What the fuck did I just watch?
>>217479191Go read Roadside Picnic and it will make more sense.Its a really good short story.
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below average movie, but an absolute failure of an adaptation. Garland could have made the modern Stalker but went for bio-horror
>>217479191A good example of sci-fi's descent from masculine adventurism and the thrill of discovery into the feminine realm of ambiguous explorations of people's inner worlds and questions of identity.
>>217479191Black male jewish female sex
>>217479346>Hershlag fucking niggers!This was actually the working title.
>>217479191Alex Garland slop
>>217479191Story about how the people who walk out of certain experiences are not the ones that walked in. Existential crises dressed in cosmic horror
>>217479312return to reddit tranny.
>>217479191a spin on The Color Out of Space
>>217479191A half-decent sci-fi movie mislabeled as horror, because it has the scene with the bear.>>217479214>>217479286Ivan, are you even aware they were adopting a COMPLETELY FUCKING DIFFERENT BOOK?
Natalie's butt was distractingly big
>>217479191I kinda liked it but it definitely could have been way better. I guess I'd call it a missed opportunity slash disappointment
ANNIHILATION Government officials; "This looks like a possible EXTINCTION EVENT situation, the whole world's gonna die unless we make a competent decision."DEI HIRE: "Howzzatt my problem? I gots a team of girl bosses and unstoppable smuggery. We'll fix the problem!"General Tardboy: "We're all doomed." Because you want a bunch of dumb moaner mopery girls who know nothing of nothing, doing literally nothing of use for 2 hours, as your primary strike force for an alien bio weapon invasion containment &elimination team."
A great movie with a focus on thematics, and proof that Alex Garland can do the kind of film making required for an Elden Ring adaptation - which also requires a heavy reliance on thematics instead of traditional exposition.
>>217479422Yes. Have you read the books? Annihilation and Roadside Picnic are 95% the same.
>>217479501this movie is a shitty adaptation of the book, which was just okin the book they explain how a government agency has tried to send in all different kinds of teams into the ayylium zonetrying an all women team was just a hail mary after all different types of teams had already faileddoesn't really make it less stupid but the movie could have at least done a better job at setting that up
>>217479191the annihilation of jess James by the coward Robert Ford
>>217479191A nice little adventure flick with GREAT visuals. Or an less nice cosmic horror movie with GREAT visuals.
>>217479592>Annihilation and Roadside Picnic are 95% the same.>Have you read the books?Ironic, considering you clearly didn't
>>217479191Beating Cancer and survival guilt.
>>217479501they literally explain it in the movie retard
>>217479422Roadside Picnic is far superior though and makes you understand the alien aspect from a different philosophical viewpoint.
>>217479876Ok... but I'd suggest waiting until there is a Stalker thread going, so you can share your insight on the subject.
>>217479229Everything after this scene went full retard.
>>217479927>op asks what the fuck they watched>provide reply with extended reading material which would provide insight from its inspirational sources>slack jawed faggot has to interject
>>217479191Stalker for retards.
>>217479927You're a fucking idiot.
>>217480092>Ivan still can't wrap his head around this being an adaptation of a different book, which he clearly didn't readI don't blame you, since it apparently never had a release in Russian. And you aren't missing much, to be frank.But it's still embarrassing how you try to sound smug by bringing unrelated book due to surface-level similarity that only someone who neither watched Annihilation nor read Roadside Picnic would make and basing his smug opinion on the fact both have a premise of an alien contact exclusion zone with weird shit going...... which is precisely where the connection ends.
>>217480110Stalker is for retards. It's no Roadside Picnic.
>>217480143>Yes, Roadside Picnic (1972) by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky and Annihilation (2014) by Jeff VanderMeer are closely related philosophically, as both works explore the profound, existential terror of encountering a truly alien force that breaks down human understanding of reality.You zoomers have no depth and just hang out in the kiddie pool getting brain rot, just swiping that tik tok. Need AI to tell you what's what.
One of garlands worse things at the time it came out. It's not terrible but undwehelming and predictable and sets up a strange setting but never really cashes in on it. Also, it's a allegory for cancer. Seriously
>Annihilation: spooky subterranean lighthouse with moving walls>Picnic: spooky warehouse with cosmic cobwebs in the corners of the buildingthese alien niggas crazy
>>217480335OOOOOOOH NO NO NO NO NO
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>>217479214>>217479286It's an adaptation of the book Annihilation, not Roadside Picnic. If you read the other books in the series you know they did it a kindness. Rare case of an adaptation being better than the source.
>>217479312That's the book not the movie.
>>217480953is there an echo in here?
>>217479191I wish this had come to my theaters, because I think I would have liked it more, if I were watching it distraction free, on a big screen, with booming sounds. Instead of just at home.The sound scape especially is great in this, really hypnotic.
>>217479229Unbearable!
>>217479501>dumb moaner mopery girls as your primary strike force>>217479637>in the book>they explain trying an all women team was just a hail maryFucking second-monitor speed-watchers, man...
>>217481168i didn't say that the movie doesn't state that at all, just that it does a poor job
>>217481277>a poor jobIt gets mentioned in the beginning. I'm not sure what else would be needed. Actually showing the previous operator teams wouldn't fit the movie at all.
>>217481319i guess it's just that in the book the agency investigating the zone gets a lot more description, with all the things they've tried and thought process and suchi didnt have a problem with the way Annihilation handled it, it just was less interesting focusing less on the agency and more on personal drama stuff
>>217479191One of the most overrated movies of all time. Aside from that one scene it's complete garbage
>>217479191Strong female lead kino
>>217479191The alien in this unironically describes the true "creator" entity in the simulation multiverse perfectly. It was probably accidental, but the depiction is immaculate. Instead of splicing together dna chaos splices together still "frames" of reality in its unceasing function of mapping out all potential realities. It smashes together non sequitor moments of time from separate universes. Because it mindlessly performs this function it achieves the goal of total reality manifestation faster than any other process that would require a reflective guided process (what we would call intelligent design). It's more of an engine or a force than an entity. Speed>everything. Meaning can be discovered by reflective beings but the ultimate truth is this mindless force. It's kind of funny that the ultimate creative force is depicted and labeled as Annihilation by reflective beings.
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