Okay, let's get the good out of the way first: kudos to Carl Meritt, his crew, his actors, and everyone else who wasted their time making this excrement at seeing it through to completion. Making a feature length movie is a very hard thing to do, but Meritt & company were up to the task.
Making a GOOD feature length movie, however, proved to be beyond their reach. This is one of those "I just got a new camera! Let's make a movie!" - type movies. I just don't get why people with limited budgets insist on making films with a scope way beyond what they can afford. Firing guns and setting off explosives does not make a movie good.
Don't waste your time with this one. Just go to You Tube and watch the trailer if you want to make up your own mind.
Addendum: This is to Cody Perkins from Sandusky. My name is Nick D'Amico from Cleveland, and I sat through ABE'S TOMB from beginning to end. I'm wondering two things right now: if you actually saw this project, how in the name of all that is right and good in this world recommend it to other people? If I'd bought this film on your recommendation, I'd track you down after watching it and make YOU give me my money back. As it is, I saw a copy a friend had purchased and lost no money, but something even more irreplaceable - 90 minutes of my life.
I'm not going to run the movie down again - I said all I have to say about it in the space above - so now I'm going to ask you just what in the hell your "Cinema Wasteland" story had to do with the way you felt about the movie. Do you seriously believe that anyone who reads it will see it as anything other than an attack on someone who didn't like the movie, that they won't realize you're shilling for Carl Merritt (probably in the hope of landing a part in "Abe's Tomb 2")? That you make a completely unwarranted attack on someone who actually makes a living working in film and knows what he's talking about? I find it hard to believe that you could talk to this "drunk young punk" for as long as you did and not remember his name but remember the names he dropped while criticizing the movie you bought. In my judgment you fatally compromised whatever good things you said about "Abe's Tomb" with this long-winded attack on someone you never even met. You are nothing but a shill for a lousy movie, Cody, an everyone knows it.
Making a GOOD feature length movie, however, proved to be beyond their reach. This is one of those "I just got a new camera! Let's make a movie!" - type movies. I just don't get why people with limited budgets insist on making films with a scope way beyond what they can afford. Firing guns and setting off explosives does not make a movie good.
Don't waste your time with this one. Just go to You Tube and watch the trailer if you want to make up your own mind.
Addendum: This is to Cody Perkins from Sandusky. My name is Nick D'Amico from Cleveland, and I sat through ABE'S TOMB from beginning to end. I'm wondering two things right now: if you actually saw this project, how in the name of all that is right and good in this world recommend it to other people? If I'd bought this film on your recommendation, I'd track you down after watching it and make YOU give me my money back. As it is, I saw a copy a friend had purchased and lost no money, but something even more irreplaceable - 90 minutes of my life.
I'm not going to run the movie down again - I said all I have to say about it in the space above - so now I'm going to ask you just what in the hell your "Cinema Wasteland" story had to do with the way you felt about the movie. Do you seriously believe that anyone who reads it will see it as anything other than an attack on someone who didn't like the movie, that they won't realize you're shilling for Carl Merritt (probably in the hope of landing a part in "Abe's Tomb 2")? That you make a completely unwarranted attack on someone who actually makes a living working in film and knows what he's talking about? I find it hard to believe that you could talk to this "drunk young punk" for as long as you did and not remember his name but remember the names he dropped while criticizing the movie you bought. In my judgment you fatally compromised whatever good things you said about "Abe's Tomb" with this long-winded attack on someone you never even met. You are nothing but a shill for a lousy movie, Cody, an everyone knows it.