Comments on: Get Ripped Got Misreported: NTV Station Today

By: Les Cowbell

Les Cowbell — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 17:47:22 +0000

wrote:

"you was a film make for WAY over twenty times that."

should be:

you 'SAW' a film made for WAY over twenty times that.

DANM, I must be dyslexic

By: Les Cowbell

Les Cowbell — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 17:45:31 +0000

@ Liz:

El Mariachi cost a lot more than you think to make it viewable to the public. If you saw it on a crappy 3/4" inch tape (if you know what that is), then you can say you saw a movie made for $7,000. If you saw it on a DVD or in a theater, you was a film make for WAY over twenty times that.

We'll have to see other episodes to judge the value returned for the $3k spent. For the first episode; rather easy money. The lack of extended takes really steals momentum and leaves the actor unimpressive.

"Favors" --what a great business strategy!

By: Get Ripped Gets Going, Needs Pumping - NewTeeVee Station

Get Ripped Gets Going, Needs Pumping - NewTeeVee Station — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 17:34:39 +0000

[...] Budget: $3,000 per episode More details » Get Ripped, the latest series from Carpet Bros. homebase 60Frames, debuted today with much fanfare two weeks after teasing us with a well-received trailer. Get Ripped has been hotly anticipated for a couple of reasons: a) with an impressive comic pedigree thanks to its writer, How I Met Your Mother scribe Gloria Calderon Kellet, the series had a good chance of being funny, and b) the LA Times reported that each episode cost $20,000 to shoot, and frankly, we all wanted to see what $20,000 of episode looks like. (However, the LA Times got the facts wrong — according to director Fred Schroeder, each episode had a $3,000 budget and 14-person crew. See our story on NewTeeVee for more information.) [...]

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By: Jamison Tilsner

Jamison Tilsner — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 03:10:10 +0000

El Mariachi was damn good.

By: Liz Shannon Miller

Liz Shannon Miller — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 02:37:50 +0000

I agree with you, Sean -- I didn't say it'd be a GOOD feature. :)

By: Sean

Sean — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 00:48:36 +0000

You've got to be kidding me if you think you can make a "feature film" for 20K. You can always cut corners and make do with what you have, but there's no currency like money to help produce a good product.

By: lupstar

lupstar — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 22:43:19 +0000

I love Get Ripped...no matter how much it cost. What does everyone think of it...worth the hype?

By: Balaji

Balaji — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 20:41:38 +0000

Reloading the page didn't help. The funny thing is I am able to hear the audio clearly, but the video is overlayed with another screen that has the message "Video is no longer available" and the video is essentially masked. Must be a bug from Youtube! This embed video works just fine in other browsers, not working only in IE

By: Liz Shannon Miller

Liz Shannon Miller — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 20:31:00 +0000

I believe that “This video is no longer available” is YouTube’s current “this video isn’t working at this exact second” error message. It’s a little annoying. But try reloading — that usually seems to help.