something about Villeneuve's film-making [...] some of it felt a bit workmanlike.
I think that's a pretty fair summation, it applies to BR2049, and Arrival. There's a by-the-numbers aspect (in those projects), like he's not really invested in the material, he'd rather be somewhere else but $$$ so here's some cleverness since you paid for it. OTOH I thought he was all-in on Incendies. That was about (more) real stuff, not scifi.
“what if we could do the mortgage-backed securities crash but for shitty pictures no one wants” |