Marty Martin Comes Clean

Taken from Zoetrope which was taken from IMDB.com

MartyMartinOnTheLot aka Marty Martin writes:

To everyone out there,

I have purposefully chosen not to respond to anything on these forums. I hate getting mixed into this kind of stuff, but at this point I have to say a thing or two.

First off thank you for everyone who has supported me. Secondly, for those who literally HATE me, get a life and realize this was a reality TV show and not everyone on the show was represented acurately. I am an outspoken guy and came across like a jerk, but this is TV guys. I am not THAT guy and you can choose to believe it or not. But the kind of hate I see in these forums is just sad. You are tearing apart real people who have real lives, families, etc... based on certain things that may or may not be true about them. I really hoped that I had had the opportunity to stay on the show longer to show the real me; a nice and humble family man with a lovely daughter and wife who has been struggling to make it for the past couple of years. I unfortunately didn't get the chance to get that message across.

Aside from that, I will tackle another little criticism I keep seeing around. I didn't follow the rules by making a trailer....? Every piece of work we produced from home and submitted for the show had to obviously be approved by the show before it could air. If I actually hadn't chosen to follow the rules, do you think they would have allowed me to show my short/trailer on national TV? I just chose to take a completely different angle on the 1 minute short concept. I actually wrote an entire treatment for the Big Bad Heist before I broke it down into a 1 minute trailer, and filmed in 12 locations with a large number of actors. No simple task. I was hoping I would stand out as the guy who really took a big risk, and it went the other way around. Oh well, that's life. But being criticized for not following the rules? No way. I'm not stupid, I followed the rules. I just wanted to try something different. Still not sure why Carrie had said I didn't follow them because that wasn't the case. I am sure that if she hadn't had said that, people watching the show wouldn't have thought I violated any rules. But who knows?

As for not being able to take criticism... For those who know me, this is one thing I actually take very well. I came to Hollywood with my first short film 4 years ago and wanted criticism from real producers who were making films. And I got it. And this is how I got better. The only way I can improve on my work is by comparing it to high standards and taking in criticism and learning from it. My issue with Carrie Fisher was blown out of proportion, and being on TV in front of so many people didn't help my judgement all that much. But you know what? I learned from it. If anything, the people who know me know me as a super confident guy, but also one who is humble. And if I came across anything but humble on TV, I can blame some of it on editing, but I also have to take responsibility for stuff I did LIVE on TV. So maybe I got a bit carried away, but no one is perfect, you mistakes, you fall down, then you pick yourself back up and brush yourself off and start again.

I just want to set the record straight on this stuff once, then you guys can continue to tear me apart and I'll leave it at that. The show was a great experience for me in a lot of ways. I've taken a lot from it. Ultimately though what I got out of it was a bunch of great friends. Believe it or not, we were ALL fantastic friends on the show and still are. Which is a pretty rare thing to find in life. So many of these guys are so talented, and it is awesome to be able to stay in contact with them, hang out with them, share ideas, etc...

So it's easy to judge.... To type expletives about contestants and how they are bad, stupid, great, mean, idiots, etc... But it's also kind of sad you need to spend your free time tearing apart people you don't really know. On one hand we all signed up knowing this could happen, and I don't think any of us really take it to heart, but we all do feel it is so over the top. However, thanks for caring enough about the show to get so involved. It's cool to know that you were really following everything so closely. Stay tuned for who wins next week! We can't wait to find out as well!

Marty Martin
Director/Producer/Editor
www.imagenfilms.com
www.marty-martin.com

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So I guess Marty Martin really wasn't the asshole we all thought he was, right? I don't know. Reality TV can make people seem meaner than they are, but no one who wasn't even a little bit arrogant would get on stage and disrespect the judges as many times Marty did.

But, that's the nature of things, right?

WHAT? No On The Lot?

K here.

"On The Lot" got bumped to next week due to sagging ratings the Allstar Game.

Not that it matters to me, anyway. Can somebody say "Boycott"??

Expect updates soon.

Can We Make a Community With You?

K here.

We've been hearing a lot of rumors about the "On The Lot" community/forums, not just from KarmaCritic, but from other writers and filmmakers as well.

It seems that if you use certain words, or talk negatively about the show, your post is censored, the offending words *bleeped* out.

According to this Aint It Cool article:

"Even to this day, if anybody, no matter how established or respected, posts the words "karmacritic" over there... the words first turn automatically into "BLEEP". Within 5 minutes the post is deleted, within 10 minutes the user's account is banned, and in 15 minutes his whole IP is banned (so he wont make new accounts). Then all the posts that person EVER made, go byebye too. OTL uses drupal, like you do in aintitcool.com, like I do in karmacritic.com, so you know all these things are possible with Watchdog triggers. They do it."

Hmm...I wonder...?

Expect an update soon.

KarmaCritic, Fox and Screenwriters

K here.

This showed up in the comments section of "On The Lot" Members Move Out.

From KarmaCritic:

"Just discovered your blog. I'm glad I did! I'm surprised you picked up on our contest after just one day of publishing the promo, but that's why the blogosphere has its reputation :)

I concede the comment about the mystery judge was cheesy... hollywood types dont like a lot of risk, and this trend seems to go up proportionally with how high they are in the totem pole. Its a "if it flops, no one knew I was in it, if it succeeds, I'll come out and jump the bandwagon" kind of thing.

And screenwriters -are- filmmakers! We take anybody who has ever worked above or below the line in any production, studio or indie. If there's no film to enter in the application, any reference to anywhere film that credits you is enough. Thanks for this post, I'm enjoying the rest of your blog, we agree a lot about On The Lot, obviously. Did you know the VP of FOX Branded Media was engaged with us in hand-to-hand combat in Wikipedia?

It was fun: http://www.karmacritic.com/node/276"

Hmm. More updates later when I read and review what happened...

UPDATES!!!

Going through all the information, it seems rather cowardly that those affiliated with FOX would try to censor wikipedia. I mean, it's a free encyclopedia, for Chrissakes, calm down, Fox. You've got an entire station to manipulate.

Regardless of whether or not On The Lot lied about how it does business is one thing, but to repeatedly erase truthful posts on wikipedia simply because you're pissed that your show isn't as hot as you thought it would be is seriously crossing the line.

And House is such a good show, too.