Richard Gage, the film

[carlitos]

And, boy, is the poster tasteless.

Interesting, because that's not the way Gage has always explained his Road to Damascus moment. He's always claimed that he was driving his car and listening to a Pacifica radio interview with David Ray Griffin.

Yet another example of Pacifica running paranoid crap because it's edgy and "alternative." Jerks.

 

[Redwood]

All in all just the right incredients for a Truth movie whose crappiness is not limited too much by talent requirements, marketing concerns and naysayers with professional standards. A bit like the "Operation Terror" movie, whose entire budget was covered by the real estate guy slash amateur film producer who wrote it, or "The Reflecting Pool", which was also privately financed by the people who made it.

Of course the price tag of "Operation Terror" was only $100,000 (and judging from the trailer, it does not look one dollar more expensive than that). Von Maur's first film appears to have had an initial budget of $600,000, and I wouldn't expect his Truth movie to be cheaper.

Maybe they can bundle them into a 3/$5 bargain bin DVD collection, or add Wiseau's film and make it 4/$6?

 

[Richard the G]

Great fun...And since Gagey is in control of $550,000 a year and up, I am sure he is happy to invest in celebrating his own success and insight.

 

[FenerFan]

He is the writer, director, producer, leading actor and financier of "The Room", a love drama turned unintentional comedy which is considered by many one of the worst films ever made, since it showcases virtually everything than can be done wrong in a movie. According to Wiseau, he put millions of dollars of his own money into this amateurish suckfest, which still somehow looks like a no-budget film with actors that were randomly picked off the street and forced to recite some of the most laughable dialogue ever recorded.

I absolutely recommend that movie over any truther effort, since it is one of the very few movies that actually are so stupid and bad that it's somewhat entertaining and not just stupid and bad like a truther movie. Still, all of them fail for the same reason: people with considerably more passion than talent putting their money into terrible projects that are dear to their heart but would have never been made if someone who knows the first thing about making films of acceptable quality and market appeal would have been involved.

Of course when it turns out that no distributor is interested in their godawful load of crap, truther filmmakers can still try to market it as "the film that is banned from theaters", like they did with "Operation Terror".

Here is a clip from "The Room." Wow, that's bad.

NSFW for language

 

[carlitos]

I watched the 8 minute "movie sins" version. Awesome.

 

[Loonatic93]

The "Rifftrax" version is amazing.

 

[LSSBB]

By the way, according to the Freefall movie website, they are now up to a whopping two 'Likes'!

 

[chrismohr]

Sheesh I have 590 Likes for my little local wedding business! That makes me 290 times more popular than this movie?

 

[Scott Sommers]

Looks like Gage's new wealthy sugar daddy "Ric" von Maur, who paid his recent trip to the Bahamas and the "Experts Speak Out" screening there (here's a video of the event he uploaded to Vimeo), is an aspiring filmmaker who is currently working on a 9/11 conspiracy related script about a "hero that goes against the establishment", and - as if that idea wasn't stupid enough already - that "hero" is supposed to be based on Gage:

"Richard, in 2006, saw some video footage that alarmed him, and he started researching it and began to question 9/11 and it changed his life, so that's what we're exploring with this screenplay."

It appears that the script - working title "Free Fall" (web site, Facebook) - used to be about a "physics professor" named "Stephen" (wink, wink) who uncovers the "Truth" about 9/11, but is now in the process of being reworked with a Gage theme. And, boy, is the poster tasteless.

I expect nothing less than the "Gandhi" of low-budget direct-to-self-distributed-video vanity turds.

I'm confused. I found this trailed for Free Fall. Is Richard Gage gay?

 

[chillzero]

Here is a clip from "The Room." Wow, that's bad.

NSFW for language

Is this guy based in Germany?
They have a kind of loophole there regarding financing for films that is exploited by people like Uwe Boll, so they can gather funds for the movies they really want to make (in Uwe Boll's case, "The Battle of Darfur")
The law has I think been changed, but ...

The law allowed investors in German-owned films to write off 100% of their investment as a tax deduction; it also allowed them to invest borrowed money and write off any fees associated with the loan. The investor was then only required to pay taxes on the profits made by the movie; if the movie loses money, the investor would get a tax writeoff. In the DVD commentary of Alone in the Dark, Boll explains how he funds his films: "Maybe you know it but it's not so easy to finance movies in total. And the reason I am able to do these kind of movies is I have a tax shelter fund in Germany, and if you invest in a movie in Germany you get basically fifty percent back from the government."

(Quote for wikipedia's Uwe Boll page)


Sorry for derail .. but I wonder if something like this is the motivation for the movie, and why the previous offerings have been so terrible. The only thing to find out is if this one was the end dream goal or not!!

 

[BStrong]

I think this needs to be a musical.

Best include this:



Living Colour, Flying.