Comments on: 20th Anniversary! How I got started. https://cinemassacre.com/2016/05/27/the-making-of-a-night-of-total-terror-1996/ Tue, 01 Aug 2017 17:30:20 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.3 By: Chief https://cinemassacre.com/2016/05/27/the-making-of-a-night-of-total-terror-1996/#comment-213682 Tue, 01 Aug 2017 17:30:20 +0000 http://cinemassacre.com/?p=29679#comment-213682 I have watched this video before, and just recently I was presented with one of my old video tapes from the camera my grandfather left to me. I had no idea what was on it, and to my surprise it contained my earlier film making attempts from when I was 12 and 13. I had thought the tape was destroyed or fried on me like the one for another film i had made and tried to save, and surprisingly I found very many similarities between you and I James. About 98% of the movies I made I was doing everything and acting as everyone and even resorted to using stuffed animals just to give some character variety (I got a talent for voice acting as a result). I haven’t attempted a serious film making attempt in almost 10 years, I always find excuses not to or why I couldn’t and your video on how you were able to follow your aspirations and make it all happen has deeply motivated me, especially seeing how I was no different from you. I loved movies, I loved making them, and even if they weren’t the best I still had fun and loved making them and will at least make ME happy even if no one else ever sees them or the way I do. So sincerely thank you, from one Nerd to another, for showing me that I can still do it.

]]> By: Shayne Ian Butler https://cinemassacre.com/2016/05/27/the-making-of-a-night-of-total-terror-1996/#comment-206414 Tue, 29 Nov 2016 15:21:31 +0000 http://cinemassacre.com/?p=29679#comment-206414 Low budget lol, i’m currently 17 and last year I was doing work experience at my local radio station Tank FM, while there I was asked if I wanted to write a short radio play (that wouldn’t actually be put on air, just for me to take something out of my work experience there) the result was a parody spoof that perhaps could be better titled Bad Luck Bobby, which was originally supposed to be a parody of Dirty Harry, but instead only spoofed the character (complete with spoofed quotes from the original movie) the ending was heavily inspired by the SNL sketch The Last Voyage of the Starship Enterprise, and it shows. later I pretty much improvised a credit scene (complete with Marlon Brando and Jimmy Stewert impressions that weren’t half bad even if I do say so myself) where my property was nominated for an academy award. this low budget play combined most if not all of my favourite elements of comedy impressions, accents, spoofs, 4th wall breaks and bizarrness. nowadays I’d probably do something more Monty Python inspired and I should listen to more radio comedies, but all in all, I’m very proud of myself.

Excuse the bad grammar, it’s 2:30 AM here in Australia, and I just couldn’t be bothered, i’m going to watch a couple more Cinemassacre Youtube videos, than i’m off to bed.

]]> By: Gustavo Binder https://cinemassacre.com/2016/05/27/the-making-of-a-night-of-total-terror-1996/#comment-203303 Mon, 19 Sep 2016 22:48:10 +0000 http://cinemassacre.com/?p=29679#comment-203303 please post more of your movies

]]> By: TheFreakMachine https://cinemassacre.com/2016/05/27/the-making-of-a-night-of-total-terror-1996/#comment-201039 Thu, 23 Jun 2016 07:23:34 +0000 http://cinemassacre.com/?p=29679#comment-201039 I liked the mustache! 🙂

]]> By: Shane Wallace https://cinemassacre.com/2016/05/27/the-making-of-a-night-of-total-terror-1996/#comment-200936 Sun, 19 Jun 2016 22:14:28 +0000 http://cinemassacre.com/?p=29679#comment-200936 Meh

]]> By: AetherSolace https://cinemassacre.com/2016/05/27/the-making-of-a-night-of-total-terror-1996/#comment-200467 Tue, 07 Jun 2016 01:25:49 +0000 http://cinemassacre.com/?p=29679#comment-200467 I don’t know if you’ll see this, But you’re a real inspiration. I started watching you back when a bored friend showed me the TMNT episode, but over the years I’ve come to appreciate you not just for the nerd, but all of your movie reviews, your halloween segments and just crazy amount of creativity and effort you put into things.

I miss my childhood a lot, and all of the missed opportunities I didn’t take, because I was either too scared or too embarassed to try things. Now as an adult, I have the problem of not having enough time, and just feeling like anything I’d make would still be at the level of a child. I thought about doing stop motion or something, but almost every creative thing I try to do turns out sub-par or bad.

Even so, watching you, listening to your delightful monotone, It gives me a little faith that some of these things are possible, That you coming from such humble beginnings really made it this far is pretty incredible.

I’ve got a small list of people I’d like to meet before I die that I consider celebrities or important people, And you’re right up there with Mike Meyers and the late David Bowie. So do me a favor and try not to die before I can meet you in person someday.

Best Wishes from Canada, -Jesse

]]> By: Mark Foster https://cinemassacre.com/2016/05/27/the-making-of-a-night-of-total-terror-1996/#comment-200465 Tue, 07 Jun 2016 00:58:47 +0000 http://cinemassacre.com/?p=29679#comment-200465 You are a hero for all of us vg nerds! Love your work man!

]]> By: Mori Mekan https://cinemassacre.com/2016/05/27/the-making-of-a-night-of-total-terror-1996/#comment-200457 Mon, 06 Jun 2016 23:08:51 +0000 http://cinemassacre.com/?p=29679#comment-200457 Thank you so much James! It’s so inspiring to see how you started giving us motivation to start our own dreams

]]> By: Martin Jose https://cinemassacre.com/2016/05/27/the-making-of-a-night-of-total-terror-1996/#comment-200448 Mon, 06 Jun 2016 17:49:51 +0000 http://cinemassacre.com/?p=29679#comment-200448 This video was truly amazing. And at the end, the soundtrack is fucking epic, it really moved me. Love your work James, You’re an inspiration to us all.

]]> By: Andrew Cullen https://cinemassacre.com/2016/05/27/the-making-of-a-night-of-total-terror-1996/#comment-200383 Sat, 04 Jun 2016 13:59:23 +0000 http://cinemassacre.com/?p=29679#comment-200383 Awesome

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