Customer Reviews: Average Rating:  Rating :  - A very boring and pretentious collection of shorts
There are nine shorts on this DVD, so here are nine short reviews. 1 - "Animated Corpse" - 4 stars: It's a music video, so you can't really expect much. It gets it's job done... what else do you need to say? 2 - "Dinner" - 3 stars: A modern fairy tale that had some good ideas and an interesting set design, but fails because of a poor script. When it tries to be funny, it fails, and when it tries to be dramatic, it is laughable. It's the sort of thing that would probably be good to remake. 3 - "Every Night and Twice on Sundays" - 2 stars: Yet another independent documentary that's meant to be funny. I thought it was boring as hell. Sort of like what happens if you take a Christopher Guest mockumentary and then sedate it with a thousand pounds of tranquilizers. 4 - "Flying with the Angels" - 1 star: This is the sort of crud that gives independent cinema a bad name. It is a pretentious, boring, pseudosymbolic music-video-wannabe that the filmmakers took way too seriously. The woman who made it claimed that she was trying to do something surreal and meaningful, but ended up just shooting a bunch of random images that don't fuse together--sort of like a really bad poem by W.B. Yeats. 5 - "Iceman" - 2 stars: This was so forgettable that I can't even remember the plot involved. I only remember being bored. 6 - "Hidden Child" - ? stars: I tried to watch this one, but the DVD wouldn't let me. Make up whatever rating you would like. 7 - "The Passage" - 1 star: This movie also pretended to be really intelligent, meaningful, and symbolic, but it was just a plotless waste of film. Supposedly, this one is supposed to be about a writer's struggle between reality and insanity. Instead, a guy has a beer, smokes a cigarette, and stares off, blankly. It lasts for twenty minutes and achieves nothing. 8 - "Today's Life" - 4 stars: A pilot in a deep space research vessel struggles to understand his existence. "Today's Life" is the only movie on this disc with impressive special effects, but the reason it is good is because of a very interesting plot (actually, the fact that it has any plot at all is a welcome change from the rest of the movies) and a decent pace. It is heavy-handed, which might cause you to wish they would have extended the movie, or even made it feature-length, but it as a short, it is still pretty good. 9 - "Zitlover" - 1 star: Disgusting for disgustingness's sake. It's like "South Park," only it's awful and not funny. The greatest tragedy of this DVD is that the worst of the movies are also the longest. I'm not the type of person who requires an explosion to hold my interest--I just like to watch movies that actually have some content, or a reason to exist. The problem with Fusion ONE (other than being boring) is that all of the movies seem like the filmmakers are practicing and not actually doing any real work. These are all like the first drafts of better works, except that there aren't any revised, final drafts that you can watch later. + See Full Customer Review | 
