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bwood
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"Annihilation (Alex fucking Garland, 201?)"


          

NNNNNNIIIIGGGGHAAAAA!!!!!

Now that's a fucking movie b. My nigga Garland is unstoppable b.

I didn't read the book the film is based on but holy shit. This is heady, beautiful and gruesome at the same time. It combines the smart sci-fi of Arrival with the visuals of The Fountain with the body horror of Cronenberg.

I can't wait to see this shit with the final score in tact. I'm gonna go back and read the whole trilogy now.

If you're like me and haven't read the book or know what the film is about go in blind. I'm serious don't watch any trailers b.

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Loved the whole trilogy. Only thing Im more psyched for than this...
Mar 08th 2017
1
I'm putting everything on hold to read the trilogy now.
Mar 08th 2017
2
so you've seen the movie?
Mar 09th 2017
3
Yes I've seen it. And don't worry about how.
Mar 09th 2017
4
man. i had free passes
Mar 17th 2017
5
Pushed back till next year
Mar 30th 2017
6
Bad sign?
Mar 31st 2017
7
The footage shown at CinemaCon got a great reaction
Mar 31st 2017
8
fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck
Mar 31st 2017
9
Annihilation (2018) - Teaser Trailer
Sep 27th 2017
10
NOBODY WATCH THIS SHIT!!!!
Sep 27th 2017
11
      Could you provide a spoiler-free premise?
Sep 27th 2017
12
           RE: Could you provide a spoiler-free premise?
Sep 27th 2017
13
Annihilation (2018) - Official Trailer
Dec 13th 2017
14
Yeah no one should watch this either.
Dec 13th 2017
15
Early word of mouth is extremely positive
Feb 11th 2018
Early word of mouth is extremely positive
Feb 11th 2018
16
Kind of struck me as a moodier Prometheus
Feb 23rd 2018
17
I get ya point, but imho it's MUCH better.
Feb 24th 2018
18
I had a good time at both.
Feb 24th 2018
20
I haven't seen the movie yet...
Feb 24th 2018
19
      The books were ass... n/m
Feb 26th 2018
26
This movie is corny *spoilers*
Feb 24th 2018
21
thought the plot was fairly easy to follow myself
Feb 25th 2018
22
Maybe convoluted is a better description.
Feb 26th 2018
25
RE: This movie is corny *spoilers*
Feb 26th 2018
23
Not sure. What are you referring to?
Feb 26th 2018
24
      RE: Not sure. What are you referring to? (SPOILER)
Feb 27th 2018
27
           you shouldn't have to explain this. lol
Mar 03rd 2018
30
                Basically.
Mar 03rd 2018
31
                just trying to help
Mar 05th 2018
38
                     I think you're half right (spoilers)
Mar 20th 2018
46
lol
Mar 03rd 2018
29
      Please, blak
Mar 03rd 2018
32
           it means you work at a well funded school or
Mar 05th 2018
36
                okay it went over my head
Mar 07th 2018
40
hella good. wanna watch it again
Mar 03rd 2018
28
***SPOILER.....***
Mar 04th 2018
33
shit, i didn't know Garland did Never Let Me Go too
Mar 05th 2018
37
      he wrote the screenplay, Mark Romanek directed it
Mar 06th 2018
39
i dug it
Mar 04th 2018
34
Really liked it. Definitely one to watch again.
Mar 05th 2018
35
same here, this one makes ya wanna watch twice...
Mar 08th 2018
41
didnt realize this is on netflix already.
Mar 12th 2018
42
outside NA
Mar 13th 2018
43
So what exactly happened to everything in the Shimmer?
Mar 13th 2018
44
eh. it was cool i guess. portman was terrific tho
Mar 14th 2018
45
Just saw it. Very underwhelmed honestly
Jun 03rd 2018
47
      Yeah this was ass
Feb 17th 2019
48
I just watched this Saturday on Amazon Video
Feb 17th 2019
49
i enjoyed it
Feb 18th 2019
50
Interested if anybody else has wound up crowning this movie
Jul 31st 2022
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mrshow
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1. "Loved the whole trilogy. Only thing Im more psyched for than this..."
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is Twin Peaks.

  

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bwood
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2. "I'm putting everything on hold to read the trilogy now."
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Holy shit.

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3. "so you've seen the movie?"
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If so where? how?

happiness is a mediocre standard for a middle class existence - S. Williams

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bwood
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4. "Yes I've seen it. And don't worry about how."
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That's not important.

What is important is that this rules. Hard.

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5. "man. i had free passes"
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and decided not to wait in the long line cuz i couldnt tell what the movie was about


i got burned a few times wit early/screening flicks



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bwood
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6. "Pushed back till next year"
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Announced yesterday during Paramount's CinemaCon presentation.

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7. "Bad sign?"
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8. "The footage shown at CinemaCon got a great reaction"
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Fri Mar-31-17 02:46 PM by SoulHonky

          

A bizarre play to show footage at that convention and then immediately push it back.

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9. "fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck"
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thats lame

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10. "Annihilation (2018) - Teaser Trailer"
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Annihilation (2018) - Teaser Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufaDurSCKOk

  

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bwood
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11. "NOBODY WATCH THIS SHIT!!!!"
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IT GIVES AWAY TOO MUCH! JUST GO SEE IT!!!

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12. "Could you provide a spoiler-free premise?"
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Like, your post just realllllllllly makes me want to see that trailer now, hah

  

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bwood
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13. "RE: Could you provide a spoiler-free premise?"
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A team of women scientists enter Area X,an alien landscape that landed on Earth.

That does a disservice to the film, but I tried to be a vague as possible.

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14. "Annihilation (2018) - Official Trailer"
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Annihilation (2018) - Official Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89OP78l9oF0

  

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bwood
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15. "Yeah no one should watch this either."
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"Early word of mouth is extremely positive"


          

https://theplaylist.net/annihilation-first-reactions-20180208/

  

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16. "Early word of mouth is extremely positive"
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https://theplaylist.net/annihilation-first-reactions-20180208/

  

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17. "Kind of struck me as a moodier Prometheus"
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I liked Prometheus, btw. This has the same somewhat difficult to follow logic behind the sci-fi elements, where you mostly get what it's trying to say, but it's hard to know exactly why some of the things are happening.

This also has some of the issues with seemingly very careless decisions being made in the face of an unknown alien environment.

Characters are too subdued to care much about them, but I was engaged throughout, and a lot of the imagery is very striking.

B minus type movie.

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18. "I get ya point, but imho it's MUCH better."
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Sat Feb-24-18 01:09 PM by BigReg

  

          

>I liked Prometheus, btw. This has the same somewhat difficult
>to follow logic behind the sci-fi elements, where you mostly
>get what it's trying to say, but it's hard to know exactly why
>some of the things are happening.

Imho the flaw to Prometheus is that the endpoint felt like for all the weirdness, we ended up in a generic place; a bunch of dudes who made some fucked up weapon that they lost control of. Things needed to be colored in but for the most part the 'aliens' weren't that alien. Annihilation felt continuously weird and otherworldly where the Engineers in Promethus/Covenent couldda just been future humans or some shit.

>This also has some of the issues with seemingly very careless
>decisions being made in the face of an unknown alien
>environment.

It's part of the 'Hey, weird shit is happening and someone's gotta check it out, LETS DIVE IN' sci-fi trope. They didn't seem as dumb as usual and unlike Prometheus the 'wrong' choices felt a bit more logical as opposed to feeding the plot that a bunch of these movies do.

>Characters are too subdued to care much about them, but I was
>engaged throughout, and a lot of the imagery is very
>striking.

This I agree with, (particularly I thought Tessa Thompson's character was a bit too morose even with the explanation they gave which made her arc...meh). But Issacs and Portman killed it, B+ for me, I wanna see it again

  

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20. "I had a good time at both."
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Annihilation is more thoughtful and distinct. But I think both are good movies.

SPOILERS

I think this is me being nitpicky but I just thought it was weird their method was to send in team after team never to be heard of again. What about a robot? What about tie a rope to me, send me 10 feet in, then yank me out? This sounds like a stupid complaint as I type it, but for whatever reason, it distracted me for a bit. Once inside, none of their decision making stuck out as idiotic, because they all had issues that made it easy to understand why they might not take the most logical actions.

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19. "I haven't seen the movie yet..."
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>Characters are too subdued to care much about them,


... but for me, this was a major issue with the book. I think I remember every single character just felt like a plot device.

  

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26. "The books were ass... n/m"
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21. "This movie is corny *spoilers*"
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A lotta junk science, a whole lotta missing logic, hard to follow plot, cheesy effects (and some cool ones), flat ass characters, the way overplayed post-event-slowly-revealing-in-flashbacks-interview structure.

And that fucking last shot. They straight up took the end of Thriller. And made it worse.

This movie was pointless. zero resolution.

  

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22. "thought the plot was fairly easy to follow myself"
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<--- Big Baller World Order

  

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25. "Maybe convoluted is a better description. "
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Can you explain that ending, tho? When everything disintegrates?

  

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23. "RE: This movie is corny *spoilers*"
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>This movie was pointless. zero resolution.

The resolution you wanted is not going to come because I don't think this will get a part 2 unfortunately.

You did catch what happened at the end and during the interviews though right?

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24. "Not sure. What are you referring to?"
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27. "RE: Not sure. What are you referring to? (SPOILER)"
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warning





spoiler






































You do know that wasn't her at the end right? Basically the two cloned-out aliens made it back to each other outside the dome. So what we saw in the dome is just a start.

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30. "you shouldn't have to explain this. lol"
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31. "Basically."
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Then again this is OKP.

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38. "just trying to help"
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I backspaced like 5 times, because it felt like a troll trap

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46. "I think you're half right (spoilers)"
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He's not really her husband but I think that's still Portman at the end (just slightly mutated). It's her clone that stayed behind & annihilated the shimmer.

  

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29. "lol"
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i'm upset i don't understand a speculative take on cancer and genetic mutations, or college 101 philos courses on duality / multiple selves

  

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32. "Please, blak"
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That was a convoluted plot. Zero resolution. Stop acting like you smart cuz you understand pretend science.

I run a CRISPR machine with my middle school students. Do you know what that is?

  

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36. "it means you work at a well funded school or"
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got a nice grant to teach kids about editing genes

and i'm glad you get to do that with students

due to bullshit with the district we recently had to get rid of our 3D printing machine...

and no shit it's pretend science, the movie is a narrative that emerged / was adapted from a fantasy novel, you know where writer take real world things and imagine them beyond the things we have or understand?

you seem to not be able to admit it went over your head which would be fine. I am not going to re-explain as it was done for you above. it wasn't convoluted and didn't have a tight resolution because again, this is an adaptation from a novel and there are two more books

  

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40. "okay it went over my head"
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28. "hella good. wanna watch it again "
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33. "***SPOILER.....***"
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.

..

...

....


......probably a spoiler below.....



.....


'Invasion Of The Body Snatchers' right?

i genuinely dig BOTH versions...the 50s version and the 70's version. Both are among my fave's and both are always good for a rewatch.

i dug this new updated version too.

...

(the above is not a diss...i went into Annihilation totally blind (as i always try my best to do), i knew nothing, other than who the director was and that i enjoyed other things he was involved with ('Ex Machina' and 'Never Let Me go')... i left satisfied with this flick as well....)



  

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37. "shit, i didn't know Garland did Never Let Me Go too"
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dude loves depressing ass spec fic where humans are manipulated and erased, lol

  

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39. "he wrote the screenplay, Mark Romanek directed it"
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34. "i dug it"
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35. "Really liked it. Definitely one to watch again."
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I *think* I got it the first time, but it's one I'll most definitely check out upon release again.

Cool premise, good direction, good cast, nice touches of horror... Thumbs up.

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41. "same here, this one makes ya wanna watch twice..."
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>Really liked it. Definitely one to watch again.>

at the end, yeah we were all like...'now i wanna see it again' as well...

dug it.

  

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42. "didnt realize this is on netflix already."
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43. "outside NA"
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www.engadgethd.com - the other stuff i'm looking at

  

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44. "So what exactly happened to everything in the Shimmer?"
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Did everything just escape afterwards or die?

There's nothing in the movie to suggest that everything died.

  

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45. "eh. it was cool i guess. portman was terrific tho"
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47. "Just saw it. Very underwhelmed honestly"
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Name actors, but felt STV quality all around to me

  

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48. "Yeah this was ass "
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Started decent, then went downhill.

I swear bwood is on the payroll with some of the
corny shit he hypes. I wonder if there is a pattern
by studio...?

Meh. Maybe he saw a different cut cuz the second
half of this shit was sci-fi channel cringe worthy.

Glad I didn’t pay for it, but this was awful.

  

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49. "I just watched this Saturday on Amazon Video"
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and it was trash. I really had high hopes for this and I wasn't feeling it in the least. It was a less entertaining version of "Arrival". It had big ideas but was such a slog to get through that the payoff was a let down.

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50. "i enjoyed it"
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it wasnt great but its worth watching.

  

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51. "Interested if anybody else has wound up crowning this movie"
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A friend of mine bought the weirdest triple DVD at a Goodwill ever - Annihilation, Arrival and the first Angelina Jolie Tomb Raider in a single case - and I couldn’t help but go off a bit on how much I’ve come to love this tough to love Alex Garland banger. I’ve seen it many times at this point, but decided to rewatch after writing the following and I do fully understand that the first 30 minutes or so are an almost tragically slow burn. Personally I think it helps emphasize just how rapidly the expedition goes off the rails and supports what I’m about to share that I said, but I’m only dumping this here curious to find out if any of you other popcorn munchers have been thinking about this movie more than you’d ever expected over the past five years and change.

In any case, we can all agree the sound design of the final half hour is unquestionably bonkers, yeah?


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Friend, all I can say is that the more you watch this movie (if you’re already predisposed to it) the less bizarre it gets. Without saying too much, a lot of alien and/or invasion movies explore how humanity reacts to esoteric threats. Annihilation, to me, is very much about how our own vessels are capable of equally strange if not stranger acts of defiance/betrayal.

Natalie Portman is awesome in this movie but I can’t help but feel like her presence convinces a lot of people the themes, or even plot, are supposed to be far more literal than they are. (There is, also, the domestic plot thread that feels shoehorned in to manufacture a personal connection for the audience, though I could get nerdy enough to argue it artificially starts the movie and holds it together because artificiality is what Alex Garland does best.)

But again, I could go on for paragraphs and hours. I love, love, love this movie.

Tomb Raider is cool too.


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