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Don't Look Up (2021)
You know this is about global warming, right?
Overacted characters, incoherent montages, entirely obvious play on global warming.
Had trouble getting through the unnecessary length of this movie. I liked the concept but felt like it was a bit of a mess. You can't have some characters be serious and realistic right next to others who are goofy caricatures.
Coextinction (2021)
Streaming?
Hi Elena and Gloria,
It would be great to be able to watch this outside of in-person events! Will it be available to watch online soon? I appreciate the work you've done.
A Glitch in the Matrix (2021)
Mental Illness Runs Rampant, Insightful Discussion of Simulation Theory Does Not
I'm not sure why someone thought it was a good idea to record several individuals with varying degrees of mental illness talk about simulation theory.
I thought the beginning was kind of interesting - it reminded me of What The Bleep Do We Know - but then it turned bad.
Near the end, a man recounts how he murdered his parents. I found this very disturbing. And irrelevant.
The Endless (2017)
Don't try to convince me this movie makes sense
The acting was ok. The writing was ok. The idea is kinda neat. But the lack of internal consistency and explanation...frustrated me. Some examples:
- When the loop resets for the gun nut tweaker, his previous body is still there? Why isn't his body there from every loop? Shouldn't there be hundreds of corpses? Why aren't anyone else's bodies there from their previous loops?
- Do people have an awareness of their loop? The cult people seem to. The gun nut tweaker does. But the protagonists don't seem to, despite clues that they are looping. The handcuffed drug addict and his friend talk about knowing about their loop, and yet, when it resets, they seem to carry on repeating their previous loop like their memory has been reset. The guy in the tent with a 10 second loop speaks like he knows he's looping but acts like he doesn't by doing the exact same thing every time. I don't understand the rules.
- So the monster in the sky has complete control of time, and is omnipresent, but it can only communicate by taking pictures on a polaroid camera?! And why does it leave media in such random locations? Sometimes it's mailed to you, sometimes dropped at your feet, and sometimes delivered to the bottom of a lake. What?
- Why is the cult so secretive about information regarding their loop while people in other loops aren't secretive about it? They come right out and say it. It seems like they're in a predicament, and they would want to explain it to others and ask for help.
- And what is the sky monster that controls time? Oh sorry, not only can it communicate by taking polaroid pictures, but it can play tug of war. And you know it doesn't like you if it tugs real hard.
- What are the clumpy, gnarled sticks? I get that they are somehow a sign of the presence of the monster...but what else? Sometimes you can walk next to one and walk through a loop boundary, but other times you walk next to one and nothing happens.
- When a loop resets, what happens to the sun, to daylight, to things outside your loop boundary that can still affect you? When your 3 hour loop resets, does the position of the sun also reset, or does it continue from where it was at the end of your previous loop?
- How do you escape your loop? Or alternatively, what is keeping people in their loop? The protagonists just have to drive outside it and then apparently they're free. Why doesn't everyone just do that?
- What do the swirling birds in the sky have to do with anything?
365 dni (2020)
Vapid dreck. Dumpster fire.
This vapid piece of dreck fails to clear even the lowest imaginable bar (soft core pr0n). Voting against your own self interest would be more productive than watching this dumpster fire. Come to think of it, watching an actual dumpster fire would be more productive. I won't refer to this fecal smear as a movie because doing so dignify it. Nor can I say that I hated it, because using the word "hate" would imply that the English language is sufficiently equipped to describe my disdain for it - and it's not.
The Festival (2018)
I had fun. More than I should have? #festival
So, uh, this is not a good movie, but I enjoyed it. I went in with zero expectations and came away smiling and laughing. It's dumb. It does actually do a pretty good job of capturing the free-flowing weirdness of festivals. It's goofy and bad. The first half was weak but by the end it won me over. I had fun. More than I should have? All aboard the train gang!
The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then the Bigfoot (2018)
The man who killed the Hitler and then, err, what?
Throughout the movie, I kept going back and forth on whether I was watching something kinda epic or just something dumb. When he started hunting bigfoot I started thinking that this is really kind of a dumb mess. But then it kept redeeming itself with nice scenes here and there.
I think this was trying to be a tall tales type of story, like Big Fish. It had some nice scenes, some nice vignettes, but overall the pacing and proportions of flashbacks were just kind of a mess. Acting, directing, score, all pretty good.
El hoyo (2019)
Thinly veiled and rather heavy-handed. My favorite part is the set design!
A thinly veiled and rather heavy-handed allegory for capitalist society.
I thought the use of gore was excessive, but that's just a stylistic preference.
My favorite part is the set design. I love when a movie is cleverly written enough to allow for very few sets. This entire movie was basically shot inside a single cell - just change the numbers on the wall!