Film is actually a great medium for philosophy. I just saw The Love Witch (2018) and it's a potent thesis on schizomaxxing the modern woman. 9/10 would recommend
The Man from Earth is the ultimate pleb detector.
It's for people who feel "smart" after watching it without realising how fricking atrocious it is.
It's like a bad cheesy B movie from the 90s. The only redeeming factor is the intriguing backstory, literally every other film element is utter dogshit (yes, even the script)
From the mexican telenovela like acting, generic stock soundtrack, no character development, no actual dialogue just a long exposition Q&A throughout, constant boring back to back camerawork, no use of the one room, non existent lighting, a side love story pulled out of the ass, most cliche character traits, literally everything. I had to look up twice that it actually was from 2007, not early 90s.
This shit shouldn't even be a movie, it should be a book or a play. Or given to some other director because Richard Schenkman doesn't even know what a director is.
Just look at any other movie in his profile, everything is a meme
And don't tell me they had no budget, 200 000$ is not small budget for this kind of movie. There are far superior movies with half the budget of that.
This movie has no artistic value whatsoever. It is just an excuse to make money from the story.
You will never see a renowned director admire this movie because there is nothing to admire except the concept.
Just try to compare this movie to let's say 12 Angry Men, both set in one room. The difference is almost laughable.
This one is a lot weaker than the similarly structured barry lyndon pasta. This piece of shit cult film that everyone torrented actually compares quite favorably to 12 angry men, under the circumstances. Should've said it's no My Dinner With Andre
twelve angry men has Henry Fonda and Piglet and the racist guy and all kinds of other talent. It's professionally written and edited, not hacked together by a dying man and his amateur followers. To even compare the two is to honor MFE.
no it doesn't its a one room movie with one speech after the other, its is an incredible movie where as MFE is dogshit, its a good example cause it shows the right way to do it and the wrong way
One is a realistic studio film with A-list talent, the other is a philosophical story put to film with character actors directing themselves. What lessons did you learn from 12 angry men? What interesting ideas did it present? They're different films. You even thinking they're comparable is a testament to the good pace MFE moves at, though
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they are only comparable by their contrast MFE is awful on every level it has zero redeeming features not one
10 months ago
Anonymous
what about the part where he startles them with a "caveman" grunt. That was kino
10 months ago
Anonymous
it was not it was a tiny moment of levity thats stands out because its not quite as awful as the rest of it
10 months ago
Anonymous
It's just a fantastic movie. John himself is perfectly cast even though his delivery isn't at the Kubrick standard. The other characters that matter are the biologist, the psychologist and the blak man, they all have great moments and the latter two are better than John consistently, they really sell it. The premise of immortality as a conspiracy theory, something deserved, within our reach, is very powerful because it brings history and the near future into different light. It created a sense of mystery in the real world which is severely lacking, and it did so without any treasure or high drama. It's a shame that you can't enjoy this kino.
10 months ago
Anonymous
if it had been rewritten by a competent script writer, then shot and directed by a competent director and then acted by competent actors I'd agree with you, unfortunately none of that happened and instead we are left with this turd of a reminder of what could have been
10 months ago
Anonymous
It's a great party flick. You laugh at the wooden script and ultimately get sucked into discussing the story. Visuals aren't everything
10 months ago
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competent film making is however
10 months ago
Anonymous
much rather have an interesting script with boomer jokes than a ChatGPT script with quips, personally
10 months ago
Anonymous
dude its bad it is by every objective measure a bad movie
10 months ago
Anonymous
except the core cast, pacing, chemistry (except whats-her-name) and all-important story. In this type of movie, story is everything. It's just My Dinner With Andre with jankier visuals and jankier performances, so less than a 9/10 kino, but the talky genre is a thing and this isn't the worst example of it.
10 months ago
Anonymous
this a pretty bad fricking example if not THE worst its pretty damn close
10 months ago
Anonymous
*it's FAR from the worst example.
Nothing this movie does well had any need of higher production values, it's a non sequiter. A true hater would question the script instead, but you admit it's good.
10 months ago
Anonymous
no I didn't what I said the script was shit, the idea is interesting the execution is awful what do you mean i've been saying its a bad script with pretty much every post
e.g
if it had been rewritten by a competent script writer, then shot and directed by a competent director and then acted by competent actors I'd agree with you, unfortunately none of that happened and instead we are left with this turd of a reminder of what could have been
10 months ago
Anonymous
what's bad about it? I can think of like three bad parts, the first bio guy jokes, the awkward romance, and arguably the christ lady although I think she's underrated.
10 months ago
Anonymous
the incredibly clunky "dialogue" generous to even call it that its one awkward speech after another none of which are delivered well
10 months ago
Anonymous
That's funny, I wonder why it made more money and is more successful than any highly polished cigarette-core you'll ever generate. Must be because it's too low IQ, yeah that's it. Capeshitters caused this.
10 months ago
Anonymous
lol what? you really have no response do you? its ok to like something thats trash just don't except others to agree with you
10 months ago
Anonymous
My response is already ITT, to find it you would have to read the posts you've already replied to. Good luck!
10 months ago
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and I have corrected you every time until all you could resort to is babbling about capeshitters and how it made more money then idk coffee and cigarettes
10 months ago
Anonymous
>Must be because it's too low IQ, yeah that's it. Capeshitters caused this.
literally yes
10 months ago
Anonymous
Literally everything is bad about it. A great example of how to not write a script
https://viriditas50.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/205398857-the-man-from-earth-script.pdf
It's quite literally high school level screenwriting, beyond generic embarrassing bullshit.
bot tier post, be better. >inb4 no u
one deserves another
10 months ago
Anonymous
so now that you have been thoroughly BTFO you just are going to call anons bots now, yep that would the popular next move
10 months ago
Anonymous
Have you even opened up that pdf and read anything? Where is any positive quality of that dogshit tier screenwriting? The laughably generic characters? The lack of any character development whatsoever? Even the """dialogue""" is just like a wiki wall of text infodump only interjected with audience answers.
In fact show me a single piece of quality screenwriting there, anything
https://viriditas50.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/205398857-the-man-from-earth-script.pdf
10 months ago
Anonymous
I don't think we are going to get through to him he just really likes this pile of shit
10 months ago
Anonymous
Literally everything is bad about it. A great example of how to not write a script
https://viriditas50.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/205398857-the-man-from-earth-script.pdf
It's quite literally high school level screenwriting, beyond generic embarrassing bullshit.
10 months ago
Anonymous
>man 14000 years old >calls himself Oldman
Actually pathetic right from the start
10 months ago
Anonymous
How did this guy made such a shit script, while writing such kino episodes of Star Trek and Twilight Zone?
10 months ago
Anonymous
it was always a rough draft, if it had been made it would've been workshopped by gene or whoever from twilight
10 months ago
Anonymous
seriously imagine this plot but its star trek and its the whole crew talking to this guy, spock mccoy scotty kirk, uhura would be the one who has a spaz attack over the jesus thing etc. it could've worked as a star trek ep
It was fine. The main character actor was very well cast. There are minor flaws, but overall it was an enjoyable movie and the execution was fine. I don't get all the whiners in this thread. Maybe your expectations were just too high so you couldn't enjoy it for what it was.
Yeah, seems like it detected you being a pleb. Nice assortment of filmschool 101 memes you got there. Muh camerawork, lmao. I guess they should've sprinkled in some wes anderson quirkiness in there.
lol I had no idea calling this movie the piece of trash it is would trigger anyone, I had no idea anyone, anyone thought this thing was anything other then a decent idea in a amateur highschool play at best
You're the one writing seething blogposts about how much it sucks, dude. Listing generic talking points like "character development"... sounds like someone who's just discovered film analysis.
its a really good movie and the haters have never even seen it, they all harp on about "whoa dude is le jesus" but they never bring up that the old man is his kid, thats kino
he survived 14000 years without getting his head cut off in countless wars or insta killed by some natural disasters.
That requires some divine invervention
This is so bad.
Cool idea but lame execution. It lost me when he turned into Forrest Gump and magically met all these famous people from history. Would be a lot more interesting to just explore the differences in perception of a dude that would have lived 1000 years ago vs. now. Like from an anthropology and philosophy angle would have been much cooler
It was a different time.
Wonder if he owned slaves; that was normal from the beginning of civilization until only a few centuries ago. Said he was wealthy.
Cool idea but lame execution. It lost me when he turned into Forrest Gump and magically met all these famous people from history. Would be a lot more interesting to just explore the differences in perception of a dude that would have lived 1000 years ago vs. now. Like from an anthropology and philosophy angle would have been much cooler
No, it's blasphemous crap. It was good until he started besmirching the name of Christ and trying to retcon Him into being a buddhist who could 'just mentally survive crucifixion bro' (LOL athiests really believe chit like this)
It would be fun if not distractingly gnostic and gay. It was comfy until the director started cramming in his mdickie tier fanfiction about the Bible.
Also what this anon said:
It was great up until it suddenly swerved to religion and he was
>le jesus
It's clear the director or writer didn't do their homework or even read the New Testament. It's midwit tier, when you read the Old Testament it's very clearly a factual account told in almost 'autistic' detail so as to not be confused for, as the film implies, "insane followers" who "projected" things. It's a load of crap. Science fiction works best when it does it's research. You are exactly what
The Man from Earth is the ultimate pleb detector.
It's for people who feel "smart" after watching it without realising how fricking atrocious it is.
It's like a bad cheesy B movie from the 90s. The only redeeming factor is the intriguing backstory, literally every other film element is utter dogshit (yes, even the script)
From the mexican telenovela like acting, generic stock soundtrack, no character development, no actual dialogue just a long exposition Q&A throughout, constant boring back to back camerawork, no use of the one room, non existent lighting, a side love story pulled out of the ass, most cliche character traits, literally everything. I had to look up twice that it actually was from 2007, not early 90s.
This shit shouldn't even be a movie, it should be a book or a play. Or given to some other director because Richard Schenkman doesn't even know what a director is.
Just look at any other movie in his profile, everything is a meme
And don't tell me they had no budget, 200 000$ is not small budget for this kind of movie. There are far superior movies with half the budget of that.
This movie has no artistic value whatsoever. It is just an excuse to make money from the story.
You will never see a renowned director admire this movie because there is nothing to admire except the concept.
Just try to compare this movie to let's say 12 Angry Men, both set in one room. The difference is almost laughable.
Who's more powerful, Old testament Jesus or New testament Jesus?
10 months ago
Anonymous
New testament Jesus was massively de-powered, but is a much more interesting character.
10 months ago
Anonymous
Disagreed, old testament was cheesier and fun and much more faithful to the original creator's intent. The creator of the character God, that is. Not God, the creator. Who isn't real.
10 months ago
Anonymous
They are the same you stupid mutt
10 months ago
Anonymous
No, the new one was redesigned to look like Mel Gibson.
It was engrossing until he claimed to be the creator of Christianity & is also Jesus, after bringing his teachings from Buddha, shit started getting a bit too silly.
Enjoyable anyway.
It's shit.
Filtered.
kino
Interesting premise, atrocious execution.
Film is actually a great medium for philosophy. I just saw The Love Witch (2018) and it's a potent thesis on schizomaxxing the modern woman. 9/10 would recommend
2016
It was great up until it suddenly swerved to religion and he was
>le jesus
woah spoilers bro, I'm still on the old testament
I liked it because it dunked on religion.
*tips* but unironically
It wasn't even in an interesting way tho
Doesn't matter. Even if it was a school talent show badly acted with 3rd graders, it would make me happy.
The Man from Earth is the ultimate pleb detector.
It's for people who feel "smart" after watching it without realising how fricking atrocious it is.
It's like a bad cheesy B movie from the 90s. The only redeeming factor is the intriguing backstory, literally every other film element is utter dogshit (yes, even the script)
From the mexican telenovela like acting, generic stock soundtrack, no character development, no actual dialogue just a long exposition Q&A throughout, constant boring back to back camerawork, no use of the one room, non existent lighting, a side love story pulled out of the ass, most cliche character traits, literally everything. I had to look up twice that it actually was from 2007, not early 90s.
This shit shouldn't even be a movie, it should be a book or a play. Or given to some other director because Richard Schenkman doesn't even know what a director is.
Just look at any other movie in his profile, everything is a meme
And don't tell me they had no budget, 200 000$ is not small budget for this kind of movie. There are far superior movies with half the budget of that.
This movie has no artistic value whatsoever. It is just an excuse to make money from the story.
You will never see a renowned director admire this movie because there is nothing to admire except the concept.
Just try to compare this movie to let's say 12 Angry Men, both set in one room. The difference is almost laughable.
This one is a lot weaker than the similarly structured barry lyndon pasta. This piece of shit cult film that everyone torrented actually compares quite favorably to 12 angry men, under the circumstances. Should've said it's no My Dinner With Andre
no see 12 angry men is similar in that its one speech after another and in one room, the different their is its actually good
twelve angry men has Henry Fonda and Piglet and the racist guy and all kinds of other talent. It's professionally written and edited, not hacked together by a dying man and his amateur followers. To even compare the two is to honor MFE.
no it doesn't its a one room movie with one speech after the other, its is an incredible movie where as MFE is dogshit, its a good example cause it shows the right way to do it and the wrong way
One is a realistic studio film with A-list talent, the other is a philosophical story put to film with character actors directing themselves. What lessons did you learn from 12 angry men? What interesting ideas did it present? They're different films. You even thinking they're comparable is a testament to the good pace MFE moves at, though
they are only comparable by their contrast MFE is awful on every level it has zero redeeming features not one
what about the part where he startles them with a "caveman" grunt. That was kino
it was not it was a tiny moment of levity thats stands out because its not quite as awful as the rest of it
It's just a fantastic movie. John himself is perfectly cast even though his delivery isn't at the Kubrick standard. The other characters that matter are the biologist, the psychologist and the blak man, they all have great moments and the latter two are better than John consistently, they really sell it. The premise of immortality as a conspiracy theory, something deserved, within our reach, is very powerful because it brings history and the near future into different light. It created a sense of mystery in the real world which is severely lacking, and it did so without any treasure or high drama. It's a shame that you can't enjoy this kino.
if it had been rewritten by a competent script writer, then shot and directed by a competent director and then acted by competent actors I'd agree with you, unfortunately none of that happened and instead we are left with this turd of a reminder of what could have been
It's a great party flick. You laugh at the wooden script and ultimately get sucked into discussing the story. Visuals aren't everything
competent film making is however
much rather have an interesting script with boomer jokes than a ChatGPT script with quips, personally
dude its bad it is by every objective measure a bad movie
except the core cast, pacing, chemistry (except whats-her-name) and all-important story. In this type of movie, story is everything. It's just My Dinner With Andre with jankier visuals and jankier performances, so less than a 9/10 kino, but the talky genre is a thing and this isn't the worst example of it.
this a pretty bad fricking example if not THE worst its pretty damn close
*it's FAR from the worst example.
Nothing this movie does well had any need of higher production values, it's a non sequiter. A true hater would question the script instead, but you admit it's good.
no I didn't what I said the script was shit, the idea is interesting the execution is awful what do you mean i've been saying its a bad script with pretty much every post
e.g
what's bad about it? I can think of like three bad parts, the first bio guy jokes, the awkward romance, and arguably the christ lady although I think she's underrated.
the incredibly clunky "dialogue" generous to even call it that its one awkward speech after another none of which are delivered well
That's funny, I wonder why it made more money and is more successful than any highly polished cigarette-core you'll ever generate. Must be because it's too low IQ, yeah that's it. Capeshitters caused this.
lol what? you really have no response do you? its ok to like something thats trash just don't except others to agree with you
My response is already ITT, to find it you would have to read the posts you've already replied to. Good luck!
and I have corrected you every time until all you could resort to is babbling about capeshitters and how it made more money then idk coffee and cigarettes
>Must be because it's too low IQ, yeah that's it. Capeshitters caused this.
literally yes
bot tier post, be better.
>inb4 no u
one deserves another
so now that you have been thoroughly BTFO you just are going to call anons bots now, yep that would the popular next move
Have you even opened up that pdf and read anything? Where is any positive quality of that dogshit tier screenwriting? The laughably generic characters? The lack of any character development whatsoever? Even the """dialogue""" is just like a wiki wall of text infodump only interjected with audience answers.
In fact show me a single piece of quality screenwriting there, anything
https://viriditas50.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/205398857-the-man-from-earth-script.pdf
I don't think we are going to get through to him he just really likes this pile of shit
Literally everything is bad about it. A great example of how to not write a script
https://viriditas50.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/205398857-the-man-from-earth-script.pdf
It's quite literally high school level screenwriting, beyond generic embarrassing bullshit.
>man 14000 years old
>calls himself Oldman
Actually pathetic right from the start
How did this guy made such a shit script, while writing such kino episodes of Star Trek and Twilight Zone?
it was always a rough draft, if it had been made it would've been workshopped by gene or whoever from twilight
seriously imagine this plot but its star trek and its the whole crew talking to this guy, spock mccoy scotty kirk, uhura would be the one who has a spaz attack over the jesus thing etc. it could've worked as a star trek ep
>The only redeeming factor is the intriguing backstory
Frick you it's got Tony Todd in it
and he is not used well at all that just makes it even worse
It's fun science fiction. You don't have to be a pretentious homosexual to enjoy it. But apparently you have to be one to shit on it.
Best film of all time? No. Kino? Yes.
a good concept does not necessarily translate into a good movie this piece of trash being the perfect example
It was fine. The main character actor was very well cast. There are minor flaws, but overall it was an enjoyable movie and the execution was fine. I don't get all the whiners in this thread. Maybe your expectations were just too high so you couldn't enjoy it for what it was.
>a side love story pulled out of the ass
I laughed out loud at the ending. dogshit flick indeed
Yeah, seems like it detected you being a pleb. Nice assortment of filmschool 101 memes you got there. Muh camerawork, lmao. I guess they should've sprinkled in some wes anderson quirkiness in there.
lol I had no idea calling this movie the piece of trash it is would trigger anyone, I had no idea anyone, anyone thought this thing was anything other then a decent idea in a amateur highschool play at best
You're the one writing seething blogposts about how much it sucks, dude. Listing generic talking points like "character development"... sounds like someone who's just discovered film analysis.
their is one "blog post" and its pasta nu-gay
Fateful Findings is better.
its a really good movie and the haters have never even seen it, they all harp on about "whoa dude is le jesus" but they never bring up that the old man is his kid, thats kino
I wanted to say that this is the worst movie ever made, but then I realised they made a sequel. I'm too scared to even watch it.
he survived 14000 years without getting his head cut off in countless wars or insta killed by some natural disasters.
That requires some divine invervention
This is so bad.
He met Hamurabi and Buddha. Who else?
He said he was crucified, but he doesn't scar. He used his teachings from Buddha to appear dead so they would take him off the cross.
>Who else
Besties with Van Gogh, went on grand voyages with Columbus, think he mentioned something about Socrates. Others I'm sure too.
>went on grand voyages with Columbus
you think he partook in underage pussy
It was a different time.
Wonder if he owned slaves; that was normal from the beginning of civilization until only a few centuries ago. Said he was wealthy.
Sandman had such a better story of an immortal, and he was in the slave trade as he said
>its just how business is done these days
The only thing I know about this movie is that it makes biblegays seethe for some reason
Great premise, horrible filmmaking. The producers had no idea what they were doing.
>actually i was jesus take that christians
>were you muhammad?
>n... no...
What did they mean by this?
and buddha was totally rad, dude
Cool idea but lame execution. It lost me when he turned into Forrest Gump and magically met all these famous people from history. Would be a lot more interesting to just explore the differences in perception of a dude that would have lived 1000 years ago vs. now. Like from an anthropology and philosophy angle would have been much cooler
Love the movie but this is my biggest criticism. Too many great men, it's lazy and absurdly fascist if you think about it for two seconds
Him being Jesus just to own le chuds was cringe
Recommend me some other films that piss off christgays, plz
I guess?
It's not the best and I haven't revisited since I saw it, maybe I should.
I mostly remember it for telling a gripping story with very little material.
anons I think we might literally be replying to Jerome Bixby himself here lmao
no i'm pretty sure its the director, Jerome would've been embarrassed by this awful shit
It's great for what it is but it tends to make pseuds seethe very hard because it's not "deep enough" for them
No, it's blasphemous crap. It was good until he started besmirching the name of Christ and trying to retcon Him into being a buddhist who could 'just mentally survive crucifixion bro' (LOL athiests really believe chit like this)
It's science fiction and a fun premise, you dolt. It's not supposed to be a documentary
It would be fun if not distractingly gnostic and gay. It was comfy until the director started cramming in his mdickie tier fanfiction about the Bible.
Also what this anon said:
It's clear the director or writer didn't do their homework or even read the New Testament. It's midwit tier, when you read the Old Testament it's very clearly a factual account told in almost 'autistic' detail so as to not be confused for, as the film implies, "insane followers" who "projected" things. It's a load of crap. Science fiction works best when it does it's research. You are exactly what
describes.
*New Testament, although obviously this does actually apply to places in the Old Testament
>Old testament
>New testament
Oooh, is that like Pre-Crisis and Post-Crisis??
did that sound funny in your head?
No, I shouted it out loud!
and did it sound funny?
I don't know, I'm deaf. It's why I shout.
got it, just fyi it wasn't
it made my neighbors laugh at least, or so they texted me
tell them they have a shit sense of humor
Who's more powerful, Old testament Jesus or New testament Jesus?
New testament Jesus was massively de-powered, but is a much more interesting character.
Disagreed, old testament was cheesier and fun and much more faithful to the original creator's intent. The creator of the character God, that is. Not God, the creator. Who isn't real.
They are the same you stupid mutt
No, the new one was redesigned to look like Mel Gibson.
All israelite crap.
Are you saying the Bible was created by israelites for profit??
Because it totally was.
It would have been even better if he claimed to be muhammad.
As they say, you can't spell muhammad without
>u mad
the man from earth and nefarious is good kino
i just looked up Nefarious, thats literally the plot from Fallen
Awful. Him pretending that he was Jesus was moronic
I liked the part where the religious people went "REEEEEEEE!" when they realized religion was all fake. lmao
Why do religious people ape out so much in movies?
>in movies
why do I get the feeling OP created this thread desperately trying to bait religious people and is now super upset no-one bit
I just finished watching it for the first time.
It was engrossing until he claimed to be the creator of Christianity & is also Jesus, after bringing his teachings from Buddha, shit started getting a bit too silly.
Enjoyable anyway.
No.