环大西洋

I got duped and started watching this believing it was the blockbuster "Pacific Rim". It was an impressive experience, my first exposure to a "mockbuster". To my defence, I quickly realized that I was not watching the real thing, so what the heck was I watching? I just couldn't believe that there was a market for this, so I came up with a few theories: * internet spoof: a bunch of movie buffs enjoy recreating scene-by-scene a blockbuster with intentionally minimalist SFX for release on YouTube * film school project: a bunch of students set out to recreate a multi-million blockbuster as quickly and inexpensively as possible, in order to learn the ropes What I finally settled on, was that I was watching an animated storyboard, i. e. a filmed first draft of the original movie script. I had to admire the actors for acting their hearts out, almost like in a real movie, only much more hammy. I sat transfixed through half of the movie. Never in the world, though, would I have suspected that this was an actual inferior copy of the original, made to part suckers from their money. Who would go back to a rental place that had fooled them once?

为了这个押韵的名字，无节操的转一下

PS：专注山寨16年的The Asylum 公司今年模仿《Maleficent》的新作《Sleeping Beauty》已经发行，且由出演过《星河战队》男主角的Casper Van Dien 导演，坐等新的一波观众中招

看The Asylum的电影有种很复杂的心情，因为他们的演员都很认真。认真到让所有人都觉得他们要去做了不起的事情，就像大多数好莱坞大片一样，救苦救难，拯救全球，但由于预算太少，通常他们都是默默拯救了全球，然后转身深藏，没有隆重的凯旋，没有航母战斗群的列队，没有F16中队的敬礼。只有默默无闻地开着吉普奔跑在沙漠里，微笑着看远处的夕阳，调侃到明天的太阳依然会升起，没有人会知道那一切都跟这几个默默无闻的人息息相关。