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  1. 09-27-2017, 04:00 PM #1
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    Annihilation (2018, Alex Garland)

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    Uwe Boll movies > all Marvel U movies
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    I work in grocery. I have not gotten sick. My fellow employees have not gotten sick. If the virus were even remotely as contagious as its being presented as, why haven’t entire store staffs who come into contact with hundreds of people per day, thousands per week, all falling ill in mass nationwide?
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    Garland has always been a safe bet so I'm looking forward to this.

    (and it got good notices out of whatever festivals are going on now.)
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    Always been a safe bet? On the 1 film he's made?

    Or are you talking about script wise?
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    I work in grocery. I have not gotten sick. My fellow employees have not gotten sick. If the virus were even remotely as contagious as its being presented as, why haven’t entire store staffs who come into contact with hundreds of people per day, thousands per week, all falling ill in mass nationwide?
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    Quote Quoting Dukefrukem (view post)
    Always been a safe bet? On the 1 film he's made?

    Or are you talking about script wise?
    Pretty much both. I've always liked his writing. (I found his novel "The Beach" compulsively readable and only checked it out because of his film writing.)
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    Quote Quoting Irish (view post)
    Pretty much both. I've always liked his writing. (I found his novel "The Beach" compulsively readable and only checked it out because of his film writing.)
    I love both that book and the movie.

    This looks great. Glad I picked it in FML.
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    Quote Quoting Skitch (view post)
    I love both that book and the movie.

    This looks great. Glad I picked it in FML.
    If it is faithful to the book, it'll make like $10
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    I meant I love the book and movie of The Beach. Haven't read book for Annihilation.
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    Obviously I was absolutely in for whatever Garland was doing after Ex Machina. It helps that this sounded and now looks as enticing as it does.
    I almost don't want to see any more until I'm in the theatre (or I'm forced to see a more revealing trailer in front of another movie down the line).

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    Garland has always been a safe bet so I'm looking forward to this.

    (and it got good notices out of whatever festivals are going on now.)
    Has this been shown anywhere? I'd heard nothing before and all searching is coming up blank for me.
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    Can we please get away from this trend of having a teaser for the trailer right before you watch the trailer?
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    The book is incredible. The entire trilogy is great. Nice to see Vandermeer getting some cinema love.

    Cool to see some weird fiction get the big budget treatment.



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    Quote Quoting megladon8 (view post)
    Can we please get away from this trend of having a teaser for the trailer right before you watch the trailer?
    Yeah that's annoying.
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    Paramount sold international rights to Netflix but is still giving the movie a theatrical release in the US and China. Which is a strategy I don't understand, unless there's an agreement to stagger those release dates.

    https://www.theatlantic.com/entertai...etflix/551810/
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    Can I pretend this is a sequel to The Relic?

    Because The Relic is amazing.
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    The Relic is fucking awesome.

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    Uwe Boll movies > all Marvel U movies
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    I work in grocery. I have not gotten sick. My fellow employees have not gotten sick. If the virus were even remotely as contagious as its being presented as, why haven’t entire store staffs who come into contact with hundreds of people per day, thousands per week, all falling ill in mass nationwide?
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    Quote Quoting Irish (view post)
    Paramount sold international rights to Netflix but is still giving the movie a theatrical release in the US and China. Which is a strategy I don't understand, unless there's an agreement to stagger those release dates.

    https://www.theatlantic.com/entertai...etflix/551810/
    Yeah it's weird that this just became big news for most outlets to pick up on in the last week, since I thought this was pretty public for a while now. It does sucks, especially since it's apparently just because of those test screening results of people who thought it was too cerebral, but at least they let Garland keep his vision and USA and Canada still get it for a month as intended before the rest of the world just stumbles upon it on Netflix.

    Between this and Cloverfield Paradox, I feel like Paramount isn't much in the mood committing to anything that isn't Mission: Impossible, Transformers, reboots of IPs they already own, and some days, Star Trek.
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    unless there's an agreement to stagger those release dates.
    Ok, duh. They are staggering the release dates, but only by 2 weeks.

    Feb 23 for the US theatrical.
    Mar 07 everywhere else.

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2798920/releaseinfo

    Ahoy, Garland!
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