Thursday, January 11, 2024

We don't have that in the fridge.

The Creator — 2/5

It's hard to call something lazy when clearly so much work has been put into it. It's beautifully rendered. It's amazing what they pulled off for the budget, truly, and in that way, it might be a landmark movie that shows us how to do VFX better. So much work has been put into every aspect of this—except the script. This movie did not meet an idea it did not want to explicitly spell out. It's a generic, cliched, dead girlfriend montage of a movie, graduate of the Zack Snyder "To Be Cinematic Is To Be Serious" school of thought. It touches on humor—successfully!—a couple of times, but nobody seeing that saw it as a nice way to build interest in characters. It would rather be an important movie, it wants desperately to feel like an important movie, but it thinks importance is in how you tell the story, Radiohead playing over air raids, not what the story is. A great movie can be made in the how, I don't mean to denigrate that aspect—but an important movie has to actually say something worthwhile. 

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