As boring as the films were tonight, at least Adriana looked wonderful as usual, and one of my current favorites (Mr. Roth) was a guest judge.

So...there's two pluses.

Can't wait to get to next week, where the real talents are.

Actually, as much as I have contempt for Eli Roth's films, and think he's really full of himself, I have to say that he is the first guest judge to really give honest and insightful reviews.

I'm glad he didn't let the contestants have a free pass at the stuff they ripped off for their films. By pointing out each (much better) movie that was used as inspiration, he was attempting to point out just how crappy each of this week's films were.

The worst sin this show commits, in my opinion, is simply judging the films against the other films that week, rather than judging the films against real films. At your local film festival or 48 Hour Film Project, the only thing that matters is that you're the best of all the other crappy films that your local peers have produced (and I've produced my share of crappy local contest films and even rose to the top of the crappy pile in a couple of them). But on THIS show, which is supposed to be finding the best talent to give a million dollars to in order to produce real films that they hope mass audiences will go see, only Zach is REMOTELY showing the sort of talent or creativity that leads me to believe he has the ability to create something audiences might want to pay money to see.

So I applaud Eli Roth for saying "Hey... I liked your film a lot better when it was called the Hills Have Eyes".

Here's how I rate the 6 films:

Kenny: Film sucked, Adriana looked great afterwards.

Sam: Film sucked, Adriana came back on stage and became girl of my dreams.

Andrew: Film sucked, couldn't wait for Adriana.

Jason: Didn't see film, fast forwarded to Adriana.

Shira-Lee: ditto

Mateen: Didn't see film, ah, private matter.

Did anybody else notice that Eli Roth was a total prick? Why did he point out examples of similar horror films for every single short? Were we supposed to be impressed?

"Yes, your film was one-tenth Hills Have Eyes mixed with nine-tenths Scream and a dash of Mary Poppins. And by the way, I have no useful comments other than showing my ability to make reference to crappy old horror movies."

What was the name of the actress who played the blonde mother in Jason's "Eternal Waters"? I swear I've seen her before. It's driving me nuts.

I can't begin to describe how much I think Kenny is one of the worst filmmakers I've even seen. It hit me the first week, and has been further reinforced week after week. He should have gone home a long time ago. Why the judges are so nice to him, I'll never understand. The guy cannot make a coherent film. I'd much rather watching 24 hours of straight Uwe Boll films rather than see another film from Kenny.

I was glad someone pointed out the connection between Simon Pegg's Spaced, but the truth of the matter is that this concept has been done before, even on a commercial for Xbox 360, you can not claim it to be stealing, its like that south park episode about how the "Simpson's did it" all format has been done before, you can find similarities in everything if you really feel the need to look.

I agree with all the comments already posted. I'm pretty much only watching this show now to see who wins and to see if by any miracle that someone comes up with a short film that's remotely interesting (verdict: not this week).

I've actually now swung all the way from wanting Kenny gone to wanting him to go as far as possible. Even though based on his talent he shouldn't have even made it into the top 10,000, I'm starting to look forward to his films to see just how bad they are going to be. He didn't disappoint again this week. On a technical level, the one thing he consistently does that none of the judges ever call him on, is that he never leaves text up on the screen long enough to read it.

And about the similarity of Zach's film to the other two examples. Agreed that they all use the exact same idea, with the "Two Old Friends" one being the best of the three examples (admittedly, the one from Spaced is from a TV show episode, so shouldn't be judged as a stand-alone work).

But in defense of the latter two, who among us hasn't engaged in a finger gun battle in their lives? The reason why all three of these shorts are funny is because we've all done it. We recognize what they are doing. So it's not a stretch at all to think that each of them came up with their ideas on their own.

I've produced some short films and some video contest entries for websites, and after posting the films to youtube, inevitably receive some emails from people pointing out how we had very close to the same ideas, or else I'll see an entry that used the same concept as I did.

As a filmmaker, the LAST thing I want to do is something someone else has done. Anytime I see a video or a neat idea, if I had anything close to that already in development, I scrap it. I'm a creative person. I want my stuff to be unique. So I can't imagine someone as creative as Zach finding a little video on YouTube and then saying to himself, "I think I'm going to just rip that video off and hopefully no one will ever notice."

That said, even if he DID see "Spaced" (which is likely, because that's the kind of show that someone like Zach would really like), and even if he remembered that finger gun battle sequence, and even if he did 'adapt' it, I don't have any problem, because he put it in a different environment, with a different story.

midnight snack was the only decent film this episode. they should spice up the show by beating the loser out of the show. like with sticks. starting with kenny. that guy should have been out after the first garbage he presented about the taxi.

i just can't stop watching this show because of ms. costa. put her on stage and have the camera just slowly rotate around her for an hour.

p. s. i knew eli roth was a dumbass but this was ridiculous.

btw the episode of Spaced aired in 2001, it's been around a long time. In the end it does not matter if Zach "borrowed" an idea for a short. As the saying goes, "Talent borrows, genius steals." The contest obviously is NOT about film making, but putting on a beauty show. It's so blatantly obvious that Zach is going to win in the end it's just ridiculous for the show to go on any further.

The contest should have been limited to 10 contestants period; chosen by the online public. Those 10 contestants should have had to make a REAL short movie; 10-15 minutes long and the show should have had a better organization for online viewing, with the voting taking place over the course of a WEEK, not in the immediate timeframe after the show.

Lastly, there should have let the judges actually RATE each film and have the score weigh just almost as much as the online votes.

It's a shame that because of this crappily thought out contest, and the utter failure of Project Greenlight, there will most likely never be anything like this contest again.

Truth be told, the winner of this contest most likely will be bought out cheap and sent packin' after a week "On the Lot," mainly because after the contest is over nobody will give a shite anyway, especially since the contest is never coming back.