SF State students watched 16 popular Hollywood films from beginning to end, filled with laughter, emotion and a little bit of confusion. The only thing is, it took an hour to view them all.

The Cinema Collective club on campus held a screening of their "Remake A Film Contest" in the Coppola Theatre of the Fine Arts building on Friday night.

The contest started two weeks ago where each team was given one week to remake a popular movie and condense it into two-minute short film.

"You have to know a little bit about [our] story when watching the film...there's so many gaps. We don't explain how the two characters are in love. They just say 'I love you'," said Trunkes Mules, 19, cinema major as he explained the challenge of squeezing the plot of 'West Side Story' in to two minutes for their film.

Every group was given a movie title at random as a way to push their creativity and help them think outside the box.

Skye McLennan a 20-year-old cinema major and events team leader of the Cinema Collective said, "They could be completely free with their styles as long as they go the main plots and themes of the movie."

Films varied from 'American Beauty' and 'Jurassic Park' to 'Back to The Future' and 'Lord of the Rings'. Some remakes consisted of students going to parks or lakes to film outdoor scenes while another groups transformed their dorm hallways into dark alleys for gang fighting sequences. While most films preferred the use of live actors, other groups chose animation or sock puppets as ways to tell their stories.

The audience dictated the winner as they checked a box on a ballet for their favorite film. The group that remade 'Zoolander' was the victor of the night. Members of the group walked up and accepted their construction hat converted trophy accompanied by multiple bags of candy. Ferguson Sauve-Rogan a 20-year-old cinema major and member of the group, accepted the award on behalf of the director who couldn't attend the screening.

"We loved it, the special affects we put into it... it came out awesome," said Elizabeth Lavan, 21, cinema major and member of the 'Zoolander' group as she commented on how well she thought their film turned out.

Brooke Dooley, 22, cinema major said, "I thought it was a really good turnout and the films were really creative and inventive."