The Creator (2023, Gareth Edwards)

🤖🌏👨‍👧⛰️🛰️🔥㆝ I had an idea to try to keep up with new movies in 2024. I was looking forward to this one, but I’m not going to lie, I nodded off toward the end of it. I felt like it had a tone that thought it was supposed to be a sweeping Gone With The Wind-style epic for our time but the actual story behind it didn’t really deliver anything epic. I never once felt any sympathetic connection with any characters in the movie, or understood their one-track-mind motivations, or really cared what happened to them. Didn’t really get what the movie was trying to convey, other than the tired, depressing, here-we-go-again, heavy-handed theme of America and Human Beings so awful that AI should replace them. I found the Vietnam War-style licensed music choices a bit confusing and jarring. Nice visual effects, though nothing particularly ground-breaking. But hey, at least it wasn’t a superhero movie, and I only counted a handful of times when people obviously shouldn’t have survived explosive shockwaves, which, along with the falling hundreds of feet without getting hurt, has become the visual effects version of the Wilhelm Scream. (Prime Video.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Creator_(2023_film)