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by Saya » Sun Jun 07, 2020 8:55 pm
Chrome Episode 1 is without a doubt one of the most bonkers films/episodes of a show I've seen in a long time, and I saw Tyler Perry's: Fall From Grace.
Like Anderson said, the film's storyline is confusing and the dialogue is borderline nonsensical (including a very self-important infodump which takes up the first four minutes or so of screentime explaining everything in a past events sort of way), but where it gets really strange is in the technical details.
The cinematography is insane, and not in the good way. Random jump cuts that last fractions of seconds, zooming in and out like a content ID disguiser with no real discernible rhyme or reason. And the effects, dear god. I can respect when a film tries to be ambitious with a minimal budget, but the use of stock effects plastered haphazardly over obvious post-processing greenscreen backgrounds makes for incoherent backdrops. Of particular note is the scene where Chrome escapes from her owners, which I am not joking here, must be seen to be believed.
That said, I would recommend watching it just to see how weird it is, in a kind of charmingly incompetent way, and of course the fembot content is great, even if the effects are weird.
"If the time should ever come when what is now called science, thus familiarized to men, shall be ready to put on, as it were, a form of flesh and blood, the Poet will lend his divine spirit to aid the transfiguration, and will welcome the Being thus produced, as a dear and genuine inmate of the household of man."
- William Wordsworth