Boaz777
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In 1977, director Steven Spielberg had an estimated budget of twenty million dollars to make "Close Encounters of the Third Kind".
In 2023, director Stephen Folker had a guess estimated budget of ninety-nine-point-five percent less than Spielberg.
Take your pick as to which one of these two films is the apple and which one is the orange; the point is you can't, or shouldn't, compare Big Budget Hollywood Mainstream Movies with Low Budget Films made anywhere else.
"FUAB" stands for "From Uranus And Back". It tells the story of Professor Sigmund Allen, who thinks he's been transported to the alien world. But has he really, or is it a delusion? Most of the people he knows, including his wife and colleagues, think he's insane. The only person who believes the scientist is the college's janitor, who is somewhat crazed himself. Add in a professor from another college, a wealthy benefactor and his daughter, and a nutty neighbor, some other assorted characters, and you have a collage of goofiness.
One of the things that I enjoy about low budget films is not having any preconceived ideas about where it's going to take me as I watch. With FUAB, I can tell that the people involved are trying to make something that's entertaining. I wonder what they would have been able to come up with if they had even a slightly bigger budget.
In 2023, director Stephen Folker had a guess estimated budget of ninety-nine-point-five percent less than Spielberg.
Take your pick as to which one of these two films is the apple and which one is the orange; the point is you can't, or shouldn't, compare Big Budget Hollywood Mainstream Movies with Low Budget Films made anywhere else.
"FUAB" stands for "From Uranus And Back". It tells the story of Professor Sigmund Allen, who thinks he's been transported to the alien world. But has he really, or is it a delusion? Most of the people he knows, including his wife and colleagues, think he's insane. The only person who believes the scientist is the college's janitor, who is somewhat crazed himself. Add in a professor from another college, a wealthy benefactor and his daughter, and a nutty neighbor, some other assorted characters, and you have a collage of goofiness.
One of the things that I enjoy about low budget films is not having any preconceived ideas about where it's going to take me as I watch. With FUAB, I can tell that the people involved are trying to make something that's entertaining. I wonder what they would have been able to come up with if they had even a slightly bigger budget.
The writing quickly becomes formulaic. After watching the first three episodes, I already know where these stock characters are headed, because it's the same way they've been going since the invention of television itself.
The characters of the older writers are funnier than the young ones, but the show spends all this time saying that the young writers know better. So far, they don't.
I like most of the cast, but the ones playing the "actors" are horny or stupid, and it feels like nothing's progressed beyond "Three's Company" The writing sets up a joke that you know how it's going to end, because we've seen it all before. Several times. For years. Decades.
They're trying to be edgy and current, but they aren't.
The Matt LeBlanc show "Episodes" is much fresher than this.
Instead of being called "Reboot" they should rename this show "Rehash"
The characters of the older writers are funnier than the young ones, but the show spends all this time saying that the young writers know better. So far, they don't.
I like most of the cast, but the ones playing the "actors" are horny or stupid, and it feels like nothing's progressed beyond "Three's Company" The writing sets up a joke that you know how it's going to end, because we've seen it all before. Several times. For years. Decades.
They're trying to be edgy and current, but they aren't.
The Matt LeBlanc show "Episodes" is much fresher than this.
Instead of being called "Reboot" they should rename this show "Rehash"
