Annihilation

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Posting so I can find it later since Twitter search stinks.

[bart]

This word should not have an "h"

[E.H. Ruddock]

I don't understand the ending. Did her eyes change colors when he was hugging her, or what?

[The Argonaut]

Spoiler: show

The Natalie Portman at the end is either the full alien with pieces of Natalie Portman (like the husband) or original Natalie Portman who has been refracted already so much that she has enough alien DNA in her to change her. Natalie Portman and OscarvIsaac are going to mate and make alien babies.
A super race and/or major jump in evolution will result, a la 2001

[BurtReynolds]

Posting so I can find it later since Twitter search stinks.

A lot of people seem to view it as a psychological thing, but I actually read it as very sociological.

[guestT]

Finished the book last night and am still chewing on it. Not sure what I think yet.

The sci-fi/horror elements never really landed for me. Area X felt both over-described yet under-developed.

At times it reads like an extended, multi-layered metaphor for grief and/or depression. Like, it's purely psychological, in the Biologist's head. None of the shit is actually happening.

But from what I understand books 2 and 3 go into greater detail, which would complicate/negate that interpretation.

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Book 2 is from a completely different perspective: The government entity tasked with monitoring the area.

Book 3 is from several perspectives and is the one that actually tries to explain some backstory.

A lot of people don't like 2 because they wanted a sequel to 1. There are parts with the person

Spoiler: show

/entity?

from the end of book 1 though. And book 3 is where you realize it's a Lovecraft story of unknowable alien entities.

[E.H. Ruddock]

Spoiler: show

The Natalie Portman at the end is either the full alien with pieces of Natalie Portman (like the husband) or original Natalie Portman who has been refracted already so much that she has enough alien DNA in her to change her. Natalie Portman and OscarvIsaac are going to mate and make alien babies.
A super race and/or major jump in evolution will result, a la 2001

Now see I would watch that sequel

[LoathedVermin72]

I...don’t think there’s gonna be a sequel.

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I'm shocked they made a movie at all considering the source (a very weird book) and the studio that's been making some really dumb decisions.

[epilogue]

A fun, light, yet ultimately forgettable book that never had me interested in a sequel becomes a dull, obvious, shopworn, and inconsequential film. There are things to like about both but neither are gripping or satisfying enough. I hope there is no film sequel.

[VinylGuy]

It bombed everywhere..i mean they sold it to netflix outside the US.

There is no sequel nor we need one.

[E.H. Ruddock]

nor we need one.

yes, because this logic has successfully kept sequels of bad movies being made

[VinylGuy]

I was talking about me actually. I wont see another. But still i dont see how they could do another one really, everyone seemed to hated or be bored by it and it didnt made money so...

[Jorge]

I was talking about me actually. I wont see another. But still i dont see how they could do another one really, everyone seemed to hated or be bored by it and it didnt made money so...

The critics and some people liked it. But that doesn't matter. The money part is what matters.

[VinylGuy]

Oh critics matter?

[Jorge]

I just said they don't.

[VinylGuy]

good.

[Jorge]

*hides BAFICI press pass*

[VinylGuy]

But thats just to see movies for free right?

I mean you are not a critic RIGHT?