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We should all be so lucky as to witness a legion of ABC Warriors taking to the battlefields of WW3.
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Mar 18, 2024 07:29
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Big Mean Jerk posted:Revive the 2020 thread just to make that weirdo even angrier Make it 2025 we just talk about fake movies
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Mar 18, 2024 07:31
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CelticPredator posted:Civil war could be good if it was a stealth dredd prequel Dredd is so pro cop it’s already a Dredd movie
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Mar 18, 2024 07:32
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Alan Smithee posted:Make it 2025 we just talk about fake movies Can you believe they’re making a Frighteners prequel, directed by David Lynch? Fuckin’ wild stuff.
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Mar 18, 2024 07:33
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Alan Smithee posted:Dredd is so pro cop it’s already a Dredd movie I meant that I want to see it lead into the dredd future
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Mar 18, 2024 08:37
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I want to hear Garland say that every criminal Dredd kills ends a cycle of violence.
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Mar 18, 2024 08:50
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Gonz posted:Can you believe they’re making a Dune sequel, directed by David Lynch?
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Mar 18, 2024 09:38
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STAC Goat posted:My impression about Garland has long been that he’s just really a lot dumber than he thinks he is. His movies introduce ideas but then they seem to fail to say anything interesting or clear about them. They just go the dumb route but there’s an air of arrogance like something very deep was said. And that politics quote certainly supports that idea. Specifically, Garland takes base genre concepts and then has the characters namedrop Wittgenstein, or say "Hox genes", or quote Beckett unattributed, or "the robot's brain works like this Jackson Pollock painting. Let's put the painting onscreen for 15 seconds". This kind of referentiality implies that the movie is really 'deep' and 'philosophical' - like you're expected to have done your research. But, then, I actually did do research into all the references in Annihilation. It turns out the science is mostly wrong and all the weird stuff is the product of a magic alien with reality-altering powers.
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Mar 18, 2024 13:46
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He's just a pop film director, you're asking a lot of a guy who's made no real pretensions other than to become an A24 name.
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Mar 18, 2024 14:04
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how surprised are we that the science is wrong here
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Mar 18, 2024 14:05
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That's got to be a joke. Or bait.
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Mar 18, 2024 14:38
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Open Source Idiom posted:He's just a pop film director, you're asking a lot of a guy who's made no real pretensions other than to become an A24 name. One day he might be almost as big as Vivziepop.
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Mar 18, 2024 14:40
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well why not posted:how surprised are we that the science is wrong here I mean just basic stuff like there’s a scene where the character does a blood test on herself to illustrate the effect that quantum alien magic has on people’s cells. This illustration gets cellular biology wrong, and gets the mechanics of the movie’s own magic system wrong. So, like, is the character hallucinating at this point? That’s not a useful ambiguity, because you’re now introducing this idea that random shots might be dreams - or telling your audience not to think too hard about what they’re shown. (Or both.) And, like, doing this scene required time and money. The cells under the microscope are a digital effect that artists had to work to create.
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Mar 18, 2024 14:51
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SuperMechagodzilla posted:I mean just basic stuff like there’s a scene where the character does a blood test on herself to illustrate the effect that quantum alien magic has on people’s cells. This illustration gets cellular biology wrong, and gets the mechanics of the movie’s own magic system wrong. So, like, is the character hallucinating at this point? It later turns out this character is an evil clone so this gently caress-up might be intentional.
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Mar 18, 2024 14:56
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SuperMechagodzilla posted:It turns out the science is mostly wrong and all the weird stuff is the product of a magic alien with reality-altering powers. Cheeki breeki Annihilation would have been way better with some hardbass come to think of it
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Mar 18, 2024 15:09
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feedmyleg posted:The reviews I've read seem to confirm that its politics are dumb as rocks. It sounds like it's going after a "after the fighting is over and the smoke clears, does anyone even remember what we were fighting over?" That's not what it's going for, thevpolitics are just a loose framework. The goal of the movie is to take the war imagery we've become innured to and present it in spaces and with people we associate with home. It's why the audience surrogate is a war journo.
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Mar 18, 2024 15:19
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Macdeo Lurjtux posted:That's not what it's going for, thevpolitics are just a loose framework. The goal of the movie is to take the war imagery we've become innured to and present it in spaces and with people we associate with home. It's why the audience surrogate is a war journo. I hope they get Rodriguez to secure the Burgertown again
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Mar 18, 2024 15:22
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SuperMechagodzilla posted:It turns out the science is mostly wrong and all the weird stuff is the product of a magic alien with reality-altering powers. And the film still manages to be an insanely dull and ugly slog.
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Mar 18, 2024 15:28
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SuperMechagodzilla posted:I mean just basic stuff like there’s a scene where the character does a blood test on herself to illustrate the effect that quantum alien magic has on people’s cells. This illustration gets cellular biology wrong, and gets the mechanics of the movie’s own magic system wrong. So, like, is the character hallucinating at this point? This isn’t fair, every science fiction movie I’ve ever seen that touches on cell bio, genetics or whatever is total gibberish. I mean what are we even talking about here.
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i never saw or hear anyone talk about Devs so idk what the shocking society twist is and ron swanson with a halo kinda sums up alex garland for me
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Mar 18, 2024 15:40
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Devs started out pretty interesting and then completely ran out of steam in the back half.
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Mar 18, 2024 16:03
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I’m trying to think of a single bio terror sort of scifi movie that I’ve seen where the “science” isn’t totally silly magical nonsense and I can’t. Not even trying to defend Garland here because I don’t care that much but I’m not going to fault him for dropping in technical terms willy nilly because everyone does that.
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Mar 18, 2024 16:05
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Big Mean Jerk posted:Devs started out pretty interesting and then completely ran out of steam in the back half. It's mostly interesting for its casting IIRC. Zach Grenier as a handler, Ron Swanson in a serious role (though he's more known for doing them now). Even Allison Pill is playing it against her usual grain. Casting and set design.
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Mar 18, 2024 16:08
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Open Source Idiom posted:It's mostly interesting for its casting IIRC. Zach Grenier as a handler, Ron Swanson in a serious role (though he's more known for doing them now). Even Allison Pill is playing it against her usual grain. Yeah, pretty much. Everyone’s turning in good-to-great performances (especially Offerman) but there’s just nothing else going on and the reveals are all mediocre and hollow.
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Mar 18, 2024 16:11
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I liked Devs, and although the ending was a bit of a deflation I enjoyed it. The reveal that it's DEUS is the kind of meta harebrained poo poo that I personally love.
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Mar 18, 2024 16:12
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Drunkboxer posted:I’m trying to think of a single bio terror sort of scifi movie that I’ve seen where the “science” isn’t totally silly magical nonsense and I can’t. Not even trying to defend Garland here because I don’t care that much but I’m not going to fault him for dropping in technical terms willy nilly because everyone does that. Sounds like someone hasn't watched The Andromeda Strain. Does Contagion count as sci-fi in a post-COVID world?
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Mar 18, 2024 16:20
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Megaman's Jockstrap posted:I liked Devs, and although the ending was a bit of a deflation I enjoyed it. The reveal that it's DEUS is the kind of meta harebrained poo poo that I personally love.      
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Mar 18, 2024 16:24
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Haven't thought this through yet but a modern civil war film that more or less adapts the actual US civil war with modern-ish tech
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Mar 18, 2024 16:24
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Yes, exactly. I loved this.
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I liked Annihilation well enough, but I thought Devs was better. It's got a few missteps, sure, but it creates a "believable enough" concept of quantum data computing and pulls off a few cool scenes/concepts with it. Acting, set design, and music are all stellar. But also I am a sucker who enjoyed the aforementioned spoiler text
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BiggestBatman posted:Haven't thought this through yet but a modern civil war film that more or less adapts the actual US civil war with modern-ish tech
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Mar 18, 2024 16:30
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FlamingLiberal posted:How would that even work? At this point the methods of fighting in the Civil War are closer to ancient battles than modern ones. Haven't thought it through
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Mar 18, 2024 16:32
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you can keep the part about people going picnicking at the first battle. And probably every battle
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Mar 18, 2024 16:33
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Sirotan posted:Sounds like someone hasn't watched The Andromeda Strain. I know it gets praise but no, a movie about an infectious virus that is sensitive to very small changes in blood pH but would thrive in a nuclear explosion is not realistic. Actually I don’t think I ever saw the movie but I read the book, and I mostly only remember the Sterno addict twist so maybe I’m off base here
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For some reason I hadn't considered until now that Garland did DEVS + EX MACHINA, I am thoroughly owned
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Mar 18, 2024 16:44
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Failed Imagineer posted:For someone I hadn't considered until now that Garland did DEVS + EX MACHINA, I am thoroughly owned drat now he just needs a movie called Invisible 
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also he wrote DMC what
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Alan Smithee posted:also he wrote DMC what He was a script punch-up guy for Ninja Theory for years. Once upon a time he was very open about that and then deleted the very candid posts he had written about working with them because he was going around talking immeasurable amounts of poo poo about the scriptwriter right before moving into screenplays. The line that's always stuck with me was "Tameem described [a Journey to the West analogue character] kicking a slave hanging on for dear life as a bad rear end act of a man who didn't care, whereas I just thought [character] sounded like a oval office."
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