Movie in 48 HRS!!

Over the weekend, a group of my movie-making friends and I made a movie in 48 hours. We had from 7 p.m. on Friday to 7 p.m. to write the script, cast the actors, perform and shoot the script, edit and score the film. The contest was sponsored by 48 go green and all the films have environmental themes. At 7 p.m. on Friday, we received an email with our requirements:
Theme: Save the animals
Character: Prof M. Johnson
Prop: Bowl
Line: "Can you help me?"
All these things had to appear in our film. This is our entry. Please watch it and vote. You do have to create a free account to vote. We need your votes to move on in the competition. We have the opportunity to have this viewed at the Sundance and Cannes independent film festivals, so please forward & repost to your friends too!

A Future Passed - High Res Version - Videos - 48 Go Green

Who doesn't love TEXAS! and remakes!

I fell in love with Texas at an early age while watching my parents watch Dallas.

I remember being invited to go to Awanas at my friends' church and not wanting to go because it was the night that Dallas was on. (I did go, but only because my parents said I'd be home in time.) I remember cowboy/frontier culture being a HUGE part of my household growing up.

I may not have loved all of that as a kid but I did love Dallas. I still love Little House on the Prairie and westerns. My favorite movie last year was True Grit.

I spent most of last year watching an Aussie soap about a family of cowgirls called McLeod's Daughters.

And now I find out that TNT is remaking Dallas. A ton of you will make fun of me, but golly gee, I'm EXCITED. I love me some cowboys!

I sure hope it doesn't suck! A lot of the things that have been resurrected from the 80's has not been great. Indiana Jones was good, but not as good as the original.

Strawberry Shortcake looks like she mated with a Bratz doll.

My Little Ponies are now anime characters with huge strange cat-shaped eyes.

The new Transformer toys look like cheap imitations of the old ones. The modern prequels to the Star Wars trilogy relied too heavily on CGI and weird characters like Jar-Jar Binks. The new Tron relied too heavily on the flashy 3D technology. Fame, Dirty Dancing, Knight Rider and Cosby all were remade and flopped.

Exceptions to this rule: The Dark Knight reboot of the Batman franchise pretty much erases my memory of that other one that started in 1989. The remake of "We are the World" was in my mind a great remake, had it not been for the almost completely forgotten genre of country music. I mean I could have done without the auto-tune act, but it is part of our musical culture of this era. The whole project was originally to be a cross-section of the current musical culture, coming together for a common goal. The reboot of Star Trek makes me proud to be a Trekkie. G. I. Joe was kinda awesome. The new Super Mario Bros. and Zelda games are pretty freaking cool.

More remakes are coming our way. There may be more than 75 remakes in the works for the big and small screen. From Alien to The Yellow Submarine, there is something for almost every letter of the alphabet. (Can I just say I'd love another Gremlins movie!!) Why are there so many remakes? I feel like it may be because we've just about told all the stories there is to tell. There just aren't any completely new stories anymore. We are at a point where we have to retell an old story, tell an old story in a new way, or take an old character on new adventures. Occasionally, we will have a completely new story and we will enjoy it. But we can also take comfort in our old friends. This is an exciting time and I can't wait to see what comes of all these projects coming our way!