As expected...

The "campusmoviefest" show was last night. We were told they would be showing the 10 best films. They did. As expected, we saw ten horrible, horrible student films, complete with stupid-looking effects, inaudible dialogue, bad lighting and framing, and not a plot among them. Oh -- and none of them was ours.

Oh, but wait! The show's not over. There are four more, award-winning films left. (I assumed as much; there's no way they'd show all that crap and not show our film.)

Then they showed four more films. None of which were ours.

So there you have it: Fruitless is worse than fourteen terrible, terrible movies. Deeply depressing.

Positive spin: We knew the judging criteria, and deliberately ignored it. In our defense, we had been told the wrong theme (a theme to which most of the movies shown tried desperately to pander); not in our defense, we never even planned to incorporate the theme we thought it was going to be. Another criteria is how well effects are used, and since effects are stupid-looking, we didn't.

Negative spin: Fourteen? Fourteen? I just applied to a bunch of film schools. What the hell was I thinking? I have no future.