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hula uve been playing pokemon for how long now and u just saw the rules of the game last year? smfh
Glad someone else really liked this flick, this was my favorite movie so far this year. I'm very partial to trippy, atmospheric scifi pychological horror and this was the first time I've been wowed by one in a while.I'm going to do something I never, ever though I'd do: praise annihilation.
When the trailers for this movie dropped, I was 100% sure it was the worst opening trailerof all time. Ticking literally every studio interference box (immediate backstory lines that seemed to have no purpose ever being in a movie, obnoxious sci-fi scary noises going off, and cheap jump scares with epilepsy-inducing screen flickers). The trailers failed to set up the movie for me in any way and made me think this was basically a sci-fi channel original movie with a Random Monster and Quantum Physics and They're Stuck In A Continuous Mutation. I was prepared to actually see this to mock it, and then I decided to read up onthe original bookso I could spoil the ending for myself.
The concept for the original book totally blew me away. I'm a big fan of an online sci project called the SCP foundation, which basically is a shadow organization that keeps tabs on supernatural/paranormal/unexplainable phenonenons (usually very deadly and creepy creatures) that inhabit earth. This concept is very alive in the novel. Luckily the film is changed drastically from the source material, but if you don't mind spoilers for the book (which knowing these actually convinced me to go see the movie)After reading all this I was totally hooked.The expedition that our characters are part of is the last of many, which the secret organization has been sending research teams into the weird bubble for the past three years as part of a controlled experiment. The characters of the story were only chosen because they are all female scientists, to contrast with the previous all-male all-soldier expedition. Also, an organization representative travels with the expedition to secretly keep tabs on them, and "annihilation" is actually a post-hypnotic trigger implanted in all the researchers to make them kill themselves should it be necessary.
The actual movie is pretty blunt at the beginning, but gets up to spec really quick when natalie portman's (Lena) missing husband teleports back into her house. This is 100x better than getting a "call" from the "military organization" that they found her husband, as it was portrayed in the trailer. All of the exposition-based lines that were stuffed in the trailer about Lena's relationship with her husband are shown in flashback form, which fits the boggled mental state that the researchers enter once then get inside the shimmer. The first few lines you hear the team leader, the psychologist, speak just drip with evil and really build up tension. Great way to introduce characters
The movie jumps around a bit during the expedition but (to nobody's surprise) the characters are picked off one by one. This is where the movie really dipped into pure horror and I think it did a great job. The best part of seeing the disturbing footage of the previous expedition teams is that all the characters reacted very naturally, not in a hollywood fabricated sense. After the horror bit is done, the movie gets sciency and physicsy for a few minutes during the conclusion, and then takes a wild 180 degrees back into pure horror again. I won't lie, the last 10 minutes of this movie had me completely terrified, not because of the "alien monster" that's inside the center of the shimmer but because it's not a monster at all. It's a perfectly reasonable theory for what would happen if alien life visits earth: we don't have an all-out war and blow up a spaceship, we just fucking die. We have no chance against life that doesn't outmatch us technologically or physically, but is so far beyond human comprehension that we just melt in the face of it.
The acting is totally on point for all characters, great cinematography and effects, and I'm glad that I saw this in a theater and not on youtube or netflix because the finale of the movie has a score louder than any I've seen, and I watched blade runner three times just to hear Sea Walloverwhelm me at 100 DB. A lot of the reviews for the movie seem to be polarizing, either saying the movie is some kind of physics masturbation session that only Enlightened Thinkers can understand or saying that the movie was silly because it didn't explain anything. It's pretty clear that the weird effects of the shimmer aren't supposed to be understood, and that the weird physics are basically creative liberties. We're not supposed to "understand" what's going on because getting lectured on how Genetics and Science works is a lame form of wish fulfillment in sci-fi movies. Lots of people think that Alien is a stronger franchise when the origin is not explained, and I'll agree in this movie's case, because The Shimmer is supposed to be on another level from humanity's science.
Theorymon you've gotta see this one tho, it's sort of like a combination of the flesh virus town, the indestructible lizard, and the blood pond SCPs.
I really want to see it, but I'm worried about noisy audience ruining it for me. Did you have any kind of experience like that? I also heard it was so quiet that you could hear conversations out in the hallway.A quiet place was absolutely amazing
Probably in my top 5 movies
The theater was extremely quiet and you can definitely hear any little sound someone makes (even people exiting other theaters). Two people behind me were commentating at the beginning of the movie but shut up after things started to really ramp up.I really want to see it, but I'm worried about noisy audience ruining it for me. Did you have any kind of experience like that? I also heard it was so quiet that you could hear conversations out in the hallway.