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Hot Fuzz: Simon Pegg & Co. I thought it was hilarious. A parody, yet a loving parody.
9/10?
World's End: Simon Pegg & Co. Funny, but not quite as hilarious as Hot Fuzz (or Shaun of the Dead). There were a lot more parts that were, shall we say, more sober/thoughtful, even amongst the all the humor.
7/10?
Annihilation: Hmmm. Pretty good for a kind of sci-fi, but it was also kind of trope heavy in ways that annoyed me.
Anyway, I did end up enjoying it overall once I finished rolling my eyes at the tropes/silliness, so, 6 or 7 out of 10 perhaps.
Oh, The Informant: I'd seen it before but watched again. Part-funny, part-weird, and Damon gives a good performance. I wasn't aware it was based around real events. I quite like it. It's an odd one. 7 or 8 out of 10
Hot Fuzz: Simon Pegg & Co. I thought it was hilarious. A parody, yet a loving parody.
9/10?
World's End: Simon Pegg & Co. Funny, but not quite as hilarious as Hot Fuzz (or Shaun of the Dead). There were a lot more parts that were, shall we say, more sober/thoughtful, even amongst the all the humor.
7/10?
Annihilation: Hmmm. Pretty good for a kind of sci-fi, but it was also kind of trope heavy in ways that annoyed me.
ie, two people in a guard station and the two sleeping people up on the watchtower are all alerted to a loud angry noise. Someone has already been attacked by a mutated animal. Gee, I wonder what might have made the noise. Couldn't be another mutated animal, now could it, so of course one character has to come down and go way ahead of everyone else, then inevitably gets what she deserves.
(Nevermind that everyone should have been in the watch tower, as it would be easier to fire together in one burst. The way they arranged it, two people were far away from the tower in a little post offering no protection and effectively open to attack from 360 degrees. Meanwhile, because they were faced away from the tower, anything could have climbed up for the sleepers).
Then there was the usual roll-your-eyes at scientific mumbo jumbo. Someone announces that starting at the surface of the bubble, measuring magnetism is like throwing confetti in a hurricane. So they proceed to march in with all manner of metal that would get yanked all over the place by fluctuating very strong magnetic fields, etc.
Or, the effect of whatever is generating the area of effect was introduced as if it was a sensible analogy: sort of like how light is refracted, but that's the effect on DNA. Except then it seemed to turn into a literal description: the surface of the bubble literally refracted just light and just DNA......which doesn't begin to make the slighest bit of sense, as you cannot refract DNA in a literal sense; refraction happens as light passes from one medium to another medium. It isn't something that happens to light (or anything else) within a space filled with a substance, nor is it something that progresses.
Or even the basic story-moving approach: dive right in. Look, if something remotely like that happens and a human is going to be sent in, I'd say you attach a rope of some sort to a harness such that the person cannot untie it, you have them walk in and make observations, and if they don't come out at an appointed time you pull them out. You do this for increasingly longer of periods of time, etc., and see what you learn. But perhaps, first, you put an animal in a cage and you push it through the edge; then you pull it out 10 hours later and observe it for a while. Etc.
Stuff like that. But still, pretty good. And I did appreciate the rather obvious implication that things were about to go rather poorly for humanity after the conclusion.
(Nevermind that everyone should have been in the watch tower, as it would be easier to fire together in one burst. The way they arranged it, two people were far away from the tower in a little post offering no protection and effectively open to attack from 360 degrees. Meanwhile, because they were faced away from the tower, anything could have climbed up for the sleepers).
Then there was the usual roll-your-eyes at scientific mumbo jumbo. Someone announces that starting at the surface of the bubble, measuring magnetism is like throwing confetti in a hurricane. So they proceed to march in with all manner of metal that would get yanked all over the place by fluctuating very strong magnetic fields, etc.
Or, the effect of whatever is generating the area of effect was introduced as if it was a sensible analogy: sort of like how light is refracted, but that's the effect on DNA. Except then it seemed to turn into a literal description: the surface of the bubble literally refracted just light and just DNA......which doesn't begin to make the slighest bit of sense, as you cannot refract DNA in a literal sense; refraction happens as light passes from one medium to another medium. It isn't something that happens to light (or anything else) within a space filled with a substance, nor is it something that progresses.
Or even the basic story-moving approach: dive right in. Look, if something remotely like that happens and a human is going to be sent in, I'd say you attach a rope of some sort to a harness such that the person cannot untie it, you have them walk in and make observations, and if they don't come out at an appointed time you pull them out. You do this for increasingly longer of periods of time, etc., and see what you learn. But perhaps, first, you put an animal in a cage and you push it through the edge; then you pull it out 10 hours later and observe it for a while. Etc.
Stuff like that. But still, pretty good. And I did appreciate the rather obvious implication that things were about to go rather poorly for humanity after the conclusion.
Anyway, I did end up enjoying it overall once I finished rolling my eyes at the tropes/silliness, so, 6 or 7 out of 10 perhaps.
Oh, The Informant: I'd seen it before but watched again. Part-funny, part-weird, and Damon gives a good performance. I wasn't aware it was based around real events. I quite like it. It's an odd one. 7 or 8 out of 10
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