Also this is almost Lynchian
https://youtu.be/Gz1xPx_K6Do
― The Marmadook (latebloomer), Tuesday, 20 June 2017 19:41 (six years ago) link
hahaha stealing that joke
― kurt schwitterz, Tuesday, 20 June 2017 20:06 (six years ago) link
IT IS Lynchian! The only sdifference is I think LYnch is wawre of the strangeness when he does it
― Dean of the University (Latham Green), Wednesday, 21 June 2017 14:43 (six years ago) link
breen calls his films surreal in interviews, but it's hard to find the line between what's intentionally surreal and what's not.
― Einstein, Kazanga, Sitar (abanana), Wednesday, 21 June 2017 15:13 (six years ago) link
I wonder how (un)successful his latest crowdfunding attempt is
― Bio-Digital Jezza (kingfish), Wednesday, 21 June 2017 15:17 (six years ago) link
https://media.tenor.com/images/7d729190069af8ea5e8049dfcd75434a/tenor.gif
― š (am0n), Wednesday, 21 June 2017 17:21 (six years ago) link
let's all fund it!
https://www.gofundme.com/Twisted-Neil-Breen-Film
Something tells me it woul d be better if less funded tho
there is a subtle difference between surrealism and failure
― Dean of the University (Latham Green), Wednesday, 21 June 2017 17:30 (six years ago) link
"no deserts, hackers or laptops"... no way i'm funding that garbage
― š (am0n), Wednesday, 21 June 2017 19:57 (six years ago) link
Attack of the Laptops
― Dean of the University (Latham Green), Thursday, 22 June 2017 14:11 (six years ago) link
some crazy joker made this!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMpIM7BEJUw&feature=youtu.be
― Dean of the University (Latham Green), Thursday, 22 June 2017 14:17 (six years ago) link
Aw yeah
Post production on my 5th theatrical feature film TWISTED looks Amazing !!!! Very excited . It's soooo much bigger and better than my previous 4 features , that I Prod, Wrote and Directed . You all will love it !!!! Can't wait to show it to you .— Neil Breen (@NeilBreen) March 29, 2018
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 29 March 2018 01:36 (six years ago) link
i have no idea what is going on
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2BfsbZOuTI&feature=youtu.be
― global tetrahedron, Tuesday, 24 July 2018 18:05 (five years ago) link
wait, try this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2BfsbZOuTI
― global tetrahedron, Tuesday, 24 July 2018 18:09 (five years ago) link
The mullet years.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 24 July 2018 18:10 (five years ago) link
thank you for bringing this to my attnetion
― Rabbit Control (Latham Green), Tuesday, 24 July 2018 18:22 (five years ago) link
aw hell yeah
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Tuesday, 24 July 2018 20:23 (five years ago) link
Oh jesus Twisted Pair is just.... i don't know... it makes The Room seem fairly normal. It was a totally packed screening and people were really into it - there's no stopping him becoming a weird cult sensation.
― Hmmmmm (jamiesummerz), Monday, 14 January 2019 21:07 (five years ago) link
Twisted Pair somehow features him getting _worse_ as a filmmaker
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Monday, 14 January 2019 21:27 (five years ago) link
neil breen is a genius
― Zach_TBD (Karl Malone), Friday, 19 March 2021 21:24 (three years ago) link
what films are you watching and where are you watching them
a couple of my friends and I have been planning to get real baked and watch Fateful Findings as soon as these vaccines kick in
― frogbs, Friday, 19 March 2021 21:31 (three years ago) link
i watch the films that my great pal (also named Zach - Zach's with H's are inherently good) shares with me. I've only watched a few. I'm pretty sure I watched Fateful Findings. other than Inland Empire, it's the only movie that has induced a feeling of total amnesia the next day, just like, what the hell did i watch, what happened. after watching IE several times, i started to figure it out, and now it makes a lot of sense to me. i think Neil Breen films may be the same
― Zach_TBD (Karl Malone), Friday, 19 March 2021 22:06 (three years ago) link
took me years to build up the momentum, and most importantly, to get friends to actually watch past double down with me but I recently went through all the rest and holy moley!
pass thru really does take his, uh, politics to their logical endpoint! watch it!!
he also has this almost 6hr (!!!) "retrospective" (NOT a documentary!) of his films:https://neilbreen-5films.com/
― (ā_ā?) (original bgm), Friday, 19 March 2021 22:23 (three years ago) link
Haven't checked out Double Pair yet but I noticed yesterday that you can stream it on a few of the big video apps. Much easier than when you had to buy directly from him.
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Friday, 19 March 2021 22:43 (three years ago) link
xp have you seen the retrospective??
honestly, the retrospective is what drew me in, in the first first place. i saw a promo for it and thought it was just...fucking incredible. but before watching it i thought i should watch the films discussed
― Zach_TBD (Karl Malone), Friday, 19 March 2021 23:23 (three years ago) link
Inland Empire is a great comparison. Like, what is this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gz1xPx_K6Do
― jmm, Friday, 19 March 2021 23:52 (three years ago) link
it's incredible. the sound design
― Zach_TBD (Karl Malone), Saturday, 20 March 2021 00:02 (three years ago) link
listen on headphones
the first 40mins or so, yes. it's pretty weird and not unlike his movies in that his advice and commentary is kinda inscrutable, he repeats himself over and over, and brags about strange things like how he's "visited over 85% of all the major cities in the world"
this calendar was my favorite discovery so far:
https://i.imgur.com/nYqutjC.jpghttps://i.imgur.com/TRbIvWg.jpg
― (ā_ā?) (original bgm), Saturday, 20 March 2021 23:56 (three years ago) link
"I being with you...I love you...will you marry me??"
*girlfriend gets shot*
"Oh, jeez..."
― frogbs, Friday, 26 March 2021 16:53 (three years ago) link
10 hours later I am still laughing at "oh, jeez"
― frogbs, Saturday, 27 March 2021 03:28 (three years ago) link
genuinely the thing that twin peaks: the return reminded me the most of was breen's i am here... now
― ufo, Saturday, 27 March 2021 03:36 (three years ago) link
Ozu, Bergman, Tarkovsky, Bresson, Breen, Ray, Bunuel
― Master of Treacle, Saturday, 27 March 2021 04:00 (three years ago) link
I Am Here...Now might be the most insane movie I've ever seen
― frogbs, Thursday, 22 April 2021 04:03 (three years ago) link
so beautyfyuil
― | (Latham Green), Monday, 13 December 2021 18:41 (two years ago) link
He's back!
https://cade-crossing.com/trailer/
(He appears to have both more and less of a budget now.)
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 29 January 2023 23:38 (one year ago) link
fateful findings has one of the most satisfying ending involving 6 global elites profusely apologizing and then killing themselves that i've ever seen
― z_tbd, Tuesday, 25 April 2023 14:17 (one year ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/qq8G8cb.png
https://i.imgur.com/6YIp8xe.png
― z_tbd, Tuesday, 25 April 2023 14:21 (one year ago) link
I've never seen any of this dude's films, but want something that scratches that The Room itch--what movie would be the best introduction?
― blatherskite, Tuesday, 25 April 2023 19:34 (one year ago) link
Fateful Findings I think. Just packed from start to finish with hilariously terrible moments. A lot of zone out with Double Down especially the first 30 mins which mainly consist of him in the desert typing on clapped out laptops
― Saxophone Of Futility (Michael B), Tuesday, 25 April 2023 20:41 (one year ago) link
yea the thing with these movies is if you're a bad enough filmmaker to create something so truly awful that it's actually hilarious then chances are you're making a lot of basic mistakes which renders parts of your movie unwatchable. Birdemic is a good example of this, iirc it begins with a 6 minute credits scene which just shows a guy driving up a hill, the mic work is so horrible you can barely tell what anyone is saying, and the shots are framed so bad sometimes you don't even know what you should be looking at. that stuff is all funny in its own way but it also makes big chunks of the movie really boring. The Room is special because it's shot and paced like an actual film (maybe closer to Hallmark than Hollywood but still), so the weirdness of everything really shines through.
Breen I think threads the needle pretty well but yeah Double Down has a lot of filler sections. some of them are wonderfully bizarre though, like a minute-long bit where he's just unloading 300 cans of tuna out of his trunk
― frogbs, Tuesday, 25 April 2023 21:00 (one year ago) link
Yeah I have heard a lot of stuff about the tuna in that movie, I canāt wait. Itās like a tuna /road trip film, I hope
― z_tbd, Tuesday, 25 April 2023 21:07 (one year ago) link
i think heās mentioned that he used multiple takes of the same scenes and edited them into different sections of double down, which i might (only partially tbh) explain why the movie feels like its going in circles. possibly mentioned in his insane almost 6hr movie about making āindie filmsā that i got about 90mins into but iām not ruling out finishing one day.
anyway, double down is my personal favorite. itās an endurance test but itās also some real pure fever dream of a madman stuff. and i love the public domain ambient cop show music and stock footage.
― (ā_ā?) (original bgm), Wednesday, 26 April 2023 02:51 (one year ago) link
right in a lot of ways it's more interesting to see a weird dude try to do a normal film than it is to see a weird dude try to do a weird film
― frogbs, Wednesday, 26 April 2023 02:55 (one year ago) link
in fact my working theory is that both Wiseau and Breen misunderstood what is was about them that people were fascinated with; Wiseau thought people found him to be a funny dialogue writer, Breen thought people were obsessed with his weird plot devices
― frogbs, Wednesday, 26 April 2023 03:00 (one year ago) link
hmm, im a little more charitable with breen, feel like thereās a pretty consistent through line. childlike morality, uncanny 90s PC game aesthetics, genocide (but in a good way), hackingā¦ itās all there from the start. i think heās making what he wants to make, personally
wiseau seems like more of a lost soul to me, chasing after something he found by mistake but can no longer recreateā¦
― (ā_ā?) (original bgm), Wednesday, 26 April 2023 03:10 (one year ago) link
I guess I'm referring to how his films just get consistently stranger and more incoherent, perhaps because people focused a lot more on Breen's own odd ideas than the plot and scene elements he ripped off. though I suppose it's more plausible that Double Down Breen didn't really have the know how to manifest any of the bizarre sci-fi plots pinging around in his head
will say though that compared to Wiseau the brilliant bits of Breen's movies seem a lot more deliberate, like he's legitimately a very interesting filmmaker, while Wiseau's is more down to convincing professionals that what he was doing was genuinely a movie and holding his ground whenever someone pointed out that his figures of speech made no sense. Breen I think would be more receptive if someone told him "there's a blatant continuity error in this shot" or "you should replace the pictures in those photo frames". on the other hand if someone filmed a long documentary where Wiseau explains his creative process it would be 98% bullshit
― frogbs, Wednesday, 26 April 2023 03:39 (one year ago) link
well, i didnt get get the sense that too many other people that might challenge the absurdity were involved with breens āfive film retrospectiveā - def came off more like a āput a camcorder on the table and ride it outā type of affair to me
but yeah, ādeliberateā is a good way to out. id agree that hes a genuinely interesting filmmaker and the way he consistently sticks to his peculiar guns is a big part of that. maybe its just me buying into the narrative but id like to think hes a legitimately weird person that is writing, directing, and acting out his weird fantasies. (also catering etcā¦)
i get get you mean about the sci-fi gimmicks tho. i might chalk it up to comparatively bugger budgets and using tech hes learning as he goes, notably green screen. but who can really say. weird guy!
― (ā_ā?) (original bgm), Wednesday, 26 April 2023 04:14 (one year ago) link
btw I think "I Am Here...Now" might be a good dip into the Breeniverse, though there are scenes in it which make me think he perhaps is a little too self-aware. that bit where someone is tied up and getting beat up by a bunch of gangsters, with a sudden cut to a guy in a suit throwing up his hands and saying "I don't want any part of this"...I mean that could've been directly lifted from Tim and Eric
― frogbs, Thursday, 27 April 2023 17:57 (one year ago) link
and then the long haired dude going "I like what I see"...if Breen wasn't trying to be funny there then he is indeed one of the strangest filmmakers Planet Earth has ever produced
― frogbs, Thursday, 27 April 2023 17:59 (one year ago) link
i am here... now genuinely has a similar feeling to twin peaks: the return
― ufo, Friday, 28 April 2023 05:22 (eleven months 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 (eleven months 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 (eleven months 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!"
ā frogbs, Monday, May 1, 2023 6:29 AM (two weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink
this is the best scene in fateful findings that doesnāt occur in the shiny black garbage bag interzone
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Friday, 19 May 2023 21:31 (eleven months ago) link
liminality made of loose black plasticā¦. neil breenās fortress of solinude
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Friday, 19 May 2023 22:09 (eleven months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-dqkGB5GUg
― | (Latham Green), Friday, 26 May 2023 19:49 (eleven months ago) link
isn't that corrupt?
― z_tbd, Friday, 26 May 2023 20:05 (eleven months 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 (ten 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 (ten months ago) link
Ok I was not ready for this
― frogbs, Saturday, 24 June 2023 05:58 (ten months ago) link
hell yeah
― (ā_ā?) (original bgm), Saturday, 24 June 2023 06:10 (ten 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 (ten 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 (two months ago) link
I am so fucking confused right now
― frogbs, Thursday, 22 February 2024 04:31 (two months ago) link
Sounds like he delivered once more!
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 22 February 2024 06:29 (two 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 (two 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 (two months ago) link
what in godās name
all the green screen gave me something like zoom fatigue
as usual, really canāt tell how in on it breen is
āholy shitā¦ itās a castle!ā
― (ā_ā?) (original bgm), Friday, 1 March 2024 05:07 (one month ago) link