“Keep Austin Weird”
It’s in Quicktime format. I tried to minimize the file size (it’s about 42MB) so obviously there are some compromises in quality, but hopefully it’s good enough to get the idea across. This also includes our gag reel and bonus footage, including an alternate ending scene in which we had one actor play two parts using split screen. We’re hoping to actually throw together a DVD just for posterity, which will actually have a commentary track (not that anyone but me would really care about that…lol).
For some smaller options (which also don’t have the bonus material on the end) you can view it in quicktime or mpeg formats.
28
Mar
2004
7:58
I don’t know if I’ll be able to convince my computer to play it (but I’ll try), so I am putting in my vote for a DVD. And – I am a sucker for commentaries, so you wouldn’t be the only one who’d care.
Heathster the movie came out great but that Clerk SUCKED 😉 hah
Still plan on taking you up on those gamecube excursions. Works just been hell and allot of it lately.
Is OK, Nathan, eet am very ard actin in a scene with rafs* of such immense talent. We knows you did you’s best!
*An lemurs.
That’s far too big for me to download on a 56K modem. *frown*
Ok it’s one day since the last update…. the DVD out yet?!!! I wanna hear the commentary lol
I don’t normally read your blog, but I saw this, and I had to download.
On the whole, I liked it. Good jokes (I especially liked “Have Pudding: Need Plutonium”) which you didn’t let drag on too long – something which happens all too frequently on TV and movies. “Gee, if this joke was funny for 2 minutes, it will be 15 times as funny for 30!” No, it won’t. You get that. I liked that you gave your audience enough credit to think that they could get the ‘wired’ joke at the end without needing it spelled out. I thought you had good screen charisma. I’d watch you on the big screen.
I didn’t like the Matrix reference (although I did like “We can hear you!”), and the ‘looking at the audience through the camera’ bit. But that’s just me really – I’m so tired of seeing movies do these things. But other people never seem to get enough.
So in conclusion: One Thumb up! If only I had a partner with another thumb to put up…
– GA
Thanks for the comments! My biggest dilemma was whether or not to spell out the punchline at the end. I decided not to play to the lowest common denominator, and just trust in people’e intelligence, and the fact that if someone doesn’t get it, hopefully their friend next to them will explain it. It seems like about half the people get it. I’ll have to see once I get a larger viewing sample.
Heeeeeeeeeeeeee. *falls on the floor*
Ouch.
Heeeeeeeeeeeeee.
Do it again!
ALSO – I am so fucking retarded. I knew Jess would sound British, but it somehow never occured to me that Heath might sound Texan.
I think you made the right call. Personally, even if I don’t get a joke at first, and have to have it explained to me, or I get it later, it just seems like an extra bonus. Like a DVD easter egg!
So when’s the next movie coming?
Dude, I really really love low-budget horror… but the scene with the stuffed menagerie? That shit was SCARY!!!!
I like finally knowing what y’all sound like….
And when you get out this aways, I have a few pitches for a sequel…
a messenger dropped off a script yesterday, and he was wearing a “Keep Austin Weird” t-shirt. So I shot him.