Before you read I want you to know that I don't want to be too hard to the crew and filmmakers in general. But this movie gave me no other option.
I can't understand how anyone with an IQ higher than a potato can rate this movie better than 1.
Okay, there might be the nudity or the really misplaced graphic masturbation scene that may drive some of the juvenile audience to like the movie in pieces.
But instead of not liking it, I was getting angry at the film at so many times.
First of all the score is a horrid ride to the past, when people thought synthesizer buzzes out of a crappy but state of the art Moog or Oszillator-synth would be some kind of scary or supports any atmosphere: WRONG! It's annoying...annoying and of course it sounds like crap. Besides the strange noise-tunes it is mostly misplaced, really badly mixed and has most of the time nothing to do with the movie. Since for the sound-department, there was only a boom operator, I guess there was no sound-editing at all.
The acting is a complete FAILURE as well as the casting. Stefanie Geils acting is woody and strange. There is not a second in the movie I would buy a 17year old girl from her. That's the main problem. All the characters are school-teens but are played by very much older people. No problem with that, especially with all the nudity in. But somehow they had not one actor that managed to look or act not like a 30 year old Walmart salesman. The mother is at least it's what I felt, at the same age as Rose and so on... The real acting quality is the quality you get when kids make a fun short for youtube. That combined with a good plot, a funny conclusion or some other REASON to make a short movie, is sometimes entertaining. And then, bad acting is bearable for a short time. But here, every scene was driving me crazy of how bad the acting is. And just when I was in thoughts about the acting, there came the next buzz from the synth to make me forget it for about 5 seconds...
And in the end, the idea with the colors may be fine, but it was annoying. It made no reason and looked strange. There was no art in the movie that made any excuse for that edit.
All in all... I give this movie ONE star because I cannot give ZERO
This is a complete failure and waste of time for all people involved in it, especially for the audience.
Sad but true. I feel a bit sorry for Harry Sparks and hope he will find a better way for his future films
I can't understand how anyone with an IQ higher than a potato can rate this movie better than 1.
Okay, there might be the nudity or the really misplaced graphic masturbation scene that may drive some of the juvenile audience to like the movie in pieces.
But instead of not liking it, I was getting angry at the film at so many times.
First of all the score is a horrid ride to the past, when people thought synthesizer buzzes out of a crappy but state of the art Moog or Oszillator-synth would be some kind of scary or supports any atmosphere: WRONG! It's annoying...annoying and of course it sounds like crap. Besides the strange noise-tunes it is mostly misplaced, really badly mixed and has most of the time nothing to do with the movie. Since for the sound-department, there was only a boom operator, I guess there was no sound-editing at all.
The acting is a complete FAILURE as well as the casting. Stefanie Geils acting is woody and strange. There is not a second in the movie I would buy a 17year old girl from her. That's the main problem. All the characters are school-teens but are played by very much older people. No problem with that, especially with all the nudity in. But somehow they had not one actor that managed to look or act not like a 30 year old Walmart salesman. The mother is at least it's what I felt, at the same age as Rose and so on... The real acting quality is the quality you get when kids make a fun short for youtube. That combined with a good plot, a funny conclusion or some other REASON to make a short movie, is sometimes entertaining. And then, bad acting is bearable for a short time. But here, every scene was driving me crazy of how bad the acting is. And just when I was in thoughts about the acting, there came the next buzz from the synth to make me forget it for about 5 seconds...
And in the end, the idea with the colors may be fine, but it was annoying. It made no reason and looked strange. There was no art in the movie that made any excuse for that edit.
All in all... I give this movie ONE star because I cannot give ZERO
This is a complete failure and waste of time for all people involved in it, especially for the audience.
Sad but true. I feel a bit sorry for Harry Sparks and hope he will find a better way for his future films