The Laundromat (2019)

And in other news, the earth is round. 

That twist I didn't see it at first but it became obvious very quickly.

Good to hear you liked Dolemite!

I thought it was fine

An amusing collection of vignettes with some entertainingly hammy performances. I'm not sure it's as profound, interesting and sly as Soderbergh probably thinks it is but I enjoyed it. I think it's pretty consistent with the rest of Soderbergh's recent filmography - decent, mildly but pleasantly entertaining and almost decidedly not great.

Only watch this for Matthias ' brief but quite memorable performance.

5/10

Copy/Paste: “Do people really like Soderbergh’s new movies, or are they giving him a pass because they’re happy he didn’t quit?”

Say what you will about The Big Short, at least it was CONSISTENT. At least it had a point. This, on the other hand, is a structural disaster, as not only do the condescending egos of its storytellers run amok, but so too does Soderbergh’s discipline, where he refuses to rein himself in, to the point that his anger at the people behind this scam loses any coherency. After a while, the film is little more than white noise, with a script that can’t decide who or what the hell it’s even about. Soderbergh needs to fire Mary Ann Bernard (who is totally a real person like Roderick Jaynes), and get Stephen Mirrione back to make sense of this clusterfuck.

As a fan of Soderbergh, this was crap...like, utterly crap, which is astounding considering the cast. But maybe that was part of the problem -- I didnt like the vignettes, and would have preferred more of a focused story. I can understand the need to show the various links to illustrate how widespread the issue was, but holy choppiness. I mean, he somehow managed to do it right in Contagion, where despite the multitudes of links, I felt invested in every story and saw an overarching narrative form cohesively. With this, it really felt like independent stories taken at their climax, where I cared very little about the characters or their endgame. 

Hated how it was edited, especially near the beginning with the jumping from like dark to light, comedy to serious. Didnt feel natural. Didnt like the cutesy titles/chapters. 

The ending was much too heavy-handed to land. It's like they gave Meryl a script without any direction on what her character was meant to be like.

The "comedy" was non-existent. 

Regardless o whether you saw the twist coming, like what was the point?? weird way to take creative liberties w the story. 

Much preferred the Big Short if thats what this movie tried to parallel.