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don't call me a movie

In the quest to find more information on "The Onyx Project," I checked in with the ever-reliable IMDb, which sadly failed me (though yielded an *ahem* interesting list of suggested titles) (And rotten tomatoes' list of titles has even less to do with anything). I find the lack of its presense on traditional movie-reviewing sites interesting. On the project's website, they're forever harping on the fact that it's not a movie and you can't make it one!

My two cents is the reason they kept getting turned down by all the people in Hollywood is that such people forsaw that it would probably not be a successful project. The format of the software is far more condusive to pure documentaries, or "educational programming" than the sort of pseudo-docu-drama they have created that, from the two clips I've seen, has the visual interest of a radio broadcast. I realize they were on a tight budget but...