ups and downs
Some thoughts on this week's "On the Lot":
* Will and Zach are easily my two favorites. Every time one of their films is set to be screened, I cross my fingers and talk to my television set. "Come on, Will," I say. Or, "Make me happy, Zach." And they always do.
*Zach's film this week was especially good; it was nice to see what he could do without relying on his special-effects background. His workplace hyperdrama hit all the right notes.
* I'm glad Jessica got voted off. Her "horror" movie was terrible. And not scary at all.
* I was a little offended by the sperm-bank holdup flick. It was nice that the director got a pretty complex story into a two-minute film, and that it had the beginning-middle-end combo sought by the judges, but ... well, the line at the beginning? About how "lots of women who can't get dates" use sperm banks? I was surprised more people, among the audience and the judges, weren't put off by that.
* In general, the offerings this week were far superior to last week's. I think the contestants had a lot of fun with their assigned genre, comedy. I'll admit, though, that I'm a little apprehensive to see the horror movies to come next week.