Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets to some critics was a beautiful mess and sadly I wasn’t able to see it in theaters when it first came out.
The movie does promise a lot and attempts to deliver on those promises, while incorporating some themes about consumption and materialism. There are a lot of characters, which keep this concept from growing too stale too fast, but also makes it hard for the audience to track. It is fun to have Matt Damon make the best of this new experience, while also juggling his wife’s feelings alongside fellow shrunken people.
It uses the shrinking as the mcguffin to start the plot, which is really typical of some sci fi flicks and it uses the shrinking to full effect with giant objects and people getting drinks from a tipped over vodka bottle, which is just fun. Going along the lines of being a dramedy, this movie leads audiences on path of social satire.Ī therapist undergoes a new therapy to shrink himself to four inches tall in order to help the overpopulation problem and so that he (Matt Damon) and his wife(Kristen Wig) can live a comfortable, better life. Plus, the most recent trailer looks pretty damn close to the original if you ask me.Starting with a funny little movie, Downsizing by Alexander Payne, it was a movie that was enjoyed by critics, but left audiences either confused or amused. Plus, fanboys like me have waited for and wanted this flick since the 90’s so the fact that we are getting a big budget version of it in 2017 has us geeking out, literally.
I know they whitewashed the lead but I also know Scarlett Johansson is a fantastic actress (see Under the Skin if you don’t know) and let’s all be honest, her role in the recent MEH flick Lucy showed us that she CAN pull off the whole “unfeeling” android thing perfectly.
Eek.Īs a fan of the Alien series (and with this film rumored to be closing out the WHOLE storyline) this could be the Alien movie we have all been dreaming about since Aliens. Breaking your spine as opposed to stomach lining.
The trailer they have already dropped looks scary as hell (like original Alien film) and now chestbursters also break out of your spine, which for some reason seems even MORE unsettling. Let it be known I love Neill Blomkamp’s work (yes, even Chappie) and the simple fact they gave the dude an Alien movie that will tie together the messy Prometheus with the Alien series is “jizz in my pants” type of shit. But regardless, anyone who knows Star Wars and sees this as the reboot it is KNOWS the second movie in the trilogy is the roughest (think Empire Strikes Back) and look at the director’s past work and you will realize, this episode of our fave sci-fi movie is gonna get dark at times and probably pretty upsetting which I am SO ready for.Ĭarbonite someone just to fuck us up and make us feel hopeless. These are just a few of the questions we pray Star Wars episode VIII can answer.
Who is Rey? What is her connection to the Force? Why did Luke’s saber respond to her? What happened to Captain Phasma? Is Finn gonna be okay? Will Poe get more screentime (please?) and will we find out who Snoke is? Looks like the movie Gravity with aliens, which is by no means an insult. I know VERY little about Life (literally) outside of that description and cast, but that is enough for me to know this movie will be a MUST-SEE science fiction movie come this time next year. If that doesn’t intrigue you enough let’s toss Jake Gyllenhaal on board along with some other amazing actors and actresses and let’s pump up the tension and fear by throwing in a super smart alien. Harrison Ford will be in it (probably for four minutes) and this time we focus on a lead played by Ryan Gosling facing a somewhat similar threat from the first film involving the replicants but very little is known outside of that and the super badass yet minimalist teaser they dropped. When I posted the photo of this movie to my Facebook page, people thought it was fake. The genre can tale us anywhere and make anything possible, and for that reason, science fiction is one of our favorite genres and for that reason, this list will focus on the sci fi films dropping in 2017 that all geeks like us will need to add to their “must-see” list of next year’s movies. From the limits of the galaxies to the limits of technology and our own imaginations, the truest and most beautiful thing about sci fi is that there ARE no limits. It takes the grandeur and scope of our own imagination and takes it limits beyond what we thought it capable of. Science Fiction is one of the best genres of fiction, period.