Annihilation

Who's seen it and what did you think?

I saw it this morning and wew lad. I walked out of it thinking it was alright, but having had more time to process I'd say this is one of my favorite movies of the past couple years.

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I'm still waiting for the torrent. Don't feel like popping some klonopin just to go to the movies, plus I don't feel like wasting my money on it.

go out and see it user.

Go on a discount day or something. I dont want to sound like a pretentious faggot, but the only word that came to mind after seeing this was "transcending"

why did Natalie Portman fuck that black guy? Why was that in the movie?

The reason her husband went on the mission. The reason she went in too, trying to redeem herself. The whole self destruction bit.

too much horror movie stupidity

Ow. Quit fucking biting me you nigger!

her husband went in on the suicide mission because he had nothing left to lose after knowing that lena cheated on him.

Knowing that he knew and that he chose a suicide mission because of her infidelity, Lena feels an obligation to help him. Without the sex with the black guy, the incentive for her or her husband to enter the shimmer doesn't exist

It was pretty bad.

I'm interested in what you think is the horror movie stupidity. The abandoned house, the paramedic freaking out?

>"Hurr durr its and intellectuals films"
>"hurr durr the ending is open ended"

This movie was fucking stupid. I understood it completely. It was all about infidelity and the imminent self destruction of ourselves as a human being, not as an entire race. Nothing that was hard to grasp, but they had to take it in a direction which would make you think the film was better seen on an acid trip. The cinematography was brilliant to some aspects, but the plot was ultimately retarded, the characters were fucking retarded, and even with the explanation given, it makes the "Aliens" coming all the more retarded. This movie will be remembered by people who thought only they were smart enough to understand it.

>This movie will be remembered by people who thought only they were smart enough to understand it

Yup

The characters were awful. It's amazing how dumb or uninteresting they were.

>calls the movie stupid
>demonstrates to everyone that he knows how clearly he understood the film
>"hur This movie will be remembered by people who thought only they were smart enough to understand it."

kek

why were the characters retarded though? just interested in the thoughts there

The ending part was the loudest shit I've ever heard in a theater. How did they get away with that.

>target is a lighthouse on the coast, so instead of just getting a boat and sailing there lets send a handful of people on foot through nearly impassable swamps
>if they absolutely HAVE to walk there then why not start on the coast
>they get amnesia when they enter the zone, but this never happens again or is relevant in any way to the rest of the story
>get attacked by a giant gator monster, then immediately get in some flimsy boats and get on the water
>one woman somehow subdues and ties up 3 others
>have to stand guard over a military base with a watch tower, so decide to stand guard on the ground instead of in the watch tower, because plot
>paramedic questions whether the monster actually existed because she never saw it, even though she saw the giant fucking hole in the fence
>no explanation of what the bones in front of the light house were about

and worst of all
>defeat the unknowable cosmic horror just by burning it

They all came off as uninteresting caricatures. There was no investment in their motivations and actions. Whether they were in the scene or not felt irrelevant.

>user is clearly demonstrating that the concept of the film is not hard to grasp, and that the people who will forever post about this film and talk about it are only doing so because they think so highly of themselves that only they could understand the oh-so-very deep plot behind each character and the plot itself

it was definitely a pretty movie, the zone looked really cool

These days graphics like that are a diamond dozen. There was nothing that really stuck out except the bear that mimic human sounds.

I was more annoyed by the part where they try to blind the audience with a super bright white screen

I thought the environment being extremely lush and beautiful was cool, and the glass structures on the beach

Not a single one of them was interesting. All of them had their own little "Issue" that deemed them able to enter into this void that seemingly nobody was able to survive in.

>So special forces can't figure this shit out, lets send a suicidal girl, a survivors husband, a druggie, a girl whose daughter died, and our fearless mission leader that has cancer because who knows, maybe the void has something to do with gender mutuality.

I liked the crystal trees because they reminded me of Command & Conquer, but apparently they're totally forgettable to most people.

it was their turn

sounds like a baseless assumption about people that liked the film, but okay.

in what way is it a baseless assumption if it is actually true?

>if it is actually true?

prove that it's true user. Prove that every single person that likes this movie only likes it because it makes them feel intellectual.

>every single person that likes this movie only likes it because it makes them feel intellectual

Is literally why it is true

I can't tell if you're pretending to be retarded or not

I have not seen a character this annoying for a long time now. In addition to being unlikable in almost every single way, the actress's delivery of every line was so over-the-top and unnecessarily bitchy. The overall writing in this film was bad and totally unpar with everything else Garland has written, but at least the other actresses did a relatively good job making their characters feel real and grounded.

It's not playing at any fucking theater near me. And yet that "Greatest Showman" shit has been playing for months. I had to wait months for Shape of Water and Three Billboards, guess I'll have to wait for this, too.

>diamond dozen

netflix bought it, thats why its nowhere. it will be on netflix soon.

I thought they were only airing it in countries outside of the US. Is it coming to Netflix US now, too?

Ok, this is all I needed to know about this piece of shit movie, no way Im watching this kike propaganda.

it's a doggy dog world

>David Ellison, a financier at Paramount, became concerned that the film was "too intellectual" and "too complicated"
Really? I was gonna watch it when it is on Netflix next week and try my best to stomach seeing Tessa Thompson. She is fucking awful.

aww, poor cuck

Yeah, I enjoyed the movie but there are too many flaws in the premise/storytelling/character's actions for it to be a real masterpiece.

A ton of issues would be solved if the "lighthouse" plot device was instead something in the center of the zone in a heavily wooded area. As is it was on the coast on a completely unobstructed beach. A team parachuting in could literally get there in a matter of minutes, well before the shimmer fucks with their heads too much. Not going in with boats or following the coastline if they were going to walk were also ridiculous. The doctor did say something like "we've tried everything" but that really doesn't do it for me.

The Amnesia factor just going away completely was absurd. After the first scene inside the shimmer I was super excited at the prospect of them only ever having a day's memory to work with but that plot thread was just abandoned. Some sort of explanation about the seemingly different passage of time within the shimmer would have been nice.

The other stuff I'm more willing to forgive. The whole paranoid chick stuff was her acting irrationally, but the shimmer was fucking with her mind so whatever. I also would have liked for the blonde woman to have been something more than a character who delivers some exposition and then dies without having any defining traits.

Thompson does a good job and is one of the better written characters.

I just excused the memory issue where your body is first getting acclimated to the zone. Or for all we know, they were all dead and their clones are the ones we follow after they took their clothes & gear.

Unlikely, but there are a ton of possibilities.

I just wanna see some webms of the freaky deaths Ive heard about

the scream bear is by far the best freaky scene and a webm won't do it justice.

It was aight. If you've seen like any body/psychological horror SF of the last 40 years you pretty much know what's going on right from the getgo which deflates a lot of the movie's tension. Still some sweet setpieces and soundtrack.

Excusing the memory issue as acclimating to the zone is extremely unsatisfying for me. The "they're all doubles" theory would work, but in that case they would have all reached the lighthouse intact, been copied, and then spent enough time with their clones for them to learn everything about them including their mission. Given that they still had rations, I don't think that's a real possibility. I'm chalking it up to Garland wanting a cool scene about memory and then just ignoring the implications.

It's coming out for international folks on Netflix soon, so you should get them pretty quick.
the only real "death" you see is a mutated bear taking a chomp out of Gina Rodriguez's neck. It's pretty brutal and shows realistic gore

agreed it's pretty easy to figure out whats going on. the visuals and the thematic cohesiveness are what did it for me

Someone post a link to that theme that kept playing. I loved it.

Honestly gonna watch just for Hershlag. She is still a cute.

Natalie Portman fucks a nigger = the annihilation of the white race... the movie.

>Movies need a story

Is there any higher pleb filter?

I agree, there is literally nothing wrong with your wife fucking a black dude and for this movie to imply otherwise is an affront to modern sensibilities.

Blacked: The Motion Picture

So why is the monster wearing another skull?

Inside of the bubble cells split incredibly rapidly and the DNA from shit all around can get in there, so the wildlife is heavily mutated.

youtube.com/watch?v=-jU9EFTMhbY

Did ANYBODY notice how the house with the bear scene was literally herschlags house from the beginning of the movie?
The shot of the stairs
The table where she takes her blood sample
The living room where the bear attacks
All areas, same layout as her and oscar Isaacs house.

>cheat on your husband with a nigger
>husband finds out and goes on suicide mission because fuck you bitch
>go to find husband after you cucked him
>husband dead
>get killed by aliums for being a dirty coalburner
This movie was redpilled.

Why would a mutation cause an animal to wear the skull of another animal?

Why is the team all-female? Is that ever explained?

Neat, it even has the baby teeth as if it has just recently grown. Did it's face get blown off earlier when it first showed up?

They've sent in all-male teams and presumably some mixed gender teams and nobody comes out alive. At this point they were just throwing shit at the wall and seeing what sticks.
also JJL's character was the boss and had terminal cancer so this was her personal mission

i wrote a whole essay on this the last time there was a thread, so here you go

Shit opinions and gradeschool criticisms but A for effort i guess.

Is there a date for the Netflix release or is it just "soon"

I'm kind of excited since I keep hearing good things and trying not to spoil myself but I keep coming into these threads.

hmm I wonder what the reason is why these missions keep going wrong. It must be gender.

I loved it. I take issues with some of the story, but it was easy to ignore or forgive because it was a nice ride.

im not pretending. i have downs and a small penis

Stop thinking people care are your edgy Highschool viewpoint.

This was the only character I had a problem with. I thought the head lady was going to be annoying because she seemed condescending at first but it turns out she was just depressed and detached

Yeah how dare people talk about things in depth. Intellectualism is stupid. lel Heil Trumpler. Art is gey.

Yes, in-depth discussion about the film should be encouraged on the board and I appreciate the effort you put in. But
is right. The majority of your criticisms aren't valid, it's clear you missed or misunderstood certain parts of the film.

The fact that you're jerking yourself off over a post being "in depth" and "intellectual" while at the same time building a Sup Forums strawman should show you that maybe your posts aren't as well thought out as you believe.

You're being too hard and overanalytic, I expected it to be a passable horro/sci-fi thriller based on the one trailer I saw and the name being a meme. This was not the case.

The movie starts up feeling like predator/arrival type (soldiers marchin into the unknown) with only a few hints of the shit that's about to come. Slowly, it starts introducing cosmic horror aspects. The intestine scene and the pool scene are great examples of the divergence where it becomes more than your classic hollywood alien invasion (somethins out to get us) film. The last part is probably one of the more correct embodiments of the term 'psychologically thrilling'. You have great ambiance set by the audio helping the strangeness of what's happening in the screen feel real.

The movie wasn't a 'mindfuck' like primer, this movie was more like a drug trip, a bad one mind you with all the horrible shit goin on. But overall it was very enjoyable and it deserves the current ratings/praise it's getting.

It seems you just want some (yous) and affirmation that your views are D E E P C R I T I C I S M. If you want to be applauded for being contrarian, you should try a cool site called r e d d i t. c o m

yes, we noticed. the house is there because portmans characters life and memories are refracted by the shimmer

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I mean I agree with you but iz just kino why hef 2 b mad?

It had some cool visuals and was very atmospheric I agree the writing and characters were weak but it wasnt trying to make some big 2deep3u point or anything calm down

are you telling me the shimmer can build an entire mcdonalds if it knows im craving a burger?

I imagine that it was just a similar house and we are seeing it through Hershlag's warped point of view. Her house was super generic (weird considering the money she must make). But the Shimmer shouldn't be able to affect inorganic matter and should be unable to replicate a home.

It turns people into plants, and alligators to have shark teeth. It literally scrambles all the dna of all living things within its sphere of influence.

That being said, that is a bear skull, but its sort of out grown its flesh. It may also have human skull traits, since I think thats what the film creators said about it when they made the prop.

To me, it looks like manbearpig

I went to the “black carpet” for this, I thought I only enjoyed it because of that, but I watched it again & its solid scifi, different in a good way.

Also Natalie Portman smells as beautiful as she looks in real life

What did she smell like?

I actually really enjoyed it with the exception of a few aspects.

>the gritty tone and violence of the camera footage that was never really revisited
>Natalie Portman getting blacked which wasn't even an integral part of the plot, why even include an affair?
>that scientist girl that just wandered off somehow and never showed up again
>the way Ventress dissolved by shooting beams out of her mouth
>how the entire ecosystem was foiled by a single grenade which had previously gone off in the lighthouse before but somehow not caught the extremely flammable foliage encompassing it on fire

I'd still give it a 7/10.

>the gritty tone and violence of the camera footage that was never really revisited
It did a lot to set up the whole mutation storyline which made the entire film suspenseful, plus the bear attack was of a similar tone
>why even include an affair?
She cheated. He found out. This damaged their marriage badly, hurting him to the point where he accepted the suicide mission of entering the Shimmer. She felt guilty about this and then went into the Shimmer in an attempt to vindicate herself in her own eyes. This is all hugely important to the pot.

>that scientist girl that just wandered off and never showed up again
She realized that the Shimmer was rapidly mutating them all and thought that getting her genome imprinted in a predator as she died in agony (a la blonde woman) or struggling to find the truth were inferior options to just letting the change happen while she is at peace. She assimilated into the environment on her own terms, leaving behind what she thought were the best parts of her into the Shimmer's genome.

>the way Ventress dissolved by shooting beams out of her mouth
No answer for this one. It looked cool, was a plot device I guess.
>how the entire ecosystem was foiled by a single grenade which had previously gone off in the lighthouse before but somehow not caught the extremely flammable foliage encompassing it on fire
same as the last one.

I was wrong about the affair but the rest I still have qualms over.

Yeah, there's a lot to question about the movie. And not in the "Really makes you think" way, rather the "this was left unexplained needlessly when there is nothing to go off of" way. I still enjoyed it though.

Far better than Arrival which has a god awful ending. About on an equal level with Ex Machina.

Also, the second they went in the Luciferic prism they were no longer who they were before. Lina was Lina+ and so was everyone else.

thanks for the (you)s but kindly fuck off if you're not going to actually ready what i wrote

to overly analytic how so? if i want to watch a movie i expect it to be good, i'm not going to prostrate myself at some genre altar for no good reason.

there is a trend where people seem to think we're in some kind of scifi renaissance, as though scifi in recent times has been quite bad but is now becoming truly intellectual, citing mongoloid fingerpainting cumgurglers like arrival. this film is the latest to receive such praise.

it is bad on a "technical level". this is just a matter of being professional, the film cuts corners which i have already discussed. this is just bullshit, why settle.

does the script actually have anything interesting to say? no.

cosmic horror is bullshit. like most morons i read almost all of lovecrafts garbage as a teenager, it's shit prose and the stories aren't nearly as interesting as what you imagined would make for a good tabletop campaign. to say that this movie is better than a bunch of bad shit is pointless, everything in the 20%-80% range is better than the bad shit, so what.

the final segment has some bwahs. are you kidding me? i've already said why the special effects impressed you, you want a bad acid trimp? go jerk off to some mandelbulb exploration videos while listening to the glee mashup of enya and rammstein.

>Claims to be an "intellectual" with "deep criticism"
>Posts an image for ants

You just keep digging yourself deeper.

Just pointing it out since there is clearly another row of teeth attached to the skull, above the animals actual teeth

Human compulsion to self-destruction is a major theme in the movie. We are paradoxically driven to subvert ourselves. Portman's character chooses auto-annihilation by impaling herself on the biggest, blackest dick she can find. Thus she can enter the state which invariably follows destruction, creation. This movie is very spiritual.

Steal from the best eh Alex?

8 days until torrent.

unlike about half of the screens on the left, annihilation actually looks like total shit

okay but why a black guy?

I saw it thursday, and it was shit. The more I think about it, the shittier it gets.

absolute garbage

To be more upsetting. You haven't even seen the movie, and it's even working on you.

What difference does it make? No big deal was made about him being black. He was just a colleague.