Please don't send me your fake grindhouse movie.

I agree 110% with this article Todd wrote at Twitch, in which he laments the rise in smart-ass filmmakers making terrible schlocky DV movies, throwing some "dirty film" Final Cut Pro plugin over the top of them, fake scratches and pops, and cutting a terrible "check out my 70s voiceover impersonation" trailer to match.

If you've made a movie like this, you can absolutely save yourself the $1.84 in postage. I've gotten at least 10 of these to watch, and the amount of time they last in my DVD player averages about 50 seconds. I'm sure there are people somewhere who still enjoy watching these, but be damned if I know any who would pay $1 to ( much less $10), and be damned if my company is going to put their name in front of one.

To quote:

They are almost universally unwatchable to all but those who made them. They're not funny. They're not clever. They're just plain bad movies and I want people to stop making them. Stop explaining away your shitty technique with "Hey, it's supposed to be that way!" Because all you're doing with that argument is proving you don't understand the original movement at all.

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You cannot make a Plan Nine From Outer Space on purpose. This is why I haven't bothered to cover the upcoming remake. I don't give a damn. You cannot replicate the goofiness of the original and there isn't enough there to make a truly good film. So why bother? You can't make The Room on purpose. You can't make Birdemic on purpose. You simply cannot. And the unifying factor among the people who have made these films is that they generally don't realize why people actually like them.

There's plenty more at Twitch, go over there and read the whole thing.

Moral of the story: it barely worked when Tarantino and Rodriquez did it. And they made decent films and then put them under a Grindhouse banner, not shitty films with the word "grindhouse" stickered on the outside. As far as I'm concerned, that was the beginning and end of the meme.

Go make the best movie you can. Don't half-ass it and then try and pass it off as being bad on purpose. If you try to make a shitty movie, there's a very good chance you'll succeed- just not in the way you want.