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Movies the giraffe watched in 2021: July (49 movies items)"First viewing - July 27th Toni Collette, Anna Kendrick, and Daniel Dae Kim? That's all you had to say. Here's another film though that works better in its first half than the second. I did appreciate that the titular stowaway wasn't someone with a nefarious plot, as that angle has been done enough. Thus the film deals more with the negative consequences of mistakes with regard to spending a tour in space, and the ways its characters react to it and one another. And there are enough monkeywrench"
“After this movie was released on Netflix, it didn’t make much waves so I wasn’t expecting much but I thought I might as well check it out anyway. Well, to be honest, I was actually positively surprised. Sure, it was nothing really original but, in the same genre, it was at least better than the disappointing ‘The Midnight Sky’, George Clooney’s last directorial effort. Indeed, the cast delivered some solid performances and I did appreciate the realistic and minimalist approach. Unfortunately, the whole thing was still too generic and predictable though. I mean, how many movies I have already seen dealing with a travel through outer space during which they won’t have enough oxygen? To make things worse, I thought it was rather weird that the people in charge back on Earth didn” read more
Film Journal 2021 (130 movies items)"Huh, you know, this movie is pretty excellent, but the ending is going to make some people not very happy. It's unfinished, poetic, beautiful, challenging. It definitely fits the primary emotions of this film (despair, drive) and supports them to a T. I was honestly short of shocked at some of the moments of emotional honesty. It has a very clear, sharp view of what is going on on the insides of these characters at just about every moment. The two hours really flew by."
Miika's Movie Diary 2021
