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Summary: Totally Tromatic and Tittalatingly Toxic Tales!
Review: If you love troma flicks, or at least love a good laugh occasionally, or maybe just love small woodland creatures once in a while, you'll love this book. It's jam-packed with great stories of cheap props, cheap stunts, and cheap women. O.K., well, the women aren't really cheap, but they are in there. Great stories of a do-it-yourself film company that made it big without selling out to "the man". Also includes summaries of all the great Troma flicks that you've seen and the ones that you only pray to find at your local video store. Excellent!
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Summary: This book contains all that Troma fans have come to love.
Review: I was excited to start reading this book, after all Lloyd is hilarious. Nonetheless when i started it I was immediately laughing. Lloyd's apparently made-up instances with his publisher were one of the funniest things about the book. I liked learniong about how Toxie came to be and how Troma itself came to be. Overall I really enjoyed reading it and I think any Troma fan would enjoy it as well.
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Summary: Hilariously funny but sadly uninformative
Review: This book is easily one of the funniest books I've ever read. True, it descends into bad taste a few times, but it also has its human moments. Sadly, it doesn't tell me nearly as much about making independent films as I would have thought; the humourous sugar coating is so thick that the message becomes obscured. I still have to give this five stars, though. You'll love reading it even if you don't learn as much as you'd like to. Call it a break from all that pretentious film school stuff.
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Summary: If not a Troma fan before reading thisbook,you will be after
Review: It took me only 5 days to finish Lloyd Kaufman's book and I learned more about creating a film in those 5 days than 4 years of film school taught me. And I definitely laughed a lot more. Lyoyd's style of writing includes humorous and raw antedotes of his 30 years in the independent film industry. The book outlines what really happens during the process of making a low budget independent film. This book reads like a movie, not a how-to book, and incidentally is the basis of a Troma film in production right now called "Terror Firmer". The stories are extremely entertaining for anyone - in or out of the movie industry. If you are not a Troma fan before you read this book, you will be after. And I'm not just saying that because I am a buxom blond ingenue, currently referred to in Tromaville as a Tromette, its the truth.
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Summary: Great book.
Review: I've been passing this book around to my friends for a week or two now. The hard part has been making sure they give it back. Mr. Kaufman has made this great book with heartwrench and hilarity. I wonder how he made it through 25 years as a filmmaker without someone insisting he write a book earlier. I certainly hope he writes another.
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Summary: Lloyd Kaufman makes a great author, too.
Review: I have to agree with the reader from New York. Mr. Kaufman certainly has a knack for fiction. This book was as funny as the Hitchhiker trilogy. Perhaps Lloyd missed his calling when he went into film, I hope he considers writing more. A novel or, maybe a "day in the life" or something. This book was consistently hilarious, not a page went by without something worth a .sig
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Summary: A fun book that is hard to put down. A smile in print.
Review: Although the book sounds like a text for movie students it is really a combination humor and biography of LLoyd Kaufman and Troma Studios. There are very few pictures but it is written in a clean, crisp and very funny way. In short, the book is a Troma film in printed format. I had a very hard time putting the book down. It was fun and I learned something about Troma and independent film studios in the process. A must have for any B-Movie fan.
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Summary: Breaking the fourth ... page?
Review: I guess it only makes sense that Lloyd would break the "fourth wall" when writing a book. He has, in a strangely powerful way, actually pulled me into his brain. And that's a weird place. Plus, Lloyd talks about things that happened before Troma, when he was a PA (like me). Although I will admit that I have never had a famous star piss on my knee, I certainly can identify with starting out as s**t boy. I wouldn't show this book to my mother, but I would have loved to know these techniques to gross out my little sister when I was in junior high.
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Summary: Truly the most amazing book about movie making ever written
Review: In a word, I am amazed ! Before I found that book on the shelves, I had never heard of Lloyd Kaufman... How Come ??? After the mere appealing that the outrageously wonderful cover exerced on me, I got to discover one of the most greatest production company around the world ! And what a man ! That Lloyd Kaufman is an amazing spiritual as much as physical leader, he's THE "tete pensante" of all the new independant movie industry for the last 23 years, he is a messiah, and that book is His bible. Buy it yourself before a bald headed tamburin playing chum comes and tries to sell it behind your door. Definitely the best way to start that new millenium ! A definite very must have ! Face it True Believer ! 'Nuff said, Excelsior !
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Summary: Greetings From Tromaville!
Review: Greetings From Tromaville To The Friendly People OfAmazon.com: Penguin Putnam Berkeley has published my book, All INeed To Know About Filmmaking I Learned From The Toxic Avenger, which is now available at bookstores, gas station bathrooms, and traveling carnival sideshows nationwide, and of course, also from Amazon.com. Now you can learn how to break into the seemingly impenetrable world of filmmaking and make your own very bad movies just like I do, without having to leave the privacy of your own home (yeah, I know, they're watching my house too). All I Need To Know About Filmmaking I Learned From The Toxic Avenger was released on July 13 and already the feedback has been tremendous, almost overwhelming. I would like to clear up one point, though, which several people have written in about. I am not now, nor have I ever been dead, so please stop writing in about how much you have been "enjoying the Kaufman tome." If you have been to a graveyard with a tome stone with my name on it, it is mere coincidence, and I am not buried there. Just briefly, All I Need To Know About Filmmaking I Learned From The Toxic Avenger is the first and only real guide to the ins and outs (as well as the old in & out) that you need to know, to work in the magical world of independent film, that is, if you want to circumvent the less magical world of endless Xeroxing for the unappreciative devil worshipping media giants. If Michael Herz and I can write, direct and produce independent features from scratch, then anyone can. There is all kinds of practical information in this book that you won't find in those other "how-to" film books. Before writing All I Need To Know About Filmmaking I Learned From The Toxic Avenger, I walked around the Troma building asking the young staff members what they thought about the current wide assortment of how-to film books. The responses varied from "get off my damn foot Lloyd," to "God, that's disgusting, there's a bathroom for that." But mostly, everyone agreed that there was a general lack of practical knowledge of the real world of filmmaking in these supposed guides. The reason? Because while most of the authors, who have written books about filmmaking, are good at deconstructing shot breakdowns, typically they themselves haven't made even one movie. Meanwhile, Lloyd Kaufman (me) has made a whole pantload of films which I have drawn upon to write this book. Do you know how to use an everyday cereal box as an Arriflex movie camera? Or how to light a night shot of the Brooklyn Bridge using only a curling iron and a grapefruit? Well I certainly don't, if you do please contact me at (lloyd@troma.com). Aside from graphic discussions of sex, violence and toxic waste, I wrote this book to be a valuable tool for young filmmakers who are currently on the outside looking in. You'll learn how to raise money and do your own special effects like head crushing and double dismemberments. After reading my book you'll be able to create your own Toxic Avenger and other hideously deformed creatures of super human size and strength. I've made every possible mistake in filmmaking in the 25 years since Troma was born, so that now you won't have to. All I Need To Know About Filmmaking I Learned From The Toxic Avenger will help you to steer clear of numerous pitfalls and traps that all too often ruin or sour talented new filmmakers to the industry scene. Even those who have blown a stack of cash on film school, I'm sorry to say, will probably learn more from my pages than they did in those four years of hell and horse****. I have sensed lately the tide, of the film industry, is turning. The new generation of filmmakers and audiences are tiring of being spoon fed the baby food of the "blockbuster" movies like Titanic and Godzilla. The goal of this book is to give direction to those willing to undertake the battle to deliver the title ! of "independent film" away from the industry gian! ts who have turned it into a meaningless advertising ploy, back into the hands of the individual struggling artists.
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