[Thor Joachim Haga]

And now for something completely different…

Just came back from an IMAX screening of PROJECT HAIL MARY – Phil Lord and Christopher Miller’s recent sci fi extravaganza, starring Ryan Gosling in a story not dissimilar to SPACE MAN from a few years ago, only filled with Lord & Miller’s trademark humour. There’s physical comedy, goofy characters, lots of montages with pop music etc. But also some hard tone shifts along the way, along with ‘meet cute’ elements and sci fi mumbojumbo. I do like their series LAST MAN ON EARTH, to which this is tonally similar, but I’ve always been torn on mixing sci fi with comedy. Also, they struggle with the narrative structure. Lukewarm minus, I think is my initial evaluation. But I heard good things in Daniel Pemberton’s score — will check out when it gets released.