i just flew in from seeing Iron Lung, and boy are my lungs tired
Kid liked youtube playthroughs of the game and said "let's see the pic" and I went "why not"
i know 0 about Iron Lung, but apparently it's a sci fi horror short game set in a submarine in an ocean of blood. no, the ocean of blood is never explained, why would it be.
kid hadn't actually played it (in the Steam guilt pile) but did play it before we went
tiny cinema screen, four rows of seats, maybe 30 people there for the midday showing?
six separate polite suggestions to TURN YOUR FUCKING PHONE OFF
Iron Lung is a bottle episode, which woulda saved on sets
I didn't understand most of what was going on, but it sure was pretty. excellent cinematography, every shot was a good photo
there's a thing video games do where they don't explain shit and you get disjointed fragments of lore as you go and basically have to assemble the story yourself. in writing or film before this, this was conventionally called "experimental".
i think we can say the experiment was a success, because that's how Iron Lung told its story and the kid said it *over* explained the lore. the audience is fine with this approach now.
other reviews say the film drags in places. we didn't find this at all. i was *confused*, but never *bored*. it keeps up its 2 hours fine.
(longer than playing the original game, btw)
you know how video games have puzzles you have to solve from objects to hand? the film does a few of these, like when he [SPOILER]s the [SPOILER] so he's got light to see. thankfully it just *does* them. but it's very video game.
also, Iron Lung 200% delivers on MORE FAKE BLOOD THAN HAS EVER BEEN IN A MOVIE BEFORE. you get your fake blood's worth, I assure you.
anyway! we enjoyed it. dunno if i'd see it again, i don't watch movies like ever. but as a first production by a youtube guy, it's an incredible success. also the authors are gonna have small but non-trivial dumptrucks full of gold backing up to their houses
you know what happens next right, every bozo in hollywood will go "OPTION ME THE LEAST COMPREHENSIBLE SCIFI HORROR GAME ON STEAM. NO, I CAN UNDERSTAND THE BLURB, GO LESS COMPREHENSIBLE." they'll spend tens of millions on TV commercial directors and up and coming starlets and it'll all suuuuuck
so a golden era of deserving weirdos getting hollywood money for at least ten seconds. should be awesome.