Sasquatch Sunset

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......... What the hell is this! Why does this even exist! Who thought this is a good idea for a feature length movie!? I understand this situation supposed to be a commentary on endangered species, global warming, overconsumption, capitalism, and what not, but was this really the way to convey these messages? Did the creators really think it will have any positive impact on the environment, or make people start discussing about these things? The movie ends up being conceptually deep but substantially shallow. A short film idea stretched to 90 minutes of obscene, disgusting, and gag inducing scenes. A few Sasquatches just grunting and making absurd noises throughout. Am I supposed to feel sorry for them? Or am I supposed to relate with them? The only good thing is the beautiful photography and the lovely score. 1 star for that, and another additional star for being bold enough to try to make something unique.

The film follows the life of a family of 4 Sasquatches. We watch them struggle through four seasons. They do all the disgusting things that humans do but typically do not appear in films such as nose picking and booger eating. The production felt the need to show us fake genitalia and oversexed males. They communicate between clans by banging sticks or trees. The humor was not funny and mostly badly done slapstick. The first sign of humans was a large tree with a painted red "X" located outside of Willow Tree, California. There is supposed to be some meaningful message in the film. The only one I saw was careers reaching their bottom. Far from "epic, hilarious, and ultimately poignant." Guide: No language. Sex and fake Sasquatch nudity.

If you, like me, were sitting there wondering ?wtf am I watching here?", my best guess is it must have been meant to be a comedy, but since I hardly laughed the whole movie it's an abject failure for that. Sure the cinematography was outstanding as were the locations and make up effects, mostly, (that baby was rubbish). But what was the point of it all? It seems like it was some kind of a long running in joke for writer director David Zellner who made a short film in 2010 called Sasquatch Birth Journal 2. It wasn't a totally stupid idea for a film, but it really didn't deliver and missed lots of opportunities for infinitely funnier moments than it opted for. How about restaging the famous sasquatch photo moment? How bout showing a number of near misses for the sasquatch team? What we got instead was a bunch of gross out slapstick set ups based around 10 year old humor, puking, childbirth, sneezing, toilet gags etc. And they wrapped it up in an extra layer of wastefulness by hiring 2 beautiful hollywood stars to be unrecognisable under layers of prosthetics. It felt like an entitled rich kid's big budget joke. And the joke wasn't up to much,

I really wish I had watched a lifetime movie instead. The actors make all the same noises and do all the same things, but at least there is a plot and a little bit of murder. The only time mirder was close wax when male Sasquatch was holding a chicken over a bear trap. I'm very surprised by all the "this movie is brilliant" reviews. Why??? I could literally watch this movie in reverse and it would have the same effect of nothingness. Maybe that's what the director was going for. A feeling of wasted time with absolutely nothing happening. Literally these Sasquatches are so dumb and annoying. I'm glad my 23 and me DNA test didn't reveal that I'm 33 percent Sasquatch. Anyway, save your time or don't and watch this.

Almost uniquely odd, "Sasquatch Sunset" won't appeal to all. Jesse Eisenberg, Riley Keough, Christophe Zajac-Denek & Nathan Zellner (unrecognisable all under heavy & impressive prosthetics) are a family of sasquatch (aka bigfoot and/or yeti) seen roaming the Californian jungles over a year in the '80s. The screenplay (from David Zellner - who co-directed with brother Nathan) is divided into the four seasons, thru which the four forage, fish, re-produce, and curiously react to their surroundings. Having no narration it's not a mockumentary, but also with no dialogue (except grunts etc) it won't easily engage everyone, despite being interesting & relatively well made.

The behavior depicted is ridiculous for any 'wild' primate - as an amateur ethologist I'm well qualified to opine on whether a non verbal species would use thier hand to speak as it conscience, in a Senor Wences manner - and if a 'sqautch comes across human activities, they don't see it as any other than it is, part of the natural world - for them to be the age and size they are and to be NOT nomadic, surely they would be fully aware of all of the fungus in thier territory as well as any fruiting bushes - the gait and posture is also not well thought out as it would require a spine and hips that simply wouldn't be advantagoeus to a tree-dwelling species which some experts on cryptozoology portend they surely would be - ergo it's all wrong - basically IT'S ALL WRONG And finally it's not a deep message, it's not a profound story - it's just a fever dream of a child's uninformed imagination.

Quite possibly the worst movie I've ever seen. I really have no idea how this movie got green lit. You could literally sum up this movie into just a few sentences and save yourself an hour and a half of your life. So this movie is about a family of Sasquatches and they do things like crap in the woods, build a straw home, make monkey noises to each other, eat food, hide food from each other, and some adult activities. SS if that sounds like a great movie to you, you'll probably love this movie because that's about all it is. I'm not sure what else to say about this except that it's quite possibly the worst movie I have ever seen in my life.

Sasquatch Sunset

Movies that provide us with an inside look at the lives of communities different from our own can show us just how much alike - and not alike - the constituencies of those cultures truly are from our own. It's especially intriguing when such films cross species lines, examining societies of beings different from ourselves, an undertaking tackled in the latest project from the acting-writing-directing duo of David and Nathan Zellner. Known for such offbeat releases as "The Art of Self-Defense" (2019) and "Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter" (2014), this time out the filmmaking siblings present a documentary-style look at a year in the lives of a bigfoot family of four inhabiting the forests of Northern California. The camera follows them through a variety of everyday situations not unlike what we as humans go through, only in a totally different milieu. The film features an array of comedic and dramatic circumstances to which we can all undoubtedly relate, often on a very "earthy," unrestrained level, involving activities in which we all engage but rarely talk about. Told in four acts, this release beautifully captures their experience of life in the woods, with exquisite visuals of Northwestern landscapes and diverse forest wildlife, along with curious, entirely natural expressions of individuals discovering the myriad elements of a world that they have come to believe is their own. But is it? As they come upon scenarios that are anomalous from what they have typically known, they must learn to adapt when evidence emerges that their world could be drastically changing - even vanishing - before their very eyes. In that sense, then, the film quietly delivers a strong environmental message (aptly timed for an Earth Day release) that we should heed in light of the unsettling experience of this picture's unique protagonists. While the film's sequences at times become somewhat repetitive and feature more than their share of undoubtedly base humor, this offering is nevertheless entertaining, clever and thought-provoking, enhanced by its stunning cinematography, emotive original score, and stellar makeup and prosthetics. Despite these assets, however, some have dismissively and capriciously compared this production to an extended Saturday Night Live sketch or a parody of the opening sequence of Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey" (1968). But those analogies unfairly sell this one short as a vehicle that will simultaneously make viewers both laugh and think. With an economical 1:28:00 runtime and a fine cast of actors portraying the quartet of uncannily prescient primates (Jesse Eisenberg, Riley Keough, Nathan Zellner, Christophe Zajac-Denek), "Sasquatch Sunset" makes an intriguing watch, provided that viewers give it a fair shake. Indeed, if we're ever to reach a new level of understanding about those who are different from us and with whom we share this world, not to mention the impact we have on one another, we should make an effort to grasp what this offering is trying to tell us - while we still have the time to do so for both of us.