This is a 4/10 Article.

Imagine for a moment, you just saw a new movie in the cinema. You take the first steps out of that darkened auditorium and your friend asks you “What would you rate it out of ten?”. With some thought you apply a hard numerical value to the 90+ minutes of story on celluloid that you just watched. In my humble opinion, this is the death of a cinematic experience. It limits the complexities of what makes up a movie to a scale that only accounts for a blanket good/bad ranking. Additionally, there is a high chance that you completely avoided certain movies that you personally would have loved just because it had a bad critic score on some vapid movie review website. Their is immense joy in taking a chance on something completely random. Some of the most special cinematic experiences are when you discover a bold imaginative film that was buried under a mounted of “five-out-of-ten” reviews. One man’s The Room is another man’s Citizen Cane.

An Ocean of Blood.

As and addendum, I took a chance last weekend and saw the new Iron Lung film by Markiplier. I was not following the production very closely, but when it came out I was excited to see something new and support this fully independent film financially. It did not disappoint. It was so inventive in its restrictions. The entire film takes place inside one small submarine in a blood ocean as the main character, Simon fends off against cosmic horrors straight out of  a H. P. Lovecraft book. The film leverages its limitations of one location and one focal character well and implies much darker things than it shows- much the same way that Jaws triumphed in showing horror by only implying the presence of the shark and using it very sparingly to heighten the dread.

You can watch the trailer for Iron Lunge HERE.

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