Strange World
(★★★★)
Second time through and I still really like this!
The fun newsprint intro, the cool biome “sets”, the floating cars, and just the story in general. The first part of the movie, while it does look great, feels like it’s overdoing the “perfect happy family” background a bit. Maybe it isn’t but just seems like that to me because because I’m ready for adventure!
Because what an adventure it is! The strange world of the title is a wondrous place. Strange, colorful, unusual, varied, just really interesting to look it and to visit. Looking like a cross between HG Wells, Fantastic Voyage (the movie), and No Man’s Sky, I find it always engaging.
And I liked the storyline a lot with the voyages that turns out to be not what was expected. And, again, the whole thing looks great and is filmed with charming characters, even if they turn up the charming a bit too much.
Sputnik
(★★★½)
Starting off with two cosmonauts who, oddly, realize something is moving around on the outside of their space capsule as they are returning from space. One of them survives the reentery and is sent to a facility to be evaluated. The fellow who runs the facility calls in a civilian psychiatrist to further evaluate him and it becomes quite clear that something is very wrong with him…
This was interesting, suspenseful, and exciting! I quite liked it.
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