And now, for something completely unnecessary: Waking Norman 3.
Posted: August 3rd, 2010 | Author: Mitchel | Filed under: Uncategorized | 4 Comments »
It had been a tough week. Aaron and I, as we often are, were feeling the strains of being adults – working our 9 to 5’s and coming home to freelance work we had very little interest in doing. We hadn’t had much fun in a while and the long, tedious, soul-crushing days were beginning to take their toll on us. So we did the most sensible thing we could think of: take a small break from grown-up life and be kids again – to go back in time 5 years or so for just one day.
In the true spirit of our younger days, we wanted to run around and film ourselves beating each other up and only worry about devising anything that resembled a plot in between takes. We did this so many times as kids, but it was always Aaron and Jon who got to do all the fun action stuff while I ran around with the camera. This time would be different. I thought back to a similar day sometime in 2006. Aaron and Jon stayed at my house overnight and we woke up around noon to eat a healthy hamburger breakfast at Burger King. We walked over to the nearby thrift store, bought some cheap suits and decided the best thing we could do with them is film some sort of action sequence. We did just that, but got kicked out of our location (on top of a train) before we could finish. Not wanting to have wasted the previous 3 hours, we somehow came up with the idea of turning what we had filmed into a sequel for our movie from a year or so before that, Waking Norman. After another couple hours at a park, we ended up with a real treasure, Waking Norman 2: Caleb Strikes Again – probably the worst thing we have ever uploaded to YouTube.
So we thought: what better way to return to our carefree days of youth than to make probably the most unnecessary sequel since Batman & Robin?
