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This is the trailer for a movie called After Last Season that will have a theatrical release of some kind this spring, though it’s so obscure it’s not even on YouTube yet. I’ve watched this at least ten times in the past hour, just trying to figure out why it exists. From the cardboard MRI machine, to the “special effects,” to the people, to the chair, to the sentences, this trailer is truly unfathomable. Like the Songsmith commercial, it seems like it could only have been made in a parallel universe that irony forgot. Or written and directed by a small child. In the ’80s. I don’t even know, just watch this!
OKAY, WHAT WAS THAT? Some sort of Dogme ’95 parody? Art? Oh shit, it’s art isn’t it? Fooled me once, shame on art, etc. But it will have a theatrical release and the MPAA seems to have approved the trailer, so even if it is an art school thesis project, why is it coming out in theaters? And, just for starters (the first scene!), how did they get a grown man to pretend to be a doctor and identify a large piece of cardboard as an MRI machine with a straight face? The official website offers no clues beyond a vague synopsis. All I know is I want all my friends to see this so they’ll understand what I’m talking about when I quote from it (“Hi, I’m a new intern.”) (Huge thanks to Matt Tobey for finding this and tipping us off.)
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On IMDB it’s listed as a thriller? What?
It seems as though the main character also played “drunk guy” in 21!
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2944887/
Early Oscar bids anyone?
The notes on the site included the sentence “other scenes required good coopearation amng the actors and film crew.” [sic]
Now I’m excited!
This is trying to be “The Room”.
This makes me super bummed that Mystery Science Theater 3000 isn’t around anymore to annihilate films like this.
They’re still around. Check out Rifftrax.com or rifftracks.com (too lazy to look it up)
This HAS to be some sort of viral campaign for something. Or else it’s not coming out in real theaters, or any theaters for that matter. It just CAN’T. This goes against every social norm I’ve learned in my life. I just don’t understand.
I agree. It’s not coming out in theaters. But I have to say I’ve never seen anything like this. Other than the moving boxes and cheap visuals, it seems like they used the most banal moments of the movie in defiance of all trailer “rules,” which paradoxically makes me want to watch it over and over. I don’t get it.
there are…so many jokes. i’m not even going to try. i will point out, though, that at 1:34 almost looks like a real movie for a moment?
oh god guys there are video clips on the site. GO WATCH
The video clips just increase the frequency of my brain asking the question “WHAT IS THIS?”
“There was a cup on the shelf. I’ll put away some of his belongings.”
Is it a porn? It’s a porn isn’t it. I can’t imagine such disjointed, uncaring dialogue scenes leading up to anything else. Maybe part of a vast viral marketing campaign for just another, run-of-the-mill porn?
What kind of planned release is necessary for the MPAA to review a trailer? This hurt my zeitgeist =(
I was told it definitely has a theatrical release, but that could mean anything. I didn’t infer it from the mpaa part.
they have some printers in the basement you can use = the new have fun at dinner.
Best quote, I think they’re referring to the non-functioning MRI in the first scene and the possible need to print out another. If you had sneaked this video into the previous post and said it was for a local Doc in a Box it would’ve made more sense.
my brain is bleeding
“OH. I’ve never been to that town, but I’ve driven through it. ”
It’s like all the parts of my life that shouldn’t be made into a movie have been made into a movie.
MUST SEE NOW!
The photo gallery on the website is top notch. Especially the photo of someone’s backyard in winter and the photo of a red-headed woman walking off the set just after reading the script.
I love websites that make me wait over a minute to load their “splash page”.
David Lynch is slamming his head against a wall.
Watch as the irony factor brings this movie to international box office blockbuster.
All of the clips on the site look like they’d be clips posted on Hunt for the Worst Movie.
Where are Kate and Sawyer and Locke? I’m confused.
Okay good.
The best prop isn’t the MRI machine, but the ceiling fan above the MRI machine. Think how hard it was to get an electrician to install the fan directly above such high cost equipment.
i am 100% positive the “They’ve got printers in the basement” guy was the only white guy on crack heads gone wild 4. he broke into peoples cars when they went into stores and broke into peoples houses as soon as they left. this is insane, hahaha.
“Think of an object.”
Here’s one: a noose around my neck.
What in the HELL was that?
I’m still not sure if this is even real.
If it is, HOLY FUCK do I need to watch it.
I think that MPAA screen was just inserted to make the trailer seem legit. No WAY they actually reviewed this, right? Right?
Everything I know about society tells me this can’t be real, yet…. there it is….
My reality is shattered into a million little fragments that all scream “I was picturing a flower!”
surely that’s a play that was filmed.
Head over to the After Last Season IMDB page, where I’ve kicked off what are sure to be overflowing message boards with my in-depth analysis of the trailer. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1196334/
I just made the printer line my Facebook status. I want to be right in front of this cultural phenomenon!
thats just sad.
What? The website just made shit real. The missing fifth navigation link (where did it go). The awkward and incomplete video clips. The notes section? I want my mommy.
“He mailed them to me a couple of weeks before the day he was stabbed.”
Now I have to know what happens!
Rumor has it that you die seven days after you watch the After Last Season trailer!
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Inland Empire < After Last Season
I just saw this trailer….and I had NO idea what to think of it. In fact I didn’t know if I felt offended that it existed, or more confused as to why it existed. Either way, its existence baffled me and i HAD to find someone else who could share my confusion so I wouldn’t explode. Luckily I found this. Thank you for saving my life
I just saw this trailer….and I had NO idea what to think of it. In fact I didn’t know if I felt offended that it existed, or more confused as to why it existed. Either way, its existence baffled me and i HAD to find someone else who could share my confusion so I wouldn’t explode. Luckily I found this. Thank you for saving my life
Just saw the trailer on Apple trailer site, listed as a comedy. This is possibly brililant marketing.
If you google Index Square, the production company, it says Lorem ipsum dolor which is used as nonsense by typographers to show what fonts look like or where text would go.
Is this a clue?
i will probably watch this in theatres.
I swear I’ve seen Jason Kulas in something else before. If not, it was someone that looked a lot like him.
The domain registrations that are related to this “movie” seem to point to Tewksbury, MA. I think this is some kind of viral video for Avid Technologies.
“Inland Empire”, exactly. You guys act like there has never been an arty movie made and released in theaters (!) before.
INLAND EMPIRE was actually a well made film, with actual effects, and *gasp* use of a boom mic. And it was good.
This film on the other hand is a total joke. Anybody who seriously thinks this is like INLAND EMPIRE has no understanding of cinema.
After looking at the film’s website I’m even MORE convinced this is a hoax.
I was confused at first but yeah, it is too cleverly arranged between the trailer and a robust flash website with absolutely uncanny clips…seems like it is a Napoleon Dynamite style film that is pretending to be a horribly shot home movie with a Blair Witch Project marketing plan.
Possible leads complied here…
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=76134877237