Nerdstalgic is a great YouTube media and culture analysis channel, and this recent video is a great example:
Directed by the Russo Brothers, adapted from Simon Stalenhag haunting dystopian graphic novel starring Millie Bobby Brown, Chris Pratt, Stanley Tucci and Jason Alexander, The Electric State isn’t a bad movie, it’s just an empty one, which kind of makes it worse.
It’s a greatest hits album of tropes and tones and aesthetics engineered to feel familiar. It’s déja vu, misfiring memory or one side of the brain processing information before the other. However, you define it, it’s something you know in the most boring way possible.
