Bong Joon-Ho takes every sci-fi dystopia commentary ever crafted and manages to reinvent it, but it just isn’t enough to stand out. It’s like if you put it all into a blender and made a nice sauce.
There are way too many things that would otherwise be self-contained but are used as a narrative point running parallel to something else, so instead of painting an image it instead becomes a muddled palette of watercolor.
Also somehow confused the interviews for A Different Man with this so that was sorta confusing.
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The Gorge 2025
I’m almost convinced this started as a script for a Resident Evil 5 adaptation that couldn’t get greenlit, and feels about as successful. It’s the type of schlock that you can predict beat for beat even with your back turned while it’s going in the background.
The cameraman seems to be standing in a boat the majority of the time too, which is almost as distracting as the main characters being walking tooltips (except for when it isn’t something moronically obvious).
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Alien: Romulus 2024
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
I told you when the first teaser came out that it was gonna be shit. There was the generic slop horror trailer, there was the fact that Ridley Scott is barely even connected to it, and then you all said it was really good and I saw some stills online that looked really pretty so I thought “oh, the bad trailer is probably just to get general audiences to go see it and it’ll actually be a blast!” Then I…
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I literally can’t get through this.
It’s genuinely good until RoboCop actually shows up, and even after that it has some fun shots so I thought “oh, my review’s gonna be 'if you completely removed RoboCop this would nearly be a great film,'” and then I started cackling at a character death because I’ve unironically seen better acting in porn than the guy they recast for Weller (since he was filming another movie) and consequently turned it off.
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