In the trailer she's interacting with real actors, which zooms the Uncanny Valley vibe up to Polar Express level. The cyborg attackers have real actors' faces on CGI bodies, so your brain kind of accepts them after so many years of superhero movies, but then this thing that looks like a teenage Precious Moments figurine steps into frame and it just screams FAKE! and breaks immersion.
If the other characters were entirely CGI but just proportioned more realistically I bet it wouldn't be as jarring.
I'm going to use my movie pass every day I can now.
I cancelled mine just today and signed up for AMC Stubs A-List instead: [link]
It's double the MoviePass fee but since my main go-to theater is a 22 screen AMC multiplex where I average 3-4 films a month, it's still totally worthwhile. You can watch up to 3 films a week (so 12/mo max, which is plenty) including IMAX, 3D, and repeat viewings. Best of all, you can reserve tickets in advance.
My MoviePass subscription is paid for another week, so I may try to squeeze in viewings for a couple of films that are only playing in a non-AMC small neighborhood indie theater (I've been meaning to watch Leave No Trace before it disappears off the screen).
I did not lie, am at movies now FINALLY seeing ant man and wasp.
Hmm, I'd thought the MoviePass app stopped working as of this morning. Is it just e-ticketing that's still going?
I only got my card within the last two months, so I fell a bit short of getting my yearly subscription cost in movie tickets. Though it did motivate me to see different movies rather than just repeats of the ones I really liked, which I consider a bonus.
Run, don't walk, to see Leave No Trace if it's playing in your city. I just came back from it and gosh, it just bowled me over. It's about a father and an adolescent daughter living off grid in an Oregon national park, anchored by a pair of quiet but extraordinary, naturalistic performances by Ben Foster as the dad and this young New Zealand actress named Thomasin McKenzie as the daughter. It's tender and heartbreaking, and is about how sometimes, we can't heal our loved one's wounds for all the love we bear them, about finding one's voice, about empathy, and about collective kindness of a community. Even if I hadn't known this was made by Debra Granik, I would have recognized the stamp of the director who made Winter's Bone.
Matt - my card says it is working everywhere, but I went to an e-ticket theater just to be sure. I plan to go see something else tomorrow.
I did not lie, am at movies now FINALLY seeing ant man and wasp.
Me too! And fuck the credits scenes. I don't need that kind of negativity. (Although hilariously, several people in the theater with me apparently hadn't seen Infinity War.)
And fuck the credits scenes. I don't need that kind of negativity.
You should be a motivational speaker!
