Did anyone else feel dumb.after watching this? I think this is only a movie that smart people can appreciate...

Did anyone else feel dumb.after watching this? I think this is only a movie that smart people can appreciate. Guess I'm not one of 'em.

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Something about destruction and replication

Nanomachines that went rampant on an alien planet and go through a process of consuming, enhancing, and replicating with chunks occasionally flying off to collide into other planets

It was a metaphor for the ego you dimwits

Wat

I watched this on a plane after hearing hype but nothing about the plot. Thought it was shit and don’t get why it got said hype. The characters, being women of course, were so fucking stupid and the dialogue of the old one was so corny.

metaphors are fucking stupid. Speak plainly so people understand

>stupid netflix writers ruin a smart book
the usual stuff

The narrative took place in her subconscious. The big whatever-it-was-called rainbow glimmer world was a manifestation of something foreign in her ego brought on by the affair. The doppelganger at the end was a symbol of destroying that part of her ego, or in this case “annihilating” it. Is it really that hard to understand? The meaning seemed immediately obvious

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Yeah.... Was that what the book was about? And one would think the title is referring the foreign aliens annihilating shit

I lost all hope females could ever understand and employ infantry minor tactics.

If that's the interpretation that jumped out at you and made you appreciate the film more, great. But I just can't attach myself to this movie. I feel like instead of allowing the viewer to piece together details if they're paying attention, Annihilation takes pleasure in hiding and obscuring details to make the viewing experience more bewildering in a way that isn't really enjoyable. I think "too vague" is a very valid criticism of this film.

Things that are shit
>BLACKED
>stupid time skip no one can remember after they enter the shimmer
>awful dialogue

Cool parts
>sweet visuals
>cool mutation meme
>skinwalker was terrifying
>alien and music was cool

Overall 6/10. Niche movie for cosmic horror dweebs.
Was the time skip some annihilation code word meme from the book. Because I think its the only reason they didnt send a carrier strike group in.

The book was better and creepier.

I mean if thats not what they meant by it, then I have no fuckin idea what they meant by it. Thats pretty much textbook postmodern for babbys so I have no idea what else it could mean

thats some straight up alex jones shit user

Read the fucking book then!

The CGI was abysmal. Wish Garland would work with some better VFX directors and artists. But it was pretty good in every other department

lol.

The point is that it's way easier to derive meaning from internalized process than from externalized lessons.
Discovering a thing by yourself is way more powerful than having somebody else explain it to you. That's why art needs to be subtle

I imagine you must really REALLY not understand Lynch, then!

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Lynch doesn't even understand lynch

>hey guys. No one. No one has EVER returned from the shimmer. What should we do next?
>how about we send some more navy seals in?
>how about we send in an entire carrier strike group?
>how about we send in a guy tied to a rope and pull him back out?
>how about we send in some flawed women who have nothing to live for?

Lynch is a director that works on sensory instinct over anything else, and I love him for that. This is a direct quote from him: "I don't know why people expect art to make sense. They accept the fact that life doesn't make sense."

I read once that theme isn't a word, it's a sentence. That is, a story can't be "about cancer" or "about mutation" or "about loneliness" or whatever, because, to tell a good story, you have to actually have something to say. "So, cancer, huh?" isn't having something to say.
This is a mistake that beginning writers make a lot. What's strange is seeing it made in a reasonably high-budget movie.

But what about it being some kind of alien anomaly?

Are you saying it was all a dream or some shit?

are saying that a dream is not an alien anomoly?

What did this feel like?

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Then why not just make a movie about that instead of some dumb metaphors no one understands?

Everything in the shimmer becomes scrambled and joins together. It's a bit more complicated than that, but that is the basic idea.

>metaphors are fucking stupid. Speak plainly so people understand
Are you calling for literal art? That would be like a painting of a blank, white canvas with sans-serif font across it, saying, "This is a beautiful, thought-provoking, painting."

I hate to be ‘that guy’, but user, I tnink it might be time for you to go back to capeshit

user you just spoiled your magnum opis by posting it on 4channel

the movie IS about that, i'm sorry you didn't get it, user

I tend to find metaphors to be their own form of "telling." The thing you want is multivalent writing--you want things that work on multiple levels, you want text and subtext that work together. For the most part, metaphor is the clumsiest way of approaching that.

I thought it was about cancer?

The theme is self-destruction and the ways in which each of the characters exhibits this.

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But again, a word is not a theme, at best that makes for a koan. Or what you're telling me is, the thing to take away from Annihilation is, "so, self-destruction, huh?" But--and I'll make this very explicit--what about self-destruction? What does the movie have to say about self-destruction? That it's a thing that people do? Is that really worth mulling over for two hours?

The theme is that self destruction is an inherent part of life and we should all embrace it even if it's painful cause it's the basis of any change or progress.

Now shut the fuck up you fucking nigger

What didn't you understand? Everything was explained.

>movie is about an alien that consumes and replicates glib facsimiles of everything it encounters
>"no it's actually about relationships"
>"No it's actually about cancer"
>"No it's actually about selfdestruction"
>"No, it's actually about the jews using nazi mind control to commune with elfs and para dimensional demons"

No, you fucking idiots it's about an alien or alien artifact that humans have no idea how to control.

Literally nothing was explained

>The meaning seemed immediately obvious

It seems immediately obvious to me that you fuck dogs

Now you're just meming. The movie demonstrates that, at best, change is a crapshoot, and change and progress are definitely not the same. The Shimmer is incredibly dangerous and kills almost everyone (and most of the changes are fatal), and nothing is really gained from it--they occasionally see some pretty things, and then someone gets mauled to death.
So no, that doesn't seem like a reasonable analysis of the movie. Seems more like you're interpolating some bullshit onto a fundamentally empty canvas.

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So what didn't you understand? Literally every plot point was explained.

are you saying that you could find this information in Word-Up magazine?

What was the shimmer's problem?

should i even bother watching this movie or will seeing Natalie Jewman taking the BBC just make me want to kill myself?

>The Shimmer is incredibly dangerous and kills almost everyone
Holy fucking shit what a goddamm pleb.
The shimmer is dangerous for humans because we value our status quo and we oppose change. Kane, the psychologist, Lena and the niggress didn't face any kind of misery the moment they accepted the shimmer and accepted change. The same thing happened to the shimmer when it accepted Lena's individuality and decided there was another way for it to live other than just keep expanding. At the end of the movie they are all changed and even if everything is unclear, noone is really hurt.
"What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly" and all that.

If you're a /pol/tard don't watch it. If you're a reasonable human being, you'll get that the blacked scene is literally the whole premise of Lena's character's arc

It's a short scene but the film is not very good. It's a bit mediocre mashup of The Thing and Stalker but mostly retarded and very clunky.

Watch it for the soundtrack and ending is a trip

i didn't feel dumb - i felt like i watched something which ripped off 12 other things like movies or video games - so i felt like i watched a dog regurgitate food he just ate

also, portjew is a shit actor

It wasn't originally a Netflix movie, Universal (I think) sold it before a wide release.

>all female goon squad
how dull

It's not as much as you think it is, you are selling yourself short.

Why didn't they use boats?

Race mixing film

extremely painful
for you

second half is quite something. first half is your typical liberal americans agenda promoting racemixing and muh strong women

>a bunch of women walking around with guns
boring

It is a shame. This movie is just too smart for any human to currently comprehend. Humanity may understand it in the future, but at this point, it just is not possible.

Good movie, triggers retards.

Hey i watched this movie 2 days ago
And i thought it was fucking terrible Lmao
Almost threw up i can't believe anyone finds this good

I was looking forward to watching this soon, then I heard it's got the "white girl black cock" scene we're all getting so accustomed to being exposed to.

Nice try, Juden.

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Not really. Everything in the movie is explained, the exposition dump when they are travelling with boats is terrible. It's made for retards.

it was dumb.

Annihilation the book is pseudint book for teenage girls. The movie is even less than that.

>young woman
>multiple boyfriends(drama!)
>young women in her company that may be friends or competitors(drama!)
>an older woman who is in charge and cock(vag) blocker her. That's in the book

You might as well be watching classical romance movies. Fuck sake.
>

>that bear scene

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Poor man’s STALKER. It seemed to have a really low budget and some of the drama dragged on for too long and the movie didn’t seem to get anywhere with its ideas.

Kek. That was one of the great scenes of the movie. And the green alien at the end

>First book: literary KINO
>Second: fucking boring
>Third: 6.5/10