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Is this RPK guy for real?

posted 20 years ago by Fibber_McGee
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So, after seeing this movie for the second time (actually it counts as one time altogether, as I missed the ending the first time I saw it and caught the last 20 minutes this time) I had to come back here and post a comment.

See, after seeing the movie for the first time (but missing the ending) I came to IMDB to see what others had to say, and RPK's mention of "a mind-bending surprise ending that I wouldn't dream of discussing here." had me sorry I'd missed the end.

Well, now I've seen the ending. Perhaps RPKs other comments, about this being "a beautifully-made film with some points to make about its own medium" and saying that, "The simulation of TV news is so accurate as to be almost cruel." should have tipped me off that this guy's a hard-core crackhead, but nope, that comment about a mind-bending surprise had me looking forward to catching the end of this thind.

Well, apparently the mind-blowing surprise is that there is no ending! Aaargh!

This movie is trash! It has a fifty cent budget, twenty-five cent acting talent (the last time I saw acting this wooden, I was at a puppet show!) and isn't in the least bit realistic. The attempts at recreating both a space mission and a news broadcast are sad. Just plain sad.

I'm not sure what movie RPK (and others who made comments about this movie being good, or realistic) were watching, but it couldn't have been this piece of crap.

Or maybe it is. Maybe RPK gets his jollys getting people excited about this movie's non-ending. Maybe he's reading this right now pleasuring himself.

I just don't know, but I do know that RPK's comments are even more baffling than the movie itself.

[–] Felisian 20 years ago

Well, it wasn't THAT bad methinks. Actually, the acting was occationally quite good, but what I really liked the most was the atmosphere that had been building up.

The open-ended stop of the movie was possibly the only way to retain that atmosphere all the way to the credits, well, yes, it could have done differently, but I think non-endings are fun as they leave the rest to your imagination. Hopefully, we wont see that when we really do land a man on Mars, but on a very low-budget TV-movie, it wasn't quite so bad.

Sure, I've seen better, but I've seen a whole lot worse too.

[–] communic-1 20 years ago

This has to be the most amateur movie production I have ever seen.

F

[–] Fibber_McGee 20 years ago

Fair enough. The movie's not THAT bad, but it's not that good either.

It's true that ending it mysteriously was probably the only way to go, but, like eveything else in this movie, they did it badly.