Happy New Year! I am always on the cutting edge of everything that is both terrible or great. Over Horrorthon, I reviewed A LOT of AI generated short films. I believe that we not far out to seeing a total change in how films are made. We are also seeing a change in how films are consumed- especially terrible ones. Reel Shortz and Dramabox (Dramabox might be a pirate outfit) is part of that transition. Reel Shortz is a Chinese company where they make TERRIBLE movies and break them up into bits and charge tokens that you buy with real money to keep watching the story. How you watch the film is just as different as how you pay for it: it’s designed to be watched on your phone- no letterbox. It sounds stupid, but stupid can make money- Just look at Francis Beto.

Does this sound like Temu Warner Bros.? Yes it does and YES IT IS! Also, if the title “Miss You After Goodbye” sounds like google translate- it is! The movie is terrible from the p@rn quality acting to the clunky/stupid dialogue, but they generated 700 Million in 2025; so, we will see A LOT more of this! I’m not saying whether I watched this film by buying their tokens or saw it on dailymotion, but I did watch it and howled with laughter at the unintentional comedy while I was on the elliptical!
With this lead up, you’re wondering how bad was this film? Oh, this film made Birdemic look like a masterpiece.

The plot is that Neil Wade an astrophysicist/astronaut marries his mentor’s daughter, Keira Thorne for five years, in exchange for his college tuition. His mentor believed that Keira needed a husband because her boyfriend broke up with her and she was sad. Keira does not know this transaction took place and marries Neil and treats him like garbage from day one. For some reason, he wears this outfit from 18th Century Cobblers Weekly – Ed Gein collection.

Neil falls for Keira, but she is so awful that he leaves her and accepts a mission to mars with NASX. Yes, NASX!

The main villain of the story is Simon who is Keira’s first love. Simon looks like what China believes our villains look like.

Keira does not believe that Neil has left her for real. She does not understand that Neil is not some boring house husband! No, Neil’s a ROCKETMAN!!!

Yes, Neil is the next Neil Armstrong! The first man to set foot on Mars, but no one knows what he looks like, which is both normal and possible. Keira keeps looking for Neil on Earth, but he’s gone Far…. Far… Away… Chirpy Chirpy Cheap Cheap…..

When Neil returns, Keira goes insane, Simon tries to kill Neil, there is no security at NASX, and Neil marries Elon Musk’s daughter. Yes, that all takes place in the last 4 minutes of the film.

The future is not always bright, but this shows that there is a market for serialized feature length storytelling; so, a mediocre script would be like Apocalypse Now by comparison to what is being churned out! How people make and consume films is changing and the days of the movie theater are OVER! Hollywood is likely over. One positive for Reel Shortz is this: the film used living actors and not AI generated ones.