Scienceless Fiction (2014 Video)
1/10
This is a dreadful movie.
7 June 2020
I watched it only because two friends of mine are in it, and they both spend their entire screen time naked. It may be significant that neither told me they were in this movie until I found out on my own (I have photographed each of them naked many times, so it wasn't that). It has all the features one would expected from a Zebub movie: Lots of naked women, the women who aren't naked just wearing lace stockings and a garter belt, with many close-ups of their torsos, with the actress's face out of frame, and many of those mostly naked women having their breasts fondled and having simulated sex with full-dressed men. It also has that special Zebub trademark, where he shoots a scene from two angles, but doesn't match the lighting/color balance between the cameras, so it's quite jarring when he cuts from one to the other. Also, several of the scenes involve dialogs between two people who are never together in the same shot and were clearly filmed at different times (and might not have been aware what the other's lines were).

The movie itself has no plot to speak of. Not even a premise really, more of a "concept". As many sci-fi stories have a social progressive message, Zebub wanted to spoof that with a sci-fi movie with an anti-social message: Aliens from the future crash on present day Earth and through several vignettes reveal the glory of their all-white utopia of the future. The other connection between these scene, if that the visitors wear clown suits which is supposed to be the "uniform" of this ship. That is the entirety of the "humor" in this "comedy". The satire of this might of come through if the dialog was in any way funny, instead of mind-numbingly inane and banal, but it just comes off as a bunch of privileged white guys ranting about political correctness. Along the way, it probably sets the record for the use of the N-word in a movie, so you'll want to keep the volume low, lest your neighbors start talking about you, or better yet, just fast-forward through those part. I guess Zebub realized that would be a popular option, as later in the movie, he has the dialog play over a dancing naked woman. Between switching among those scenes are interspersed heavy-metal music videos, which do show some interesting camera work not evident anywhere else here, presenting what can be done which a clearly near zero budget with a creative use of slow motion, and obvious toys used as miniature sets.
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