Was it worth it? Working for three decades so that jaded 2022 people go into a collective WTF? I would say no.
The stop motion animation that goes on for almost an hour and a half doesn't have a story. You might imagine there is a story, but there is none. A story has structure, characters, goals, development. This is just stuff happening while a guy walks through this world of horrors. I don't even know if the Leviticus quote at the beginning explains something or was just something that the film maker added as a whim after everything was edited.
The work was great, the art is beautiful and disgusting and exhilaratingly grotesque. A lot of effort went into this, but in the end it just feels like one of those YouTube videos that people string up from horror game cinematics.
I wanted to like it, but without a narrative structure and characters I could relate to, the whole artistic thing bored me to tears. Imagine a painting made out of plastic, meat, excrement, pipes, wires and blades, one of those avantgarde art installations. And it also moves. And you sit there and watch it for more than an hour. That's Mad God.
The stop motion animation that goes on for almost an hour and a half doesn't have a story. You might imagine there is a story, but there is none. A story has structure, characters, goals, development. This is just stuff happening while a guy walks through this world of horrors. I don't even know if the Leviticus quote at the beginning explains something or was just something that the film maker added as a whim after everything was edited.
The work was great, the art is beautiful and disgusting and exhilaratingly grotesque. A lot of effort went into this, but in the end it just feels like one of those YouTube videos that people string up from horror game cinematics.
I wanted to like it, but without a narrative structure and characters I could relate to, the whole artistic thing bored me to tears. Imagine a painting made out of plastic, meat, excrement, pipes, wires and blades, one of those avantgarde art installations. And it also moves. And you sit there and watch it for more than an hour. That's Mad God.