What's the last movie you saw?

Quote from: Pezevenk on August 25, 2018, 07:55:41 AM

Quote from: boydster on August 25, 2018, 07:51:47 AM

I just got Deadpool 2 to watch tonight. I'm looking forward to it. It's the Super Cut edition.

What do you mean you "got" it? Like, bought it? I didn't know you can buy movies, that's weird... What else are people going to come up with?

Are you being serious?

I purchased a copy of a movie entitled "Deadpool 2 Super Cut" that I intend to view on my home entertainment platform on this day.

Yes, I'm being completely serious, I didn't know it's possible to buy movies! Whose idea was that? Since when has this been happening?

Quote from: boydster on August 25, 2018, 08:09:49 AM

Quote from: Pezevenk on August 25, 2018, 07:55:41 AM

Quote from: boydster on August 25, 2018, 07:51:47 AM

I just got Deadpool 2 to watch tonight. I'm looking forward to it. It's the Super Cut edition.

What do you mean you "got" it? Like, bought it? I didn't know you can buy movies, that's weird... What else are people going to come up with?

Are you being serious?

I purchased a copy of a movie entitled "Deadpool 2 Super Cut" that I intend to view on my home entertainment platform on this day.

Yes, I'm being completely serious, I didn't know it's possible to buy movies! Whose idea was that? Since when has this been happening?

Since time immemorial. Do you not have DVD or Blu-Ray players in Greece?

Or VHS tapes?

Quote from: Pezevenk on August 25, 2018, 09:49:01 AM

Quote from: boydster on August 25, 2018, 08:09:49 AM

Quote from: Pezevenk on August 25, 2018, 07:55:41 AM

Quote from: boydster on August 25, 2018, 07:51:47 AM

I just got Deadpool 2 to watch tonight. I'm looking forward to it. It's the Super Cut edition.

What do you mean you "got" it? Like, bought it? I didn't know you can buy movies, that's weird... What else are people going to come up with?

Are you being serious?

I purchased a copy of a movie entitled "Deadpool 2 Super Cut" that I intend to view on my home entertainment platform on this day.

Yes, I'm being completely serious, I didn't know it's possible to buy movies! Whose idea was that? Since when has this been happening?

Since time immemorial. Do you not have DVD or Blu-Ray players in Greece?

Is DVD some sort of drug? Nah, I'm fairly certain these things are illegal here.

Quote from: Albert Wesker on August 25, 2018, 10:26:26 AM

Quote from: Pezevenk on August 25, 2018, 09:49:01 AM

Quote from: boydster on August 25, 2018, 08:09:49 AM

Quote from: Pezevenk on August 25, 2018, 07:55:41 AM

Quote from: boydster on August 25, 2018, 07:51:47 AM

I just got Deadpool 2 to watch tonight. I'm looking forward to it. It's the Super Cut edition.

What do you mean you "got" it? Like, bought it? I didn't know you can buy movies, that's weird... What else are people going to come up with?

Are you being serious?

I purchased a copy of a movie entitled "Deadpool 2 Super Cut" that I intend to view on my home entertainment platform on this day.

Yes, I'm being completely serious, I didn't know it's possible to buy movies! Whose idea was that? Since when has this been happening?

Since time immemorial. Do you not have DVD or Blu-Ray players in Greece?

Is DVD some sort of drug? Nah, I'm fairly certain these things are illegal here.

DVD-Digital Video Disk. Dude you can't be serious....

That's stupid, if it's digital it means you can download it, how do you download a disk?

That's stupid, if it's digital it means you can download it, how do you download a disk?

It's like a CD but it plays a movie, and usually has extras and behind the scenes stuff.

What's a CD? Does it have anything to do with OCD?

What's a CD?

It's like a clay tablet only it's made of plastic.

What's a CD? Does it have anything to do with OCD?

What the fuck? Now you are just trolling us, man.

Greeks are all music and video pirates. QED.

Quote from: Pezevenk on August 25, 2018, 10:46:28 AM

What's a CD? Does it have anything to do with OCD?

What the fuck? Now you are just trolling us, man.

Εxcuse me, first you're talking about buying and selling movies and other crazy shit, then you're trying to sell me drugs, then you're making up acronyms, and I AM THE TROLL? Come on...

Go drunk. Your home.

Go drunk. Your home.

Yeah, you're not better, I'm deeply offended by your behaviour. First you're trying to gaslight me, then you question whether I'm serious, then out of nowhere you're calling me and everyone else in Greece a pirate! Piracy is a SERIOUS offense, I don't take it lightly. Besides, you should have known that sea trade and the maritime industry is a big contributor to Greece's economy, obviously that wouldn't be the case if we were all pirates!

Then you must not have a movie and/or music collection of your own? You aren't making sense.

Let's reset here. How do you watch movies that are no longer in the theater?

In the cinemas, of course! I've never watched a movie in a theatre, theatres are for plays.

Jesus Christ you are being so annoying right now!

What about when the movie is no longer in the cinema?

What about it?

Ok, just in case someone for some reason hasn't figired it out yet, I was just messing with you. The first post on the subject of buying movies that I made was supposed to be a joke about how most people don't buy movies any more (I'm guilty of this too), and I thought it was obvious enough. When I saw that boydster wasn't sure if I was serious, so I tried to make the joke even more obvious with the next one, but then I realized you were still taking it seriously and Wesker got confused as well, so I decided to run with it.With every post I made I thought "ok, I took it too far, they'll figure out I'm just trolling" but no. I don't know if I should be kinda offended that you think I'm so ignorant...

I played along with you.   

Yeah, I kinda figured that...

Pro tip for the rest: If you think someone is posting drunk, check their spelling. If they make typos every second word, they're probably drunk. I've tried to post drunk and my posts were a clusterfuck of typos and spelling mistakes. Although I don't know what kind of drunk would make someone forget the fact that you can buy movies.

Now back on topic, I watched Annihilation, and... I think it's probably the best movie I've watched all year, definitely a LOT better than Ex Machina (the director's previous film which a lot of people liked but... I didn't care much for it). On top of that, it's definitely the best horror film of the decade (because that's really what it is, a horror film). And I had a little Birdman moment when I checked the IMDB for the movie (I watched Birdman a while after it came out and I thought it was one of the best movies I had watched, I checked the IMDB page and it was nothing but 1 star reviews). It only has like a 6.9, which is ABSURDLY low for this movie, and the most "helpful" negative reviews contain nothing but pointing out things that they think are plot holes (and sometimes are), and saying nothing interesting about the movie whatsoever. I may post the most non-sensical ones here.

Also of course some of these negative reviews are somewhat misogynistic, they got triggered when they saw an all female cast.

I saw Ex Machina also.  I didn't hate it but I just didn't like it as much as I thought I would.  Can't quite explain why.

On Annihilation, they never really gave a good explanation for the all female cast.  That didn't bother me though.  What I really liked about the movie is how utterly alien whatever it was that thing they were up against was.  Machine?  Biological?  Some kind of Deity?  Was the harm it causing malicious or accident?  I feel that they were intentionally aiming for something inscrutable which added immensely to the horror aspect.

I saw Ex Machina also.  I didn't hate it but I just didn't like it as much as I thought I would.  Can't quite explain why.

On Annihilation, they never really gave a good explanation for the all female cast.  That didn't bother me though.  What I really liked about the movie is how utterly alien whatever it was that thing they were up against was.  Machine?  Biological?  Some kind of Deity?  Was the harm it causing malicious or accident?  I feel that they were intentionally aiming for something inscrutable which added immensely to the horror aspect.

Υes, I thought the most effective aspect was that you had no idea what caused these things or why it did. Which seems to be what annoyed a lot of the people who were annoyed by it. Also maybe it was badly marketed and they were misled? I don't know.

Some issues I had with it were that:
1) Some performances weren't very good. Particularly that of Gina Rodriguez.
2) Yes, some things didn't make sense. It seems like the best option would be, instead of going straight for the lighthouse, maybe they should have sent teams in just to take a glance at things, and immediately return, just to prepare the ground. Also, if it was easier to access it from the coast, why did they not enter it from the coast? Why were they guarding the perimeter from down there instead of from the balcony (that was probably the most annoying one)? There were a few others too but they were minor. Also, yeah, the science didn't really make sense either, but that's entirely ok. I saw some guy from IMDB complaining about the science, and saying at some other point in the review that you should watch Black Panther instead. Which was just weird.
3) I'm not sure yet if the whole thing about the protagonist's affair was entirely necessary. Maybe it had some importance that I missed (maybe it was connected with the self destruction Ventress talked about?). Idk. But it seemed sort of unnecessary.
4) To me it seemed like it drew a bit too heavily from Arrival, which is an amazing movie (better than this one), but sometimes this felt a little bit too similar.
5) A big chunk of it was pretty predictable, and some revelations felt weak for that reason. Actually some of them didn't even feel like revelations. However it didn't really harm the whole aura of mystery of the film.
6) The CGI ranged from some of the best I've seen, to... shaky at best. A bit of inconsistency there.

So there you have it. These are the main flaws I found. I don't think it's perfect but it's definitely one of the best things I've watched this year. My interpretation is not 100% solid right now, I'll think about it a bit more.

Self-destruction is basically hardwired into our DNA, so when the entity copied Portman's character, it copied the self-destruction also. Which is why it burned itself to the ground.


Oh, and I knew you were trolling is

Self-destruction is basically hardwired into our DNA, so when the entity copied Portman's character, it copied the self-destruction also. Which is why it burned itself to the ground.

Yes, that was what I thought. However there are a few things that I'm trying to reconcile.

Quote from: Albert Wesker on August 27, 2018, 07:58:22 AM

Self-destruction is basically hardwired into our DNA, so when the entity copied Portman's character, it copied the self-destruction also. Which is why it burned itself to the ground.

Yes, that was what I thought. However there are a few things that I'm trying to reconcile.

And it was kind of cool that "it" got out.

Quote from: Pezevenk on August 27, 2018, 08:09:02 AM

Quote from: Albert Wesker on August 27, 2018, 07:58:22 AM

Self-destruction is basically hardwired into our DNA, so when the entity copied Portman's character, it copied the self-destruction also. Which is why it burned itself to the ground.

Yes, that was what I thought. However there are a few things that I'm trying to reconcile.

And it was kind of cool that "it" got out.

"Ιt"?

I was trying to figure out if maybe there was also an allegory in there about how grief and depression distort the way you see things but it's not very consistent so I don't know.

I was trying to figure out if maybe there was also an allegory in there about how grief and depression distort the way you see things but it's not very consistent so I don't know.

The entity got out inside her, you didn't notice her eyes at the end?