"That is the thing about the present, Emily Prime, you only appreciate it when it is the past."
A deeply moving, funny sci-fi short full of melancholy and desperation, philosophic and artistic ideas. It was about time to revisit it. I hope I'll be able to watch part 2 soon.
Edgar Wright feels the beat and goes with it. Baby Driver is an almost perfectly choreographed musical for people who don't like musicals. Seeing Ansel Elgort dance in the kitchen of his foster father was a nice treat! I bet the pitch went something like "Let's make a musical! Wait, hear me out! For men! With cars and violence and shit!"
All characters are cardboard cutouts. Baby goes from "Oh no! We can't hurt anybody!" to "Bang! You are dead!"…
One part tedious attention seeking, one part vomit in my mouth, one part well observed satire about german media and society. A very german comedy and by that I mean a good idea half-assed executed. Meh.
Arrival hits close to home. I love language and I am fascinated by linguistics. Maybe I should take some time and discuss some details of this movie a little bit longer. For now: Arrival is a good movie. It's a positive sci-fi movie, that made a fluffy, warm feeling in my belly and made me think that humanity maybe has a chance to survive more than the next 100 or 200 years.
It's not the positive sci-fi movie I have…
