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Loaded (1994)
Bad movie about the making of a bad movie.
Loaded is one of those films about a bunch of friends who gather at an isolated location for a weekend during which they discover things about themselves and each other. In this case we discover that all the characters turn out to be just as pathetic and uninteresting as they seemed to be in the first five minutes. The premise is they're all there to shoot a horror movie. I don't know if the film-makers intended the film-within-the-film to be as bad as it appears because the actual film isn't much better. I have no idea where the title came from, probably something the marketing people thought up to make it sound trendy and trick people into seeing it. The trick worked on me, but spare yourselves. There is no reason in the world to sit through this rambling, pretentious, stinking movie.
Delusions in Modern Primitivism (2000)
A smart, funny satire.
If you don't like this short film, go see a J-Lo movie or something equally inane. This is a really sharp, well made and executed satire about pretentious, self-congratulatory rebellion. If you thought Blair Witch was convincing (I did not), this picture will put it to shame. Of course, Delusions doesn't have to carry the gag for more than twenty five minutes or so, but it does it so smooth, you're convinced this is for real. There are no give-aways in the dialogue, acting, or execution that let you know it's fiction. And as with all good satire, you don't know whether to laugh or be truly frightened about the state of the world. I hope this guy keeps making pictures.