It was a very meh movie. 5/10 is my rating for it.
I enjoyed the robot designs and their over the top kooky personalities. Chris Pratt gives a fun performance but it's your standard fun guy part he's known for. The film takes place in the 90s and leans on the nostalgia for it's aesthetic and music. Be prepared for malls, Mtv news, and the flying toaster screen saver. The soundtrack does the Westworld thing and plays 80s and 90s hits with the slow piano bit.
Millie Brown isn't great in this. She's not a Mary Sue or a girl boss in this, her character is just kinda bland. The two antagonist, Giancarlo Esposito and Stanley Tucci, are not great. Giancarlo's General Bradbury is the same Esposito villain character we've seen before. And Tucci just walks through this performance.
The biggest problem for me is, and maybe I'm stupid, but the Russos didn't seem to nail the analogy for the robots. Do they represent blacks in the civil rights, American Indians, slavery? There is also this line in the movie
Humans are a tire fire in the middle of a lake of piss
She isn't great in anything. But one of the final curses Tumblr put on us was making Stranger Things some sort of cultural icon that you cannot criticize and making her a "big thing" that Hollywood tripped over themselves to shove everywhere.
They literally made her a main character in a fucking Godzilla movie that had 4 monsters fighting for screentime, but made sure to show her winning the fight for him.
Millie brown looks like a clueless forty year old Russian mail order bride who eats the aluminum foil instead of the popcorn in order to maintain her figure.
That is quite specific
I have several questions. Foil as in aluminum foil, or the stuff in the popcorn bag? Does this refer to a specific person?
For why I know it's in there, as a random thing I've done a couple times I've flipped a popcorn bag inside out and ate it because I wanted more of the butter flavor. When I spit it out there's metal in the bag somewhere
I checked her IMDB and it's all terrible movies.
King of the Monsters, and somewhat vs Kong, are both great movies but she is one of the worst parts in them both. The human elements to monster movies are already bad, but adding in an annoying vaguely brown teenager who is just better than everyone is mind boggling.
Agreed. I always take the boy out to the theatre whenever a new Godzilla film comes out and Millie is the worst part.
The only thing I've seen of this is the Mr. Peanut commercial, where for some reason they made a Mr. Peanut robot and fixed it.
Mr. Peanut is the robot leader. He is voiced by Woody Harrelson
I'd remembered I also saw a video but just read the comments of. Apparently it's an adaptation of a graphic novel, but it's a disappointing one because it's not accurate to it
Is Mr. Peanut product placement or something? Is he basically Dima from the Fallout 4 DLC Far Harbor? I'll have to Google if he was in the original.
He's Mr. Peanut a robot of the company logo. So he's the Mr. Peanut. I guess it's product placement.
Apparently they're fighting robots based on corporate mascots that people made in the 90s, and it's a post apocalypse. As someone who doesn't really watch Netflix, it's funny that I got an ad from a Peanut company more than commercials for the real movie.
In the original as a random reddit comment said "For those wondering, the Electric State,the book, is very different. There is no revolution, it's a road trip with her are a little robot buddy through a decaying US where most of the population is dead or hooked up to VR as a once prosperous and advanced world crumbles around them"
There is a robot revolution, it's mentioned on page 2. It isn't that huge a deal since it's just the backdrop for the rest.
But I only looked at the first 10 pages, see my link elsewhere.
I looked more: it's all about the destruction of civilization through recreation, people being lethally addicted to the VR devices that won the war for us humans. No Mr. Peanut in the book, he makes up several 'mascots' which are just pure genius in design.
It's a movie "thing". Here's a link to the novel, you can see the first 10 pages and also download it for free.
https://1lib.sk/book/5495713/de4ba6/the-electric-state.html
I have not seen it but just from the trailer it does not look like it manage the spookiness and wrongness from the source material. It's seem to be a poor action comedy when it should be something much more somber and darker like all good swedish works, the darkness is always there, haha
Ah, the Simon Stålenhag art book.
It's not dark or spooky at all.
Ah, unlike the art book of drawings/paintings by Simon Stålenhag.
I couldn't tell you, I didn't know it was based on a book. So I don't know how the art compares.
I DID!
I liked it, but it was obviously filled with flaws. 8/10 because I love Stalenhag's work.
https://1lib.sk/book/5495713/de4ba6/the-electric-state.html
There you can see the first 10 pages, and download the whole thing for free.
It is dark as fuck!
But the movie wasn't nearly as much. Which is both understandable and a big shame.
There's too many plot holes & unexplained "conveniences" in the plot. The robots and scenery are good, but still far short of the randomness of horror and amazement found in the book. Horror that such... things! even exist and amazement that everyone thinks they're just so... ordinary. This is the backbone of his work, of course.
Anyhow, IDK where the 320 M went, I read there were months of re-shooting & such, that'll burn through cash pretty fast.
Yeah this movie doesn't have any dark undertones or anything. It's a shade away from a Spielberg movie. Even the dystopia of being addicted to the helmets isn't touched on, like it is in Ready Player One.
They seem to hint at it? But it gets totally glossed over somehow.
Those helmets are destroying everything in the book, but seem like a good time in this movie :/
Here's a question: there's hundreds of soldiers donning their helmets & sending their drones out to fight. Those drones get destroyed by the hundreds... where did all the soldiers go? They take their helmets off and... do nothing?
Just one of dozens of problems in the film, eh? Dozens.