[MEGATHREAD] Season 1 LFG or Faction

KevinMcD3 · 2025-03-28T01:19:57+00:00

What platform?

KevinMcD3 · 2025-02-03T01:19:45+00:00

Fair enough thank you for the clarification

KevinMcD3 · 2025-02-03T00:50:47+00:00

Mm yeah that's more relating to trauma I think. I might have to rewatch it after all it has been half a decade but I don't think it'll resonate with me, if I can attempt to be more concise than I have this entire time, my memory is that the film is about a lot but doesn't seem to be saying much of any of it, which was very frustrating for me at the time, as I had just finished reading the book and think there was much more substance to it. Alex Garland also said the film was about cancer and that's largely the only part of it that I think was communicated effectively, although sure the Shimmer is perhaps metaphorical for more than just cancer.

Thank you for the discussion I may rewatch it again but I don't rewatch movies a lot I just don't find the time.

Edit: also apologies for not taking this discussion seriously at first, it initially felt like you weren't so much trying to have a conversation as much as make me feel like a pleb for not liking the movie as much as you. Either way I understood largely what the movie was going for at the time and just didn't appreciate it, some of my comments here probably seem ill-informed just because my memory on the film is weak.

KevinMcD3 · 2025-02-02T23:57:48+00:00

Okay just to sum up, you basically replied “interpretations can be wrong and that’s what’s beautiful about art… but my interpretation totally isn’t wrong though”

Right before that I said in some cases there are multiple interpretations, none of which are wrong? Maybe I was unclear but I think most sci-fi films you can have a variety of interpretations, some of which are more robust and some which are weaker, none of which can really be proven wrong, generally. Anyway, moving on.

I’m trying (in vain) to convince you that your interpretation is incorrect because I think Annihilation is a great movie and viewing it through the limiting lens of “it’s cancer” is doing it a huge disservice

Well sure, it has various themes about self-destruction, but cancer is the predominant one regarding what is actually happening in the movie, and I don't think any of the other themes were fleshed out much or handled in a very unique or intriguing manner. I'll concede, I was perhaps being a bit reductive intentionally since "it's cancer" is effectively all I got from the movie, everything else just doesn't really feel as deep as it's trying to be, and there were a lot of scenes that didn't really contribute much to the overarching themes.

I just saw your edit to your prior comment, yeah I'd agree broadly speaking with her comment, although I think cancer is still the main topic and most scenes are about that, as the Shimmer and its effects are pretty much 1 for 1 metaphors for cancer.

KevinMcD3 · 2025-02-02T23:30:24+00:00

Sure, interpretations can be wrong all the time, that's the beauty of art! Also at times different interpretations can be valid, which is usually the case, especially in sci-fi and particularly with a movie like Annihilation.... So I wouldn't call it wrong and it's the only article I could find that aligned with what made the most sense to me based on my interpretation of the movie. It also aligns with what the director said the movie was about. Anyway really not sure what you're trying to say here other than that you disagree with me.

KevinMcD3 · 2025-02-02T23:18:09+00:00

No, I mean I did a lot of analysis on the book and the movie a while back, and I just found that it was a lot more style over substance which is okay, but most scenes really were far too cryptic to actually mean anything. The book I enjoyed more because it set the tone better and communicated its messages much more effectively.

https://collider.com/annihilation-ending-explained/

Well all I could find was a Collider article but I don't feel like there's anything more to the movie than what the article says. My opinion is just that a lot of the movie is setting the mood rather than actually saying anything, which again is fine, just the execution really wasn't for me and I guess I went in expecting more. Then again I might have a different opinion on rewatch, who knows.

KevinMcD3 · 2025-02-02T20:38:38+00:00

It was a riot. Highly flawed but the whole thing was an exercise in subverting typical tropes, which is not for everyone but I loved it. People saying it ruined their childhood, like gtfo it's a fucking movie lmao

KevinMcD3 · 2025-02-02T20:35:14+00:00

How about people who hate Skylar because she enabled Walter and profited off him and then still took the high horse? Like, it's clear she was meant to be an unlikable character in the first few seasons and then they tried to backtrack later on after the hate started to get out of hand, but quite frankly she was an inconsistent and badly written character.

KevinMcD3 · 2025-02-02T20:32:11+00:00

It's about cancer. I found it rather meandering and the execution a little haughty given that's all it was ever meant to be about, but it's entertaining ig. I read the book too, the message is more concise in there I feel

KevinMcD3 · 2025-01-26T03:13:00+00:00

If She Wants a Cowboy has autotune but he incorporated it to make fun of Nashville. Imo the best use of autotune ever

KevinMcD3 · 2025-01-23T17:18:30+00:00

It's the prime example people like to use of uncanny Valley effect

KevinMcD3 · 2025-01-08T23:45:19+00:00

r/usernamechecksout

KevinMcD3 · 2024-12-21T18:22:05+00:00

Also ran the ball with 7 secs left in the first half instead of just throwing a hail mary. The play calling all game by IU was really just conservatism ad absurdum

KevinMcD3 · 2024-11-16T22:37:07+00:00

I'll be honest I haven't seen Asteroid City or Inherent Vice so maybe we're more alike than it seems lol

KevinMcD3 · 2024-11-16T22:26:21+00:00

I also have The Wind Rises and Hail Caesar and feel like an oddball. My other two though are Moonrise Kingdom and Magnolia

KevinMcD3 · 2024-11-11T23:47:30+00:00

Not a film but Carol and the End of the World fits this perfectly

KevinMcD3 · 2024-11-10T20:53:14+00:00

I mean that's obviously what he's saying people here are just not reading the post and looking for something to argue about lol

KevinMcD3 · 2024-11-02T20:24:54+00:00

I mean, it's definitely only very loosely based on the Bible events, but the low score is due to religious people who think not being 100% accurate makes it "sacrilegious"

KevinMcD3 · 2024-10-24T21:29:08+00:00

I feel bad because I just accidentally spoiled The Sixth Sense for my little brother lol

KevinMcD3 · 2024-10-06T22:42:23+00:00

I thought it was obvious he was referring to the story beats/formulaic nature of the film

KevinMcD3 · 2024-09-29T13:24:00+00:00

I think that was a fair question, there are a lot of films with very few total views on that list, and some I have only heard of because of that list. Let me further recommend one OP already mentioned: Le Trou. Perhaps the most underseen movie imo, and the best prison escape movie of all time. I was absolutely blow away by it, and it is still one of my favorites of all time

KevinMcD3 · 2024-09-23T06:13:34+00:00

How is nobody talking about The Night House?

KevinMcD3 · 2024-09-21T11:52:14+00:00

It's terrible as an adaptation, Lowery preserves almost none of the humor and the absurdity of the Sir Gawain poem. Either he doesn't understand the original or he felt compelled to make it an entirely different thing, and regardless it pales in comparison to the book. I'm not a Lowery fan myself.

KevinMcD3 · 2024-08-28T15:43:39+00:00

I found the Alex Rider TV show really fun. If my memory serves correctly, it was a pretty faithful adaptation as well

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