Movies you've seen recently (Part 1)

Space Sweepers on Netflix. To summarize what I said in the CS thread about it: great visuals, terrible writing, way too long. A film for when you’ve been drinking and can’t be bothered to get off the couch or worry too much about a coherent plot but want to look at pretty space things.

Sorry to Bother You - There is a rather thick line between “profound social commentary on dystopian capitalism” and “weird shit that looks weird” and this film wobbles back and forth across it like a drunken cyclist. Sometimes it’s a comedy about a lovable loser who through luck and happenstance keeps falling upwards into situations he is ill-equipped to deal with. Sometimes it’s a commentary on how terrible people are and why we should despair for the future of humanity. Sometimes it just makes you go “WTF is going on?”.

Weirdly, it still all works, as long as you can adjust to the different things going on all at once. Worth a watch if you’re in the right frame of mind.