Blue Rising

This movie seemed to have two distinct parts, both, I think set in the year 2067. The first part was a guy getting “through the zone” – running through the ruins of building with a maniacal machine gunner killing off his co-travellers. I guess this was the Road part of the movie. The second part was a guy plucking up the moral strength to rescue a girl from two thugs. A wise old man helped him with wise old sayings. This film was in the WTF category but I loved the animated bird, even if I had no idea what it was there for.

For some reason this film was hilarious. Good job guys!

I have absolutely no idea what was going on here, but it had a certain charm to it. The inexplicable cutting to crude paint animations of birds, and the filtered look was cool.

On a planet in the future, that looks suspiciously like earth on its surface, our lead manages to avoid gunfire (without muzzle flash) from a manic, gunner. Death may have been preferable though because the next phase of the journey involves seeing some weird animated bird that flies really slowly; avoiding a really slow attack on a pretty woman; and listening to some really slow advice from an old wise man that amounts to being there for others. Will he go back and save the girl? He better hurry 'cos the bad guys have nearly decided what they're going to do. Audio is really average but I thought the acting of the young woman was good - can't have been easy having your head pushed in those leaves. Filmed at the old CHCH stockyards by the look of it - nice location. That red bird of yours may just become a CHCH 48HR legend. WINNER: CHRISTCHURCH INCREDIBLY STRANGE BEST BAD FILM

Road Movie, apparently, despite all appearances (although I've heard it suggested that the filmmakers misunderstood the genre to mean making a movie in the style of "The Road"). In any case, it's a one-way trip to WTF city limits, with a false-colour post-apocalyptic wilderness as the setting for, well, something. This kinda felt more like a bunch of unrelated ideas mashed together, although there was also the occasional sense that a coherent narrative might be tapping at the basement door trying to get out. Highlight here for me was the amazing red bird, with CG effects courtesy of what appeared to be MS Paint. A truly beautiful creation.

[watched in screening room] my god, what was this? actually I'm going to follow the advice of the sign in their team intro... "Don't Ask" Man attempts to run the 'red zone' (?) with other man and the aid of some magic potions and weird editing. Another man laughs maniacally and attempts to gun them down with a machine gun that shoots invisible bullets. Men are hit and bleed strangely thick/clumpy blood. Hey, I guess it is an alien world... Later on, man trudges across a bleak (post-apocalyptic landscape). He drinks something. He spits it out and throws the bottle away. He drinks something else, then spits that out too and throws the bottle away. Some girl is gonna get raped (eventually). Man ignores it, till a wise old man and his dog (who doesn't bite) appear and use wise sayings to convince him to intervene. With a gun that doesn't work. Pew pew! And I haven't even gotten to the MS Paint-animated bird. Despite the 'plot', this movie had some real nice-looking moments (the eclipse actually made me sit up and go "ohhh...that's clever") even if the flarey sun did get tiresome after a while. Unfortunately the audio quality was all over the place, and I was... confused. ...you know what? I don't care. I'm off to watch it again.

This is our film so can't really review it (so will go for the average of 3 stars here). However thanks for all the feedback keep it coming! We had alot of fun making this film and it turned out well, the sort of result (and feedback) we were hoping for! So stoked to have won Incredibly Strange Best Bad Film award for Christchurch for our first year effort! Next year here we come.

This movie seemed to have two distinct parts, both, I think set in the year 2067. The first part was a guy getting “through the zone” – running through the ruins of building with a maniacal machine gunner killing off his co-travellers. I guess this was the Road part of the movie. The second part was a guy plucking up the moral strength to rescue a girl from two thugs. A wise old man helped him with wise old sayings. This film was in the WTF category but I loved the animated bird, even if I had no idea what it was there for.

On a planet in the future, that looks suspiciously like earth on its surface, our lead manages to avoid gunfire (without muzzle flash) from a manic, gunner. Death may have been preferable though because the next phase of the journey involves seeing some weird animated bird that flies really slowly; avoiding a really slow attack on a pretty woman; and listening to some really slow advice from an old wise man that amounts to being there for others. Will he go back and save the girl? He better hurry 'cos the bad guys have nearly decided what they're going to do. Audio is really average but I thought the acting of the young woman was good - can't have been easy having your head pushed in those leaves. Filmed at the old CHCH stockyards by the look of it - nice location. That red bird of yours may just become a CHCH 48HR legend. WINNER: CHRISTCHURCH INCREDIBLY STRANGE BEST BAD FILM

This is our film so can't really review it (so will go for the average of 3 stars here). However thanks for all the feedback keep it coming! We had alot of fun making this film and it turned out well, the sort of result (and feedback) we were hoping for! So stoked to have won Incredibly Strange Best Bad Film award for Christchurch for our first year effort! Next year here we come.