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Summary: buy this book
Review: a must have for anyone serious about making movies very informative very funny
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Summary: My Own Damn Review
Review: "Make Your Own Damn Movie" tells you the blood and guts and more guts (with more blood and assorted body parts) of independent movie making. While going through each process of assembling a film it doesn't candy coat the time, trouble, expense, headaches, anxiety and possible asthma attacks making one's own movie a reality WILL be. If one truly wants to make one's dream come true, without selling one's soul to the Hollywood corporate system, this is the book that tells one how to do it. Lloyd Kaufman has been a leader in independent film making for thirty years. He knows how to get it done and shares it with you along with some personal quirks you just may not want to know about Lloyd or anyone else. But I digress. You want to make your own movie under your own control? Buy and read this book. You don't want to make a movie? Buy it anyway. It's so funny you'll wet yourself.
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Summary: KILLER KAUFMAN SAVES THE INDIE FILM!
Review: Lloyd Kaufman is funny, witty, straight forward and most of all a filmmaker who understands that films can be made outside the Hollywood system and still enjoy a strong fan base and popular success. Make Your Own Damn Movie gives you the step by step swift kick in the ass required to go out, pick up a camera and do just that...His message is loud and clear: If you want to make movies then go make them, screw anyone who tells you otherwise! Thanks for the fun, entertaining and interesting book Mr. Kaufman1 You give us all hope.
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Summary: Making my own damn movie
Review: I am in the midst of making my own damn movie, and you know what? Now that I have read this book, I never need to go to college just to get an exciting career making crap money. I can do it on my own, as an independent filmaker. Although the love of my life and myself may be poor and malnurished, there is at least one thing that makes eating nothing or processed cheese sandwichs worthwhile.
In all seriousness, this book really helped me. I now know some of the things to expect to go wrong, and great directions on how to do it right. Troma has helped inspire me. They proved that I can do it my own damn self. Thanks troma, and thank you Lloyd.
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Summary: Laughed my butt off
Review: This book was very entertaining. There was much to enjoy and make you laugh. In a style that is just all his own. Definitely one to get for all.
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Summary: Arizona Daily Star review
Review: ARIZONA DAILY STAR
Sunday , April 20, 2003
Edition: FINAL, Section: ACCENT, Page: E11MAKE YOUR OWN DAMN MOVIE! by Lloyd Kaufman with Adam Jahnke and Trent Haaga (St. Martin's Griffin, $14.95). Lloyd Kaufman is the schlock movie director known for unleashing such cinematic disasterpieces as "The Toxic Avenger" and "Tromeo & Juliet" on unsuspecting audiences. Known for making cheesy, low-budget but fun-to-watch movies on the cheap, he dishes out 30 years worth of filmmaking knowledge in his latest book, a follow-up to "All I Need to Know About Filmmaking I Learned From the Toxic Avenger." Kaufman's new book is strictly for movie nerds, aspiring moviemakers and fans of the writer's films. The writing is often as witty and vulgar as the movies themselves, and Kaufman jams the book full of movie-making knowledge, such as advice on how to use a hamburger-filled melon to substitute for an exploding head. "Make Your Own Damn Movie!" is hindered most by its choppy structure. Nary a page goes by without at least two or three footnotes. These notes are funny, and are necessary reading to fully appreciate the book, but the device grows annoying within the first few pages. The notes could have just as easily been included in parentheticals or sidebars. As it stands, what could have been a quick, breezy read is a choppy endurance test. Phil Villarreal
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Summary: Fun to read-Full of information
Review: This is the most informative and concise book I have ever read on the subject of film making, but that is not the reason for its true greatness. Of all the books I have read on making independent films, this is the only one I actually read. Rather than just reading and getting the information, I read this thing cover to cover, because it's just so damn entertaining. If you want to make films, this book gives you working knowledge of getting it done, and you will actually want to read it. You're just gonna waste that twelve bucks someplace less fulfilling anyway, and you know it. Try this tomb of wonders.
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Summary: lloyd is the best author ever!!
Review: i love troma movies, especially those directed by lloyd kaufman. so, i was excited to read this book. i absolutely adored it! it is soooooo funny. lloyd's writing style is a delight. all the footnotes are hilarious. so much information is crammed into this book. there's a lot of great how-to stuff, plus tons of anecdotal asides. this book is great whether you intend to make movies or not. i highly recommend it. i have also read All I Need to Know About Filmmaking I Learned from the Toxic Avenger.... it, too, is a great read. i can't wait for another book by lloyd kaufman! i would buy anything he writes!
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Summary: More nuts and bolts, but the entertainment doesn't suffer
Review: With Make Your Own Damn Movie! Lloyd Kaufman moves towards the spectrum of the nuts and bolts and how-to of true guerilla independent filmmaking, steering away from the more anecdotal nature of his first book. However, this book maintains Kaufman's often subversive and anarchic sense of humor, while being informative on subjects such as: - financing
- distribution
- pre-production
- casting
- special effects
- post-production I'd reccommend this book to anyone who's looking to learn a little bit about the in's and out's of making your own movie outside of (as Lloyd puts it) "the devil-worshipping conglomerates", or any fan of Troma, or any fan of elequently written elegaic prose by one of the masters of the modern verse. Highly reccommended.
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Summary: The most qualified author for a "Make your own movie" book
Review: Lloyd Kaufman. He created a truly independant film studio that has held it's own ground in the film industry for thirty years. If you want to make your own movies on a shoestring budget, then this book should be your bible. His first book was more of a history of Troma, and didn't concentrate on the step by step details of filmmaking. This book, however, is the perfect guide from start to finish of any film you are about to make. Lloyd's anecdote's and personal humor are also a welcomed commodity. The book is funny, informative, and useful. Even if you don't plan on making your own movies, Troma fans and regular fans of independant/cult classic films will enjoy this read. It is not only filled with steps to making a movie, but stories from Lloyd's extensive wisdom and experience in the filmmaking field. I can't recommend this book enough. If you read "Everything I Need To Know About Filmmaking I Learned From the Toxic Avenger," definitely pick up this book. I personally enjoyed his second book more. Which is hard to believe, considering how great his first book is. Also, I would like to thank Lloyd for coming to our university in Milwaukee and giving a very informative lecture about filmmaking. He told me to write this review (good or bad), and I am more than pleased to do so for Lloyd. He's done so much for film fans and makers already, it's the least I can do.
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