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Jay Holliday
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Just How It Is
Greg Niecestro
Reviewed on
1st November 1999
'Oh my God!
I thought she liked the teepee!'
Rating
61%
Of all the new releases in the 3DMM community today, Just How It Is jumps straight out of the blue. Just How It Is is a comedy movie using the elements of real TV and real movie comedy to make the build up in contradiction with the more rather off the wall comedies such as Enriched Enlightenment and all the crazy stuff thought up by the XSG boys. It is a rather untouched part of a comedy side (this is the first of its style I have ever seen) and Greg Niecestro the director is very ambitious with this movie, he aims to do much with very little. And he doesn't do a bad job
It kind of works. It has its many flaws like most movies do, the main one being that some of the comedy does not work particularly. For instance the shooting at the end. Its something your younger brothers of about 7 might laugh at, but I didn't particularly. It had its good jokes and funny parts, take a look at the quote for instance, and some of it did make me laugh. However, I think that this movie would have been much better had the director reduced the time spent getting to the next funny part. Too many dissolve transitions and not enough humour.
The story is about your average husbands quest to win his wife back after a small misunderstanding. It is a good shell to base a comedy around.
The animation is OK, characters react to things to a certain extent, you can see that the character is looking up at the sky instead of just leaning back. Characters roll up in pain, but the animation is let down by an awful choice of camera angles. Always the same thing. Just a wide angled camera shot squared up to the scenes angles. This for every talking scene makes it boring, and it could have really benefited from just a little variation. Advice: Look at a real movie and count how many shots there are in your average conversation between 3 people and get roughly that amount in your movies. It is good practice to try and be like the real movies, because the real movies are made by paid professionals so they definitely know what they are doing.
The scenery design is not great, the indoors are sometimes good sometimes bad. It gets bad whenever there are 3D word scenery with the designs on, and not just plain textures. A little more effort scenery wise could improve this movie drastically. Bars didn't really look like bars, and out doors wasn't too hot either. The good scenes were the in-law's house and the train scene. Default 3DMM scenery was used, which on most occasions was modified to make up different scenes which worked well.
Although the comedy wasn't a big hit with me, the movie might be funny to the more traditional comedy viewers in the community, but it simply doesn't have you on the floor laughing you head off like other movies can. It is an good movie for what it set out to achieve but you are unlikely to watch it more than once.
-Jay Holliday
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