June 24

Movie 24

It is the last Wednesday of the June Swoon and I needed to pull out one more live action short. I searched through YouTube and I found a short called Crash Site that starred Steven Yeun and Sam Richardson. I like Steven Yeun a lot so I made this be my short for the June Swoon 5.

To summarize this, Crash Site sure seems as if this is “What if Close Encounters of the Third Kind came to us as SIMON, the game of electronic game of short-memory skill.

According to IMDB, “Two men discover the crash site of a mysterious object. As one of them begins investigating the strange find, his fascination soon turns into a dangerous obsession.“

The mysterious object is a weird black box that Steven Yeun takes home with him after they saw this crash. He then goes about trying to figure out what it was. It was literally like SIMON and made little beeps as he pressed buttons.

The story then started as someone arrived, pounding on his door and breaking in…just as SIMON was starting to work.

Then the film was done.

This felt like a short that was way too short. The story was missing rising action and a climax. All we got was an inciting incident.

There was so much more that what was here. I am amazed that you got a big star like Steven Yeun (and Sam Richardson, who was there for a minute) to do this.

I liked the short, but it was so incomplete that it was hardly worth watching.