Aggiungi una trama nella tua linguaAn escaped mental patient holds a film crew hostage and forces them to film his screenplay.An escaped mental patient holds a film crew hostage and forces them to film his screenplay.An escaped mental patient holds a film crew hostage and forces them to film his screenplay.
- Regia
- Sceneggiatura
- Star
- Quickie Mart Owner
- (as San Jay)
- Transvestite
- (as Jeffrey Wayne)
- Deputy (Fife)
- (as James Heally)
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The gimmick is a new film making style where you don't write the movie, it writes itself. Er-go, you stage an event (or location) and let the actors make up the story as events interact with them. There are no special effects and no sets that are not natural. Basically, this is Dogma film making (see Lars von Trier or a film like Idioterne (1998) aka Idiots), or rather a film about a film using the Dogma style, only in this movie its called something different.
The rest of the movie feeds off of the gimmick as Shatner, as an escaped mental patient whom wants to be a screen writer, provides the "event" as the actors and director are held hostage and forced to shoot Shatner's movie, the producer films the events in the style mentioned above.
There are funny lines and bantor (mainly Shatner), but the main part is you must buy into the gimmick.
If you do, it is funny, but granted not specacular. If you miss the gimmick, like Dogma film style is stupid, or don't know what it is, then you movie will most likely be a dud in your eyes.
Rating: 6
As a movie fan, I like to appreciate the bad films along with the great ones. But "Shoot or be Shot" doesn't have any flair or funny bits, unintentional or not.
While unrated, there were no objectionable scenes (blink or you'll miss it nudity, cartoonish gunfire "violence" with the endless bullet gunfights), so one is led to believe that the producers merely wanted to save the fee required to get the MPAA to rate it. This will make its way to cable with barely 10 seconds edited out.
Of the eight people that were in the theatre with us, four of them left mid-way, muttering statements like "This is stupid".
Shatner plays an escaped mental patient who has been denied release because he views himself as a screenwriter. The examination board stamps his request "INSANE". He runs into a group of Z-grade moviemakers who "shoot on video because its 80% cheaper than film" and decides to force them to shoot his script at gunpoint. There are a few minor subplots that develop some of the secondary characters, but for the most part, that is the whole movie.
If you want to spend 90 minutes on a Shatner "art" film, see "Free Enterprise" instead, it is a much better film.
Another of the small, but growing, number of Lo-No budget movies about Lo-No budget movie-making. Think of 'Living in Oblivion', 'The Independent', etc. etc. Aspiring writers are constantly told "write what you know about" so it's not surprising that aspirant movie writers write about aspirant movie writers and the frustrations they face.
The basic premise of this movie is simple, schlock movie producer wants to make an more upmarket "arty" movie, an aspiring director wants to make a serious anti - violence movie but with no script using an experimental improvised (very cheap) shooting method. The Producer's former leading lady, and lover, wants to prove she can really act, disguises herself, auditions and gets a part in the movie. Together with a small crew they head out to the desert to shoot the film. There they meet an escaped lunatic with a script in one hand and a gun in the other. He hijacks the crew and forces them to start shooting his script.
Except he doesn't. The whole film takes so long to get to the point where the story really starts, ie the moment where Shatner's maniac scriptwriter and the crew meet up, that there is no time left to tell it and the movie quickly descends into gun-play before abruptly ending in a short series of twee happy-ever-afters for all the characters.
Shatner gets all the good lines some of them are genuinely funny, the man has a nice comic touch, but an hour after watching the film I can't bring to mind any of them. A slight, light little film. It drags in places but doesn't outstay its welcome. It could have been better but easily could have been a hell of a lot worse.
In 2005 this film was released on DVD in the UK under the title "Shooting Stars" by Digiview Productions with a run time of 91 minutes 36 sec. Cert 12 Aspect ratio 4:3
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Hector: [discussing the Southern California heat] You have to know how to stay cool. I have a special method - one that renews both the mind and body.
Rachel: Go on.
Hector: I remove my clothes, and stand naked in my room. At first, the perspiration trickles slowly down my chest and back. Then as it begins to evaporate, my skin becomes alert to the faintest breeze. My organs of manhood, now free of restrictive garments hang low and unencumbered, my heart - she beats a gentle rhythm that is almost audible in the silence. It is then that I summon the spirits of my Aztec ancestors, men who endured the steaming heat of the jungle with strength and dignity. As their male power coarces through my body, I feel serene and refreshed, yet enormously potent. That is my method.
Rachel: Wow. I just... turn on the air conditioner.
- ConnessioniFeatured in Tales from the Script (2009)
- Colonne sonoreShoot Or Be Shot
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- 1.500.000 USD (previsto)
- Tempo di esecuzione1 ora 30 minuti
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