Yeah. It looked a bit like that, but more like motion smoothing with fluorescent office lighting and with sound recorded by my iPhone. My tv has, periodically, switched to it and denied it was doing it, requiring a reset. So it’s something I’m really cognizant of, not the case here, and literally something I checked by playing the movie again while writing the OP cause yeah, I also thought maybe it was that.
We’ll, it looked pretty similar, I “watched” that next day as well, meaning I put it on while cleaning out my closet. That movie looked like it’s budget, so fine, not a fail, also not a good movie.
I think there’s one I liked, but can’t remember which. But I’ll defend him, he delivers the movies he’s asked to make, on time and on budget. That’s why he keeps getting work. No, they’re not good, but they look better than this doom movie (again, talking about regular scenes, not sci effects and what not) and the acting, while not great, isn’t stupid. He’s a great director in that he delivers what was asked for. What was asked for was crap, and that’s what you got. He absolutely doesn’t make it personal, like worry about getting his vision on screen. He’s responsible for some of his movies being terrible, cause he’s written some of them. Because he was asked to or allowed to. Which was a stupid thing for the people financing to do. Cause he is a bad writer, but a perfectly passable director. Really seems like a guy that should be directing tv shows where his skill set is what is required.
In May of 2024 we lost the king of cheap movies, Roger Corman. Unlike Boll, Corman actually made some entertaining movies. Corman also taught many directors how to shoot movies including Martin Scorsese, Joe Dante, Ron Howard, and Francis Ford Coppola. Unlike Boll, Corman actually had to produce movies that generated a profit and he was pretty successful over the years. Sure, I guess you could say Boll delivers the movie he's asked to make, but they're asking him to deliberately make bad movies that aren't expected to make a profit. Like I said, he didn't make movies he made tax shelters.
No, the financiers made more money if the movies failed. This isn't a case of trying and failing, the tax loophole manipulation by making failed movies was the goal.
