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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Melba Toast" data-source="post: 4580644" data-attributes="member: 80591">This is true. Ed Wood certainly had passion.I never meant to imply that passion is the -only- thing necessary to make a good film. I was generalizing, which I consider a common and acceptable practice in online forums...(Side-note: don't-cha just hate those forum a-holes who want you to support everything you write with empirical facts as if we all just walk around carrying stacks of peer-reviewed data!)But I digress... I was saying... while there are many examples of happy accidents in the film world, by-and-large, the majority of good films were made by highly intelligent people who care deeply about the quality of their output.Anyone who has ever tried to make a good film (as I have) knows that it is an incredibly difficult task to accomplish. Even the most seemingly lackadasical efforts require an enormous emotional, financial, mental and physical investment. I have nothing bad to say about fan-fic films. By the standards of a discriminating audience accustomed to watching pro-grade films, fan-flicks certainly don't measure up, but as works of amateurs, many of them are quite remarkable.This is utter nonsense. Lighting can certainly compliment or detract from a film, but it will never make or break a film. It's entirely possible to make a great film without a single exposed image, and it's entirely possible to make a terrible film with the most remarkable exposures ever captured.(Pardon another divergence... aren't geeks a little bored with all these "dark" films? Why must every comic-book film be low-key? The presence of shadows does not automatically beget quality. My favourite thing about the Spiderman movies is that they willfully rejected that cliche', and yet it seems to be the thing most geeks hated about it.)</blockquote>

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