I’ll watch this with a degree of caution. I remember really enjoying the first two but they toned down the violence for the third to get a lower rating and I think the film suffered as a result.
Anyone else listen to Fright Pub, the horror movies podcast? I’ve never been a huge horror guy, but listening to those three get sloppy and occasionally hysterical every week over a randomly chosen movie has turned me into a fan of the genre.
Super excited for this. The existing community over at !horror has a pretty different vibe that something like /r/horror. I suspect this will be a lot closer to what I’m looking for.
!horror at a quick glance seems more of general horror community covering not only movies. I’ve never visited r/horror. Care to describe the vibe to the tribe…uh…darn, can’t think of a name that rhymes with describe/vibe/tribe!
And please, post away anything you feel might belong here…you’re one of us, one of us, one of us, one of us…
Unfortunately I was ripped of my money and time by voluntarily watching this in cinema. That’s my fault that I believed its trailer. Last time I made that mistake. Next time I just wait a week longer for review…
My wife and I saw the early screening last night in IMAX. The visuals live up to the hype, but honestly we were both very disappointed with… everything else. The story was as generic as it seemed in the trailers, and it goes on way longer than it should. The acting was fine, I guess. The actors put in work, they just didn’t have anything good to work with.
Everything that happens simply happens to serve the plot, not the characters. No one ever acts like a normal person, they are all just rote movie characters like it’s paint-by-numbers. And the editing is atrocious. There’s a lot of off-screen exposition, like they had to fill in story gaps. Similarly, scenes will just kinda end. Characters get into a predicament that seems impossible to escape? Cut away! Explain what happened? Nah, just keep moving cause we’ve got plot points we have to hit, and fast cause the audience certainly already knows where this is all heading anyway.
I love supporting original sci-fi in theaters, but this is just an unoriginal, bad movie imo.
I’ve seen it yesterday and I completely agree with you. Such a waste of money and time… I was so amazed during first 5 minutes but after an hour I wanted it to finally end.
I used A-List so it was free and I still felt ripped off.
My feelings toward the movie started strong and only dropped from there. My wife wanted to leave halfway but I hoped it would stick the landing. It only got worse from there and by the end I was rolling my eyes and laughing (not loudly) at how terrible it all became. It just kept going and it thought so highly of itself the whole time. The title cards felt so ridiculous in retrospect.
Convoluted and a mess of a movie. Felt super disconnected from the characters. Amazing world, special and visual effects. Wanted more of that. An absolute treat for the eyes and imagination but just that everything else was generic, lackluster, disappointing, nonsensical, not properly explained or the movie just jumps around willy Nilly and can be confusing to say the least. I really wanted to like it because I love sci fi and we don’t get enough of this sort of thing, but the end result isn’t greater than the sum of its parts. Perhaps a director’s cut is required/ necessary, as it really seemed like good chunks of the movie were missing.
Seeing this tomorrow. Watched a YouTube review or two that got me kinda hyped but you guys brought me back down to ground level. Bummer if it really turns out to be that generic.
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