This is not sci-fi...
Hopefully The Quiet Earth (1985) is much better... I really hated the experience of this movie, and I guess my expectations and anticipation didn't help, but the mix of it plus the idea of setting up some time to watch this disappointment didn't help. Just wanted to sit down and enjoy a thoughtful, low budget, greatly written sci-fi...
The movie reminded me of Last Night (1998), The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951), Timer (2009), or…
How is this even worst than the last one? How is their only one good movie in this trilogy? Seriously, the first one felt so fresh even if we had seen that kind of movie before. Two and three... what the hell happened?? You had Tom Hardy, half the work was done!
Dumb... so dumb.
Remember the movie Downsizing? The movie about "What if humans could shrink in size..." and how it turned out to be just a social commentary film that had nothing to do with its premise... Yep, another one of those.
You have a sci-fi movie with an incredible premise, "what if the remaining humans on Earth lived on a nonstop moving train." Awesome, is the movie about how humanity evolved in this secluded environment? The history of this…
"This Place Rules" is a decent documentary, but it somehow feels subpar to Andrew's previous work (which is amazing: All Gas, Channel 5, The Hoff Twins doc, etc). This longer format doesn't seem to add much because the segments feel barely stuck together. As always, what is on display is fascinating; the guy has a fantastic talent for capturing real people without judgment... but in the end, this piece as a whole feels lacking... not as insightful as most of…
