I Don’t Know How Many More Ways to Say It: I Want Weird Movies

Most movie studios are too scared to just do the bizarre shit that constantly makes them money.

Eric Ravenscraft
5 min readSep 28, 2021

Everyone should watch Sorry to Bother You. Not because everyone will like it — in fact, there’s a certain subset of people who will actively hate it — but because it’s a weird, experimental movie and you’ll walk away wanting to unionize your workplace.

But when I say I want weird movies, I’m not even talking about that kind of movie.

Sure, I want more movies like Sorry to Bother You, but I know that there’s not always going to be a huge audience for a movie where [REDACTED] gets [REDACTED] into a [REDACTED] with a huge [REDACTED] and proceeds to [REDACTED]. I wish there was a bigger audience for stuff like that because it’s great.

Still, I’d settle for something just a little bit weirder than we get.

Take Venom 2: Let There Be Carnage. A movie whose title was written by an SEO algorithm, because Sony thinks you have a tiny pea brain and need to be spoon-fed basic facts like “That character you like will be in this movie.” (Sony also thinks you’re a drooling, feed-scrolling moron who needs five second trailers at the start of your trailers, or else you won’t do an algorithm good enough for their metrics.)

Sorry, got a bit off topic. Anyway. Sony’s latest foray into making Spider-Man cash without Spider-Man is a sequel to…

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Eric Ravenscraft

Eric Ravenscraft is a freelance writer from Atlanta covering tech, media, and geek culture for Medium, The New York Times, and more.