This was included on the disk "Shorts: Volume 2"--a rather dull collection of short films. Shorts are among my favorite style of films but somehow the people assembling this second collection had a hard time finding quality content--and it wasn't nearly as good as the first volume or other shorts collections.
This film begins in the future. It seems that mankind is about to set foot on Mars and a very, very obnoxious reporter is making contact with the crew just before they land. It seems that the crew has already discovered something amazing but the obnoxious reporter won't shut up long enough to let them tell her about what it is. In addition, 99.9% of what the reporter says is irrelevant and annoying--so much so that she drives the crew crazy.
Now this is a great idea--showing how reporters are often idiots who care nothing about the news or telling what is really happening. The problem is that the reporter was so obnoxious that she was a caricature instead of a credible performance of what a reporter COULD be like. In other words, had she played the role better and it had been written better, it would have made its point. Rarely do I say this, but it just didn't look professional and instead, it was just annoying.
This film begins in the future. It seems that mankind is about to set foot on Mars and a very, very obnoxious reporter is making contact with the crew just before they land. It seems that the crew has already discovered something amazing but the obnoxious reporter won't shut up long enough to let them tell her about what it is. In addition, 99.9% of what the reporter says is irrelevant and annoying--so much so that she drives the crew crazy.
Now this is a great idea--showing how reporters are often idiots who care nothing about the news or telling what is really happening. The problem is that the reporter was so obnoxious that she was a caricature instead of a credible performance of what a reporter COULD be like. In other words, had she played the role better and it had been written better, it would have made its point. Rarely do I say this, but it just didn't look professional and instead, it was just annoying.
