Did you end up seeing it? I knew all the hype about shootings were just more nonsense from the media.
Saw it last night. On one hand, I don't think it does nearly enough to condemn the actions of its central character, and that giving Todd Philips of all people free reign to make a Joker film in 2019's climate was a reckless decision. But on the other hand the movie is bad enough to where it's not really worth debating about in the first place. It has no point in existing in any year, let alone 2019.
The narrative around this movie has gotten really weird. It went from getting a standing ovation at Venice, to the weird stories about how “it’s a movie for incels who will shoot up the movie theaters, aaaahhhhhh!” All in about 0.5 seconds. Seems all a bit unnecessary to me.
It would disappoint me if Joaquin won the oscar. It's probably the most stacked year for the best actor category this decade, and he was good, but not that good.
Hard for me to say 100% yet, since there are a good handful of oscar hype movies I have yet to see, but the best actor category can go so many ways
I saw a theory online that suggests the old woman's house where Remy grew up is actually Ego's mum. This would make sense as the reason he enjoyed Remy/Linguini's ratatouille so much is that its actually his mothers recipe.
Weird I had never heard that before but I like it. It makes the whole thing come together really nicely.
We just had it the standard way but now I’m very curious what that’d be like.
I kind of understand why someone would look into the idea though, especially when its a company that is well known for adding little secrets and easter eggs in their films. I thought this was one of the more tame ones as well, which actually adds to the story as opposed to some of the more crazy ones.For the most part, coming up with theories about movies is harmless and fun, but it makes me worry about our fractured sense of object permanence when we decide two locations are the same because of similar furniture and fixtures.
Annihilation is a movie that, as far as my own personal opinion goes, I realllly can't make heads or tails of. It's a wonderful example of metaphorical storytelling, and using such abstract sci-fi concepts to communicate equally abstract ideas about emotional growth and personal development. Viewed entirely from a metaphorical lens, it's technically brilliant. But as a story of its own, it just sort of falls flat? I'm fully with you in that I thought the character writing was mediocre at best (outside of Natalie Portman, Oscar Isaac, and sooooorta Ventress?), and the chemistry was just non-existent. I find movies to be really interesting when they use such out-of-this-world ideas to represent wholly human experiences in a unique and artistic way, but there still needs to be a story there, and a story that feels like it's being pushed forward by something other than the purposes of fulfilling a metaphorical lesson. Outside of a few key scenes, it felt oddly lifeless
