35mm at the Coolidge!
Charlotte Kaufman would be a righteous hang, hopefully she gets that figured out sometime! It’d be crazy if she just kept fixating on this movie’s exact themes for the next twenty years lol. can you imagine how exhausting that might get
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35mm at the Coolidge!
“A bit self-indulgent” is not only an apt review for this movie, but also Kaufman’s entire career. But this one works for me! It would fall apart without Nic Cage, but he really sells Kaufman’s usual neuroses as deeply endearing. A good time in a packed theater!
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“I have more art degrees than you could ever possibly imagine” is so breathtakingly stupid that I will be incorporating it into my vocabulary moving forward
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When they trotted out “I can't lie to you about your chances, but you have my sympathies” my eyes damn near rolled out of my skull. You brought back a dead actor with CGI and a soundalike for THAT?
Also hey — uh, this is like. weirdly racist? unbelievably so? they really didn’t have to make the servile android character with no free will whose model “helped humans colonize space” the one black person in the movie????? What are we doing here?????
It’s a shame that the sets and practical effects on display are so good — they are in service of nothing.
