1) Wow. Y’all really let a sci-fi movie with FIVE female leads just flop like that. It’s not like the reviews are trash. You really coulda come up off the lil $12 or whateva and taken a chance because now we’re not gonna get another one until 2067.
2) Gina Rodriguez is *a star* y’all and she can do anything. I didn’t see Aggressive Butch Lesbian as part of her repertoire, yet here we are.
3) Annihilation is A FILM. This is a “let’s think about it, let’s discuss it, let’s bring our own interpretations” kinda movie, and that’s what great film should be. You should want to talk about it. I want to talk about it. I want to talk about how I think it’s about cancer. You might wanna talk about how you think it’s about depression. Everybody sees this film differently.
4) The Crosby, Stills & Nash song that anchors the movie is not the song I would’ve expected from the trailer (and that obnoxious sound effect in it), but it was absolutely perfect.
5) Y’all slept on this movie so now I will never get the second and third part, so I guess I’ll have to read the book, but this really deserved a trilogy.
6) Alien movies that don’t have creatures with a clear relationship to Earth-like body plans, like Arrival, are always the best alien movies because that extra care to not make creepy-looking humanoids with big heads and eyes means there’s probably extra care put into the story too.
7) I felt joyously uncomfortable the entire time. The movie is an engrossing kind of chaos where you’re not exactly sure what the next scene will be, but you like not knowing. The plot itself is a pretty simple straight line from point A to point B, but the journey has wonderful layers and the pace is great.
8) I would like to STRESS ONCE AGAIN that this is a SCIENCE FICTION MOVIE with FIVE FEMALE LEADS (two women of color!) when every Hollywood, female-driven movie is almost always a comedy dealing with relationships or a sad drama dealing with relationships. If it’s still in theaters where you live, you owe it to all your “let’s change Hollywood” soapboxing to actually take your ass to the theater and give it some money and support.
I really don’t like the tone of this post, feeling browbeaten for not seeing a show that I didn’t even know existed besides someone I follow mentioning that they liked it. If you want to be upset that it wasn’t advertised all over Tumblr like Love Simon, that’s a viable complaint because the movie sounds pretty cool, and it sucks that it fell through the cracks. But don’t try to make people feel bad for “letting something flop” when they didn’t even fucking hear about it.
Scanning the comments, it does appear that this film got the Firefly treatment: no promotion, then pulled outta theaters before anyone had even had a chance to view it.
But that can hardly be blamed on viewers who weren’t even aware of the film’s existence or the fact that the movie industry as a whole has been so male oriented. Movies like Black Panther, Wonder Woman, A Wrinkle in Time, this year’s surprise Oscar winner The Shape of Water and last year’s even bigger surprise winner Moonlight all prove there’s a market for movies with women, POC and/queer leads. But it helps when people…you know… can view the damn thing.
Yeah, the first I heard of this movie was in articles saying it was barely getting a theatrical release because the producers had decided to send it to Netflix instead.
Mooncustafer 