12-15-2018, 01:18 PM
DM, we must have watched it at the same time (last night). For me, it was so mesmerizing that I kept rewinding to watch sections over again.
Okay, so I kept drifting off, needed to refind my place.
One of my pet peeves is movies that waste their budget, spending millions on sets and special effects that you can't really see on screen.
But this one was uncanny in how well it put every penny of its fifteen dollar budget on screen. Mars? No fake winds there (like in The Martian). A terrifying polar bear (I think that's what it was). A killer robot. Green people! [though to me they just looked muddy]. A toymaking machine. A spaceship with toilet-sounding retro rockets. The list goes on (but not very far).
There was a moment's respite during the closing credits when the movie came close to redeeming itself with "Hurray for Santa Claus," the movie's theme song, sung by none other than the ineffable Pia Zadora.
Okay, so I kept drifting off, needed to refind my place.
One of my pet peeves is movies that waste their budget, spending millions on sets and special effects that you can't really see on screen.
But this one was uncanny in how well it put every penny of its fifteen dollar budget on screen. Mars? No fake winds there (like in The Martian). A terrifying polar bear (I think that's what it was). A killer robot. Green people! [though to me they just looked muddy]. A toymaking machine. A spaceship with toilet-sounding retro rockets. The list goes on (but not very far).
There was a moment's respite during the closing credits when the movie came close to redeeming itself with "Hurray for Santa Claus," the movie's theme song, sung by none other than the ineffable Pia Zadora.