Doctor Strange
I'll Lock Up
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Dude, consider that this "subversive commentary on the British class system" was originally a play by George Bernard Shaw that opened in 1914... when it was much more subversive!
Last night's flick was Colossal (2016), a bizarre hybrid about dysfunctional people... and giant monsters stomping Korea. Anne Hathaway plays a struggling, alcoholic writer whose NYC boyfriend (Dan Stevens) throws her out, and she's broke, so she heads back to her parents' empty home in some small community. She reconnects with a childood friend (Jason Sudeikis) who gives her a job helping in his bar, where she drinks too much through the night with him and his loser friends (including Tim Blake Nelson).
For reasons that are never adequately explained, when she goes into a school playground at 8:05am, a giant monster appears in Seoul which mimics her movements precisely. She eventually figures out that she's the cause, and soon Sudeikis is also going to the playground, and he appears in Seoul as a giant robot. They spend the rest of the film fighting, more or less, with their giant avatars causing massive death and destruction. They and their friends try and figure out what's happening, try to stop the destruction... BUT...
What nobody ever does is contact any local or state police, government agency, the scientific community, or basically any professionals who might be better prepared to diagnose and deal with the situation! This is the part where you realize that it's more of a dysfunctional character drama than a real SF film, because it has no interest in explaining the WHY. Oh, there's a flashback to a childhood occurrence that allegedly caused it, but it's vague and not believable.
Though the actors are good, all their characters are major a-holes. The story doesn't make sense, and there's no satisfying resolution. NOT RECOMMENDED.
Last night's flick was Colossal (2016), a bizarre hybrid about dysfunctional people... and giant monsters stomping Korea. Anne Hathaway plays a struggling, alcoholic writer whose NYC boyfriend (Dan Stevens) throws her out, and she's broke, so she heads back to her parents' empty home in some small community. She reconnects with a childood friend (Jason Sudeikis) who gives her a job helping in his bar, where she drinks too much through the night with him and his loser friends (including Tim Blake Nelson).
For reasons that are never adequately explained, when she goes into a school playground at 8:05am, a giant monster appears in Seoul which mimics her movements precisely. She eventually figures out that she's the cause, and soon Sudeikis is also going to the playground, and he appears in Seoul as a giant robot. They spend the rest of the film fighting, more or less, with their giant avatars causing massive death and destruction. They and their friends try and figure out what's happening, try to stop the destruction... BUT...
What nobody ever does is contact any local or state police, government agency, the scientific community, or basically any professionals who might be better prepared to diagnose and deal with the situation! This is the part where you realize that it's more of a dysfunctional character drama than a real SF film, because it has no interest in explaining the WHY. Oh, there's a flashback to a childhood occurrence that allegedly caused it, but it's vague and not believable.
Though the actors are good, all their characters are major a-holes. The story doesn't make sense, and there's no satisfying resolution. NOT RECOMMENDED.