The sex drama was put in after the midwit test audience didn't understand how a husband and wife could separate without one of them cheating. Originally it was more like the book where her husband leaves her because she's autistic.
first book was certified kino, second was a slog albeit interesting, and 3 was a sort of return to form.
i wish i could remake the 1st book and center the plot around THE TOWER, yknow, the huge fricking plot point in the books
yeah the imagery in the first book with things like the crawler are straight up sci fi goodness. Even later things like when the new boss man has to watch the video of the first expedition has some great foreshadowing and was downright creepy. The movie is missing all of those things.
Rare kino that filters people from multiple directions. It filters the plebs because it leans hard into the non-expository weirdness in the end. And it filters the chuds because they can't stop screeching about girlbosses even though the female crew's incompetence and disposability is a deliberate plot point.
Having read the book first I honestly wondered if anyone could do a decent depiction of the crawler and Galrand exceeded my expectations. The bear also worked better than it had any right to. Overall an enjoyable flick
>The bear also worked better than it had any right to.
I haven't gotten around to the book yet but the bear was hands down the scariest movie monster of the 2010's, maybe even since the 80's.
Honestly can't remember if that scene was in the book or not but either way it's worth a read. The first one's only like 200 pages so it's not even a huge investment time-wise
Herschlag getting boned by tyrone was a great feature that added a lot of depth
Too much interracial
didn't finish the entire movie or are a brainlet, one of the central themes is self-destruction. the psychologist literally has a monologue about this key plot point.
Visual, innovative, good. Weird movie but it pulled it off. It really is an experience, I believe it was meant to be watched on mushrooms lol. Not really but it gave me this surreal psychedelic vibe like whoever made it is into stuff like David Lynch and was trying to make the audience feel something rather than tell a linear story. I was uncomfortable for most of it
I liked it a lot. What pisses me off is that no one actually mentions this movie in the culture wars, this is such a great example of a female cast mostly that works really well, why didn't they make more of this? and why doesn't pozzed media acknowledge it?
I thought the acting was really fricking bad.
Maybe it's because I didn't watch in the theatre, but it literally none of it was interesting. A couple gay animals, then a cgi scene with somebody in mocap, then it was over.
I thought Annihilation was pretty good and had the spirit of a classic science fiction short story. Yes I know there's a book, and I read it after, but it's not very similar. I think The Colour Out of Space is more similar in tone (but not the main events of the plot). I have a lot of nitpicks about the film and it's no masterpiece but we don't get a lot of sci-if movies like it so I'm happy it exists.
>Natalie Porthole has interracial sex, guns down a mutant alligator with an AR-15, nearly gets eaten by a mutant bear with a melting face and a human voice, meets a dubstep alien then gets dry humped by the rainbow doppelganger it made after being exposed to her DNA but then she kills it with an incendiary grenade causing a bunch of crystal trees to burst into flames
yeah it was a very forgettable movie where nothing happened
I didn't like that they did the spooky eye thing at the end. It felt to me like it was supposed to be an "uh oh, watch out world!" ominous ending, but I thought the better idea of the ending scene was that both of them were changed (and arguably no longer themselves or even human), but it didn't matter because they were back together and that part of them still existed.
four mary sue’s go walking in a dude acid soooooo trippy forrest because of past trauma. What a gay and moronic movie. whoever directed this schlock, we get it man you experimented with some drugs.
They're literally the exact opposite. They're not shown to be hypercompetnet, openly acknowledge that they're being sent on a suicide mission because they're damaged goods and all but one succumb to either madness or despair. It's a stupid argument parroted by people who didn't actually watch the movie
if he was only doing the first book he should have cut ghost bird out completely and focused on gloria & saul
the psychologist's story mogs ghostbird and control's hard IMO
the scenes of her and saul evans talking on the rocks were the best parts of the books
for me, i liked it
ethno messages of race mixing
Too many women and unnecessary sex drama
The sex drama was put in after the midwit test audience didn't understand how a husband and wife could separate without one of them cheating. Originally it was more like the book where her husband leaves her because she's autistic.
>Leaving an autistic cutie gf
Yeah that's not believable
I enjoyed it but dont understand why
The 3 books are good no doubt. The movie literally missed the entire point of the story. It's pretty shit.
first book was certified kino, second was a slog albeit interesting, and 3 was a sort of return to form.
i wish i could remake the 1st book and center the plot around THE TOWER, yknow, the huge fricking plot point in the books
yeah the imagery in the first book with things like the crawler are straight up sci fi goodness. Even later things like when the new boss man has to watch the video of the first expedition has some great foreshadowing and was downright creepy. The movie is missing all of those things.
If I were a wealthy man I would make this happen. Missed opportunities.
The third book was some crazy ass shit
The biologist getting force evolved into a gigantic space whale for one.
I liked it
great movie. anyone who didnt like it is a gay chud that seethes at an all female cast because they hate women
Too much interracial
Legitimately, not memeing, not a hint of irony, one of the worst, nonsensical, and pointless movies that I have ever seen.
I liked it save for the last act/ending.
Rare kino that filters people from multiple directions. It filters the plebs because it leans hard into the non-expository weirdness in the end. And it filters the chuds because they can't stop screeching about girlbosses even though the female crew's incompetence and disposability is a deliberate plot point.
Having read the book first I honestly wondered if anyone could do a decent depiction of the crawler and Galrand exceeded my expectations. The bear also worked better than it had any right to. Overall an enjoyable flick
>The bear also worked better than it had any right to.
I haven't gotten around to the book yet but the bear was hands down the scariest movie monster of the 2010's, maybe even since the 80's.
Honestly can't remember if that scene was in the book or not but either way it's worth a read. The first one's only like 200 pages so it's not even a huge investment time-wise
It's pretty good
Don't know what the cuckold storyline added though
didn't finish the entire movie or are a brainlet, one of the central themes is self-destruction. the psychologist literally has a monologue about this key plot point.
Would have better if they hadn’t added an unneeded interracial affair and Tessa Thompson.
Pretty good. The end sequence with the alien is easily the highlight of the movie
I liked it but the ending where the shimmer is destroyed puts me off. I'd expect it to be harder to do that.
Herschlag getting boned by tyrone was a great feature that added a lot of depth
bad movie good effects
>gurl power stalker
>A24 roadside picnic
Visual, innovative, good. Weird movie but it pulled it off. It really is an experience, I believe it was meant to be watched on mushrooms lol. Not really but it gave me this surreal psychedelic vibe like whoever made it is into stuff like David Lynch and was trying to make the audience feel something rather than tell a linear story. I was uncomfortable for most of it
>whoever made it is into stuff like David Lynch
grow up
meh
The ending is memorable, also the bear scene was kino.
I liked it a lot. What pisses me off is that no one actually mentions this movie in the culture wars, this is such a great example of a female cast mostly that works really well, why didn't they make more of this? and why doesn't pozzed media acknowledge it?
I thought the acting was really fricking bad.
Maybe it's because I didn't watch in the theatre, but it literally none of it was interesting. A couple gay animals, then a cgi scene with somebody in mocap, then it was over.
>Every movie I've just seen there's a thread about it on Cinemaphile
Stop watching me...
>Watched it with an Asian MILF I met online
>Spent the whole time making out in the back of the theater
>Don't have any idea what the film is about
I thought Annihilation was pretty good and had the spirit of a classic science fiction short story. Yes I know there's a book, and I read it after, but it's not very similar. I think The Colour Out of Space is more similar in tone (but not the main events of the plot). I have a lot of nitpicks about the film and it's no masterpiece but we don't get a lot of sci-if movies like it so I'm happy it exists.
I prefer the movie it was stolen from, Stalker.
I didn't like it when I saw it and could tell you why but have forgotten all about it and now can't even tell you what the movie was about.
>Natalie Porthole has interracial sex, guns down a mutant alligator with an AR-15, nearly gets eaten by a mutant bear with a melting face and a human voice, meets a dubstep alien then gets dry humped by the rainbow doppelganger it made after being exposed to her DNA but then she kills it with an incendiary grenade causing a bunch of crystal trees to burst into flames
yeah it was a very forgettable movie where nothing happened
I didn't like that they did the spooky eye thing at the end. It felt to me like it was supposed to be an "uh oh, watch out world!" ominous ending, but I thought the better idea of the ending scene was that both of them were changed (and arguably no longer themselves or even human), but it didn't matter because they were back together and that part of them still existed.
Book is a masterpiece (sequels not so much)
Movie was good, I enjoyed it.
All style no substance.
four mary sue’s go walking in a dude acid soooooo trippy forrest because of past trauma. What a gay and moronic movie. whoever directed this schlock, we get it man you experimented with some drugs.
nonsense.
>mary sue’s
They're literally the exact opposite. They're not shown to be hypercompetnet, openly acknowledge that they're being sent on a suicide mission because they're damaged goods and all but one succumb to either madness or despair. It's a stupid argument parroted by people who didn't actually watch the movie
if he was only doing the first book he should have cut ghost bird out completely and focused on gloria & saul
the psychologist's story mogs ghostbird and control's hard IMO
the scenes of her and saul evans talking on the rocks were the best parts of the books
Its worth the watch just because of the good visuals, Id put it in the same category as midsommar. Shit film but they got the CG work right
Epitome of a 5/10. Incredibly mediocre movie.
cool movie
the shimmer is sum shiet aliens send to terraform earth.