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do not watch Extinction, woooo what a stinker, combining the worst aspects of Signs, Skyline, Westworld and, I'm gonna say, Galactica reboot? The first half comes close to being promising. That is how they get you, fuck. |
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I thought it was OK, it was like a made-for-television movie with a big budget, which is what it turned out as. |
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Yeah I can see that, to me it felt like they made the laziest writing choices all along, shot a bunch of stuff, then assembled the overall plot in post - like, the final scene that looked like it cost pocket change, as though they didn't know how they were going to end it until they juggled and poked it a bit then tacked that on... Now compare this to another low budget effort that had fantastic writing and leaves you guessing until the end - They Remain - saw it on torrent not Netflix, highly recommended. |
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Well I will check out "They Remain", ersatz-Peeps. I haven't read the book Extinction was based on, like all Young People's Literature it has to be a trilogy, but I thought the ending was a bit.... oh, an alien that's into shitty CGI effects. If they'd called the film Space Cancer it might have gone down better. |
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saw some eps of Lost in Space i thought it was something i might have enjoyed a lot when i was, like, 12 it's not terrible |
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new season Better Call Saul !! |
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I managed three episodes of Lost in Space before bailing. I felt my time would be better spent... re-reading the Gremlins novelisation... washing up.... anything. |
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watched the staircase, documentary series about a guy on trial for murdering his wife on a staircase, really interesting many twists and turns in the case, I personally thought he was guilty |
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Ah no, you're thinking of Annihilation. That one was reasonably good but the book was far superior, far more Lovecraftian shall we say. Space Cancer is exactly what Alex Garland was going for and was a step down conceptually, imo - I expected better after his other work. Still, it was decent. Extinction is a mix and match sci fi cookie cutter thingy. Very very bad. Not good! If you get a chance to see They Remain take it but avoid trailers and reviews. Best to go in cold. I will say that it has a distinctly Boards of Canada Beautiful Place Out In The Country aesthetic and also slightly in mood and subject matter. The reviews are lukewarm because genre audiences are mainly thick bastards who don't appreciate ambiguity. |
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I got through the first one and five minutes into the second before I bailed. Maybe if I were watching it with snarky people doing a diy mst3k thing.... |
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How come netflix make such good tv shows but buy almost universally shit movies? |
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Oh you're right... god, my mind.... I think I got mixed up with Evolution as well. Which Real-Peeps recommended and, I don't know if he's reading this, but I am afraid to report that I thought it sucked. |
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many twists and turns in the case I see what u did there |
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most of the netflix branded movies I think they more often get involved in the production and dumb them down to shit. the series seem to be more independent. |
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it depends if you're in the mood for a puzzling moody slow moving art house occult body horror that deconstructs gender and man's troubled relationship to nature there was that one practical creature effect though that was such garbage I wanted to slap someone... good lord |
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I thought annihilation was great. Haven't watched evolution |
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Haven't read the book btw |
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the first book is wonderful, but would have been impossible to film because it relies heavily on language and the narrator's tone. I can see why Garland made the choices he did. The second book I stalled on, maybe there shouldn't have been sequels. It's like Westworld, where the end of season 1 left you with a perfect little jewel, then they had to go and make more. |
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OK so I watched the actual film we are talking about, Extinction. It was rubbish. When the "invasion" starts it's quite tense and you think "ohhh, these guys are nasty". But once the film drops the ball, it drops it in a BIG DOG SHIT. Can't afford alien fx? WHAT IF THEY WERE HUMANS!?!??!? Sorry, spoiler. I think I preferred The Cloverfield Facepalm or whatever it was called, because that had the gall to be more grandiose in its stupidity. |
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Speaking of Cloverfield, 10 Cloverfield lane is a film that really frustrated the shit out of me. |
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There was a nice bit of "stay out of line of sight of these fuckers" which is straight out of childhood nightmares and reminded me of the best aspects of Skyline, and then the ball dropped not just into shit but into a filthy toilet, and the camera followed, it was like that scene in Trainspotting but with more shit. |
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