New movies that dont deserve their own thread.

kroenen said:

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Took my daughter to see this. It was OK; she was a fan of the game/experience whatever it was. It was showing at River Oaks Theater, which is an old-school cinema, non-stadium seating, for instance, 4:3 screen, but she was hyped, so we went. Sound mix was what most people said about Tenet, music stepped on the voices in a few places. She said it was more inspired by the game than a direct 1:1 interpretation, with some body horror and some cosmic horror thrown in. Apparently this set a record for the amount of fake blood used, something like 80,000 gallons? I don't know. All in all for a first time writer/director of a thread bare experience it was super mid to OK grading on the curve. Some of it didn't make sense but I don't think its suppose to, for a movie about a guy welded into a solo sub on a moon out in space where an ocean of human blood has suddenly appeared after an event they call "The Quiet Rapture" has taken place and most of humanity (and the stars) have been winked out of existence, and you are looking for clues to explain the event and save what's left of mankind. No spoilers in that, its given in a voiceover prologue that we couldn't hear most of in the theater.

There were also a number of other concepts that might have been explained that might have been mumbled or Thundered over by the score that I only kind of figured out in the theater but had to look up once we got home, and several that were apparently in the movie I never knew existed because I never heard them mentioned but were inconsequential to the story of a dude and his bathysphere survival experience.

It's almost all just him in the sub, a few other faces outside at times, Troy Baker and Allanah Pierce have roles, game's creator has a cameo. Jeremy Johns' review captures it pretty well: Slow at first, then it goes places.

So probably 4-6 or less depending your tastes objectively, 7ish if you consider this is Mark Fischback's first real movie to write and direct, funded himself, inspired by a game but with way more in it because the game is less than an hour to play but the movie is 1:45 or more.

Joel Hodgeson sold his stake in MST3k to Radial Entertainment and Mike Nelson, and the Rifftax crew, are making 4 episodes of MST3k. I have a feeling these episodes are going to be much more like the Mike era MST3k (crazy, I know) as opposed to whatever Joel was trying to achieve with season 11-13 however we'll see. I liked those seasons (s11-13), there are some quality episodes in there, but I didn't really like that almost 'overproduced' feel of it. I didn't even mind Paton Oswald, however the bot voices don't work for me.

If anyone doesn't know what Rifftrax is, but know what MST3k is: Rifftrax is Mike Nelson (Mike seasons: 5.5-10), Kevin Murphey (Tom Servo s2-10), and Bill Corbet (Crow T. Robot s8-10) and they do commentary tracks over movies. Audio only for "good" movies like Star Wars, Star Trek, Twilight, Avengers, and the like. Mike manages a film collection and they do riffs on those and sell them on their website, those riffs include the movie with the rifftrack overlayed.

Rifftrax Twitch

For RLM fans; Suburbun Sasquatch, Things, Galaxy Invader, Lycan Colony (Youtube link), and Stone Cold are on the twitch channel.

If you don't know what MST3k is, links to the Twitch and Youtube channel;

• Twitch
• Youtube

The kickstarter is already successful but other people might want to throw in for the goodies. I did.