not what i expected

Herminio 2022-04-19 09:01:27

Before buying the ticket, I read a lot of comments on the Internet, brain-burning, connotation, thriller, suspense, which raised my expectations for the movie a lot, thinking that I would see a sci-fi blockbuster that is no less than The Martian or even close to Interstellar

However, when I actually sat in the seat of the movie theater, I found that it was just an extremely mediocre movie. The movie used flashbacks in an attempt to make the originally simple movie plot complicated and suspenseful, but its clumsy nature It is just the opposite, but some family ethics and moral issues have been expanded to the in-depth exploration of human nature, and the level of storytelling has become extremely bad because the flashback film is too messy and the viewing experience has become extremely bad. In short, the director And the screenwriter interprets a simple and clear thing in an extremely complicated way, and thinks the audience is a fool

I can't help but wonder if a sci-fi blockbuster with an investment of up to $55 million has the quality of a small-budget independent film. Can such a production level allow the producers and distributors to recover the cost?

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Extended Reading
  • Yessenia 2022-04-24 07:01:03

    A / Penetrate the wall in "Masquerade", and return to the union of all transformations and underworlds in non-human and non-life, self-abandonment, self-destruction, annihilation, and "rebirth". There are so many classic sci-fi elements mixed together but all of them are unpredictable, and the final core concept is actually hazy like a thorough understanding. In the framework of mainstream commercial stories, the narrative potential of flowing and jumping is exploited to the greatest extent, and the calm and steady release finally becomes the third act of brilliant flowers. Top 10 must-enters of the year.

  • Iliana 2022-03-21 09:01:22

    There is a sense of cheapness visually, but the atmosphere is very good. I understand that it is about a story of an alien species first adopting its own methods and finally adopting human methods to stay on the earth.

Annihilation quotes

  • Lena: The mutations were subtle at 1st; more extreme as we got closer to the lighthouse. Corruptions of form. Duplicates of form.

    Lomax: Duplicates?

    Lena: [She looks at the tattoo on her arm & lifts her arm up] Echoes.

    Lomax: Is it possible these were hallucinations?

    Lena: I wondered that myself... but they were shared among all of us. It was dreamlike.

    Lomax: Nightmarish?

    Lena: Not always. Sometimes it was beautiful.

    [the movie then cuts back in time to show beautiful translucent single-tailed wormfish swimming alongside double-tailed duplicates. Lena is in a canoe on a swamp located quite near to a corpse that bears the same tattoo as Lena]

    Lena: Oww. Ow.

    [She clutches her arm - there is no tattoo yet. However, a dark blue mark has appeared at the same place on her arm]

    Cass Sheppard: You're hurt?

    Lena: It's just a bruise. I must have gotten that from the gator.

  • Dr Ventress: It's not like us... it's unlike us. I don't know what it wants, or if it wants, but it'll grow until it encompasses everything. Our bodies and our minds will be fragmented into their smallest parts until not one part remains... Annihilation.