 Thanks for checking out this movie review video. This is for the 2018 film Jessica forever Which is just hitting shutter today when I'm posting this video. So it's a shutter original and Shutter first the marshes now this What are you doing? I mean if this is what the originals are gonna end up being like or continuing to be like I Don't do originals anymore Just do the exclusives and do other stuff and get licenses for older films like established because this is it's not good I mean the marshes was horrible. This is a little bit better Not much and I'm gonna talk about why so I won't do spoilers on this because if people really want to see the film That's fine. That's your choice and there might be some people out there who legitimately like this film I hated it. I didn't like I said I didn't hate it as much as the marshes and you should watch my review for the marshes because No holds barred hated it terrible I'm gonna crap all over this film because it is not good But just know it's better than the marshes and some people might enjoy it And if you do enjoy it go ahead and put some comments down there Tell me why I'm always open to listening Well in this case reading and finding out why people like things and that's fine We all have different opinions, but for me very strongly hate this So it was written and directed by caroline puggy puggy or poji. I don't know and jonathan vannell Previous to this they just did some short films. That's all that showed up on their internet movie database history and from the Experience of this film they should just stick with short films They can Physically make a feature length film But they don't have the ability to write the story For a feature length film is what this brings through to me These people don't have the chops to write a script For an engaging or even halfway decent feature length film. It's just not their ability It's a french film. Just so people know Which you know fine The opening feels like it's trying too hard to be cool and it's just straight up awkward Now that actually goes throughout the film. It's just it so many moments where it's like it's trying to be cool It's trying to be angsty. It's trying to be Artistic and amazing and it's not it it tries to be all these things And it never is any of those things not even close to it And there's nothing worse than someone trying to do something and not even coming close to doing it And that's what this film is is a whole series of those types of things if you don't have the ability Find someone who does Or you know get help just get help with these films The first five minutes has no dialogue in it, which is fine, but then there's a bunch of I mean for the most part there isn't a ton of dialogue in this film, which Might actually be a good thing because when there is dialogue, it's it's pretty dumb. It's not very well written There's a whole lot of cliche stuff thrown out there things that just don't play well And yeah, actually now that I think about it the fact that there isn't a ton of dialogue is probably better Because then that way you can just kind of focus on the visuals which by the way the camera work is actually pretty good Whoever was working their camera. I hope they get work past this Because they did a good job And you know, you can see where the the two who wrote and directed it have the ability to do directing They can do some films but just don't they should not write their own stuff They just should not write their own stuff or at least come up with a premise come up with an idea Give it to an actual writer. They'll write up the script and then they can direct it. That's fine Um Because there's a good premise here. There's an underlying good idea It's just nothing is executed well with that idea the script is the biggest problem with this It is terrible and the acting is also not good But you know with a strong enough script Bad acting isn't the end of the film you you need a strong script. That is the cornerstone Especially for a very low budget film, which you can tell that this is Some of the characters have really stupid nicknames, which is pretty much of her shadowing of how this film is going to go I'm talking about names like this one's kind of dumb, but not super dumb Raiden but then you have the really dumb ones like magic And leopard so when they were introducing these characters and they got too magic and leopard Hard eye roll for me. I was like, oh my Oh my this is and it was foreshadowing It was very strong foreshadowing of what the rest of this film would be like Um, just like those names just trying so hard to be cool Just not even close The dialogue and characters are overly simplistic Every character is boiled down to one thing and they're almost all the same Almost every character has the same emotions acts the same way talks the same way Everything's the same It's like a bunch of drones. It's terrible. It's just garbage Um, nobody shows emotion, which that is the best way to have people not care at all about the movie Nobody shows emotion. There's there's a flash here or there where someone has an emotional line delivery But for the most part from what I can tell it's written and directed to Have people not show emotion in their acting in their dialogue delivery. None of it and it's just like How are you gonna have the audience connect with a single character The first thing is you have these overly simplistic characters who don't develop Pretty much at all throughout the film. They're almost all the same. It's like cardboard and then you have them not emote and not I mean it it's giving the audience nothing It gives the audience nothing to relate to it gives the audience nothing to be interested in And it's just like you're just watching these robotic Like these androids just go about doing things and they're not even doing interesting things for the most part Here or there it gets a little bit interesting and when I say a little bit. I mean a very little bit They're just doing so many mundane things and like you can pull a film off this way Like they were trying to do but they just don't do it and I at the end of this I'll give some examples of what I think they were kind of going for and and good examples of that There are lots of scenes of people just sitting around or standing around And a lot of staring that goes on it just comes off as idiotic Lots and lots of staring like I said, there's no emotion. There's so many instances where something happens and the the reaction or lack of reaction from the characters is so in your face that you're just like Huh, what are we doing here? Like that's not even close to human like nobody would not react to that There wouldn't be a single person who wouldn't react to that or would just stand there and stare and there's so much staring It's unbelievable. It's obvious that this film should have been cut down to half an hour maybe It's an hour and 36 minutes half an hour of it could have been a movie Jesus There are lots. Oh, yeah already got that one It just got me kind of shaken up here Like I said, the camera work is actually pretty solid though Like there are some inspired interesting shots, but that's not enough to keep people interested in the movie They have a night vision sequence in this film that does not look good and actually Didn't matter at all. So it was just kind of like this. Hey, I think we can do this Let's put it in the movie not I think this makes sense in the movie or we'll add something And that's kind of what this whole script was. It's just like, hey, I've got an idea Don't let's not even think about if it makes sense or if it pushes story forward or anything If you have an idea just put it in It's just like what the hell? Oh my gosh A lot of the time it feels like there was little to no script and they just winged it Based on locations that they wanted to use now. I will say this the shot locations are cool They do have some cool locations that look very beautiful Wonderful backdrop to it. There's a house in it that looks really nice and everything But it's what they choose to do with that, which is pretty much nothing that just leaves you like Okay, like what what why? Huh There's a scene I love this Maybe my favorite scene of the film just because I laughed so hard at it because it's unintentionally funny Uh, there's a scene where characters are dancing in music and it's like the most awkward and laughable Like grooving slash dancing you've ever seen it is Terrible terrible, but I found it funny. So there was a little bit of light Within the dark tunnel in a sense Uh, I've never seen so many angsty characters yet. They show no emotion That's the thing like everyone you can tell internally is like super angsty and upset and just hates the world and everything But they don't even like show it really they don't even like It's like well, then what's the point like what is the point and that's kind of this whole movie What is the point? There's no point and I'll get to that a little bit Like I said, there is an interesting premise here kind of this idea It's a little bit post-apocalyptic, but I can't figure out if that's what it was actually trying to do It's a little bit Trying to talk about um, you know, what happens when boys are left alone in society and defend for themselves And then they find uh, their own family or makeshift family and can that kind of repair them from their traumatic past Um, sounds like a good premise, right? Doesn't come through in the actual film though. Well, and that's what I'm saying Like there's a good premise here. They just needed to hand that idea off to someone who actually knows how to write scripts And then they could have shot that but they didn't so That's where why we're here. This is where we are and it's it's not good If you have a low budget film or if you have a low to no budget And you can't do big things you need a very good script with interesting characters Not even a very good script. You need a okay to decent script with interesting characters That will be enough and this doesn't even come close Whenever you write anything you need to look at it from the audience's perspective and ask yourself Why there needs to be a why for things that happen I found myself saying throughout this film so what? Continuously through this film. I'm watching it things happen and I'm like, okay, so what? And there's no answer to it. Basically nothing comes up after it that really matters It's a whole lot of so what moments that are never answered Terrible This is okay This is what happens when you give a shooting budget to a film school student who says they're an auteur But refuses to run anything by anyone else and won't even take a second pass at a script that they wrote That's how this film plays out to me someone who thinks they're amazing Someone who just had their first year at film school and says, you know what? I think I'm an auteur I can make amazing films. I write the best scripts. Okay. Let me see it. No I don't let anyone look at my work. I don't even write a second edit of it because it's that good It's just right out the gate. Let's do this and it's the best thing ever That type of person is how is who it seems made this film Okay, so Bottom line terrible hate it garbage. What are you doing shutter? Stop wasting your money on this stuff This and the marshes if it's going to continue to go like this Stop just go for the exclusives and everything else and we'll we'll be good. I love you shutter I love shutter. I advocate for shutter so hard on this channel That is why it's so particularly heartbreaking when I see them spending money on stuff like this the other thing is They did a thing some years ago called shutter labs where they brought in larry fessenden and they Uh, they identified really good perspective A horror filmmakers who are you know indy who are very little known and they brought them in and did a workshop with them with larry fessenden And I feel like the idea behind that was to start cultivating some people who could then Contribute to shutter They need to go back to that find those people track them down and give them the money To make shutter originals to pour into it because they had already identified them as super talented people Who could be you know people to watch for the future instead of just going out and throwing money to these rando people Who this was their first feature length film and they obviously can't do one. It's just It's crazy So I promise that I would I would give you some examples of films that do kind of what I think they were trying to do here But failed at miserably I would say uh Last life in the universe is a really great example of this. It's one of these films where There's a point to it. There's an interesting theme It's very slow and and you would say not much of anything happens in the film But it's beautiful and it's engaging somehow and it and it's good another one is called sonatine that's another really awesome one and then Going like those are like higher budget versions of what i'm talking about but going like really low budget There was a film on netflix called uh boys in the trees from 2016. That's probably closer Uh comparison wise for this one because it is very low budget and you can tell that that's another one where not a ton happens But the script was actually good and they You know they do they do a solid job. So In the end big old thumbs down on this one. It's trash But like I said, it's better than the marshes. So uh giving it a Rating out of five stars with half stars in play since I gave the marshes I believe just a half star and I won't go lower than that for any movie I mean just making a movie gets you half a star. I'm going to give it one star. This film gets one star I recommend it to no one Um, although if you do watch it and you are interested in it put some comments down there I I would love to know what people see in this that they like So anyway, thanks people for checking this one out Do me a quick favor when I go through frustration like this the best way you can repay me is with a subscribe I sit through some of these movies. So you don't have to this is a prime example the marshes being another one So pay me back with a subscribe if you already subscribe hit that Thumbs up and make sure you hit the notification bell and then put some comments down here Let's talk about real horror. 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