I understand that. Strikes me as one of those company names that strikes you as amusing when you're setting up a way to get paid as an independent contractor, but then is, or should be, embarrassing to you when you negotiate to get an "in association with" credit in the main titles of a feature film. It's a bad name…

knew they worked together but did not know they had an improv act, this clarifies what I immediately found so off-putting and self-indulgent from their very first scene together: their obvious improvising. If it's obvious it is failing, pulls me completely out of the story because it becomes about who's going to come…

excellent point about the context of seeing his speed dating thing in the context of the 9 other films, you've changed my mind on that. JASON SUCKS!! No really, you've allowed some of the scales to fall from my eyes.

said it above & must say it again, almost all producing and executive producing credits are a scam/scandal, somebody should blow the lid off that. Vanity/political credits completely render the credit meaningless. whenever I watch credits I am wondering "so who *really* produced this?"

I had this extended debate with someone a couple of episodes back, and actually went back to screen episode 1, and very clearly marc joubert introduces her in VO saying "we brought Effie on as a creative producer and, uh, she'll also be the line producer." So one of them is lying.

a teensy bit suspicious to me, the way she completely disowned that she was ever the line producer in her buzzfeed intvw, and pretty much says that all of her colleagues who refer to her as the line producer in the series are pretty much demoting her after the fact and throwing her under the bus. I mean I believe 9/11…

imho there are too many digital whatevers on the internets already. Give it a rest, digitarians.

Don't know if anyone else has posted this great intvw with Jason, https://www.washingtonpost….
sent to me by FilmFan on an older thread. basically verifies everything everybody suspects about the editing of the reality series, from his pov

great link, thanks!
I found that to be incredibly revealing of his perspective on the experience. Very true, absolutely no "I could have done X better". (Then again, she didn't ask him that question). It's funny, I absolutely hated the film, but this intvw renews my belief in him. Go, Jason!!

Thanks Casey, no, this was my cherry season.
Yeah, obviously can't claim credit for the Titanic thing, i remember an editor say to me once, in like the 14th hour of a hopeless edit, "you know what we're doing here? Re-weaving the fabric on the deck chairs of the Titanic". Gallows humor is so remedial.

I did see it through, I am not proud to say. I'd invested 7 weeks, wanted my money's worth, but it was a hard battle not to fall asleep. oh well.

OK, wow. With all the love in my heart? I am just saying? That Effie has never uttered a single sentence? That wasn't a series of condescendingly lilting questions? Which the kids today call uptalk?

I hear you. Was it Harry Cohn who said "I'll never work with that son of a bitch again, until I need him"?
re Jason, if Len Amato is to be taken at his word (?!?), despite the film he made for him that is universally acknowledged as horrible, he said sure, he'd work with him again — maybe not back to back projects, but…

Like wanting to be President, you gotta be a bit self-deluded and crazy to set out to be a director. There will never be a shortage of comers. And thank god for the .001% who succeed, it's fun to watch a great movie.

this was 1,000,000x funnier than what they shot.
My only note is to break all of Hitchens dialogue into uptalk. It's really easy:
"Straight ahead or hard to port? you have two options here? I have
nothing but love in my heart for you?even though you're a really bad
captain who's only on board because he's popular* with…

Yeah, it was kind of sad/funny to me that he seemed completely bombed at the premiere. We all have our demons, but he seems to have a couple more than his fair share.

Yes, I think this is one of the great mysteries. Ben and Matt seem so sincere about this not being a reality show, it's a doc on what it really takes to make a film, etc., but then they turn it over to Marc Joubert and the Project Runway people and we all know the rest. Despite big payday projects, they are clearly…

no idea but I have to imagine yes, 3 mill is a very small loss leader, 3 million is a very small allocation for HBO, though they recently had a 10% lay off in many departments, that was to make their stock price more attractive, those subscriptions are like having a money printing press in the back room.

Yup. Sadly, a series that honestly tried to live up to that premise would not generate all the churn and buzz that this approach does.
Now that I've seen the disastrous result, would have loved it if someone had pitched the story in a way we could follow, and then been in the room as Jason and Peter really worked to…

It's Effie's vanity plate, no infrastructure or financing as far as I know.