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Loom
2012 · Film · short · 21 min
Directed by Luke Scott
Tommy, a dogged lab tech of industrial food who, though once known in the business as "The Apostate", seems to have rededicated himself to producing scientifically engineered meat. A film about a dystopian future rife with genetic engineering, corporate corruption of government and rampant infection, is really about Tommy’s loneliness and the at-home experiment he conducts.
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Wow, I remember this remaster… I definitely had a feeling of the magic being gone in the CD-ROM version. I blamed the C-list voiceovers and overly lush production of the music… the old “sound blaster” score had this delicate and deliberate (what we would later call “chiptune”) sound, whereas the CD was just _wrong_. But yes, the graphics were inferior too.
I would have expected the EGA and soundblaster approach to work great for a cartoonish game like Monkey Island, but Loom was more like a Rankin-Bass or a gothic Disney movie (think Black Cauldron). Everything about the themes indicate that lush visual canvases and a live orchestra would be the way to go.
Textbook case of severe limitations leading to great art, I guess.
LOOM is a great example of low-budget movie-making. Partway thru this sci-fi futuristic dystopia I realized that everything was current mundane stuff, just brilliantly arranged to give the impression of future tech. No computer-generated imagery (enhanced, perhaps, but not photo-realistic animation), no model shop, just off-the-shelf, what's-laying-around commonplace stuff.
Could very well amount to a Blade Runner prequel.