A walk down a hallway after a joint session will clone the dialogue to simulate the trip, spreading through the surrounds with a meager echo effect.ĭespite being a barren, cheap production, dialogue doesn’t sound hazy. Mellowed music doesn’t hit the sub or space itself from the stereos, and there’s no genuine action to speak of. It’s a weak excuse for style on a disc with little visual panache.Īnchor Bay shoves a TrueHD mix onto the disc that doesn’t have anything to do. One of the songs is given a vintage feel with a noisy grain structure and simulated print damage. The end result is an overblown, washed out image in which people appear almost like aliens or diseased in certain shots.įew scenes try anything outrageous visually, the “high” sequences shot with specific lenses for a variety of effects, but limited digital manipulation. Someone must have made a desperate attempt in post to fix whatever was broken at the source, but couldn’t find the right mix to make it appear natural. Heavy saturation invites the encode to bring a little compression along, working together with the noise to break-up the clarity.Įxposure problems blow out entire sections of the frame while giving flesh tones one of the strangest, pastiest qualities you’ll likely ever see. It’s rather remarkable how rundown this fresh digital source can look.īlips of noise can prove slightly bothersome, although usually draped over the background. Plagued by aliasing and pixelation on anything resembling a fine line, the image is in a constant state of break-up. It wouldn’t be surprising to learn most of High School’s budget was drained by the camera used to shoot it, and whatever dollar amount that was, it wasn’t worth it.
They’re looking for some mindless pot escapism purporting to be a feature film, which tells them they should be high to watch in the first place (really). Anyone wandering into the minefield of idiocy that is High School probably isn’t looking for any of that anyway.
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It’s impossible to deconstruct a movie like this, utterly devoid of basic technical merit, acceptable editing techniques, and writing with any glimmer of logic. He gets in, the Princeton rep apparently fixated on the choreographed dancers on the background performing a routine based around smoking weed or getting laid. You can’t make this stuff up, Devin’s speech as valedictorian dedicated entirely to smoking pot and getting drunk right in front of a Princeton scholarship adviser. The positive side of the message? Um, that is in fact the positive message. Devin (Wiz Khalifa) is a high-end student with a girlfriend who wants him to succeed, but throws it all away to get plastered in Mac’s (Snoop Dog) apartment. In that 60-minutes of “plot” and droning comedic acts that struggle to find their edge, two musical performances are sandwiched in, only to kill time and undoubtedly promote whatever it is Snoop finished in the recording studio. Small note: Asking for legalization of a substance via an animated cartoon character with bloodshot eyes -in front of an American flag decked out in pot leaves instead of stars- probably isn’t the way to get your message across. It opens on an animated joint, switches to Snoop Dog getting high, and then someone else gets high, there’s shots of marijuana, someone gets high, and the closing comes on an animated joint making a case for legalization.
No, that’s not technical, just purposeful. Let’s take this 75-minute film (of which there are 60-minutes of actual content) and dissect it structurally. You could say High School is a stretch for Snoop Dog, but that would stretching into naivety.
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You could say Mac & Devin Go to High School is like a sitcom based around pot, but that would be an insult to sitcoms in general.
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