Thursday, November 10, 2011

Footcandle Movie, Project Nims


Best part was the Chimp smoking a joint.
Other than than that it was a very depressing movie.
There were no bright spots,
no hope,
then it got worse.
     Then it got worse yet.
Then it seemed like it might 
           get better . . .
              but then it got even worse 
                than 
                 you had even
                  thought anything could 
                    ever get.
                     And then it got worse yet.
                      It was a masterful study in 
                        scientific stupidity of little-bitty gods
                            who played with life.  And they
                                lost, and life lost.  All that was left
                                    was the audience sitting there holding themselves.

It started out as a study of chimps.
Wound up as an exposé of scientists who were supposedly trying to find out if chimps were smart enough to put words together to form a complete sentence. 

It proved that scientists were not able to understand what they had just walked through and gotten all over themselves.  

Darwin would have been aghast.  Again.
Other than that, the music was "hoppy", characters were introduced in unusual ways, and the use of graphics and titles was very playful.