SPEAKING OF Mission Impossible, got my tickets for Fallout.

Now rewatching the series. Can’t stress enough how criminally underrated 3 is. The opening is jaw dropping. Vatican is so cool. Explosion on the bridge. Shanghai. PSH is the best villain in the series. I love this movie.

FALLOUT IS AWESOME GO SEE IT

Not even sure why they used the Annihilation book as source material

The Dude wrote:Not even sure why they used the Annihilation book as source material

The whole conceit is fairly faithful.

Garland said he read the book once and then wrote the screenplay much later. He wanted it to be its own thing.

Guys I'm starting to think I'm not gonna recoup my 90 dollar investment in moviepass.

That is, 90 dollar annual membership, I didn't buy their garbage stock.

JUburton wrote:

The Dude wrote:Not even sure why they used the Annihilation book as source material

The whole conceit is fairly faithful.

Garland said he read the book once and then wrote the screenplay much later. He wanted it to be its own thing.

Idk, her motivations are completely different, her character is completely different. Just had a call moletely different feel to me

The Dude wrote:

JUburton wrote:

The Dude wrote:Not even sure why they used the Annihilation book as source material

The whole conceit is fairly faithful.

Garland said he read the book once and then wrote the screenplay much later. He wanted it to be its own thing.

Idk, her motivations are completely different, her character is completely different. Just had a call moletely different feel to me

Hm, I thought the feel was pretty similar but yeah, the motivation/story very different.

My boring thoughts:

The Dude wrote:My boring thoughts:

[Reveal] Spoiler:

I think there are two completely different feels between the book and movie. The book is much more of a psychological thing, bc she's on her own most of the time, the group is slowly going crazy and trying to kill each other. The movie is a scary monster movie (until the very end) with some of the aspects of the novel. The whole reason the book is called "Annihilation" is so creepy and cool and a mindfuck, and the control the psychologist has over them and everything, which causes them to doubt everything they do, and there's nothing like that in the movie. I already mentioned how different her character and motivations were, too. It just didn't feel as creepy as the book, and it definitely wasn't as tense, to me.

the movie sucked outside of a few cool moments

it's most frustrating because the book was totally set up for a pretty straightforward adaptation but mashing up the first two books and having them not even get in there until halfway through was so bad and deflated the whole concept. no kudos for 'making it your own thing' if you made it bad

Yep. I feel like they can come back in a couple years with a true trilogy

I didn't think it was bad at all!

JUburton wrote:I didn't think it was bad at all!

Was terrible

saw some movies recently

Sorry to Bother You - I thought this movie was amazing. I imagine the consensus might be that it was overstuffed and went off the rails toward the end, but there was so much talent on display and it was so hilarious, I just loved it

Good Time - thrilling and powerful. Pattinson is great lately

the Boy - this is one of those budget horror flicks that laughably make little sense once it's over and you start working backward from the ending, but I thought it was fun and scary while I was watching

Leave No Trace - slow and steady, but beautiful and moving. would recommend and would be curious to know what people thought of the last two shots

Blockers - thought this was absolutely hilarious and really liked that it only kinda flirted with the outright farce that most Hollywood comedies just embrace in their second half. best bigtime comedy I've seen in a long time

Good to hear about Sorry to bother you. I'd like to see it yet

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JUburton wrote:I didn't think it was bad at all!

Was terrible

Critics and soren on my side. What else do you need

I'm open to the idea that if you never read the book, it was better or 'not bad' but not good. the whole structure is a mess right off the jump with three different timelines, two of which serve little purpose other than having Oscar Isaac in the movie

I think my wife, who hasn’t read the book, had a good review. She didn’t think it was awful, but she’ll probably never think about it again

I am definitely seeing sorry to bother you this weekend.

I saw Teen Titans Go to the Movies last night. I’d never watched the show before and always thought the show looked awful, but the previews for the movie made it seem kind of funny and the reviews were good.

It was super fun and really funny. It didn’t take itself that seriously, but it was an awesome movie. There were a lot of musical numbers (which I wasn’t expecting) and the music was actually pretty damn catchy and diverse (Michael Bolton does a song and Lil Yachty wrote one of the songs and there’s a sort of dubstep thing).

It was really funny on a lot of levels. There were some childish jokes, some really dark ones, a lot of good meta humor, and a lot of references that’ll definitely fly over kids heads.

I really can’t believe I liked it as much as I did. I’d definitely recommend it.