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I do hope the podcast can change my opinion here. I've listened to several YouTube reviews, but most gravitate around the same obvious recaps and gush about how grand it was. The tone in that previous sentence isn't necessarily against the movie but the cloned reviews that I kept pulling up.
Right now, I am really stuck wondering if the aim of the movie was quite high, yet it just did not reach that level (IMO), or if it was, as Iro noted the possibility earlier in a reply, pulling too much from source and inspiration material never really finding its own voice in the amalgam. If the former, then good. I generally give leeway to such efforts even if they fail. If the latter, then I don't know what else to allow to judge this movie better. Still though, either way it falls so much in the movie really bothers me. I don't mean in the philosophical sense of interpretation that I think TUS is referring to as a positive when a movie is polarizing. I agree that polarization can be very creative, if intentional. And I also agree that polarization leads to great conversation! Here, though, I don't think I have issue with the concept/philosophy/ambiguity so much as it's the technical application of it all? Some scenes nail it. Others fall short.
Let me be very clear: I love that this movie exists. I love science fiction and I love thoughtful and heady ideas. That this was released in any movie-going climate is a wonderful thing. Regardless, while I can give it high marks for being bold, it still falls apart for me! And for that, I just cannot honor it with the same amount of respect that so many seem to be willing to offer it.
Help me, Obi-Yoda. You're my only hope!
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