Sep 7, 2026 · 2 hr 45 min · 11 segments
*Europa Report* accomplishes a lot with a small budget for space traveling science fiction storytelling. The decision to shoot the film out of sequnece and to use the found footage style was an…
Brian, what are some of your initial impressions of this movie before we move to a more linear approach to this movie? Well, as linear as you can discuss a movie that's a bit out of sequence.
This is a film that I like a lot.
I'm very, very high on it.
I enjoy it.
I think it's one of my favorite found footage type movies.
My initial genre.
I don't like the genre.
And I think that's, I can't stand it.
And I think that's what appeals to me is that I'm not a big found footage guy.
Uh, never got into Blair, which, um, And that kind of sticks out to me as one of the primary ones, but then like Cloverfield and things of this nature.
I've never been a huge fan of the genre.
You don't like it when they shake the camera and go,
oh my God, it's a monster, dude.
And it's especially scary because we shoot it shittily.
Exactly.
It's an
excuse for just like shitty cinematography and bad
filmmaking.
Or
just
low budget at least, right? But I do think that this movie has high production value.
I think that it has really interesting editing.
I think that the things that make this movie really appealing to me are also the things that make it very difficult to cover because it's not sequential.
Sure.
Which I...
Brian, what are some of your initial impressions of this movie before we move to a more linear approach to this movie? Well, as linear as you can discuss a movie that's a bit out of sequence.
This is a film that I like a lot.
I'm very, very high on it.
I enjoy it.
I think it's one of my favorite found footage type movies.
My initial genre.
I don't like the genre.
And I think that's, I can't stand it.
And I think that's what appeals to me is that I'm not a big found footage guy.
Uh, never got into Blair, which, um, And that kind of sticks out to me as one of the primary ones, but then like Cloverfield and things of this nature.
I've never been a huge fan of the genre.
You don't like it when they shake the camera and go,
oh my God, it's a monster, dude.
And it's especially scary because we shoot it shittily.
Exactly.
It's an
excuse for just like shitty cinematography and bad
filmmaking.
Or
just
low budget at least, right? But I do think that this movie has high production value.
I think that it has really interesting editing.
I think that the things that make this movie really appealing to me are also the things that make it very difficult to cover because it's not sequential.
Sure.
Which I...
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