The good news is that this is a spoof documentary . The bad news is that it's not a very good one which is a shame because a great number of people who set their video recorders to tape this will no doubt empathise with Jamie Campbell and Joel Wilson with what it's like trying to build a successful movie career
The problem with this spoof is that the humour falls short . one of the wannabes claims to be Alex Garland . Is posing as the screenwriter of 28 DAYS LATER a good idea I ask myself ? In another sequence we're shown a character asking an Afro Caribbean female where her black box is , which is only memorable because it's probably the first and last racist/sexist joke that a Channel 4 production got away with . When legendary internet film critic Paul Hunter said " Their films sucked the life out of me " at the start of the mockumentary I wondered if he was a critic or a prophet A good idea but one that's badly developed If someone is going to make spoof documentaries wouldn't it be more entertaining seeing people flick through a Los Angeles phone book calling up everyone called Bruckheimer asking " Hello . Is that Jerry the film producer ? "