A viewing of Annihilation leads to the reassuring thought that WST does not speak with one voice, at least regarding movies.....
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Did I miss others speaking of it?
There were a few highly approving mentions. It's memorable, and gorgeous in places. Music and sound design are good. Jumpscares, tragic backstories, the usual hand-wavy science (they mention the Hayflick limit and that's about it for explanation) and some corny casting hamper it.
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I thought the visuals were lovely, but it was basically a weird horror movie. (I am not a fan of jumpscares.) Also, if you want to be intellectual, you don't explain what happened in the movie itself. You leave clues for the audience to piece together.
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It felt like the director (or writer) wanted to leave it all as an exercise for the viewer, but the studio said "we gotta tell em something!" and so we got the usual sciencey-sounding gruel
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A common disease. (Upon first watching _Dark City_, I was told, "leave it muted until you see the bathtub". This skips the awful "explain it all" voiceover at the start. (Removed in the director's cut.))
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