Why didn't they just drive or fly to the lighthouse?

Why didn't they just drive or fly to the lighthouse?

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Better yet if electronics didn't work in the shimmer why didn't they take a steam engine truck into it?

They loose consciousness/awareness when they enter the shimmer

Why didn't you just pay attention?

WHY DIDNT THEY JUST FUCKING NUKE IT

>hey lets just have this alien shit grow bigger every day
>hey lets just go inside to check it out xD

>don't fly over the shimmer and parajump down
>don't establish research camps in the perimeter in order to analyze the effects while still being able to quickly get out
>only send groups of soldiers or scientists in, instead of both
>don't drive in

What brainlet wrote this script?

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>Nuking your own country

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>dropping a nuclear bomb on a growing anomaly we know nothing about

BRILLIANT IDEA, STALKER.

>don't fly over the shimmer and parajump down
I believe the shimmer goes all the way up to the upper atmospheres

it would have worked

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the video cameras worked in the shimmer

Hang glide in then

in the book the shimmer is indestructible as it can distort reality/time and space

Nah, the alien would've just imitated the bomb and destroyed the world. Checkmate, normie.

I seriously can't enjoy these type of movies. It's like retards with zero experience with scientific research/logistics/military write the scripts, and it all comes across as incredibly unrealistic. In real life they would've set up camps only a few feet into the shimmer, and send crews on short interim expeditions instead of days and deep into the park.

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I would just nuke this shit

Why didn't they get gun training? I mean I'm assuming they didn't because black lady was surprised when Natalie Portman could shoot.
Why didn't they have helmets if they had guns?
Why didn't they send soldiers with the scientists?
Why didn't whatsherface keep hold of the night vision goggles and use them to look for the lady that got dragged off by the wolf thing?

why didnt Netflix just make Roadside Picnic instead of this, the only good bit was the bear.

1. Short term missions are impossible because the shimmer fucks up your sense of time
2. The Shimmer also fucks up your sense of directions and all the people that went in there got lost.

It's entirely possible if you only go a few feet into it. And you can't get lost as long as you're a few feet into it.

>Why didn't they get gun training? I mean I'm assuming they didn't because black lady was surprised when Natalie Portman could shoot

because the bitch running the OP didn't care, the team were expendable

>Why didn't they have helmets if they had guns?

as above

>Why didn't they send soldiers with the scientists?
as above, the chick running it basically was committing suicide and its implied she didn't intend for her foray to actually work.

its a stupid piece of shit movie. just forget it

retard

So was Lena an alien at the end, or had she got mutations (i.e. 'changed') from the experience?

>Writing for Rolling Stone, Peter Travers complimented the cast and Garland's writing and direction, giving the film 3.5 stars out of 4 and saying, "Garland need make no apologies for Annihilation. It's a bracing brainteaser with the courage of its own ambiguity. You work out the answers in your own head, in your own time, in your own dreams, where the best sci-fi puzzles leave things."

What? Everything seemed incredibly surface when I watched it. What were the intricate brain teasers exactly?

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>What? Everything seemed incredibly surface when I watched it. What were the intricate brain teasers exactly?
This - I really liked the film, and I got the idea that it was about how to deal with change (particularly cancer, and also the harm we do to ourselves) but I really don't see what other messages/themes are.
Interestingly, Wikipedia previously had a line about how the film was "too intellectual for general audiences" but that's been deleted. By someone who thought that line was a load of shit or a butthurt brainlet?

the pleb answer is: changed

That's real answer you brainlet. It is literally impossible for Lena to be an alien at the end due to the sequence of events and framing. We see the alien becoming Lena, we see said alien receive the phosphorous and we see the phosphorous burning away the mimicry to reveal it is indeed, the fucking alien.

All """theories""" stating end Lena is the alien is nothing more than wishful thinking to accomplish a pretense of intellect and self-perceived higher analytical ability than others.

Are you a flat earther?

Why not tie a rope to them so when they enter the shimmer, they can find their way out? Better yet, use a cable so they can send messages, audio, and video in and out of the shimmer.

An unseen monster grabbed our friend into the water! Let's all drop our guns and jump into the water!

Women in a nutshell: All empathy and no logic.

So who liked this movie?I thought it was a 4/10 I wanted a jurassic park 2 esque huge force of marines + hunters/mercs + scientists to go in and slowly get mutated against the dangers. the obscure ending didnt help much either

>no planet
>no shimmer
>problem solved, checkmate xeno scum

6/10 movie made up by the pretty great last sequence with the alien. Some really stupid shit though.

>Species can't crossbreed
Surely they can't think the audience is that dumb for this to be needed to explained.

Most critics aren't very smart.

Definitely left me thinking. Didn't hate it in the least, but it wasn't something I'd rush to recommend to people. It was visually astounding. Set designers, concept artists and cgi crew had their shit together. Some of the environments looked and felt familiar, kinda like live-action Dark Souls areas, I guess, especially the area around the lighthouse. Even the corpses looked like works of art.

Tossing in Modrat music over the ending visuals was wild, too, even if I was confused af at the time.

1 word = drones

>movie is purposefully dreamlike and surreal
>B-but why didn't they just drive to the lighthouse?

Fucking brainlets

Moderat's music for when Lena encountered the entity was fucking rad.

Did you miss the scenes where it was explained that upon entering they literally lose control of themselves for multiple days and don't remember anything about what happened?

The movie was decent but fuck some of the absolute brainlets in this thread almost make buy into the "too intellectual for general audiences" shit.

>what is a rope

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A rope wouldn't do anything, you brainlet. As soon as you enter the shimmer you wouldn't be conscious and you'd just remove the rope.

Then you attach the rope with a lock that only command back outside the shimmer has. And the rope is made of steel.

What now, brainlet?

>Dude this movie is not smart enough lmao
>proceeds to watch 10,000 capeshit movies and make 10,000 threads for each of them
>makes no threads for supposed "smarter" movies

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Difference is those movies don't pretend to be smart.

>but muh pretending to be smurt
Not an argument.

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Okay, you got me. Maybe that could work.

What if the rope started fuzing with the plants and was able to be ripped?

>rope has dna

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They'd probably end up pulling a guy out who goes "I can't remember anything."

Couldn't it affect anything in the Shimmer though?

Why drive or fly when you could take a boat right up to the lighthouse?

Why didn't they wear the one ring when going inside?
Why didn't the eagles fly them to the lighthouse?
What if the shimmer alien wore the one ring?

How come you guys aren't talking about the fact, that she went inside out of the guilt of being blacked?

thanks for the reminder.

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electronics worked fine in the shimmer, it was just signal that didn't work

The movie did a terrible job laying out some basic rules of the shimmer which make it look very dumb (parachutes, ropes, vehicles, approaching from the sea etc.)

>stick a gopro on the dude
>pull him back
>doesn't remember anything
>you still have the footage
wow that was a waste of time

>everything we see about the expedition is lena's words
>implying the alien didn't lie about lena being the one that made it out

Why didn't they send in fully automated robots with cameras?
I mean sure, the shimmer blocks all radio waves but video cameras work fine. So you could theoretically send in a robot that goes in there, collects a sample of whatever and go out the same way, similar to one of those vacuum cleaner robots. Why send in humans?

But I am.

why didn't the aliens just start a social media company?

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The tattoo got placed on multiple people, ink doesn't have DNA.

They did.
Nothing came back.

They only mentioned robots but never which type. They could have sent in something remote controlled which wouldn't have worked

Yeah there should’ve been a character that just explained every previous mission to us for 30 minutes.

or you could have cut all the nonsensical scenes and add a 3 minute briefing about the shimmer. you know, those things you get before going on an expedition.

Nigga...do you remember the scene at the end with the bullets??? We would be fucked if they nuked it

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>We tried remote controlled robots and we tried battery powered robots and we tried solar powered robots and we tried shitpost bots and we tried robots that eat grass and we tried Oscar Isaac. Oscar got out!

>implying a rope wouldn't be mutated into a tentacle monster
Get a load of this guy

But they did exactly that.

>cucking scene were portman fucks a nigger
of course, thanks (((Netflix)))

>pretend to be smart
It’s a story about being outmoded. It goes out of its way to be non-expositional and place objectively intelligent people in narrative then have answers posed to these people that understand the Shimmer best as literally “I don’t know”.

If anyone is pretending to be smart it is you.

8/10 liked what they did with self-destructive behaviors.

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cuz dumb

>People keep disappearing
>Send more people the same way

>88% on Rotten Tomatoes

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It was literally a suicide mission

Immediately lose consciousness and die on impact

I didn't say it wasn't

Your implication that it’s dumb to send people the same way the others were disappearing doesn’t work when the people leading the mission don’t care about the results of the mission

No, my implication is that it's 100% pointless to have a giant team of scientists if the only thing they do is send people on suicide missions.
The only thing they figured out about the shimmer is that it grows and radio waves can't pass the border.

Is the book any good?

Based fucking retard critic
>why is it called annihilation
>it literally changes the DNA of anything that it comes into contact with
>everyone is dying
>expanding constantly
>no solution in sight
>hurrrr why is it called annihilation

Why do you keep posting your retarded shit?

>Character literally says "so we really are Annihilation" in the movie

Of all the plotholes they could have totally just taken a small motor boat (No electronics in the motor) through the ocean to the lighthouse. Movie would have lasted 20 seconds.

Movie was a 6.5 or 7/10 in my opinion, worth the watch.

>lose consciousness
>drown
good movie

Can you tell me when any of the characters lost consciousness as a result from being in the shimmer?

hey retard, they didn't lose consciousness when they entered the shimmer they walked for days, did normal things, set up camp, they just forgot.

I get that you're at a 3rd grade comprehension level but maybe it's time for mommy and daddy to limit your internet privledges.

Maybe they didn’t lose consciousness but they lost all memory of about 3 days almost instantly after entering the shimmer. So the amount of things that can go wrong on a boat during a 3 day dark period vs just walking is way higher

they only said that drones dont work and nobody comes back. they never say how the border actually works. or what can pass the border. in the movie, apparently you can cross the border wherever you want.

the book for example takes its time to outline the difficulties of area x (even though it falls short on some edges)

yeah and why did that happen only once?

I don’t care about the book

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congrats you just found a plot hole while trying to explain a plot hole

but no one outside knew people lost memory so it would of made more sense to send them in vehicles

i was making the point, that the book works well because it took its time to explain the rules.

the movie seems overall stupid because it does not explain the rules making an expedition on foot absolutely pointless.

You wrongly assume they become like children or unable to perform their duties. They were exactly themselves for those 3 days they just forgot. If anything they would have entered the shimmer via boat, discovered the lighthouse, who knows how many crazy aliens would have been made, then sometime later their memories would get wiped and they'd wonder what happened.