IS THERE AN APRIL FOOL’S PLOT AFOOT?
03.31.09
The delightfully bizarre trailer above, for After Last Season, first showed up on Videogum a few weeks ago. As you can see, it consists entirely of context-free small talk and banal randomness. Even aside from the cardboard MRI machine, it’s hard to believe it’s real. 
But the trailer has a rating from the MPAA, has a page at Apple, and supposedly a theatrical release on June 5th. The blog Knox Road even tracked down the film’s writer/director, who not only claims it’s a serious film, but that it cost $5 MILLION DOLLARS and will have a “regular-wide release.” Here’s the equally strange/vague:
The end of another season has brought more than the usual change in temperature to the residents of a city. As they go through some tragic events, the residents, and especially a group of medical students, must reevaluate their lives and face new questions.
What the hell is going on? A CHUD reader recently discovered this blog entry from one of the film’s “stars”:
I am getting ready for my top secret project, which I am just about ready to let you all know about…! We are “working” on it this Thursday with some wonderful people. Let me put it this way…the surprise will be unleashed April 1st, 2009. That’s not too much longer to wait, right? Right.
Hmm, sounds like an elaborate hoax of some kind. Nonetheless, I’m intrigued. As you can clearly see by my raised eyebrow and smoking jacket.
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Casey McDougal celebrates Easter by giving his kids baskets full of eggs.
And Casey’s totally a chick. Must suck to have an androgynous name.
*boy comes downstairs on Christmas morning to see Santa putting presents under the tree*
Boy: “Santa? Is that you?”
Casey McDougal: “No, it’s your father dressed as Santa!”
Ooh – I need a cardboard MRI to go with the barometric chamber I made from Tupperware and Hefty bags.
And Casey’s totally a chick. Must suck to have an androgynous name.
Casey Affleck and Casey Jones and Casey Rybeck and Casey Casum all hug each other sobbing repeating “Its true. Its true.”
Lots of hospitals have ceiling fans in their MRI rooms
I’ve never seen Pride and Predjudice or the English Patient but I’m willing to bet its filled with non sequitur meaningless conversations just like this.
Michael Bay(Strapped to a chair forced to watch this): M-Must blow something up! MUST BLOW SOMETHING UP!! W-Why isn’t anything blowing up!!!!
Thank you, Vince. This was the inspiration I needed to start writing my own movie. If shit like this can get made with such horrible acting, then I’ve got a shot!
That cardboard MRI machine would go perfectly with the fort I made out couch cushions and a kitchen table.
$5 million dollars for that big fat waste of everybody’s time? Get the fuck out of here!
How much of a piece of shit is this going to be? Well, the $5 million was spent on the refrigerators for the boxes to make all the cardboard sets. No one clued the director in that you can go to any appliance store and check the dumpster out back for boxes. Now they’ve got a shitty movie and 10,000 refrigerators that no one will buy.
Coincidentally, my HMO will only cover imaginary MRIs.
Stop motion is fucking expensive. Gumby the Movie was the first kids movie to cost over $100 million. True story. And don’t get me started on Wallace and Grommit
“…it consists entirely of context-free small talk and banal randomness…”
Upon reading VaLince’s comment, a Fox Studio Exec burned ou the motor in his Prius hauling ass to Mark Region’s house to secure exclusive distribution rights.
“The end of another season has brought more than the usual change in temperature to the residents of a city” it’s also the time when I usually change my
underwareclocks.April fools jokes where nobody gets hit in the head with a shovel are O.K. by me. Best of luck to these crazy kids.
April Fools jokes that don’t involve a girl telling you she’s pregnant and playing it out until your at the “clinic” are more than okay by me.
Man, 2007 was a shitty year.
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fuck.
I used to date this woman who is the hier to the Oster empire who’s birthday was April Fools Day. every year i send her a letter stating that her parents are dead and that she’s invited to the reading of the will. needless to say, she’s usually pretty pissed to show up and find me sitting there waving my cock at her.