The Web
is a 2013 Science Fiction Disaster Movie Thriller short film written and directed by Nathan Fielder.
Kip (Johnny Depp, I mean Ronnie Rodriguez) is an expert hacker working out of a souvenir store owned by Mel (John Kim) and worked at by Richard (Nathan Fielder). After Bill Gates (Bill Heath) implanted computer chips into asteroids for an evil plan, a malfunction in the microchips sends an asteroid towards the Earth. Kip tries to prevent the end of the world by hacking into the asteroid while Richard says goodbye to his girlfriend Allison (Jessee Foudray). Luckily, Kip successfully reprograms the asteroid's trajectory and saves the world.
Nathan Fielder created the film for the episode "Souvenir Shop; ELAIFF" of his show Nathan for You, in which he makes the movie to avoid fraud charges for tricking customers into buying items from a souvenir store under false pretenses that it was for a movie being filmed.
The film won best short at The East Los Angeles International Film Festival.
Tropes:
- Apocalypse Anarchy: The incoming apocalypse leads to people rioting and buying souvenirs en masse.
- Celebrity Impersonator: The movie features two impersonators: Ronnie Rodriguez, a Johnny Depp impersonator, and Bill Heath, a Bill Gates impersonator.
- Deadpan Snarker: Kip is very sarcastic and snarky.
- Disaster Movie: It’s about stopping an asteroid from destroying the planet.
- Historical Villain Upgrade: Bill Gates is a villain who tries to control asteroids for an evil plan and almost destroys the world.
- Hollywood Hacking: The film's portrayal of hacking is extremely unrealistic, such as when Kip hacks into a microchip inside an asteroid to change its trajectory.
- My God, What Have I Done?: Bill Gates is horrified after realizing that his asteroid microchips are about to end the world.
- Stylistic Suck: The movie is purposely bad, featuring a horrible story and script with stilted acting.
