Worth watching – Netflix only has episodes II and III of the Adam storyline, since Episode I wasn’t directed by Blomkamp. Not not funny, but that is about all there is to be said about it. Skippable – a couple sketches showing the president of the US as a trashy guy that prioritises parties over running the country and shows up to the Oval Office hungover. Really what holds this back most is that Blomkamp shows his hand prematurely – it would’ve probably worked better if he had held back the monster a little longer (for a masterclass: see Ridley Scott’s Alien) Follows established tropes, crams a bit much exposition and social commentary in its first five minutes, and I feel like the set builders could’ve done with a bit more budget, but has all the makings of a blockbuster sci-fi horror movie – and it’s only 22 minutes long, so some allowances have to be made. Worth watching – Disaster has struck a distant mining outpost, and two survivors are trying to get to safety, pursued by a great original monster that I’m not going to spoil for you. Neither particularly original nor well executed. Skippable – a couple of sketches showing God as a careless overlord throwing random disasters at his worshippers for his own amusement. Not bad at what it is trying to do exactly, but not at all my taste. Skippable – some cringey/gorey sketches spoofing teleshopping ads for imaginative kitchen products. Again, feels like a great set up but doesn’t quite get to the pay-off – but that’s short movies for you. Oozes Heart of Darkness/ Apocalypse Now in atmosphere. troops absolutely massacred by Viet Cong with what appears to be an incredibly advanced Soviet weapon system. ![]() Also surprisingly features Sigourney Weaver!Īlso worth watching – mixes some beautifully weird occult/paranormal and sci-fi elements into a Vietnam war setting: a CIA operative is sent into the jungle to find the lone survivor of a unit of U.S. Mostly follows established tropes, but there are a couple of interesting concepts and story hooks, though being just over 20 minutes long, the story sadly only scratches the surface and doesn’t knock down its own set up. Worth watching – a post-apocalyptic, post-first contact setting in which the earth is taken over by a hostile alien species and rag-tag bands of human survivors are left to make a home in the ashes, resisting as well as they can. Oats Studios is to disparate a set of films to review together, so here’s a couple of lines per project below – I’ve rated the whole thing three stars, assuming you’ll skip over most of the trashy or forgettable stuff. Still, Key and I settled in for a night of varied Blomkamp viewing, ready to be surprised. ![]() ![]() ![]() I hesitate to call it a collection or an anthology because there does not really appear to be an overarching theme or even style or format. Still, I did want to finish all Neill Blomkamp content on Netflix, so I ran into Oats Studios, which is number of Blomkamp’s smaller projects heaped together and put online. Despite many Dutch people saying they’re going to ‘ uitspelen’ (finishing a game, literally, ‘to play out’) Netflix if they have some time off, with the amount of content offered, that isn’t really a possibility. When playing video games, I tend to be a bit of a completionist.
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