Mad God

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WTF DID I JUST WATCHED? For those who don't want to waste 2 hours of their life, this is a mixed stop-motion movie with a weird storyline. If you have watched "9 (2009)" movie, this would be a complete waste of time for you. There are some scenes that you will make you say "why???" so many times, repeatedly.

This is a very well-made film, although extremely long for what it is, which is an art piece. If you plan to watch this don't expect anything to make sense because it doesn't. Visually, the movie is stunning to look at. One hour and twenty-seven minutes of man's cruelty to man is just too much for me personally to watch. I understood the message five minutes into this film. I admire Phil Tippets resolve to spend half his life making this art project, though it makes me wonder if the only joy he receives in life is the Pink Floyd music that inspired him to make this film.

Terrible stop motion, Chaos stop motion, and not even stop motion. Lots of real people in it, Fake stop-motion animation by Actor who Shaking and shivering. Small people by green key composited. Some close-ups are recodvideo footage. Saving somuch money. But do better, if you want to make a stop motion.

Well for once my wife and I are not agreeing about a movie. She gave it a four, I gave it a seven but since I write the reviews a seven it is. More than thirty years of work to create this mostly bizarre stop-motion movie. You gotta give it to Phil Tippett, he created something unique with a lot of patience. If I had to guess what Tippett likes to read I would say HP Lovecraft. If I had to guess what artist Tippett admires I would say HR Giger. If I had to guess what kind of music Tippett enjoyed listening to I would say Pink Floyd, especially The Wall. If I had to guess what kind of drugs Tippett takes, I would say I don't know but I want some. Mad Dog is weird, it's gross and grotesque, a combination of bio-mechanical and steampunk, it's apocalyptic and something you need to watch under influence especially if you like any of the things written above.

You might not know Phil Tippett by name, but if you've watched science-fiction movies for the past 50 years, particularly those with effects courtesy of Industrial Light & Magic, you undoubtedly know of his contributions to cinema. From Roger Corman to George Lucas to Steven Spielberg, this man has done stop-motion and creature design for some of the absolute giants. Ever since the production of Robocop 2 and Jurassic Park, there's another movie Tippett has been working on: a passion project that represents 30 years of toil that, in a sense, has been taking place "behind the scenes" of all these better-known productions. It spent a considerable amount of years on the shelf too, admittedly, but thanks to the magic of Kickstarter, the project has now seen the light of day -- as dark and dreary as it may be. That film is Mad God, a seminally unsettling and transfixingly dreamlike journey into the depths of... I don't even know where. Combining stop-motion and puppetry (the stuff Tippett is best at) with a bit of live-action and seemingly some CGI during the scenes that were likely produced last, the movie is unrelenting in its barrage of deranged images and so feels longer than it is -- albeit not in a boring way, but rather in the sense that a mere 5 minutes of runtime will be so rich with new, disturbing sights and sounds that they seem like 20. Indeed, these are some of the most memorable images of this entire movie year. No sequence is quite like the last. They recall the nightmare-inspired short films of David Firth -- with some splashes of SFX-heavy classics like Labyrinth, The Dark Crystal, et al. -- and also made me think of Vernon Chatman (of The Shivering Truth and XAVIER: Renegade Angel), whose works I often claim have a method to the madness, as the saying goes. More precisely, I propose that "Rarely has this much madness represented this much of a method". Yes, as bonkers as this movie is in terms of tone and presentation, I often felt like I "understood" much of what I saw; like there were parallels, symbols, and distorted metaphors for the cruelties inherent to human society (as seems natural for a work of dystopian sci-fi horror). Some images bring to mind the "faceless", disposable nature of human lives in a world of industry and war, while a closing sequence -- inspired by 2001: A Space Odyssey -- indicates that this system will continue to be replicated so long as humans are replicated. Something like that, anyhow. Even when I didn't really understand what I was seeing, I wanted to learn more. I wanted to explore this universe further; to see what other layers there might be and what other creatures might roam beneath the rubble or behind the 1984-esque monitors. I wanted to see just how much deeper into the bleak depths Phil Tippett's imagination could bring us. I mentioned before that each scene has enough content and visual imaginativeness to fill multiple. Yet, this feels like but a glimpse into the world of Mad God. Between this and the new season of Love, Death & Robots, 2022 is shaping up to be a triumphant year for those who truly make our movies happen through their painstaking VFX work, knack for design, and whatever else. If you're easily upset by violence or disturbing imagery, you probably shouldn't watch this; the cruelty inflicted upon these puppets is more nauseating than most live-action gore I've seen. That being said, anyone who respects cinema and special effects should see it at least once, and those who have lost faith in the art form -- insisting that Hollywood, with its modern creative bankruptcy, represents the totality of film (while refusing to seek out wildly imaginative, impassioned pieces like this) -- should see it twice. Long story short: I think it's fair to say this is the best movie Phil Tippett has directed since Starship Trooper 2. Log on to Shudder and search for it, you handsome devils. Bring a puke pail.

Yeah the film is visually stunning with great atmosphere, plus the stop-motion is really well done. The rest of the film is really boring. It was honestly difficult to follow the film being it feels like they just introduce a bunch of different plot points that are random, confusing, and go nowhere. Also just my opinion but the lack of dialog didn't help this film at all. I'm reminded of an anime called "Angel's Egg" which also features a creepy atmosphere, little dialog, and great visuals. That being said "Angel's Egg" was an incredible, haunting, and beautiful film. "Mad God" is none of those. Overrated, watch "Angel's Egg " instead.