i think i need to watch pass through tonight, literally had a dream about the probable scene of neil breen delivering a speech condemning millions of people to death while he's posed in front of a badly done green screen with stock sfx of cheering
― global tetrahedron, Wednesday, 17 May 2023 19:38 (one year ago) link
the posters all have kind of a “pamphlet a crazy person hands you” flair to em but pass thru really REALLY does
https://bingeddata.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/12/pass-thru.jpg
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Wednesday, 17 May 2023 20:21 (one year ago) link
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Wednesday, 17 May 2023 20:22 (one year ago) link
oops
well, it is the neil breen thread at least
Can’t wait to see the new one at the neighborhood theater later this summer
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Wednesday, 17 May 2023 20:23 (one year ago) link
i think i need to watch pass through tonight, literally had a dream about the probable scene of neil breen delivering a speech condemning millions of people to death while he's posed in front of a badly done green screen with stock sfx of cheering― global tetrahedron, Wednesday, May 17, 2023 2:38 PM (seven hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
― global tetrahedron, Wednesday, May 17, 2023 2:38 PM (seven hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
good lord this movie rules. i am/ was (?) a big wiseauhead but now i think i’m becoming a full breenhead
― global tetrahedron, Thursday, 18 May 2023 02:40 (one year ago) link
while he's posed in front of a badly done green Breen screen
fixed it
― frogbs, Thursday, 18 May 2023 15:01 (one year ago) link
oh by the way on second watch of I Am Here...Now I noticed a subtle goof - there's a scene where someone on the Vegas strip pushes over the wheelchair guy and Breen blinds him, causing him to run away. while he's running you can hear Breen (as director) in the background yell "slow down!". I am pretty sure there are episodes of Decker where the same thing happens.
also this time I stuck around for the credits just to see what Breen's character's name is supposed to be....and it's just "The Being". I almost wonder if it doesn't actually occur to Breen that his characters should have names. the only reason they do in Twisted Pair is so you can tell them apart, though this does not make sense since in the Breeniverse, someone with a fake beard is completely unrecognizable to everyone else.
― frogbs, Thursday, 18 May 2023 15:21 (one year ago) link
Maybe its already been mentioned but did anyone feel certain parts of Twin Peaks The Return were Breenesque such as the clunky jarring CGI and the stilted dialogue
― Saxophone Of Futility (Michael B), Thursday, 18 May 2023 15:32 (one year ago) link
i was wondering if y'all have seen after last season. there is a thread about it but it's barely posted in. movie's on the internet archive and is for me the peak of this surreality-through-likely-ineptitude-but-who-can-tell-how-intentional-any-of-it-is kind of filmmaking
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Thursday, 18 May 2023 16:15 (one year ago) link
I have not but I've now watched the trailer and yeah it definitely fits the vibe. though it looks more like a student film, what with all the cardboard boxes and paper signs everywhere. amusingly IMDB lists the budget as $5,000,000, either they're committing tax fraud or someone on IMDB is trolling
― frogbs, Thursday, 18 May 2023 17:26 (one year ago) link
after last season is great as far as this sort of thing goes yeah. the whole thing feels like an inscrutable dream.
the director has repeatedly claimed that the budget was 5 million yeah, but has clarified that the budget for the main shoot was only 30-40k, after which he was able to secure money from investors which was then used for the extremely primitive 3d animation which made up the vast majority of the supposed budget. none of that really makes any sense except that they didn't have any money for the main shoot. surely some sort of tax fraud was involved?
― ufo, Thursday, 18 May 2023 19:53 (one year ago) link
people thought that about The Room too, until the Disaster Artist book came out and detailed exactly how Tommy Wiseau blew $6m filming it. this movie does not appear to have the production qualities of The Room however.
― frogbs, Thursday, 18 May 2023 20:02 (one year ago) link
the claim is $5 million was pretty much all spent on the extremely primitive 3d animation which is an order of magnitude weirder than the room's budget
― ufo, Friday, 19 May 2023 00:38 (one year ago) link
oh no!!
https://people.com/tv/storage-wars-gunter-nezhoda-dead-67/
I had no idea that this guy became vaguely famous! of all the people in his movies, this was the one I assumed had to be a friend of his somehow...even by Breen's standards this was a strange, out of place, and pointless character, who nevertheless delivered one of the funniest lines in cinematic history
https://imgur.com/L4qBU8y
― frogbs, Friday, 19 May 2023 20:52 (one year ago) link
I am still baffled by the last 40 minutes of this movie. what does it mean when he finds Emily overdosed in her bed (whose last words before passing out were..."I'm sorry Dylan"?) and keeps saying "Emily...I knew it was you" ??? as usual he barely reacts to what should be a tragic moment, only to finally let out his emotions at the end of the scene, but he cranks up the music so you can't hear him yell what is clearly "OHHHH NOOOOO!"
― frogbs, Monday, May 1, 2023 6:29 AM (two weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink
this is the best scene in fateful findings that doesn’t occur in the shiny black garbage bag interzone
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Friday, 19 May 2023 21:31 (one year ago) link
liminality made of loose black plastic…. neil breen’s fortress of solinude
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Friday, 19 May 2023 22:09 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-dqkGB5GUg
― | (Latham Green), Friday, 26 May 2023 19:49 (one year ago) link
isn't that corrupt?
― z_tbd, Friday, 26 May 2023 20:05 (one year ago) link
Cade screening at 60 theaters. in typical Breen fashion he doesn't post a list, rather this 7 minute YouTube video in which he reads them off in random order. he gives no link to buy tickets just "keep checking the website and eventually they will come up".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuWXFm10624
one of them is in Milwaukee...you bet your ass I will be there
― frogbs, Wednesday, 21 June 2023 19:58 (eleven months ago) link
alright I think it's finally time to watch Pass Thru. I see someone just uploaded it to YouTube. just gotta wait for this edible to kick in.
― frogbs, Saturday, 24 June 2023 03:13 (eleven months ago) link
Ok I was not ready for this
― frogbs, Saturday, 24 June 2023 05:58 (eleven months ago) link
hell yeah
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Saturday, 24 June 2023 06:10 (eleven months ago) link
I kinda knew what was coming thanks to this thread but wow not really prepared for how fast things ramp up. every movie he does brings to mind the Garth Marenghi "I know writers who use subtext and they're all cowards" clip but wow, this is next level
I thought the blonde lady from Fateful Findings was the worst actor to ever appear in a Breen film (Jim's wife/murderer, not Breen's long lost love), but the lady who takes refuge in Breen's bean van is somehow even worse. honorable mention to the cartel thugs whose only direction must've been "BE AS LOUD AND MEAN AS POSSIBLE!!!!"
― frogbs, Saturday, 24 June 2023 16:08 (eleven months ago) link
follow up - I was not at the screening because I had somewhere I had to be that day, unfortunately. but I did get the DVD - perhaps the last DVD I will ever buy - and I will be watching it tonight
― frogbs, Thursday, 22 February 2024 01:08 (three months ago) link
I am so fucking confused right now
― frogbs, Thursday, 22 February 2024 04:31 (three months ago) link
Sounds like he delivered once more!
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 22 February 2024 06:29 (three months ago) link
Like Lynch or Tarkovsky, Breen's films are quite subtle and complex so you need to rewatch them again and again.
― Saxophone Of Futility (Michael B), Thursday, 22 February 2024 08:21 (three months ago) link
I guess we'll never know what goes on in the mind of Breen but this really did feel like he filmed two different versions of the same movie and just put all the footage together - it's not really clear if these actors are supposed to be playing the same character throughout the movie. like one of them appears to die three times and other times is in a wheelchair, but then is doing karate moves five minutes later?? even for Neil Breen it's incomprehensible. still very entertaining, though I hope his future movies aren't all green screened like this
― frogbs, Thursday, 22 February 2024 19:05 (three months ago) link
what in god’s name
all the green screen gave me something like zoom fatigue
as usual, really can’t tell how in on it breen is
“holy shit… it’s a castle!”
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Friday, 1 March 2024 05:07 (three months ago) link