Chris Freeman

What is so fascinating about this film(?), is the detailed walk through of what it takes to make a movie. At least from a personal passion perspective. His notion of who he wanted in what roles, how he reached out and 'seduced' stars to be in the roles. A bottle of wine gets you Orson Welles? 3 mins of film time gets you Dali!?! Incredible. But I wonder why, when discussing Lynch's Dune, they didn't notate the replicated Giger set designs. I wonder how much of his work came from the designs submitted to Jodorowsky's film? But moreso, in today's 'we need more black/women/latinx in movies' this talks about the struggle of even making a movie, and the personal passion behind it all. And as he states, "these guy (studio execs) aren't filmmakers, they're accounts." So true, "if we have a female lead, we see an increase of 1.2% in ticket sales." said someone with no passion other than to count money. Must go back and watch Dune now.

Ohhh... I want say something about this movie now. This is what’s called star power. People are comparing, or more so relating this to The Bird Box. Why? Sandra Bullock and a banner. We live Sandra Bullock. And good reason, she a super star. She knows how to make movies (Funny how no one mentioned that TBB was just a ripoff remake of The Happening, Shamalyan’s goofy ‘the devil made me do it’ Wahlberg flop) Her film had a huge full screen banner on Netflix. Io has a full screen banner. Well, so did Monsters: Dark Continent. And Spectral. And Annihilation. Which was trippy actually. This is science fiction. Fiction means untrue. As in two people going on an over night journey with little 7 minute oxygen tanks, make that cannisters. The movie is slow, but well made. Acting is soft. Story is ridiculous. I’m not even going down the Mandingo trail. My favorite line: “I know where there’s enough Helium. But it’s further than I’ve even been. And longer than I’ve ever stayed.” If you’ve got nothing else to do, watch this movie. If you love movie making watch this movie. If you appreciate well made bad movies, watch this movie. If you want Transformers 13: Prime’s Revenge, head over to the local multiplex with your MasterCard. It’s priceless