Lost in Light » Sci-fi http://lostinlight.org small gauge filmmaking videoblog Wed, 13 Aug 2008 00:22:22 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Our Trip to Mars http://lostinlight.org/2007/02/08/our-trip-to-mars/ http://lostinlight.org/2007/02/08/our-trip-to-mars/#comments Thu, 08 Feb 2007 17:38:01 +0000 Aaron http://lostinlight.org/2007/02/08/our-trip-to-mars/

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It gets cold, real cold in Iowa. If you were a kid living before internets and video games, you were forced to use this thing called your imagination when locked inside for days at a time. You could only play the same five board games so many times with your bratty sisters. It was usually kids who commandered the home movie camera and turned it into a motion picture film camera. The level of boredom of kids making these films was directly proportional to the amount of detail in the final product. And judging by this film these kids were bored out of their minds.

The film starts with our team of astronauts, in their winter hooded-coat suits, launching their tin foil constructed spacecraft into deep space. Note the G’s being pulled, especially by the smallest of the bunch. After a few seconds in space they reach the desolate and clearly labeled planet of Mars. The first astronaut cautiously explores the surface of this mysterious formica-floored planet only to be zapped by the death ray of an upside-down, clothes-hamper-headed Martian. Little brother makes a brief cameo with his stuffed animal because Mom made them. The next astronaut is ambushed and completely disintegrates as she sleeps. The thing about Mars is it makes you really tired.

The brave Captain cuts his losses and fires the spacecraft back to Earth quicker than you can say Jiffy Pop. Ahhh but the hamper-headed Martian is inside!!! Lunch was ready so they landed on Earth. The End.

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