haven't read books
really liked this, would happily fight most of ye about it tomorrow.
ito ex machina, arrival, this comparisons they were all good-to-great tbh
thought themes/metaphors were obvious and done very plainly, but more than reasonably deftly. maybe a long time since i found a 'do u see' message within a psychological/fantasy refreshing and resonant as opposed to being a showy frustrating reveal
portman is a bad actress tho this is true
― phil neville jacket (darraghmac), Wednesday, 7 August 2019 00:49 (four years ago) link
good book that was screaming to be turned into a movie.
now that I've read the book I find this sentiment baffling. Like Naked Lunch or Crash or The Story of Your Life, I feel the opposite - that it's screaming *not* to be made into a movie. so much internalized narrative, with a fixation on the inaccuracy of perceptions/senses, and the non-linear structure (ok I guess you could just jump-cut between a lot of flashbacks but...)
The book is way better, obviously.
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 26 September 2019 20:31 (four years ago) link
I just watched this yesterday since I really liked the books. I wish someone had pushed the novel into the hands of David Lynch, as I feel he would have accurately translated what I liked about the novel: identities slipping away, the detached tone of the narration, the increasing strangeness of Area X (not just visually, but the off-ness of even the mundane parts of the environment). Maybe would have been better as a high budget tv series, where it could linger awhile.
― blatherskite, Thursday, 26 September 2019 21:19 (four years ago) link
I just don't think film is the ideal medium for unreliable-narrator-syndrome type narratives
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 26 September 2019 21:24 (four years ago) link
I'm trying to think of film examples where it's done successfully but usually they involve dumb gotcha/reveal endings (Usual Suspects, Fight Club, etc.)
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 26 September 2019 21:26 (four years ago) link
Not a huge Vandermeer fan, but I was pleased by this today:
Wow. Nice one, Dan Simmons. What a jerk. pic.twitter.com/6VKCFPvU6a— Jeff VanderMeer (@jeffvandermeer) September 25, 2019
Our generation of speculative fiction fans really need to view past generations of right-wing anti-environment sci-fi authors with a critical eye.
― hedonic treadmill class action (Sanpaku), Thursday, 26 September 2019 21:57 (four years ago) link
didn't realize simmons was a right wing loon. that's ok though because i could barely finish Hyperion and it's sequel and decided he is not for me.
― akm, Thursday, 26 September 2019 23:00 (four years ago) link
apparently he’s always personally been an asshole but was of many who ramped it up and took it public after 2001
― mh, Friday, 27 September 2019 02:19 (four years ago) link
Loved Hyperion/Endymion and some of his other books even though he's a right wing loon.
Flashback however is fucking abysmal and the one where his shitty views are on prominent display.
― groovypanda, Friday, 27 September 2019 09:06 (four years ago) link
Needing some distraction from the news, so I'm watching Annihilation again...geez, why does it start out like Arrival, fer fuck's sake...?!?— Jeff VanderMeer (@jeffvandermeer) January 4, 2020
Personally, I think the director had things he wanted to address that included Stalker and my book was just a convenient vehicle for that. Which created complications for me, given my book is not at all influenced by Stalker/Roadside Picnic.— Jeff VanderMeer (@jeffvandermeer) January 4, 2020
― Number None, Saturday, 4 January 2020 10:10 (four years ago) link
that first tweet is a thread
not sure if serious
― wasdnuos (abanana), Saturday, 4 January 2020 17:29 (four years ago) link
no, it’s definitely a thread
― hot nuts (small) (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 4 January 2020 17:34 (four years ago) link
New show from Alex Garland. Pretty sure I'll be watching this:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoNloYTsH0Y&feature=youtu.be
― DJI, Friday, 10 January 2020 01:44 (four years ago) link
"(Playback ID: 7MsQp_v670f9y-sv)" is an episode of Mr Robot iirc
― don't care didn't ask still clappin (sic), Friday, 10 January 2020 04:22 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8klax373ds
― groovypanda, Friday, 10 January 2020 07:42 (four years ago) link
interesting cast. dunno about longform fiction from this guy tho'.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 10 January 2020 20:08 (four years ago) link
maybe it's fine in context but characters who say "nothing ever happens without a reason" (more usually "everything happens for a reason") and writers who write those characters can, unless the character is obviously meant to be a grade A idiot, fuck right off.the next line "everything is determined by something prior" - reasons are not causes.
― Paperbag raita (ledge), Friday, 10 January 2020 21:46 (four years ago) link
any talk about his new show Devs? just starting it
― just sayin, Saturday, 14 March 2020 08:35 (four years ago) link
“ my book is not at all influenced by Stalker/Roadside Picnic.”
sure brah
― the ghost of tom, choad (thomp), Saturday, 14 March 2020 09:16 (four years ago) link
yeah, the cancer without radiation is taken directly from roadside picnic.
― wasdnuos (abanana), Saturday, 14 March 2020 09:32 (four years ago) link
Devs is getting a little more interesting. It feels like a cross between Ex Machina and a few others, with a slow roll-out
― mh, Saturday, 14 March 2020 15:06 (four years ago) link
I’m really digging Devs. The camera work is gorgeous, and I think some of it is shot at UCSC. Don’t want to spoil anything though.
― DJI, Saturday, 14 March 2020 15:27 (four years ago) link
We just binge watched the first 5 episodes of Devs, and it's pretty good, yeah. Some of the themes feel maybe a bit too well-trodden in sci-fi, but the look and sound of the show is consistently great, Salisbury and Barrow have done as great a job with the music as with Annihilation. And some of the visual details they've put into creating an eccentric tech geek's paradise are neat, love those ring lights around the trees, and the Dev team headquarters look amazing.
― Tuomas, Saturday, 28 March 2020 21:51 (four years ago) link
no idea what Devs is but maybe it should have its own spoilers thread so ppl idly scrolling thru here don't get them...
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 29 March 2020 00:20 (three years ago) link
I’d be down for a thread
It’s a new show on FX/Hulu from Alex Garland fyi
― mh, Sunday, 29 March 2020 00:41 (three years ago) link
Devs is an eight-part miniseries created, written and directed by Garland, currently airing weekly, that I'd intended to start until the spoilers above.
― Dollarmite Is My Name (sic), Sunday, 29 March 2020 00:42 (three years ago) link
xpost
― Dollarmite Is My Name (sic), Sunday, 29 March 2020 00:43 (three years ago) link
Sorry about that, though the stuff we discussed happens in the second episode, and it's not really a big spoiler regarding the main plot... Like I said, this is not really a mystery show, they show they cards almost right from the start.
― Tuomas, Sunday, 29 March 2020 08:55 (three years ago) link
I'll start a new thread and ask the mods to delete the spoiler posts.
― Tuomas, Sunday, 29 March 2020 08:56 (three years ago) link
A thread for Devs, the new Alex Garland show on FX/HBO (with SPOILERS)
― Tuomas, Sunday, 29 March 2020 09:01 (three years ago) link
Saw Men tonight. Good build-up for the first half, some beautiful shots, and a final 30 minutes that was insane and felt twice as long. Between this, I'm Thinking of Ending Things, and her weird turn in Fargo, Jessie Buckley seems to be the default actress for--I'm not sure how to describe whatever it is.
― clemenza, Thursday, 16 June 2022 02:06 (one year ago) link
she's in The Lost Daughter too, although a bit less - whatever it is
― kinder, Thursday, 16 June 2022 19:20 (one year ago) link