the Dolittle movie seems absolutely baffling which is a bummer. seems like it wouldn't be terribly hard to just do a straightforward adaptation of the original books but, sometimes I guess you've just gotta burn an enormous amount of Hollywood cash
i really enjoyed Annihilation and honestly how different the book and film feels incredibly appropriate in a way i don’t find in most adaptations
after I watched that movie I thought it was middle of the road, I guess, but then I couldn't stop thinking about it for like two months? so maybe it's secretly one of my favorites? I have no idea!
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I just got out of Underwater. Kristen Stewart has to deal with sea beasts in Warhammer 40k armor ass looking diving suits.
Unfortunately TJ Miller is also there
fortunately his head pops like a grape.
Also Cthulhu at like full Godzilla size shows up at the end
Anyways I liked it a lot more than I expected! And it cares about its characters way more than you’d expect a b movie creature feature to
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Beverly Crusher choreographed the ballroom scene in Labyrinth?!
As an owner of the Southern Reach trilogy and a VanderMeer fan - and I dunno how it took this long - I am now watching Annihilation for the first time.
This adaptation is kicking ass so far. Music, great. Casting, great. Murderbear, grrrrrrrreat.
I was really surprised at how much I liked it. There are choices they made that I don't like as much as the way the book progresses, but they're generally in service to making it adaptable and I understand what's up with that.
Just saw The Swimmer, a 1968 film starring Burt Lancaster as a man who wears nothing but swim shorts for 90 minutes as he crashes all his friends pools. It’s a wild movie.
It starts out like a campy paradise, all old chums slapping ass and reminiscing over cocktails by the poolside, but something feels off. It almost feels like simply bad filmmaking, and maybe some of the rough edges are genuine, but it slowly flips this bourgeois dream on its head. It’s wonderfully surreal, with lengthy stretches that really swing for the arthouse fences. The stranger it got, the more I liked it. There’s a lengthy scene where he leaps over fences like a horse in slow motion. It’s great.
And I cannot stress this enough. Burt Lancaster looks like this for the entire movie. He’s in every scene.
I prefer the book, but I think the movie has amazing visuals and I love it for being its own thing
It also, I feel, tackled adapting the concept of unknowable cosmic horror into a visual medium far better than most movies that take a shot at the genre.
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Ah, it stinks, it sucks, it's anthropologically unjust
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Whelp the partner and I are watching Annihilation. Good work everyone
Whelp the partner and I are watching Annihilation. Good work everyone
I rewatch the final act of that film so often. It's just so good.
One minor thing on rewatch I love how even the score of the movie adapts and changes
I wish the music hadn't shown up in the trailer because it would have been incredible to hear that wailing synth drone for the very first time in that scene.
I just got out of Underwater. Kristen Stewart has to deal with sea beasts in Warhammer 40k armor ass looking diving suits.
Unfortunately TJ Miller is also there
fortunately his head pops like a grape.
Also Cthulhu at like full Godzilla size shows up at the end
Anyways I liked it a lot more than I expected! And it cares about its characters way more than you’d expect a b movie creature feature to
Hold on a second
it's just.... Cthulhu? Actual? Straight up?
Yes
they don’t say the name Cthulhu. And it’s not a particularly Lovecraftian movie. But that fucker is Cthulhu. The only thing is that it lacks wings but there is a shot where it is framed where it’s tentacles look wing like
Okay fine rewatching Annihilation from the start, too.
Fun factoid:
The student who asks Portman's character a question is a professional dancer and did the performance for the creature at the climax of the film. I knew of her from this music video: https://youtu.be/BC2dRkm8ATU
Okay fine rewatching Annihilation from the start, too.
Fun factoid:
The student who asks Portman's character a question is a professional dancer and did the performance for the creature at the climax of the film. I knew of her from this music video: https://youtu.be/BC2dRkm8ATU
She's also Kyoko in Ex Machina, and one of the scientists in Maniac. Super talented performer.
I just got out of Underwater. Kristen Stewart has to deal with sea beasts in Warhammer 40k armor ass looking diving suits.
Unfortunately TJ Miller is also there
fortunately his head pops like a grape.
Also Cthulhu at like full Godzilla size shows up at the end
Anyways I liked it a lot more than I expected! And it cares about its characters way more than you’d expect a b movie creature feature to
Hold on a second
it's just.... Cthulhu? Actual? Straight up?
Yes
they don’t say the name Cthulhu. And it’s not a particularly Lovecraftian movie. But that fucker is Cthulhu. The only thing is that it lacks wings but there is a shot where it is framed where it’s tentacles look wing like
I just got out of Underwater. Kristen Stewart has to deal with sea beasts in Warhammer 40k armor ass looking diving suits.
Unfortunately TJ Miller is also there
fortunately his head pops like a grape.
Also Cthulhu at like full Godzilla size shows up at the end
Anyways I liked it a lot more than I expected! And it cares about its characters way more than you’d expect a b movie creature feature to
Hold on a second
it's just.... Cthulhu? Actual? Straight up?
Yes
they don’t say the name Cthulhu. And it’s not a particularly Lovecraftian movie. But that fucker is Cthulhu. The only thing is that it lacks wings but there is a shot where it is framed where it’s tentacles look wing like
Just watched Annihilation with the human being I am seeing
God I love this movie and especially the climactic sequence
I think it's fair to say this movie has one of the deepest treks into proper cosmic horror to ever really take hold in the mainstream
It's a damn shame that executive feuding resulted in it getting less buzz than it deserved. IIRC outside of the US it didn't even get a theatrical release.
Dolittle, grossing $6.3 million on Friday, is now looking at a projected four-day gross of $31 million. While that's somewhat ahead of tracking, it is still a dismal start for a film that cost $175 million to $200 million before marketing. The hope now is that family audience gives Dolittle long legs; it also could make up ground overseas.
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I love that at some point "pony up 200 million dollars for a Dolittle reboot with Robert Downey Jr." sounded like a slam dunk to someone with the juice to make it happen.
Ah, it stinks, it sucks, it's anthropologically unjust
I love that at some point "pony up 200 million dollars for a Dolittle reboot with Robert Downey Jr." sounded like a slam dunk to someone with the juice to make it happen.
well, to give them some credit, when they initially set the budget I'm thinking they were aiming to have the budget be a bit lower, but uh...the production had some issues
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after I watched that movie I thought it was middle of the road, I guess, but then I couldn't stop thinking about it for like two months? so maybe it's secretly one of my favorites? I have no idea!
Unfortunately TJ Miller is also there
Also Cthulhu at like full Godzilla size shows up at the end
Anyways I liked it a lot more than I expected! And it cares about its characters way more than you’d expect a b movie creature feature to
yyyyyup.
Huh, and Muppets Take Manhattan.
I was really surprised at how much I liked it. There are choices they made that I don't like as much as the way the book progresses, but they're generally in service to making it adaptable and I understand what's up with that.
It starts out like a campy paradise, all old chums slapping ass and reminiscing over cocktails by the poolside, but something feels off. It almost feels like simply bad filmmaking, and maybe some of the rough edges are genuine, but it slowly flips this bourgeois dream on its head. It’s wonderfully surreal, with lengthy stretches that really swing for the arthouse fences. The stranger it got, the more I liked it. There’s a lengthy scene where he leaps over fences like a horse in slow motion. It’s great.
And I cannot stress this enough. Burt Lancaster looks like this for the entire movie. He’s in every scene.
I was a little worried that seeing the movie first would kinda lock in the visuals when I read the book and boy was that certainly not a problem
It also, I feel, tackled adapting the concept of unknowable cosmic horror into a visual medium far better than most movies that take a shot at the genre.
I rewatch the final act of that film so often. It's just so good.
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Explains the episode where Crusher teaches Data how to dance.
One minor thing on rewatch I love how even the score of the movie adapts and changes
I wish the music hadn't shown up in the trailer because it would have been incredible to hear that wailing synth drone for the very first time in that scene.
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I knew McFadden could dance but didn’t know she worked for Henson before Star Trek!
Hold on a second
Steam
Yes. There are so many details it just nails that make it so deeply unnerving. My favorite is the house they set up camp in
I didn't even notice the first time I watched it, but something just felt off and uncomfortable about it the whole time.
It was fine! Well done but not really my thing
Fun factoid:
https://youtu.be/BC2dRkm8ATU
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The director actually outright said
Underwater fucking rules
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Well shit!
cuz I'm gonna watch that shit
It's in theaters now, out in the January wastelands.
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God I love this movie and especially the climactic sequence
I think it's fair to say this movie has one of the deepest treks into proper cosmic horror to ever really take hold in the mainstream
It's a damn shame that executive feuding resulted in it getting less buzz than it deserved. IIRC outside of the US it didn't even get a theatrical release.
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Annihilation. Still great
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https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/box-office-bad-boys-life-eyes-68m-dolittle-goes-dogs-1270931
well, to give them some credit, when they initially set the budget I'm thinking they were aiming to have the budget be a bit lower, but uh...the production had some issues