AUSTRALIAN FOR CLAY
12.29.08This is the trailer for Israeli filmmaker Tatia Rosenthal’s $9.99, which premiered at the Toronto Film Festival and opened in Los Angeles earlier this month. It looks like your basic indie search-for-the-meaning-of-life film — oh, except the entire thing is shot in insanely realistic-looking claymation. Looks pretty f’n trippy. Although not casting Mickey Rourke seems like an almost criminal oversight.
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I don’t see any potential gain by me masturbating to this movie…no kids will also be in the theaters with me to see this and there aren’t any clay tits…so i’m not watching this unless i’m just THAT high.
I’ve seen this one before. Spoiler – at the end, Mother Nature smacks her sons around and Christmas is saved.
My google search for the meaning of life ended here http://www.hulu.com/watch/29602/monty-pythons-meaning-of-life-looking-for-a-leg
Oh, and Grommet saves his idiot owner from his own invention.
OT: Do you suppose the 1976 Tampa Bay Buccaneers got together and had champagne yesterday?
I don’t mess with the word “claymation”. At least not since there was that American Idol misunderstanding and I ended up having to fuck my way through the Clay Aiken fan club.
It’s really too bad that once I get stoned and watch this, I’m going to completely forget that it was ever in claymation.
The only time I like to fuck with Australians is when I’m chugging Foster’s and telling little Hispanic kids that they’re Australian.
This is the reason why I make fart noises and giggle when I grab myself a bowl of chocolate soft serve.
These look like the little magic kingdom hand puppets from Mr. Rodger’s Neighboorhood.
Which explains my throbbing erection.
Tatia Rosenthal sounds like something from a Kosher deli that gives you bloody diarrhea.
“which premiered at the Toronto Film Festival…” – so you know that it’s either really good, or just another pretentious movie that some asshole made.
I still never got to play with clay in school after that one time I made a fake dick and walked around with it hanging out of my zipper.
The teacher only found out is was fake when he bit into it.
The only claymation I’m into in the porn version of Gumby.
Looks like the makers of Tool’s music videos have lightened up over the years.
The last time I paid $9.99 for clay, I learned that it tastes the same regardless of whether you shape it like a hamburger or french fries.
The problem with firing a clay actor is that then you end up with pot you can’t smoke.
Firing a clay actor?? You’re kiln me, man!
*smashes pie in Chino’s face, slips on banana peel and then falls hands-first into a meat grinder*
$9.99!? You know, I once went to college with a dude who claims he got a Tatia Rosenthal for $6.99 in T.J. .
Claymation figurines shouldn’t go in search of the meaning of life. How would you handle it if you found out your creator was either a six-year old or an art-school dipshit?
You’ll need to get good and glazed to go watch this.
Claymation is cool, until some Blockheads come and fuck shit up.
I tried to make a movie like this but it ended up looking like a bunch of snakes with happy faces. My Mom said she really liked it though.
I totally don’t knead to see this.
That chick in the dress is hot, I bet they made her out of modeling clay.
Turns out she’s a hooker, she’s gotta roll around to make the play-dough.
*Hook appears from off-stage, drags Donkey off*
*steps back on stage*
I’m back, Peter Pan was back there to save me
*trap door opens, Donkey disappears*
Yay, puns!
And, damn, that animation is the stuff of nightmares.
$9.99: Made possible with sculpting clay, determination and the guy who stepped on the crack rock to break it apart.
You can shoot 78 minutes worth of claymation in the time it takes Keanu Reeves to change facial expressions once.
I didn’t realize that Keanu had distinct facial expressions. I though it was just varying degrees of “bewildered.”
You can have the clay in the world, and it still doesn’t best the clay sculpting scene in “Ghost” that Chodin and I remade.
really? no one put together that its an Isreali movie called $9.99?
do i need to remind you all that Isreali = jewish?
come on people.
let the jew jokes begin…
I don’t know the Hebrew word for “durst”, sorry.
benf, if the last name “Rosenthal” wasn’t your first indication, I don’t know if this relationship is going to work out.
What can be said about the Jewish that Auschwitz hasn’t said for us already, benf?
A Jew and a movie blogger walk into a bar. The jew turns to the blogger and says “did you know that ‘Israeli’ is commonly misspelled by people who reverse the a and the e?” The blogger turns to the Jew and says “FUCK OFF!”
MTV’s “The Isreali World” .
“When people stop spelling correctly and start getting real.”
Looks a hell of a lot more realistic than ‘Australia’ …