After watching the mysterious AFTER LAST SEASON trailer at least 20 times--really,
it's mesmerizing--I decided to buy the DVD. Yeah, I'm probably bound for disappointment, but I NEED to see this movie, and I figure it's the kind of thing Netflix won't pick up.
It's on the UPS truck heading in my direction this afternoon.
I cannot wait.
I've posted my reactions
on my blog, here.
(And I've been told that Netflix is renting it.)
Without reading the rest of the blog, but having watched the trailer - is it about people gathered at some scientific lab to test their psychic abilities, only to discover they're trapped in a poorly scripted film, ala the MATRIX?
Jim, is there any way this film could have cost $5 million?
Marty-- I don't see how. Considering that the average episode of LOST is supposed to cost around $4 million, that just doesn't seem remotely plausible.
In an interview I link to in my post, the director has this to say:
Filmmaker [blog]: In an earlier interview you stated that the film's budget was $5 million, which seems like a high number considering that you had a tiny shooting crew and only shot for five or six days. Is this number correct?
Region: It's correct. When we shot, the budget was $30,000 to $40,000, but to do those special effects and the computer animation, the budget went to that number.
Filmmaker: To $5 million?
Region: Yeah. And that also includes a few other things -- titles, lab costs.
So, if I'm reading that correctly, he's saying the shoot cost $30,000 to $40,000 and everything else cost $4,960,000. And that's just crazy. If it's true and he got charged that much for effects and animation and titles, then the people involved saw a naive mark a mile away and took advantage of him.