Dirt Scootin’ Boogie DVD Preview

Last August Charkie Huegel, Jared Bolton, and myself thought it would be a cool idea to film some off-road motocross riders and put together a DVD. Even though I should have known better, we thought we would organize a ride day in Oil City, PA with a few guys and we would have enough footage. I can’t exactly tell you what I was puffing on but that wasn’t the case. We made it around the wooded area of Venus, PA for about 8 hours and ended up with about 40 minutes of footage, edited down about 5 minutes. We still needed about 40-45 minutes worth of footage for a good off-road DVD.

I’ve been spending my time since then getting together with riders and attending races gathering footage for the project. I’m not quite done with filming but I have things in the pipeline and will be finished with filming soon.

The title of the upcoming DVD, being released through my production company Scratch N Sniff Productions, is Dirt Scootin’ Boogie. It will feature off-road riders Charkie Huegel, Mark Fortner, Chris Buzzelli, and others to be named at a later date. The release is scheduled for April 2010, hopefully for mid-April.

I put together a 3 minute preview of the DVD. Check it out and let me know what you think.

Dirt Scootin’ Boogie DVD Preview from Scratch N Sniff Productions on Vimeo.

Battle of Atlanta 8 Hour Team Race

This past weekend I headed down to Social Circle, GA to shoot video of the 8 hour team race that was being held down there. I rode down with Charkie Huegel and Mark Fortner who were going to be racing in the pro class, as Team Goon Hammer.

The race itself had some awesome obstacles you don’t see very often. Besides the cold weather, I had a great time.

Jason Hooper over at digitaloffroad.com posted the video I edited of the weekend. Check out the link or the video embedded here:

http://www.digitaloffroad.com/2010/01/05/battle-of-atlanta-race-video/

Battle of Atlanta 8 Hour Team Race from Scratch N Sniff Productions on Vimeo.

Thundercats The Movie Trailer

I’m a huge fan of the 80’s cartoon, The Thundercats. To say the least, I’m a little excited about the live action movie that is in the works. But there is no telling when that might actually see the light of day. Thankfully, there are a bunch of fanboys with some serious skills. The latest in fanboy created material is a really impressive trailer starring Brad Pitt, Vin Diesel, Garfield, and more.

Check it out.

The Mad Hatter

Pictures of Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter are making its way around the web. Depp is starring as the Mad Hatter in Tim Burton’s adaption of Alice in Wonderland. If it was 2002 I would be excited about this. But after seeing Tim Burton destroy Willy Wonka I can’t help but think Alice in Wonderland is doomed. Also, I use to enjoy the look of Tim Burton’s films but now there just old and tired. Anyway, I bet Depp is going to be great in the part.

Max Payne

I make it a point not to post reviews on here. I don’t share the same opinions that many people have so I’m left explaining why I thought something sucked. It got to the point of people always saying”Rob, What did you think…oh I bet you thought it sucked”. I’m so sorry I think Resident Evil and the Britney Spears’ Crossroads were a complete waste of time. Now if I’m asked I just shrug and make a half smile. It got old defending why I don’t love the shitty movies in the world. But the time has come for me to break my silence. There is a movie so bad that I don’t think anyone should ever see and it’s my duty to let you know…Max Payne completely sucks balls.

I got to see it last Friday…and I wish I could get that time back. But let me back up a bit. I saw M. Night Shamalyan’s (or something. too lazy to look up spelling) The Happening not too long ago and it had the worst performances I’ve ever seen outside of a porn film. Well, that was until now. Mark Wahlberg’s performance in both films is laughable. There were a few times in Max Payne I thought I was watching one of the scenes from Boogie Nights where they were recreating filming a scene for a porn. I can imagine Wahlberg, Mila Kunis, Chris O’Donnell, and Beau Bridges are probably cringing when watch this film. Now I went into this movie knowing that it was based on a video game and probably wasn’t going to be Oscar worthy but I was hopeful for some good action scenes. After all, the game the movie is based on has some of the best gun fights in any media next to John Woo movies. Sadly, John Moore failed to bring even an ounce of that action to the screen, falling flat on its face. You could probably find better gun fights on your local news. From start to finish the movie is just a mess. We already have one director, Uwe Boll, destroying video games transitions to film we don’t need another.

If you go to see the movie and want to waste more time, wait for the end of the credits for a scene that setups a sequel…*cry* please god…why?!?!