Ethereum? This movie is ahead of its time!

Oh, there’s that guy…

And Christopher Walken!

I have no idea why I have this blu ray, but I do, so something must have made me buy it. It’s made by the distinguished director of Demolition Man (and who has apparently never done a feature film after this).

It’s a comedy? But it’s really unfunny?

Oh, there’s that guy… er… was he in Buffy? Oh, er, Will & Grace?

High praise:

I don’t think it was a fabulous film by any means but compare it to Batman and Robin? Speed 2? Its not as bad as that!

Well that’s odd — why isn’t there a tomatometer number here? It has more than 30 reviews…

All the negative ones are empty? Haven’t seen that before. Technical glitch?

This movie is really tedious, as you may have guessed from my googling…

Ah right:

This was the first film produced by Alicia Silverstone under her production company First Kiss. Benicio del Toro was handpicked for his role by Silverstone after she had seen his 1995 film The Usual Suspects.

This is so awful I have to bail at 40 minutes in.

Excess Baggage. Marco Brambilla. 1997. ⚀

This short is very nouvelle vague, but like the previous movie, it doesn’t really seem to be Varda’s aesthetics — it’s kinda gimmicky? But it seems more heartfelt, which is rather Varda.

Hey, it’s Maria Falconetti!

Well, I dunno. It seems like the movie’s heart is in the right place, but it doesn’t tell us why we should care about these people, and the artifice of it all just makes it rather annoying?

Elsa la rose. Agnès Varda. 1966. ⚁

Well, I dunno. I mean, I’m a huge Varda fan, but this seems like such a mish-mash… It’s less like a Varda movie than a Godard pastiche?

Lots of crabs. Must be symbolic.

And then all of a sudden that guy’s playing chess with er satan or somebody. But a very high tech satan — he’s got a 3D chessboard and surveillance cameras!

Which makes sense.

The other guy is on the side of lurve.

It’s a pretty good idea, I guess, but the resulting movie isn’t really that gripping.

Right:

Les Créatures was an official selection of the 27th Venice International Film Festival, though it received mixed reviews. The film failed commercially.

Well, I can see that. I don’t think it’s a successful movie, but it’s kinda interesting? But…

Huh:

There are no critic reviews yet for The Creatures.

Nobody has reviewed this movie for the Tomatoes? Perhaps it hasn’t been shown for a while? So I guess it was a real bomb commercially.

And it’s not a lost masterpiece.

The Creatures. Agnès Varda. 1966. ⚂