Wow. Slick. It seems to emulate 1970s guerrilla film making, complete with hand-held sway, shifts to black and white, and color fading. That's a lot of work to make something look shitty. But it looks shitty-cool.

The titles could be on screen longer. I could never read everything.

Meh. I'm mostly with Greg.

I'm a casual fan of the Potter movies and never read the books, but I adore logic and reason. But I lost a lot of interest when Harry wondered how a person could lose enough mass to take on the size of a cat. There are plenty of "science" fiction stories where that sort of thing happens; why not parody those?

Then Harry goes into the bag of gold bit. In any sensible story, the pouch would produce whatever he asked for based on his intentions and not his actual words. If the original novel worked the way the fan fic does, then the novel is just nonsensical—like plenty of stories set in non-magical worlds.

Not much of it was very funny up to that point. Then Harry and McGonagall begin arguing whether a boy whose parents were murdered by an evil wizard should buy an emergency healing kit, and she makes him cry because he suggested that bad things can happen to people, and she asks if he was abused by his foster parents. That's where the story ended for me.

Great work on this, guys! The inside scoop on the Asylum is priceless. I know you don't think so, but the effects shots were actually very impressive (altho I don't understand why Moby Dick didn't look anything like a sperm whale). It's silly not to allow time to edit the thing properly. I'd rather have weak effects and a decent structure (a la Hammer studios) than good-looking schlock. But a film with 4 parallel storylines in the third act smacks of Phantom Menace anyway, so the writer didn't do Trey any favors.

It's too bad the Asylum don't put a little more emphasis on quality, because audiences DO notice and the money WILL stop coming in. With just a pinch of care and all they talent at their disposal, they could produce something that actually hits with audiences and really does change the bottom line.

Film makers saw that with westerns, which were made by the wagon load in the 30s and 40s, and mostly stank. Then A-picture producers started making good ones, and the schlock was driven out (well, into sci fi, actually) in 50s.

You mean on something like Justin.tv? No, but maybe he could look into doing a Tiny Chat broadcast.

That's a detention, slacker, for you and your beatnik friends.