Oops. This is a documentary? Or a … mockumentary? Uhm… I’m not a fan of either genre, but I hope it’s a mockumentary…

Looks like it’s a documentary?

Darn! I was gonna skip all and any documentaries suggested by Queerty.

Now I want to see the original film (that this is a documentary about). It looks really interesting.

OK, now I’m back to this being a mockumentary.

I still have no idea whether anything in this movie is “real”. I mean… an actor called Crispin Glover? It just seems unlikely.

I still don’t know whether this is a parody of documentaries or not — if it’s not, it’s a… documentary…, and if it is, it’s still not funny?

The final scene’s pretty good.

But I’m gonna give Rubin and Ed a go. With this “Crispin Glover”.

The Beaver Trilogy Part IV. Brad Besser. 2015. ⚂

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Oh yeah, I forgot that I could write something about the movie here… I was futzing around with the streaming setup and stuff. This movie is only available in the US, so I had to resort to nefarious means to watch it.

I like the general look of the movie — it moves slowly but in an assured way, and the actors are really good. But the basic plot here is very strange indeed — it seems like it’s happening in the … 70s? 90s?

I guess the time period is… “now, but forget about cell phones, because then the plot wouldn’t quite work, OK?”

I like the movie, but… It’s hard to get over how much that final sauna scene didn’t make much sense.

Spa Night. Andrew Ahn. 2016. ⚂

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Hey! It’s Finnish!

It’s kinda… washed out? It looks like an HDR movie not being displayed as an HDR movie? I’ve got HDR switched off on the Apple TV, but… I guess… the Youtube app didn’t get the memo?

I’m still not sure whether this is supposed to look like this — all super-desaturated and with a lousy black level… but I bought it on the Blockbuster app, too, and it looks the same there.

So… either it’s supposed to look like this, or the filmmakers uploaded the wrong version of the film to everybody.

I guess?

At least it’s not cropped on the left/right like the movie I just watched on Itunes Movies.

It’s ridiculously beige.

And then it turns out that they’re both on Grindr!

Oops!

It’s super awkward.

Awkward!

But funny. Very funny. The father’s priceless.

The general desaturation here gets even more extreme in the sauna scenes… so… perhaps… it’s an artistic choice?

I’m still guessing it’s a technical problem somewhere.

So much banding, too… pretty low framerate, I guess.

God I hate everything about streaming. Except the, you know, getting the movie immediately part. That part’s nice.

OK. That’s just what this movie is. There’s some really fun scenes, but there’s also a bunch of scenes that just seem like padding. Was this originally a short that was then expanded or something?

A Moment in the Reeds. Mikko Makela. 2017. ⚂

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