Q/A session with Paul Bunnell and Lucy Loken at Laemmle NoHo7.I really wish I could be compassionate towards this movie, truly. Only because it's rare you come across movies these days being made on film rather than digitally. And of course the script was quite camp and whimsical (and god do I love my whimsy).Paul, if you're reading this, I assure you, the low rating is not because you put me on the spot during the Q/A haha (I'm the red Ferrari jacket girl here — honestly it was fun and assuring for my introverted self to know I could voice my questions out with loud clarity, although my question was a little dumb to be honest). But I will be checking out your other works because of your earnestness for preserving the legacy of films and not yielding to big corporates and compromising on your filmmaking and creative process. I do hope to see more from you in the future as well! And since you're from Glendale, hopefully a Vidiots screening too, lol!Anyway, my main issue with this movie was the lack of cohesiveness in the plot and the characterizations. Crispin Glover was a powerhouse as usual, but for a movie led by him, we were not graced by his presence a lot. I certainly did not feel as invested in every other character on screen, and wanted more of Crispin's mad doctor routines more — but we were not afforded that. We were also not given the chance to even empathise with any of the characters, and in line with the question I had voiced out as well — Nurse Ellie's character switch towards the end (played earnestly by Lucy Loken) did not make sense to me (Lucy did explain it though that her character had to draw the line somewhere with human experimentation, but it just didn't make sense to me considering the amount of shady business she had been involved in since the start of the movie. Anyway). It really felt we were just shuffled along in the movie, being dragged from one scene to the next.Indie movies will always have a soft spot for me, and I do hope to see more out of Paul Bunnell. But this particular movie genuinely did not do it for me, even when it had the right ingredients for whackiness suitable to my tastes.
