Sundance: Oscilloscope Near ‘Bellflower’ Deal

COMMENTS (9)

• The only movie of the eighteen in whole or part I managed to see that was insanely alive. An excellent company for its distribution.

  Comment by chubbco — Saturday January 29, 2011 @ 6:23pm PST  Reply to this post

• “Mad Max Generation”? You mean fifty to sixty year olds? Mad Max came out in 1979.

  Comment by Max — Sunday January 30, 2011 @ 1:15pm PST  Reply to this post

• Rebekkah Brandes will be big, she was amazing!

  Comment by rob e — Sunday January 30, 2011 @ 4:13pm PST  Reply to this post

• This movie was so horrible, this makes me genuinely laugh… The idea of these two guys creating this flamethrower was original, but sorely disappointed 1/2 way through the film. One of the worst movies I have ever seen.

  Comment by jen — Sunday January 30, 2011 @ 9:15pm PST  Reply to this post

  • I can’t agree more. This was awful! It was such a pathetic attempt to reach out to the “unreachable” hipster demographic. Shitty acting, horrendous shooting, editing and sound design. People were laughing at the screening I saw. It was kinda sad. Really surprised that this movie actually made it into Sundance in the first place. Somebody must have had friends on the board over there.

    Comment by Anonymous — Saturday April 2, 2011 @ 11:57am PDT  Reply to this post

• Agree with Jen. This movie was terrible. None of the characters had jobs, backstories, or lives I wanted to care about. The female characters clearly came from the mind of someone harmed by a breakup and unclear about women. In short, Bellflower felt like 3 hours of #whiteguyproblems.

  Comment by nora — Monday January 31, 2011 @ 7:37am PST  Reply to this post

  • Since films about #whiteguyproblems rarely if ever get made and distributed, it’s a miracle that this was picked up at Sundance.

    Quoting the director when asked what the film is about:

    “Alright, it’s a movie about two guys, two best friends. Who are completely obsessed with the apocalypse and blowing stuff up and building flamethrowers. Uh, which is just something they kind of joke around about. And then one of them falls in love and goes on this epic journey where he has his heart broken. And the film tries to illustrate how terrible it is to have your heart ripped out.”

    Comment by jkd — Thursday February 3, 2011 @ 10:07am PST  Reply to this post

• You guys are harsh

  Comment by Eric — Tuesday November 22, 2011 @ 6:12am PST  Reply to this post

• Sure, it was amateurish. A group of young unknowns worked on writing, producing, shooting and acting their first-ever foray into film. Spending only $17,000 of their own movie and giving a year of their time. Cool Beastie Boy / Adam Yauck – Oscilloscope buys the film after it makes Sundance and the film grosses a mere $168,000 box office. It will probably make double that on dvd and blu-ray sales. Sure, it had some laugable parts and was kind of stoner stupid with not much character development, but it had its moments. And yes, it was alive and quite an accomplishment for a bunch of untrained unknowns. This Glodell could be the next Larry Clarke for all we know.

  Comment by James Hale — Sunday April 29, 2012 @ 7:08am PDT  Reply to this post