ur a sick bastard
the artwork was pretty good and you told the story well, but i dont see why you would make a movie like this. you seem to make those boys out to be the heros. i dont get it. im giving this movie a 1.
Reviews for "Autumn Tree"
pointless
why dig up the past? if, in portraying the circumstances leading up to the tragedy, you hope to illuminate and "educate" the public of the ills and tribulations of the socially arkward, you are misrepresenting the fundamentals of right and wrong. COME ON. People get picked on all the time! People deal with it, they don't gun down other people! It is WRONG, no matter the circumstances!! Romanticising the tragedy is only gonna send the wrong message, PLEASE think about what you have just done.
Eh...
Not blam-worthy, but pretty damn overrated. First off, that blond-haired kid had a dopey grin on half the time. Second, while you guys do give credit to "Elephant" for inspiration, and thereby base a lot of your facts on it's interpretation of the events, you seem to forget something: "Elephant" was a Hollywood movie, and therefore was written to entertain; things shown in that movie were not necessarily fact, and neither were many things in your movie.
Now that I'm done with my unbiased review, here's my biased part: You claim to have done extensive research on the subject, and yet you can't understand why these kids would do something like this? What the fuck? Understanding and agreeing with are completely different things. I don't personally agree at all with what those kids did, nor do I seek to justify their actions. But even I can understand why they think they were right in doing what they did.
First off, these kids lived in a close-minded, racist town, something the media conveniently forgot to report, so everyone could act surprised when it was revealed that the kids had pictures of Adolf Hitler on their walls. Second, not only did the kids parents work for a weapons manufacturing company, but they also neglected their children to such a ridiculous extent, they didn't even know that the kids even had said posters on their walls, let alone all the ammunition/explosives-making equipment that was strewn in plain view. The point here is, you're a product of your environment; what these kids did was obviously twisted and wrong, but did anyone step in to help them before this happened? Note that the letters retrieved after the killings blamed not only the students, but family and teachers, too. In other words, life shit on these kids, and not even the grown-ups would put a stop to what was going on. Some reports say that certain adults (teachers included) even perpetrated this shit, allowed it to happen in various forms or another, without paying it any mind.
In other words, the filmmakers should have spent more time discussing how these events lead up to the killings, and what shaped and motivated the killers. They were way sparse on the things that mattered most. This movie, through it's crappy pacing and lack of substance, makes it seem like the kids were just punched around a bit, found each other, then decided to overcome the odds together by shooting everyone. That is not how it happened. The problems ran much deeper than a bruised cheek and bloody nose, and this should have been explained more thoroughly.
The music was probably the redeeming factor here, as it complied nicely with the overall tone.
A slightly-less-than-mediocre flick, overall.
Well...
Quite honestly, this is about the last thing I expected. When I hear that someone wrote or created something related to Columbine, I expect a BIT of exaggeration of the events. This, however, takes the cake. Manson, the "do you believe in god?" (even more dramaticized here) line, "they were only using guns," "they got picked on," etc.
The graphics were very nice, and the soundtrack fit the atmosphere, but this is raping what actually happened, I'd say.
I don't agree with the shooters, and I don't look at the shootings with a light heart, but I'd rather have an honest portrayal of the events.
Ok what the fuck????
Dude, first off they used Tec-9's not long barreled rifles and shotguns, second off, they didn't kill that many people, and third you didn't even cover the explosives in the cafeteria part. This movie sucked, please don't watch this, please read my review before you decide to watch this dumb shit, its BAD, it's not even close to what happened, you said it wa a detailed recreation, hell no its not. It's what you think happened, or what you wanted to happen, this isn't how it went down, plus he didn't just get punched in the face and decide to kill a bunch of people, it was weeks, months, maybe YEARS of torment. If you want to make a good movie about a real event, know everything about it before you do, because this was some dumb shit, it was more of a tribute.