After Last Season Update: It's Real
Vindicated! I was actually having my doubts as to the authenticity of this film (see previous post), after I seemed like the one naive idiot who didn’t think some arch ironist like Gondry or Jonze was ingeniously behind it. However, here’s a review at twitch. “The film is not a put-on. After Last Season is, however, so genuinely and startlingly bad that a movie cult will undoubtedly form around it.”
Other highlights:
- “Unbelievably, the film’s trailer, including the editing, is representative of the entire movie.”
- “Impromptu props made of cardboard and other discarded material are everywhere.”
- “In fact, the performances seem disconnected from the overall narrative as if they were occurring in a black box.”
- “Some scenes are perceptibly out-of-focus. There is a pervasive, muffled background noise. Scenes come and go with no continuity or explanation. Conversations often cutaway to shots of furniture and other items for no reason.”
- “A large part of the movie consists of the previously mentioned computer graphics, which are brutally crude. Although these graphics fit into the story, [the] film leans heavily on them to pad out the 93 minute running time. Thus, the parade of colored circles, spheres, birds, and fish tends to goes on and on as if the film went on pause and a screen saver kicked in.”
Joy!