Ronster said:
I was talking with somone today who has made a short film and is hoping to release it at frightfest... independanrly funded too... We got on the subject of older films and how new films are planned and formulated and older films were more off the cuff and ambiguous.
Their ambiguity is part of their charm.... So although that was my idea about the shuttle and the troops i fully respect revisited for not taking that onboard but however i hope my energy and enthusiasm rubs off on you and 005 i think you do a great job too....
We all want to make the magic happen and i think this thread has more energy than it has had for a long time
There's a difference between "off the cuff and ambiguous" and "not insulting your audience's intelligence." Films that try to explain every last detail and account for every moment of every character's existence (along with audiences that demand such things) are the underlying reason why a lot of films suck. They don't give the audience anything to think about or talk about after it's over besides simply remembering what happened. As a viewer, if you leave the film as blank-minded as when you went in, then you wasted two hours you could have spent watching a better film.