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Year
2008
Runtime
114 min.
Director
Craig Baldwin
Genres
Comedy, Sci-Fi
Rating *
6.5
Votes *
69
Checks
23
Favs
2
Dislikes
1
Favs/checks
8.7% (1:12)
Favs/dislikes
2:1
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  1. Siskoid's avatar

    Siskoid

    In the category WHAT THE HELL DID I JUST WATCH?!, we have Mock Up on Mu, in which L. Ron Hubbard, Father of Scientology, is alive and well on Mu (as in Moo, as in on the Moon) in 2019 and sending his agent, a brainwashed Marjorie Cameron (founder of the New Age movement) to Earth to manipulate military contractor Lockheed Martin and her old lover, rocket engineer and Thelemite occultist Jack Parsons, into building a secret weapon that can be used against us. These are all real people, but filtered through the sci-fi magic of their messaging and conspiracy theories about them. Craig Baldwin's trick was to tell the story mostly through stock footage sourced from old movies, tv and education/industrial films. His few actors will sometimes become the real thing, or people in some piece of footage, then turn back, and to integrate them into the style, he's degraded their footage and dubbed new dialog over their lip movements (to the point where you wonder if they're not also file footage). The editing is impressionistic rather than literal. If you see a rocket lift up, you understand that the spaceship of the story is doing the same, without them matching, and so on. It also means the actors deliver a lot of narration, and the film is sort of faux-didactic in the way it presents its wild ideas. And yet, I dug the experiment and even got invested in the story of this "secret war" that might have felt at home in Grant Morrison's The Invisibles, or Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson's Illuminatus trilogy. 3 years 10 months ago
  2. Homage's avatar

    Homage

    Man alive I sure wish someone would steal Craig Baldwin's camera. 11 years 10 months ago
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