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really slow start... AMAZING PAY OFF!!!

posted 11 years ago by joe-819-80565
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The first 15 or so minutes was really slow and badly made... But you don't realize till later that it's done by design. It ends up switching to wide screen and with better production value. When it was over I was like "The beginning had to be that way."

I'm don't really have faith that people will stick with it. Their attention spans are far too short... But if you DO stick with it... YOU WILL NOT REGRET IT. I watched it on CinemaNow last night, and I can't stop thinking about it.

[–] eak000-803-592657 11 years ago

yeah it was draggin on and i almost shut it off. does get decent towards the end.
but when i decided to watch it it had a 7.9 rating here. i think most of those ratings were from people who worked on the film. now its 4.7

[–] joe-819-80565 11 years ago

I agree. Looks like it just came out so now people who are not 'connected' to it are seeing it for the first time. But I looked at the stats of the votes and I didn't realy understand how it got a 4.7 average... There were FAR more people voting 10 than 1... but I'm not a mathematician. I voted 7. I actually really liked it a lot. Way better than most of the huge budget science fiction films this year that spent most of the movie blowing up cities.

[–] bullett-time 10 years ago

thanks. minute 12 and i wanted to turn off. will watch the movie further due to your remarks.

[–] jose_cheung 10 years ago

I agree. I liked it better than I expected to. It's hard to do an attention-keeping low-budget sci-fi film, when sci-fi fans (like me) have come to expect more FX and higher production values. So making it from the POV of someone who had hardly any money or experience was a good framing device to handle the fact (I assume) that the film makers didn't have enough money to make a more commercial-looking film.

It also does a good job of subtly showing the maturation of the main character, who starts off as a fairly unsympathetic schlub with grating hipster friends. The ending took me completely by surprise.

[–] bthorn64 9 years ago

More like "nonsense pay off". The ending made no sense whatsoever. The premise of the film is that your entire life history is already encoded in your DNA. So you can "print" your DNA and find out you'll die of cancer at the age of 60. Fine. I'm with you so far. But this film ends showing a result which is in no way related to or even remotely predictable by one's genetic makeup.

The crowd that made this movie may have gone on to film school, but it is obvious they paid no attention at all to science classes while at that High School they all attended together.