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Re: Annihilation
Posted: Thu March 22, 2018 7:22 pm
by bune
Posting so I can find it later since Twitter search stinks.
Re: Annihilation
Posted: Sat March 24, 2018 1:37 am
by bart
This word should not have an "h"
Re: Annihilation
Posted: Thu March 29, 2018 2:32 am
by E.H. Ruddock
I don't understand the ending. Did her eyes change colors when he was hugging her, or what?
Re: Annihilation
Posted: Thu March 29, 2018 4:41 am
by 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
Re: Annihilation
Posted: Thu March 29, 2018 5:20 am
by BurtReynolds
bune wrote:
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.
Re: Annihilation
Posted: Thu March 29, 2018 1:52 pm
by 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.
Re: Annihilation
Posted: Thu March 29, 2018 5:11 pm
by bune
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.
Re: Annihilation
Posted: Thu March 29, 2018 5:22 pm
by E.H. Ruddock
The Argonaut wrote:- 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
Re: Annihilation
Posted: Thu March 29, 2018 6:15 pm
by LoathedVermin72
I...don’t think there’s gonna be a sequel.
Re: Annihilation
Posted: Thu March 29, 2018 6:18 pm
by bune
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.
Re: Annihilation
Posted: Thu March 29, 2018 7:03 pm
by 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.
Re: Annihilation
Posted: Thu March 29, 2018 7:40 pm
by VinylGuy
It bombed everywhere..i mean they sold it to netflix outside the US.
There is no sequel nor we need one.
Re: Annihilation
Posted: Thu March 29, 2018 7:57 pm
by E.H. Ruddock
VinylGuy wrote:nor we need one.
yes, because this logic has successfully kept sequels of bad movies being made
Re: Annihilation
Posted: Thu March 29, 2018 8:01 pm
by 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...
Re: Annihilation
Posted: Thu March 29, 2018 8:02 pm
by Jorge
VinylGuy wrote: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.
Re: Annihilation
Posted: Thu March 29, 2018 8:04 pm
by VinylGuy
Oh critics matter?
Re: Annihilation
Posted: Thu March 29, 2018 8:07 pm
by Jorge
I just said they don't.
Re: Annihilation
Posted: Thu March 29, 2018 8:08 pm
by VinylGuy
good.
Re: Annihilation
Posted: Thu March 29, 2018 8:10 pm
by Jorge
*hides BAFICI press pass*
Re: Annihilation
Posted: Thu March 29, 2018 8:12 pm
by VinylGuy
But thats just to see movies for free right?
I mean you are not a critic RIGHT?