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Not a good film at all

posted 6 years ago by kellycallie (728)
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Very predictable and the characters were killed off way too quickly before you got a sense to get a feel of their personalities. What is so scary about a mutated gator and bear? big whoop. And.. anyone who has seen a science fiction film knew already what was down the hole in the lighthouse. Even when it ''cloned'' itself into another Natalie Portman that seemed like another movie I had already seen before.. I don't know. The film is nothing we have not already experienced from the sci-fi genre before.

[–] Driver (18) 6 years ago

I agree. A lot of professional critics are calling this movie a "Sci-Fi masterpiece" but I just don't see it. The characters were unlikeable, the movie was very predictable and the CGI wasn't very good. It's not a particularly bad movie, but it gets way more praise than it deserves.

[–] [deleted] 6 years ago

I've hidden a clue inside the word "MA$TERPIECE", that explains the reviews these days. ;)

"and when EVERYTHING is a ma$terpeice, NOTHING is!"

[–] Renovatio (2990) 6 years ago

Fully agree... I liked the movie, but nowhere near a masterpiece...

[–] SlackerInc (1075) 6 years ago

Well said. It starts out somewhat promising, and I found myself particularly liking the character played by Tuva Novotny...so of course she dies first. And then it just becomes a mishmash of half-baked ideas and mysteriousness that isn’t explained and doesn’t even look very good (I was sitting pretty close to the screen, and down there I remembered that even though I don’t like bad CGI, latex suits are even worse).

Actually, some of the visual effects were really cool and creepy or beautiful. But so many of them looked cheap and obvious. Why the inconsistency, I wonder?

[–] AdamB (5) 6 years ago

I agree. During the opening scene I immediately thought - "he's a clone".
Whole movie seemed like a rehash of various old SF tropes. I guess not many reviewers have ever read a proper SF book?

And christ, what's with all the stupid behaviour in movies these days? Why can't we have scripts where bad stuff happens to people, in spite of them acting rationally and like the professionals they are supposed to be, instead of having to resort to "ooops I got killed because I was behaving like a retarded 4 year old and wandered around on the ground instead of staying up at our safe lookout post."

[–] Frogarama (12942) 6 years ago

Dumb behavior in movies is not new, what's new is the popularity of pointing it out. There are tons of old movies that would not survive a true logical analysis.

[–] modica (4169) 6 years ago

This movie wasn't as good as Ex Machina. It was OK, but I expected more.

[–] crc32 (2584) 6 years ago

And.. anyone who has seen a science fiction film knew already what was down the hole in the lighthouse.

Really what was in the hole you knew about. We all knew it was alien but what more did you know based on previous sci-fi knowledge.

"Even when it ''cloned'' itself into another Natalie Portman that seemed like another movie I had already seen before.. "
And what movie was that?

The film was decent and lets not forget theirs not a whole lot of sci-fi movies right now. We are saturated with super hero movies so a little sci-fi film like this is a welcome watch as far as I'm concerned.

[–] Renovatio (2990) 6 years ago

"The film was decent and lets not forget theirs not a whole lot of sci-fi movies right now. We are saturated with super hero movies so a little sci-fi film like this is a welcome watch as far as I'm concerned."

I agree ^

[–] Alex (1478) 6 years ago

Not to mention the location of the Lighthouse, literally 100ft away from the Sea.

What in the name of all that is holy made them send troops, teams thru the FUCKEN forest?

Here's a bright idea!! Just put people on boats and ships and TRAVEL AROUND area 51 and get straight to the source.
Pretty sure there are no mutations in the water to fight off on the way.

[–] sONOMArEturns (1253) 6 years ago

The script for the movie says they actually tried using boats first, but they too wouldn't come back, and that one in particular was attacked by a whale-sized dolphin that killed the entire boat in one fatal move. Not sure why this was excluded from the film, but it would've explained why they didn't use the boat in the final film.

[–] zeesha (1754) 6 years ago

As the psychologist mentioned, "A religious event" is one of many theories they had about the area X. So I presume an attack similar to "Exodus 14:21" destroyed the boat, which would be way cooler than a whale-sized dolphin. And I am glad they excluded the dolphin from being an evil creature.

[–] Alex (1478) 6 years ago

Three years they kept sending people to die, three years they kept watching it grow bigger and bigger.
They knew exactly the point of origin, so why not drop a small nuke on the fucken lighthouse?

A...SINGLE...PHOSPHOROUS...GRENADE...WAS...ENOUGH...TO...SET...IT....ON FIRE...AND...DESTROY...IT...

[–] Maya (116) 6 years ago

Sure, but it was destroyed from the inside out. The explosion literally became a part of the living organism. I don't think attacking it from the outside would have done much.

[–] Volley (3368) 6 years ago

Yeah this movie was unbelievably boring. What is with the slow speaking and the manner of speaking these people do? People do not talk like that in real life. I was reminded instantly of the slow-speaking in Blade Runner 2049. Enough already!

The flashbacks, slow dialogue, annoying pacing, and the overdone color bloom/flares is what gets me the most.

Watched about 3/4 of it, then started skipping to the end. The mirror alien effect was kinda neat, but why did it have to take that long to get there?

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

Just not your taste. I liked it.