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Annihilation: Echoes of the Past

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02 Jun 2018 10:00 #274575 by Jackwraith

Annihilation is a film that tries too hard to be interesting with material that's been covered many times before.

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03 Jun 2018 15:02 #274576 by drewcula
Hmm...
I thoroughly enjoyed this film and its allusions to Lovecraft. I think it's distinct enough to hold it's own.
On the big screen, it was a pure eye candy and the sound editing was top notch. I don't say this lightly, but I felt some sequences rivaled 2001.

Annihilation was one of the few instances were I felt the movie was better than the book.


I found the book a real page turner. Certainly in the vein of pulp, and not literature. I've yet to read the other two books in the trilogy, but the volumes are on my shelf.
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03 Jun 2018 19:56 #274586 by Jackwraith
That's interesting that you immediately assumed it was an allusion to Lovecraft and not just a borrowing of the concept. I haven't delved that deeply into its design to know whether the screenplay or the original novel were intended to be such an allusion. I just know that the screenplay borrowed from all three novels of the series and that Garland was fine with that because it allowed him to make a more complete image of what developed over the course of writing three books.

I saw it on the small screen, so that certainly may have affected how unimpressed I was with it, as opposed to your experience on the big screen.

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04 Jun 2018 07:12 - 04 Jun 2018 21:39 #274617 by drewcula
Oh, that wasn't my understanding at all.
I read the screenwriter/director had only read the first book, once, and developed the script from "memory." The screenplay was entirely done & approved before the second book was available. The author and studio were pleased with the screenplay's direction because it had eerily similar beats to book two and the notes for three.
I have limited context having only read the first book.

And again, that first book was entertaining but not award winning. It's strongest feature was its length. Short, tense, with mystery intact. Had it plodded on for too long, it would have irritated the crap out of me. I suppose that's what books two and three are capable of achieving. I'll report back ;)
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04 Jun 2018 16:53 #274666 by Black Barney
Great review! I hope I get to see this at some point
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04 Jun 2018 23:13 #274686 by Jackwraith
Thanks! I'm on the verge of seeing Lady Bird and The Post, since they're both on Amazon now. Might actually be going to see something in the theater sometime soon. Not sure what's out there at the moment, though.
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05 Jun 2018 08:21 #274695 by Black Barney
If The Rider is still playing, you should see that

Let me know how you like Lady Bird

I bet The Post is going to be all sorts of meh
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05 Jun 2018 09:33 #274707 by SuperflyPete
I wholly concur. It’s not a whole cloth retelling but it is absolutely taking CooS and expanding it to a more “ global “ event versus being set in just some blasted heath.

I loves me some Natalie Portman, but even she couldn’t save this. It was better than that old film Die! Monster Die! but wasn’t great.
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05 Jun 2018 15:39 #274753 by Space Ghost

Black Barney wrote: If The Rider is still playing, you should see that

Let me know how you like Lady Bird

I bet The Post is going to be all sorts of meh


Post was actually pretty good. I though that Hanks and Matthew Rhys actually did a nice job. Streep was ok.
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05 Jun 2018 16:01 #274755 by charlest
I thought it was a bit boring. I love reporter/newspaper films, but thought it paled in comparison to Spotlight and wasn't in the same stratosphere as All the President's Men.
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02 Jul 2018 02:29 #276697 by Colorcrayons
Continuing discussion here, rather than the 'what movies you have been watching' thread.

When the Shimmer was revealed, I too yammered about Colour to my GF as well. It wasn't until the movie was finished did I claim that there was more than passing allusions to Colour. She even read Colour after viewing, and agreed.

I have to agree with Drew. I enjoyed this quite a bit. It doesn't do anything new. I'm somewhat glad for that, because even though the title isn't Colour, inside this beats the heart and soul of Lovecraft in such a way that it could be said that this may well be one of the best, if not the best adaptation of his work to film to date.

That's not a hard claim to make in an era when Yuzna did the best job, but there it is. All that was missing was a Jeffrey Combs cameo to make it official that this was a Lovecraft flick.

I had no idea this movie was based on a book other than Colour until just now, so I'll have to get on to some research there.

Yes, not much original here. But it was done in a way that was remarkably well suited to do Lovecraft some justice finally.

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02 Jul 2018 13:14 #276727 by Jason Lutes

drewcula wrote: I found the book a real page turner. Certainly in the vein of pulp, and not literature. I've yet to read the other two books in the trilogy, but the volumes are on my shelf.

I enjoyed the first book but was pretty disappointed with the 2nd and 3rd. The suggestive/mysterious aspects of the first book get muddled, and my suspension of disbelief around the institutional and interpersonal stuff was thoroughly destroyed. To his credit, he doesn’t give you all of the answers, but in the end I thought the series was way overhyped.

Enjoyed the movie well enough. Great visuals — the horrible/beautiful fungal skeleton will stay with me — and I didn’t mind the slow pace.
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