S. A. C. 2008: 12th December
Christmas On Mars
Oooh where to go with this one. I love The Flaming Lips, hokey hippie stuff and all, but the prospect of a movie shot in Wayne Coyne's back garden about madness in space always had the whiff of something bad. Of course it could have been excellent, their music is even though some of the ideas can be a bit fluffy and that. Sadly it's not.
The plot's a mess, the acting's poor and to put it mildly, it's pretty fucked up. It's not all bad though. Some of the visuals are pretty impressive, especially the sporadic use of colour, and the sound is fantastic, although that was pretty much a given of course.
Sadly in the end what this feels like is a bunch of people making their own little, low budget It's An Erasurehead Christmas out their backdoor. That said if you're planning on getting really high this Christmas to survive the "festivities" and want a film to freak you out that has a Yuletide theme then this may be for you.
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