Yep, Annihilation was still a fucked up scary movie, and pretty good sci-fi to boot
Oh thank goodness
I thought the book series was neat and the film looked like it was way more like "A large monster is hunting people!" from the trailer, which would have been a disappointingly unimaginative film.
So the thing to remember is you take the stories that Paramount was extremely nervous about this movie, having no idea what to do with it, and then you combine it with the very plain-looking trailers, and what you get is them trying extremely hard to hide how weird and niche a movie is
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So the thing to remember is you take the stories that Paramount was extremely nervous about this movie, having no idea what to do with it, and then you combine it with the very plain-looking trailers, and what you get is them trying extremely hard to hide how weird and niche a movie is
Is this akin to marketing mother! as a film about a couple dealing with awkward dinner guests?
Ah, it stinks, it sucks, it's anthropologically unjust
Yep, Annihilation was still a fucked up scary movie, and pretty good sci-fi to boot
Oh thank goodness
I thought the book series was neat and the film looked like it was way more like "A large monster is hunting people!" from the trailer, which would have been a disappointingly unimaginative film.
Yep that's definitely not what the film is about.
Tense, unnerving cosmic horror with a slice of personal suffering. Natalie Portman absolutely nails her role, along with the rest of the cast. Weird lingering shots and an uncanny echoing soundtrack that had me on the verge of a breakdown the entire time I was watching it.
Really really really good experience, highly recommend.
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It's nuts to me that movies are expected generally to gross like 500 million dollars or they're massive embarrassing flops. Like, Jesus. I mean yeah, the big blockbusters can make a billion, but still. I guess rising budgets are mostly to blame for that though. And growing audiences.
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It's nuts to me that movies are expected generally to gross like 500 million dollars or they're massive embarrassing flops. Like, Jesus. I mean yeah, the big blockbusters can make a billion, but still. I guess rising budgets are mostly to blame for that though. And growing audiences.
It's not always the case. Honestly, lots of movies can work better for the studios (depending on the situation) if they "flop" and lose money.
Taxes are a weird, fucked up thing.
Ah, it stinks, it sucks, it's anthropologically unjust
There's some interesting ideas in there but they are vastly outweighed by the ones that are just "remember those now-classic cyberpunk noir tropes? well here they are, again"
The biggest weight here is you're clearly supposed to be rooting for Alexander Skarsgard as your hero but his character did nothing for me, it's extremely difficult to make a silent protagonist the center of your very narrative-based movie and they don't make it work here, the narrative itself isn't particularly compelling either
I would put it about even with The Cloverfield Paradox in terms of "a movie to cherrypick the good stuff out of," thought I like Mute more than I did that, it's not by much
It's nuts to me that movies are expected generally to gross like 500 million dollars or they're massive embarrassing flops. Like, Jesus. I mean yeah, the big blockbusters can make a billion, but still. I guess rising budgets are mostly to blame for that though. And growing audiences.
It's not always the case. Honestly, lots of movies can work better for the studios (depending on the situation) if they "flop" and lose money.
Taxes are a weird, fucked up thing.
The one time YouTube fails me is in finding a scene from The Producers.
Yep, Annihilation was still a fucked up scary movie, and pretty good sci-fi to boot
Yepppppp.
I kinda want to watch it again but I'm not sure if I can handle it. Maybe I'll just read the book.
I actually didn't know it was a book! But it makes sense, there's certain sequences where you look at it and go "if this were a book they would spend a lot more time talking about the specific elements that contribute to the sense of this scene"
It's nuts to me that movies are expected generally to gross like 500 million dollars or they're massive embarrassing flops. Like, Jesus. I mean yeah, the big blockbusters can make a billion, but still. I guess rising budgets are mostly to blame for that though. And growing audiences.
It’s budgets, yeah.
Like, with the blade runner example from earlier. 2049 had a production budget of 150 million and grossed 250 million. Which sounds good and all until you realize the production budget does not include marketing or distribution, and that some portion of that 250 is going to the theaters.
Suddenly 250 million doesn’t sound as great anymore.
Studios keep swinging for the fences trying to make everything into a megafranchise or a billion dollar hit, but sometimes it might be good to scale back a bit. We need the return of the mid budget movie.
Theodore Flooseveltproud parent of eight beautiful girls and shalmelodorne (which is currently being ruled by a woman (awesome role model for my daughters)) #dornedadRegistered Userregular
People tell me that I look like Billy Zane and also they frequently want to punch me in the face so
well yeah I think you unfortunately have to bear the brunt of it because they know they would want to--but never be able to bring themselves to--clock Zane prime
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The most punchable face in Hollywood belongs to Matt Dillon
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The most punchable face in Hollywood belongs to Matt Dillon
Not bad, but I'mma raise you Jake Gyllenhaal.
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jake gyllenhall's not punchable at all! he seems swell and benign enough
Look, Jared Leto is infinitely punchable but that has a lot to do with the fact he's an asshole.
I don't get that from his face alone.
If I saw Matt Dillon my first thought would be, "I need to punch that face."
I tend to agree. We're talking punchability of faces alone. Leto's punchability comes from his carefully crafted douchenozzle persona more so than from his face. He's got a nice face. It's a good face.
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Oh thank goodness
I thought the book series was neat and the film looked like it was way more like "A large monster is hunting people!" from the trailer, which would have been a disappointingly unimaginative film.
Is this akin to marketing mother! as a film about a couple dealing with awkward dinner guests?
Yep that's definitely not what the film is about.
Tense, unnerving cosmic horror with a slice of personal suffering. Natalie Portman absolutely nails her role, along with the rest of the cast. Weird lingering shots and an uncanny echoing soundtrack that had me on the verge of a breakdown the entire time I was watching it.
Really really really good experience, highly recommend.
It's not always the case. Honestly, lots of movies can work better for the studios (depending on the situation) if they "flop" and lose money.
Taxes are a weird, fucked up thing.
I also recommend reading the book! It's a really quick read and I feel like it probably covers different perspectives than the film.
Just go watch the dang movie! Then click!
There's some interesting ideas in there but they are vastly outweighed by the ones that are just "remember those now-classic cyberpunk noir tropes? well here they are, again"
The biggest weight here is you're clearly supposed to be rooting for Alexander Skarsgard as your hero but his character did nothing for me, it's extremely difficult to make a silent protagonist the center of your very narrative-based movie and they don't make it work here, the narrative itself isn't particularly compelling either
I would put it about even with The Cloverfield Paradox in terms of "a movie to cherrypick the good stuff out of," thought I like Mute more than I did that, it's not by much
They just can’t sign anything good that also has far reach. At best they can get to “meh” or something too niche that no one watches.
3. The Cloverfield Paradox
2. Mute
1. A Futile and Stupid Gesture, somehow
I watched the entire thing and I only realised when I looked her up just now. To be fair I guess Negasonic Teenage Warhead has no hair and two lines.
God, the Shadow is so good.
And I have to buy it again but digitally on Amazon Prime as my roommates left the dvd out and someone spilled jelly on it.
The one time YouTube fails me is in finding a scene from The Producers.
Poor Peter Boyle
Gotta be alec Baldwin's slave
The other one played Alliyah in the movie about Alliyah!
He owed Baldwin a life-debt!
Not worth it man
I actually didn't know it was a book! But it makes sense, there's certain sequences where you look at it and go "if this were a book they would spend a lot more time talking about the specific elements that contribute to the sense of this scene"
he is too pretty to hit in the face, and that would be baldwin's undoing
It would be Alec Baldwin's the Shadow for a variety of reasons.
#1. He actually has super powers.
#2. He is an insane person.
Both of them were right tho
Hold up. Billy Zane is a very pretty man, but he has one of the most punchable faces in Hollywood.
Alec Baldwin would have no problem punching that face.
It’s budgets, yeah.
Like, with the blade runner example from earlier. 2049 had a production budget of 150 million and grossed 250 million. Which sounds good and all until you realize the production budget does not include marketing or distribution, and that some portion of that 250 is going to the theaters.
Suddenly 250 million doesn’t sound as great anymore.
Studios keep swinging for the fences trying to make everything into a megafranchise or a billion dollar hit, but sometimes it might be good to scale back a bit. We need the return of the mid budget movie.
have you considered this is perhaps not a problem with the face part
well yeah I think you unfortunately have to bear the brunt of it because they know they would want to--but never be able to bring themselves to--clock Zane prime
Not bad, but I'mma raise you Jake Gyllenhaal.
Jared Leto begs to differ.
I don't get that from his face alone.
If I saw Matt Dillon my first thought would be, "I need to punch that face."
I tend to agree. We're talking punchability of faces alone. Leto's punchability comes from his carefully crafted douchenozzle persona more so than from his face. He's got a nice face. It's a good face.