Yep - one of the big disappointments of the year, IMO. Not a bad movie, really, but weirdly boring given its premise and Bong's skill. (Interesting, I suppose, that you think Ruffalo's character is an unsubtle Elon Musk parody, instead of the unsubtle Trump parody that everyone else thinks he is.)
Credit where it's due, though: those aliens were pretty adorable! Please just give me a 90-minute movie about oversized tardigrades getting into hijinx, Hollywood, I beg you.
Did anybody else think the villain was way more of a Trump analogue than a Musk parody? He was more of a politician than a tech guy, and the performance felt like a direct impression.
Yeah, I read it as a pretty straightforward Trump caricature - and given Ruffalo's own politics, one he was probably a little too excited to deliver as hammy and uninteresting as possible. There were several elements in the film that didn't exactly work, but that character was a big miss as a whole; I think Toni Collette as sole leader would have made more of an impact.
Yep - one of the big disappointments of the year, IMO. Not a bad movie, really, but weirdly boring given its premise and Bong's skill. (Interesting, I suppose, that you think Ruffalo's character is an unsubtle Elon Musk parody, instead of the unsubtle Trump parody that everyone else thinks he is.)
Credit where it's due, though: those aliens were pretty adorable! Please just give me a 90-minute movie about oversized tardigrades getting into hijinx, Hollywood, I beg you.
Did anybody else think the villain was way more of a Trump analogue than a Musk parody? He was more of a politician than a tech guy, and the performance felt like a direct impression.
Yeah, I read it as a pretty straightforward Trump caricature - and given Ruffalo's own politics, one he was probably a little too excited to deliver as hammy and uninteresting as possible. There were several elements in the film that didn't exactly work, but that character was a big miss as a whole; I think Toni Collette as sole leader would have made more of an impact.
“The irony is that **UNLIKE** Elon, Bong couldn’t land the rocket ship.”
• I liked how scenes of the “creepers” were visually reminiscent of bison — very westward expansion.
• Mickey’s handwriting made me 🥺.
• Ruffalo’s performance skewed a bit too on the side of panto I think.
Mickey was astonishingly bad. But not as astonishing as the unilateraly positive reaction towards it.
Such a bummer. I had high hopes for this one. Agree about tardigrades getting into hijinx. I'd watch and enjoy that. Lol.