Annihilation (2018)

[KilloWertz]

Originally Posted by manunited1

I have stayed spoiler free as far as the story goes but I know the ending in the book was very divisive and the Director even said in an interview that the book's ending pissed him off.

So have I for the most part (except for a couple of probably minor bullet points from that person's post really early today that got deleted). I obviously don't want to know the movie's ending before I see it, but was mainly just putting my concerns out there.

Originally Posted by AaronJ

Damn, I loved the ending to Ex Machina.

Most people did. I didn't unfortunately, but again, I know I'm in the extreme minority there.

[Troll2fan]

Originally Posted by KilloWertz

Most people did. I didn't unfortunately, but again, I know I'm in the extreme minority there.

I didn't care for the ending either. I saw it coming, but I hoped it wasn't going to end that way.

[SpaceMind]

Originally Posted by eiknarf

This is officially it!

We've arrived at a time when we really have to start questioning whether a movie will get a physical media release

I'm curious how you thought a physical media release was in question.

[eiknarf]

Originally Posted by SpaceMind

I'm curious how you thought a physical media release was in question.

Have you read anything in here? Sure, we're getting a Blu-ray in the States, but any of the regions getting this on Netflix in two weeks might not.

[syndragore]

Yeah as far as I know Netflix has refrained from any physical releases of content they are distributing themselves. But we're at least getting the BR release in the US, and hopefully a UHD release as well (unless Paramount does this movie like they did Suburbicon...)

[Leonidas King]

Talk about a slow burn. It definitely takes it time but I thought it was great although I had much higher expectations. I kept reading/hearing complaints about the third act and honestly it was the most compelling, most intuitive part of the film. This definitely requires multiple viewings.

4/5

[ITDEFX101]

I need to find the time to rewatch it....after reading the posts here I might give it another shot.

[Underworld54]

Looking at a $10M weekend according to Deadline, which is the low end of where it's been tracking prior to release.

[Leonidas King]

So what I got from the ending was

[Show spoiler]that both Portman and Isacc’s character died as humans but both came back disguised as alien form.

Am I right or am I right?

[BluCollector13]

I want this to sweep every Score award next year.

[BluProofie]

Originally Posted by Leonidas_King

So what I got from the ending was

[Show spoiler]that both Portman and Isacc’s character died as humans but both came back disguised as alien form.

Am I right or am I right?

No,

[Show spoiler]that was Lena at the end.

[Leonidas King]

Originally Posted by BluProofie

No,

[Show spoiler]that was Lena at the end.

Mmmm are you sure? Because

[Show spoiler]both of their eyes have a light glow around the iris in the very last shot.

That was clearly a hint.

[BluProofie]

Originally Posted by Leonidas_King

Mmmm are you sure? Because

[Show spoiler]both of their eyes have a light glow around the iris in the very last shot.

That was clearly a hint.

[Show spoiler]That’s because she was contaminated. She’ll likely be a vessel along with him, but it’s not a double of Lena IMO.

[Leonidas King]

Originally Posted by BluProofie

[Show spoiler]That’s because she was contaminated. She’ll likely be a vessel along with him, but it’s not a double of Lena IMO.

The third act is a total mindf**k. It's definitely open to so many questions. I need to revisit this pronto.

[BluProofie]

Originally Posted by Leonidas_King

The third act is a total mindf**k. It's definitely open to so many questions. I need to revisit this pronto.

Same, I actually hated it when it was over. But, the more I thought about it the more I loved it.

[BLUEGRASS]

Originally Posted by BluProofie

[Show spoiler]That’s because she was contaminated. She’ll likely be a vessel along with him, but it’s not a double of Lena IMO.

I also believe that Lena is

[Show spoiler]infected at the end and not a duplicate, b/c she has the arm tattoo when she is being interviewed. She didn't have the tattoo at the beginning, but she (and one of the other scientists) have the arm tattoo grow on them due to the DNA refraction stuff going on inside the Shimmer. The soldier that was gutted and left in the pool also had the same tattoo.

[Leonidas King]

Originally Posted by 2sday

Anyone else think the movie looked pretty “soft” most of the time?

It did. Not sure if it was due to the theater screen this was projected in but I did notice a lot of soft picture.

[BluProofie]

Originally Posted by Leonidas_King

It did. Not sure if it was due to the theater screen this was projected in but I did notice a lot of soft picture.

I think it was intentional. The same cinematographer also did Ex Machina and that was soft.

[Leonidas King]

Originally Posted by BluProofie

I think it was intentional. The same cinematographer also did Ex Machina and that was soft.

Not on 4K its not

But yes I can see why it looked soft, partially due to the DP.

[ITDEFX101]

Originally Posted by Leonidas_King

It did. Not sure if it was due to the theater screen this was projected in but I did notice a lot of soft picture.

Yeah me too.... I was like wtf regal!??!?! The CG was a hit or miss for the backgrounds so I am assuming a lot of green/blue screen.