Rated 2 out of 5
Mostly dull, not as good as it should be
There are nine shorts on this, so the rating of 2 stars is based off of an average of the scores I gave to each, with a bit of my own tilt to it.1 - "Animated Corpse" - 4 stars: It’’s a music video, and I don’’t often watch music videos. However, it is funny in its own way. I wouldn’’t normally watch it, but it’’s alright.
2 - "Dinner" - 3 stars: A modern fairy tale that had some good ideas and an interesting set design, but fails because of a poor script. When it tries to be funny, it fails, and when it tries to be dramatic, it is laughable. It’’s the sort of thing that would probably be good to remake.
3 - "Every Night and Twice on Sundays" - 2 stars: Yet another independent documentary that’’s meant to be funny. I thought it was boring as hell. I give it two stars, though, because there are worse films on this disc, and I could at least stand to watch this one again if I had to. If you like things like "Waiting for Guffman," you might like this (maybe - I’’m saying this based off of the fact that I didn’’t care much for that movie, either).
4 - "Flying with the Angels" - 1 star: This is the sort of... that gives independent cinema a bad name. It is a pretentious, boring, pseudosymbolic music-video-wannabe that the filmmakers took way too seriously. It’’s one of those "so intelligent that nobody on Earth understands" things. It is described as the diary of a woman’’s subconscious - but it’’s actually just a woman having sex, and then crawling around naked in her apartment. It’’s so horrible, it couldn’’t even be used for pornography.
5 - "Iceman" - ? stars: Didn’’t watch it. Sorry.
6 - "Hidden Child" - ? stars: Didn’’t watch it. Looked too gruesome. Sorry.
7 - "The Passage" - 1 star: Like that "angel"..., this movie pretended to be really intelligent, meaningful, and symbolic, but it was just a plotless waste of film. It was in black and white, of course (so was "Angels"), because any snooty, silent, dull movie that is supposed to be art HAS to be in B & W (It’’s a rule in the Committee of Bad Independent Movies). Supposedly, this one is supposed to be about a writer’’s struggle between reality and insanity. Instead, a guy has a beer, smokes a cigarette, and stares off, blankly. This goes on for twenty minutes!
8 - "Today’’s Life" - 4 stars: A pilot in a deep space research vessel struggles to understand his existence. Do not be fooled by the reason I gave this a high rating. I believe that special effects do not make a good movie. It is a good plot, script, and acting that make a good film. "Today’’s Life" is the only movie on this disc with impressive special effects, but the reason it is good is because of a very interesting plot (Actually, the fact that it has any plot at all is a welcome change from the rest of the movies) and a decent pace. It is heavy-handed, which might cause you to wish they would have extended the movie, or even made it feature-length, but it as a short, it is still very good.
9 - "Zitlover" - ? stars (I would estimate 1, based on what I did see): All I know is, I saw about the first thirty seconds, and it appeared to be disgustingness for disgustingness’’s sake. It isn’’t like "South Park," where gross things are mixed in with humor. Instead, it’’s just gross stuff that the filmmakers HOPE would be funny. Of course, that’’s all based off of only the half a minute that I watched - maybe it gets really good. I will never know; I have a weak stomach.
So, there you have it. Mostly dull. A few rays of hope. I would suggest you save your money, because the few good things on this disc are really short, while the bad stuff (Like "Flying with th
