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#the structural edit wonked it a bit and dialogue wasn't always up to snuff
legionofpotatoes
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can't believe I just spent three hours watching a movie about masculine anxiety in the nuclear family model, told through cartoon alien tribes wearing Mãori tattoos
#I dont know man I just dont vibe with these films. they're so weird to me for some reason
#it's the mix of heavyhanded metaphorizing from a convoluted white savior pov with just the most uninteresting possible stories told within
#and what beefs me the most is how good the cinematic grammar and dramatic sense is. like the execution is so good
#not just technically (which was also great) but also on the storytelling ABCs level. pretty close to perfect
#the structural edit wonked it a bit and dialogue wasn't always up to snuff
#but generally speaking storycraft was firing on all cylinders yet telling the most uninteresting possible story imaginable. weird movies
#both of them honestly. just weird
#can't gel with them at all. and I NEVER forgive these insane runtimes either
#I am heretically opposed to 3hr slogs. especially for something as simple as this. i hate doing mental structural re-edits while watching
#but with movies like this it is impossible not to. just weird man
#and the whole environmentalist angle is like fine whatever but the aboriginal aliens are such a clunky plot device
#very very weird and sketchy and the optics are just all over. not for me to semiotically call this out i guess but leaves a very strange
#taste nevertheless
#and again technically it's just an utter magic trick and almost transcendent at times. but that is all momentsry candy without
#meaningful story holding it together. just a guy being a dad except they're cartoons in space and also indigenous and super heteronormative
#so fucking weird. and man you could feel james horner's absence so keenly
#no longer a musical rhythm guiding the edit. other way around now. always a loss when this happens imo
#it just felt like such an american dad family dynamics in this opposing context of an alien tribe
#they were five minutes away from having back of the van arguments. all the 'bros' were insufferable
#and dont get me started on the fucking sequelbaiting. sigourney weaver and the general and the weird dreadlocks guy all were
#essentially just setting up sequel hooks and that was so grating in a movie already so long. eugh
#anyway that was my review thanks for reading
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