Kinda felt like several of Bong's films/main themes all mushed together (in a good way). A bit predictable and extremely unsubtle but just a lot of fun, and honestly dunks all over any recent American "blockbuster" offering. Sometimes I think this man has a better understanding of our own country's filmmaking than we do.
Also love seeing Ruffalo continue his sniveling shitheel villain phase. More please.
Still my favorite accidental masterpiece. It tries to say so many things and present so many ideas and, while it doesn't fully succeed in executing on any of them whatsoever, like all good sci-fi it still manages to accurately predict the next two decades of modern civilization. All that plus a soundtrack that goes hard as fuck and a handful of musical sequences that, to my taste, are about as close to cinematic perfection as you can get.
Also gotta…
Does it make sense? Is it enjoyable? Does it even work as an actual movie? In a conventional sense, the answer to all three of these questions is varying degrees of Hell No. But as a singular piece of art, as something that completely destroys the conceptions of its own medium while slowly piecing them back together on its own uncompromising terms, it is an absolute slam-fucking-dunk.
Maybe it's the fact that this time I was seeing it through the…
