The movie, just like the book, is just not that good.
Most of the "praise" is from dude weed morons who just like trippy visuals, or pseuds who are afraid of looking like they "didn't get it".
It has a few cool scenes, but that's it.
It doesn't. There's like three or four interesting scenes that are just okayish by the end of it all because the rest is a slog. Those scenes are pretty cool, though.
Never and it actually gets worse believe it or not. The last 15 minutes or so will extremely test your patience. And for nothing. You will be angry by the end of this movie.
I honestly like it, they do a lot with the visuals that are cool. Natalie Portman checking her husband for BBC was a high point and I wish they would have went into depth on that one. Maybe having Oscar Issac wearing a little cuck cage and sitting in the corner. Idk, im just spitballin’ some ideas.
I'm convinced its literally incomplete. I am absolutely convinced it was supposed to be in 3D. So all the cancer stuff is literally incomplete and was supposed to have all kinds of 3d rendering and shit. What we're seeing specifically with all the cancer stuff is literally the equivalent of just seeing someone in a green suit.
3d with the glasses. I think the rug got completely pulled out from under them midway through production and they had no choice but to continue. Just 100% based off seeing the movie.
The term Overrated is constantly thrown around this board but it fits Alex Garland very much. His abilities to write a compelling story and characters is mediocre but he is praised to high heavens because he is hardcore woke and tackles "heady" themes. Note how so many of his female characters are either bland or have no defining traits other than their trauma? Typical neurotic male feminist crap.
i think the reason that people like this movie has to do more with the pseudointellectual shit that reddit gravitates towards. i dont think anyone is seriously praising this movie because of le women.
it's pure damsel in distress, this one le perfect self insert character has to save this woman from a whole den of rapists. Rothfuss did the same kind of micro-story too near the end of Wise Man's Fear. Just feels like peak male feminist masturbation fantasy
I think you are reading too much into it, in no way is the main character perfect or is the film pushing any feminist message. Its just good old fashioned brutality with a little character development. Dont apply current sensibilities to old films.
It has one of the worst endings in cinema history. As a writer, you NEVER let your main character get knocked out several times like that.
Also, speaking of main character, they took a unique character with interesting motivation from the book and literally 2016 netflixed her as hard as they could: her motivation now is entirely that she slept with a black guy.
JJL was also horrible in this. Everything, from her character to her acting, it’s just frustrating to watch.
But yeah, nice cgi.
>her motivation now is entirely that she slept with a black guy.
Because as this anon says
The term Overrated is constantly thrown around this board but it fits Alex Garland very much. His abilities to write a compelling story and characters is mediocre but he is praised to high heavens because he is hardcore woke and tackles "heady" themes. Note how so many of his female characters are either bland or have no defining traits other than their trauma? Typical neurotic male feminist crap.
. Alex Garland cannot write complex female characters. He's a feminist and wants to spotlight women's "issues" and ends up with a tunnel vision where his female characters have only one thing going for them grief/trauma.
I'm relatively new to this particular board and what you mentioned really surprised me. I was in an Under The Silver Lake thread a few days ago and multiple people mentioned how it was on HBO Max. I do have access to HBO but I just pirated it out of reflex. The times are a changin'....
Black person fricking a israelite within the first 15 minutes >b-b-b-but my self destructive themes
go be a Black person somewhere else
at least the bear and lighthouse were cool
read the novel its based on, the movie being an "adaptation" obviously only takes a few key subjects from the book and changes everything else to be "fresh and original", which means it fails at everything the original novel is actually a trilogy and it's even weirder, since it doesnt really have anything to do with an asteroid and the whole restricted area apparently was created from a flower made of light or some shit like that
The movie, just like the book, is just not that good.
Most of the "praise" is from dude weed morons who just like trippy visuals, or pseuds who are afraid of looking like they "didn't get it".
It has a few cool scenes, but that's it.
i feel like this movie is suffering from the same problems as ex machina.
el oh el, get it? day 1 philosophy problem (that has a whole literature of answers solving) ISN'T THAT COOL
ex machina is exciting and well paced. annihilation is weaker but I can still dig it
It doesn't. There's like three or four interesting scenes that are just okayish by the end of it all because the rest is a slog. Those scenes are pretty cool, though.
The BGM is cool. There are some interesting concepts but not much more.
Never and it actually gets worse believe it or not. The last 15 minutes or so will extremely test your patience. And for nothing. You will be angry by the end of this movie.
Just watch Stalker, this movie was a shit copy with all the men replaced by women.
i've seen stalker. now THAT'S a movie that makes me wanna read lacan or some other french pseud bullshit. peak kino.
stalker is boring.
I honestly like it, they do a lot with the visuals that are cool. Natalie Portman checking her husband for BBC was a high point and I wish they would have went into depth on that one. Maybe having Oscar Issac wearing a little cuck cage and sitting in the corner. Idk, im just spitballin’ some ideas.
would've been more on the nose if a bull instead of a bear mauling the other women
I'm convinced its literally incomplete. I am absolutely convinced it was supposed to be in 3D. So all the cancer stuff is literally incomplete and was supposed to have all kinds of 3d rendering and shit. What we're seeing specifically with all the cancer stuff is literally the equivalent of just seeing someone in a green suit.
3d animation or 3d with those glasses?
did anyone feel like the SFX were like, really dated? even for 2018?
3d with the glasses. I think the rug got completely pulled out from under them midway through production and they had no choice but to continue. Just 100% based off seeing the movie.
unfortunate. because if i remember correctly, the effects for ex machina were by far the best thing about it.
The term Overrated is constantly thrown around this board but it fits Alex Garland very much. His abilities to write a compelling story and characters is mediocre but he is praised to high heavens because he is hardcore woke and tackles "heady" themes. Note how so many of his female characters are either bland or have no defining traits other than their trauma? Typical neurotic male feminist crap.
i think the reason that people like this movie has to do more with the pseudointellectual shit that reddit gravitates towards. i dont think anyone is seriously praising this movie because of le women.
I do think the male feminist part of 28 days later was massively cringe and if anything ironically anti-feminist by accident.
elaborate? been a while since i've seen it.
it's pure damsel in distress, this one le perfect self insert character has to save this woman from a whole den of rapists. Rothfuss did the same kind of micro-story too near the end of Wise Man's Fear. Just feels like peak male feminist masturbation fantasy
I think you are reading too much into it, in no way is the main character perfect or is the film pushing any feminist message. Its just good old fashioned brutality with a little character development. Dont apply current sensibilities to old films.
nah that kind of story will always make me cringe, and hollywood has always been full of leftoids
Dredd is the only one of his films that I enjoyed.
It has one of the worst endings in cinema history. As a writer, you NEVER let your main character get knocked out several times like that.
Also, speaking of main character, they took a unique character with interesting motivation from the book and literally 2016 netflixed her as hard as they could: her motivation now is entirely that she slept with a black guy.
JJL was also horrible in this. Everything, from her character to her acting, it’s just frustrating to watch.
But yeah, nice cgi.
>her motivation now is entirely that she slept with a black guy.
Because as this anon says
. Alex Garland cannot write complex female characters. He's a feminist and wants to spotlight women's "issues" and ends up with a tunnel vision where his female characters have only one thing going for them grief/trauma.
to be fair, he's not just bad at women. nobody in this movie acts like a human being at all.
>his female characters have only one thing going for them grief/trauma.
this is something women complain about a lot too
Funnily enough, a girl I know who generally doesn't pay attention to movies noticed this too. It looks like women can smell male feminist bullshit.
>every 4cuck talks about pirating everything
>everytime a streaming platform gets a "new" movie it's 2-3 threads fp 24/7 for weeks
embarrassing.
I'm relatively new to this particular board and what you mentioned really surprised me. I was in an Under The Silver Lake thread a few days ago and multiple people mentioned how it was on HBO Max. I do have access to HBO but I just pirated it out of reflex. The times are a changin'....
how did she kill the godlike aliem with a grenade. fricking stupid.
>mac
kys
It's basically a dumbed down Solaris with women.
Oops I meant Stalker.
Its a good concept, saves you the slog of the books which are mostly unimpressive imo. Its worth finishing for the novelty of the end.
It doesn't
Black person fricking a israelite within the first 15 minutes
>b-b-b-but my self destructive themes
go be a Black person somewhere else
at least the bear and lighthouse were cool
There's two memorable parts.
Once is the mutant bear, which he lifted wholesale from the Book of the New Sun's alzabo.
The other is the ending which is just a pseud dance routine.
>Once is the mutant bear, which he lifted wholesale from the Book of the New Sun's alzabo.
not to mention the alzabo is way cooler
read the novel its based on, the movie being an "adaptation" obviously only takes a few key subjects from the book and changes everything else to be "fresh and original", which means it fails at everything
the original novel is actually a trilogy and it's even weirder, since it doesnt really have anything to do with an asteroid and the whole restricted area apparently was created from a flower made of light or some shit like that