Annihilation (2017)

[crows]

​I was reading that this movie went direct to Netflix in the UK.

It went to netflix all over the globe, not just tje uk

 

[Johnny Utah]

Watched it. It's good. Very very creepy and unsettling. Isaac is great with the small part he has as usual.

 

[EVILFACE]

​I was reading that this movie went direct to Netflix in the UK.

did you see this?

If no, why not? Its a serious movie with main cast of nothing but women.

 

[crows]

did you see this?

If no, why not? Its a serious movie with main cast of nothing but women.

That sjw crap doesnt fool the ween.

 

[The Ween]

did you see this?

If no, why not? Its a serious movie with main cast of nothing but women.

No I haven't. I haven't been to the movies in quite awhile. Too many issues at home right now. This one looked interesting, but I've heard mixed reviews. An all woman cast doesn't make me a bit of difference.

@crows.... I have no idea if this is considered a sjw movie. If it's simply because of the all female cast, that wouldn't automatically make it so.

 

[crows]

No I haven't. I haven't been to the movies in quite awhile. Too many issues at home right now. This one looked interesting, but I've heard mixed reviews. An all woman cast doesn't make me a bit of difference.

@crows.... I have no idea if this is considered a sjw movie. If it's simply because of the all female cast, that wouldn't automatically make it so.

there you go, I knew it wouldnt fool you

 

[Robopredinator]

Umm, guys . . . . . .


https://abc7ny.com/science/nasa-says-twin-astronauts-dna-now-different-after-space/3218874/

You would expect a trip to space to be transformative, but NASA says it can lead to permanent DNA changes.

The space agency studied the DNA of twin astronauts Scott and Mark Kelly.

Scott spent a year on the International Space Station while Mark remained on Earth.

Now two years later, NASA says 7 percent of Scott's DNA has changed, meaning the brothers are no longer identical.

Read more from the NASA study: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/nasa-twins-study-confirms-preliminary-findings

 

[Mr. Green]

Umm, guys . . . . . .


https://abc7ny.com/science/nasa-says-twin-astronauts-dna-now-different-after-space/3218874/

You would expect a trip to space to be transformative, but NASA says it can lead to permanent DNA changes.

The space agency studied the DNA of twin astronauts Scott and Mark Kelly.

Scott spent a year on the International Space Station while Mark remained on Earth.

Now two years later, NASA says 7 percent of Scott's DNA has changed, meaning the brothers are no longer identical.

Read more from the NASA study: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/nasa-twins-study-confirms-preliminary-findings

You really should post this in the Expanding Universe, lol: https://www.sideshowcollectors.com/forums/other-topics/132997-expanding-universe-27.html

 

[abake]

Just watched it on Netflix.
Pretty intense!
I loved it, great visuals, acting and sound design. The story is very eerie and the atmosphere is unsettling.

The tattoo did seem a bit misleading... at first I thought it wasn't there on the flashbacks, but then I did see it clearly inside the Shimmer before she gets to the lighthouse...
Not really sure though, I'll have to watch it again.

 

[KitFisto]

This movie was terrible. I assume it was supposed to be a cerebral thinker that out thought itself.

A plot that has absolutely zero point. Characters that were undeveloped and wooden and I didn't care about any of them. You could see the ambiguous ending coming from a mile away and it just felt empty and pointless. I can't see where positive reviews come from on this one.

 

[GasparZizou]

Just watched this, it was nice, Tarkovsky-light sci-fi, we need more like this one.

At first I didn't care about the characters, they didn't explain why it was all women though, for a possible world-ending event Area-X HR department sure is doing a lousy job.

But after a little thought, they are kinda perfect characters if a little self-serving to the themes. I still don't get why all women though, can't find the thematic connection.

You could see the ambiguous ending coming from a mile away.

What was ambiguous about it?

 

[EVILFACE]

I would think the all women team was because the soldiers sent in were mostly or all male.

 

[KitFisto]

Just watched this, it was nice, Tarkovsky-light sci-fi, we need more like this one.

At first I didn't care about the characters, they didn't explain why it was all women though, for a possible world-ending event Area-X HR department sure is doing a lousy job.

But after a little thought, they are kinda perfect characters if a little self-serving to the themes. I still don't get why all women though, can't find the thematic connection.


What was ambiguous about it?

Leaving it totally open to interpretation as to if she was an alien or real. The cave scene made it look like the real person got out, but then her eyes at the end before it cuts. You could see it being left open coming.

 

[Smythe]

I think the take away was that she was the 'original' unlike her husband, but she was 'transformed' like the croc/bear/everything else in the shimmer

I thought the movie was okay, the adultery plot was leaned on too hard for symbolism that it could've done without

 

[abake]

Leaving it totally open to interpretation as to if she was an alien or real. The cave scene made it look like the real person got out, but then her eyes at the end before it cuts. You could see it being left open coming.

I'm with Gaspar and Smythe... there was nothing ambiguous about it...
She was the "real" one, but already "infected/transformed/mutated", to the point that she was becoming something else.

 

[KitFisto]

That's fine and as I stated I felt they made it looked like the original got out, but it wasn't definitive IMO. Either way I thought the movie sucked.

 

[meanstreak]

I wanted to see this but it's already out of the closest theatre to me.... don't want to see it enough to travel further

 

[GasparZizou]

I'm with Gaspar and Smythe... there was nothing ambiguous about it...
She was the "real" one, but already "infected/transformed/mutated", to the point that she was becoming something else.

This.

She was the real one, but in the end it doesn't matter since she was changed too, she had been through the prism.

It also has to do with the fact that neither of them was the same after the affair.

 

[crows]

Curious to know what this chair scene is you're both talking about. Can you go into detail?

this is the bear chair scene in all its glory

Spoiler

 

[DeadLeaves]

Really liked this. I was hoping they would go further with the human mutation thing, but all in all it was a nice surprise.