late to the game, but THANK YOU! just made a very similar comment to yours, without the expertise you have.

I'm late to this party but if this comment reaches your in box: BRAVO!!! All of your comments are spot on. It is so frustrating to read so many self-appointed film making experts wax poetic on what a dipsh1t Jason is, when in fact he is the calmest, nicest guy, doing his best to make as good a film he can, against the…

No, he met her on this. Though of course, at this point, he is not speaking with her. Full story: http://blogs.indiewire.com/…

I know I'm way late to the party, and you may already know this, but yes, it's all real, ie of course highly edited but not scripted or heavily stage managed, and yes, she is that un-self-aware that she behaves so egregiously on camera.
Interesting, recent interview with her, where (IMHO) she continues to hoist her own…

Yeah, I agree. I'da taken the 2 days too. And the trailer telegraphs the sort of comedy that honestly does not hinge on subtle aesthetics.
But I just really respect his stubbornness. He's not reducing the plan by 2 days, he's just not expanding it 2 days. (EDIT: And at that point, given the way HBO presented his…

That was interesting. But I wonder how Jason feels about her. As far as I know he hasn't gone on record. Which of course is the smart policy.

He seems incredibly malleable and realistic on set and he is making his days. The opposite of difficult. Difficult would have been to throw a hissy fit when Effie pulled the plug at 9PM. Or to have strangled her to death when she blithely decides that he has to re-write his script because her lame locations department…

Sadly, given how I am rooting for Jason to succeed, I have to agree.

I wonder what the actual OT cost is. She seemed to say $1,000, but that seems low to me. In the context of a $3.3 million budget. I've only worked in the under 1 mill range, but even then, only a fool wouldn't have allowed for a couple of hours of overtime, here and there.

But I thought there was a grace period — like, you can go over less than 10 minutes, if the crew verbally agrees to that in the moment. Does anyone know?

Sorry: anybody who says, more than once in her life, that she knows what she's doing because she's done it 17 times before, is insecure, defensive, and has lousy people skills. Sure she's competent. But half the people on her team — Farrelly, Damon, Joubert (who hired her!) and Jason, aren't speaking with her anymore.…

I love him too.
For the record, directing episodes of TV is not the end of the world. True, not at all the same thing as making a living in the writer/director auteur route, but let's face it, there's only a very small handful of people who manage to do that.

Absolutely. It has always been thus. Unless you work for Clint Eastwood or Woody Allen, who are famous for short days.

I'm truly enjoying your Jason bashing here, thanks for the pleasure of your venting. I feel the same way about Effie, but am restraining myself, because I am a white male, and I fear even the anonymous consequences of exercising my opinion.

I have to believe he was doing that for the PG cameraperson, and the audience's, benefit. He knows he's in a reality show, he knows the kind of villainy that makes a reality show fun, and he knows what a pain in the ass he's been about shooting film. Say what you will about the vampire's punchable face and spindly…

And the revised dicks were, IMHO, way funnier than the original dicks. I'm serious.

"I don't care who's actually to blame, everything is, and will always be, Jason's fault."
I adore your honesty. Sometimes it just feels good to hate.

No, it's way more fun to make it up in your own mind, so that the racism and sexism is EXACTLY as offensive as you'd like it to be.

What do you want to bet that he makes his days and completes the film on time and budget?
I agree that his decision to shoot on film and not take the 2 days seems crazy. But it's his film! Compromise is inevitable, it's only a question of choosing what to compromise. He chose a shorter schedule to get a look he feels…

I agree Joubert seems to be awfully disengaged from the problem solving. But the line producer's job isn't just to bring it on time and on budget. It is to do that, while fighting hard for what the director wants to accomplish. You don't always achieve that, but you've got to try, otherwise you will lose the trust of…