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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Annihilation quotes

  • Josie Radek: [to Lena, about the Shimmer] Ventress wants to face it. You want to fight it. But I don't think I want either of those things.

  • Lena: Why did my husband volunteer for a suicide mission?

    Dr Ventress: Is that what you think we're doing? Committing suicide?

    Lena: You must have profiled him. You must have assessed him. He must have said something.

    Dr Ventress: So you're asking me as a psychologist?

    Lena: Yeah.

    Dr Ventress: Then, as a psychologist, I think you're confusing suicide with self-destruction. Almost none of us commit suicide, and almost all of us self-destruct. In some way, in some part of our lives. We drink, or we smoke, we destabilize the good job... and a happy marriage. But these aren't decisions, they're... they're impulses. In fact, you're probably better equipped to explain this than I am.

    Lena: What does that mean?

    Dr Ventress: You're a biologist. Isn't the self-destruction coded into us? Programmed into each cell?