, what do you think about the state of filmmaking today,


This is a short interview I did with schlockmeister Christopher M Long


Christopher M Long There's filmmaking today?


Reif Greene What do you mean by that?


Christopher M. Long let's face it, filmmaking died thirty years ago, what we see now is just a corpse thrashing about and it's gotten worse. People so-called filmmakers who have no idea what the hell they're doing are in charge of filmmaking!


Reif Greene Good point!


Christopher M. Long No more charm no more nothing, and the box office is a great indicator of the fact the audience checked out too, I just checked out about ten years before them, I saw the current Hollywood film problem rising twelve years ago!


Reif Greene How?


Christopher m long I started seeing it with The Thing premake when they shoehorned in a character power bossed her up, making her the female Macready, and then later on with the Evil Dead remake, just pretty much made a female Ash so-to-speak, Not as crappy as today.


Reif Greene Is there any chance of getting out of it for Hollywood


Christopher M. Long kicked out all the activists posing as filmmakers and doing the exact opposite of what they're doing right now. Start making actual films that are entertaining and stop making crap that's just trying to push social change and agendas. It's that simple. Look I might not the greatest filmmaker, hell I've made just as much junk as I did good stuff,, but at least I don't suck due to pushing crap nobody wants.


Reif Greene you've been working making films for three decades, and you witnessed the film industry change throughout the years, tell us about it!


Christopher M. Long “I started making films back in 1994, before that I was writing, playing music, and even did some martial arts. Let's just say this I came into filmmaking at the tail-end of good filmmaking, especially independent films and directed to the home media explosion. Laugh all you want I know a lot of the films I'm talking about weren't good but at least they had charm, Hollywood was going through their 80s hangover at this time, but all in all, there was still a lot of good stuff coming out then, by 99, that's when it was starting to shift the other way, quality and charm wise, most of the movies were bad, then a few years later came the march of the remakes, the stupid 3rd generation of 3-d films, more remakes, and superheroes films, the junk star wars crap. There's been at least four different solid trends throughout the years I've been making films, maybe even five, and we're on the edge of a new dropping point. I don't see an upswing in quality or charm, just another new low, I'll continue making the films I like and find good, and screw the trends.



Reif Greene is bleak in two minutes.


Christopher M. Long It's bleak for films and movies in general, we ain't going back to the early 90s, the 80s, the 70s, and so forth. The film industry which it once was, doesn't seem to ever be coming back I'm not just saying this because I'm an avid fan of the 70s and 80s, and to a point the early 90s, I'm saying this because it's true. The film industry is a corpse plain and simple, I just don't see the situation correcting itself. If you want to make money go make crappy Hollywood films, you want to make good films go independent.


Reif Greene Another topic, CGI or special makeup FX


Christopher M. Long That would be number two, I always use makeup special effects over CGI. CGI still looks awful, even 40 years after it has been utilized. CGI is just a well-polished turd. I know what I'm saying sounds negative and grim, but, I'm just stating the obvious, stuff that's been stated numerous times by thousands of other people.


Reif Greene is there anything good about CGI.


Christopher M Long It gives people jobs I suppose, and it takes some good computer skills, other than that, I just think its pretty lazy, and not as great of a craft as actually creating molds and making physical creations, nor does it look as real or as good as makeup effects.


Reif Greene Do you think there's anything good about the film industry's future.


Christopher M Long, Nothing much, sorry to say, or maybe I'm not! They unneedly step on rakes and screw things up, and that's stuff they need to correct be the film industry goes bye-bye!


Reif Greene, So the film industry is really going up in flames.


Christopher M Long This iteration, yes, most definitely! Correct their mistakes, or they go bye, not many people are buying what they're selling anymore! And, the audience is melting away every day!


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