First up tonight was “The Lost Vlog Of Ruby Real”. Oh, it had such promise…
Ruby Real is a vlogger and wannabe-journalist. She sets out with 2 friends to debunk the trending story about people who would circle an Evil Tree and pop into another dimension. One hiker just upped and disappeared, another one (Trent) came back but with almost no memory of having been gone for what seemed like days.
It starts out well enough, setting up the story, heading out to where the Evil Tree lives, and almost on a dare, going around it. Ha! See? We didn’t disappear, so it’s all hooey.
Only now they not only can’t find their way back to the parking lot, but they keep on ending up back at the Evil Tree.
(Up until that part, it had the makings of a really good flick.)
Now, right off, I get it, you’re on a paved trail, expect the parking lot to be right around that bend, but it’s not there. But how do you go from paved trail to climbing through brush to end up back at the Evil Tree again, and not notice the change in terrain??
And no one makes a printed map, or takes an independent GPS with them? Relying on a phone to update a map when they’re out of cellphone range is kinda dumb, no? And you cross a “river” (rocky stream, actually, but the guy acknowledges that), and no one even has a cached map let alone printed one, that they could see where it goes?
Too many plot holes unless they’d know that “Oh crap! We were just on the paved trail, and now we’re back in the f’n jungle again!”, as that wasn’t even hinted at, let alone mentioned. They’d just la-dee-da be back at the Evil Tree again like it was perfectly natural.
And what a retarded ending. It just made no sense.
So… it started off great, started taking on water from all the plot-holes, then listed over and sunk fast at the end.
Next up, another big no, “Monochrome: The Chromism”. Living in a monochrome (black’n’white) world, people start “breaking out” with a disease that gives them color, and are called “Hues”. Okay, right off I knew the movie was in trouble when a news announcer mentioned the country going to orange alert in a black’n’white universe. :person_facepalming:
Now, what a novel and unique concept! They could’ve run with it and made it something great, but it was Yet Another Movie With No Ending. People Of Color (ummm) suddenly have bounties on their heads and are rounded up by the monos, and…??
Now, you see a guy in a desert walk into a diner for some water, fully and rather warmly clothed (desert, remember…) and wrapped in scarves like The Invisible Man (naaaah, that’s not suspicious at all!). Well, some bully starts grilling him, they get into a brawl, scarves come off, they see he’s a Hue, and he makes a run for it, only to get a shovel to the face by Flo The Waitress.
Then it flashes back to One Year Earlier, when it all started
Some Evil Company (aren’t they all?) come up with a virus that does… something. Doesn’t kill people, and while his henchmen are seen (sometimes) wearing masks, you never see The Head Guy In An All-Black Suit wear one. It seems to brainwash those who are infected to become violent, but also go rabid after Hues, blaming them for everything wrong with the world. Only not even THGIAABS nor his virus-developers knew anything about color or this new outbreak which made them immune to the violent part.
Yeah, I saw the movie and I still don’t get it. Those who get the virus become violent and hate Hues, but no one even knew what color was or that some people would break out all colorful, and be immune to the virus itself. Yeah, still doesn’t make a lick of sense to me.
And then, fast-forwarding a year to just after the shovel-to-the-face incident, he and other Hues are loaded into a pickup off to Hue Concentration Camp or wherever, start untying themselves, and… that’s it. “THE END” with a delayed question-mark after that faded in.
Borrow that from “The Blob”, did ya? Well, at least there, we knew the namesake Blob was being dropped into the Antarctic to be a Fro-Blo pretty much forever, so the ‘?’ was cute, implying that it might somehow be back if it ever got thawed out. Here, it’s just a non-ending, and the ‘?’ isn’t cute, but a big f’n copout.
Anyway, acting was terrible, the plot was horrible, there again was no ending in sight, but the music was pretty good. That was the only saving grace, but not much.
Another big no. 
