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@whitenoisereacts Год назад

What is your favorite cosmic horror movie?

@ericb9252 Год назад

Underwater was pretty good

@Timeisaflat_O Год назад

Dark Waters (1993) is a really good one.

@sonnyhenriksen284 Год назад

Alien ( 1979 ) a classic.

@sonnyhenriksen284 Год назад

Event Horizon is also pretty hard-core.

@shainewhite2781 Год назад

Color Out Of Space with Nic Cage.

@phoenixkingtheo Год назад

That bear scene is the only scene I saw in theaters where I actively looked away form the screen. Something mixed with the design of the bear and the terrifying aspect of it mimicking the last screams of its prey just got me. One of the scariest movie monsters hands down.

@riveraharper8166 Год назад

That bear scene was terryfying to me. And I watched the Alien chestbursters scene when I was 10...

@jiji7250 Год назад

its highly possible that it wasn’t mimicking cass but that cass merged with the bear as the shimmer merged stuff’s dna

@napostrophen Год назад

@@jiji7250I assumed it merged vocal cords when she was killed and dragged away from the group. They did find the body next to a tree outside later.

@Knightmare435 Год назад

@@napostrophen More than that, if you look on the left brow of the bear, there is a partial human skull sharing the orbital bone with the bear skull, teeth and all. The bear had spliced in human Cassie's DNA and had developed similar physiological traits with Cassie specifically, hence the identical voice.

@AlonsoTherion 11 месяцев назад

yeah, pretty much it

@TheForsakenEagle Год назад

Every so often, a great scifi movie is allowed onto the big screen. Annihilation is one of them.

@shainewhite2781 Год назад

The Screaming Bear: Nightmare Fuel!😱

@barrysheppard7574 Год назад

After watching the bear scene I had to watch about an hour of Disney videos 😊

@MegaroadProducciones Год назад

@@barrysheppard7574 Oops, if you see anything from STALKER, you'll be traumatized for life then.

@jacobkeiser4780 Год назад

Dude istg when I first watched that I was FU****

@klass_1221 Год назад

Aint no regular bear. That was "Shimmer Demon Boar Bear". 😅

@bradmullaerialphotography 11 месяцев назад

Agreed

@abc.animal5143 Год назад

This movie was actually scary, especially that bear scene.

@M_k-zi3tn Год назад

I didn't get this movie the first time I watched, like at all. My tiny teen brain was too confused.

@craigmerryfull7704 Год назад

ikr, theres just something so creepy about the indifference of predators.

@thdenwheja756 Год назад

Man, I forgot how uncomfortable that made me until I just saw it again here. NOTHING ABOUT IT IS RIGHT.

@abc.animal5143 Год назад

@@thdenwheja756 the whole movie was pretty unsettling but that scene takes the cake

@rumuelnathanael8043 9 месяцев назад

It is a horror movie tho.. scifi horror..

@chazertronfivethousand4425 Год назад

My theory is that when we lose track of the alien, when we perceive "her" coming out of the hole, we switch perspectives. The alien is then shown trying to prevent her from leaving. That is actually the original, but she looks alien to the new "her". When she fully understands this, she accepts her old self is too injured and must die so the new self can live the way her original husband did, while he was talking to his new self.

@100organicfreshmemes5 8 месяцев назад

Neat theory, and it does explain the alien being out of the hole before her. But I think there's the issue of the shimmer being destroyed. If the original her died and the copy lived how was the shimmer destroyed? Her husband died and the copy left but the shimmer remained. I'm pretty sure the reason it disappeared is the alien inherited her suicidal thoughts and desire to destroy the shimmer, and so spread the phosphorous to the shimmer's heart (the whole chamber Ventress was found in) and killed it. Also, the alien copy has awkward, slightly delayed movements early on while it's still learning to mimic her. If what we see as the alien was the original, why would she be imitating the alien instead of trying to run away?

@TopsyTriceratops Год назад

Such an awesome mind-bending film, with terrific terror to boot! I wish there were more movies like this, not so much the mind melting adventure but the way people can make normal function become alien. Like the bear with a human skull attached to it with the victim's voice, the flower-deer, and the shark-o-dile. Super creepy, but also fulfills that desire for creativity.

@carlossaraiva8213 Год назад

This movie is a bit like a 21th century Stalker.

@echinorlax Год назад

I wonder how much of what happened inside the shimmer with all expeditions (prior and the protagonist's) reflected the fact it was probably treated like suicide mission by everybody involved, crews and people sending them alike. Because who would volunteer for a mission like that? Only a person who has nothing to return to in first place. That's imho why Kane volunteered to go "right now"; he learned of his wife cheating. To me that's an answer to the question asked by the interrogator, why she's first and only to return: Natalie Portman's character found herself in the camp involuntarily and her own death wasn't on her mind at all. She simply was the only one wanting to return.

@shainewhite2781 Год назад

I highly recommend the HP Lovecraft cosmic horror The Color Out Of Space with Nic Cage.

@robzonrodriguez8340 Год назад

Screaming Bear = Shit in my pants. 😢

@TheJerbol Год назад

The movie tagline

@EChacon Год назад

Worth noting this is James and Nobu’s first Horror movie reaction in 8-10 months as Nobu’s last horror movie he reacted was _Scream_ and James last horror film reaction was _Barbarian_ and throughout the first 6 months of 2023 it was the Girls (Hailey and Stella) that did the reactions to the Horror films. I definitely would like to see James and Nobu do more Horror films reactions on the channel.

@GravityFalloutPines 8 месяцев назад

The bear scene and lighthouse scene are both masterpieces

@delwynklassen3644 Год назад

I really got into the math, biology, landscapes, and aesthetics of fractals, so that was my lens watching this. Also, the books of Stanislaw Lem (Polish sci-if) who wrote alien/worlds as truly alien and ultimately impossible to fully understand.

@Heritage367 Год назад

Solaris is a personal favorite of mine. I like both the Russian and American adaptations in different ways

@jacekstopa2728 Год назад

From a Polish perspective: the American adaptation actually understands the novel better (and apparently Lem preferred it - he never saw the complete Tarkovsky movie and he called Soderbergh's vision "complete") There is also an earlier Soviet tv adaptation, which is probably the most faithful... on a Soviet tv theatre budget.@@Heritage367

@nicepunk00 Год назад

Yep, Solaris is awesome.@@Heritage367

@Johnny_Socko Год назад

@@Heritage367 Same! It's one of the few times where different approaches to the same story both worked so well. Soderbergh's version is worth it for the music alone.

@JGfromSpace. Год назад

I can’t recommend this to everyone, but this is one of my favorite sci-fi films in recent years.

@DataCab1e 9 месяцев назад

The protoform morphing into Lena reminded me of an A.I. model refining itself to match a source image.

@bertxstar 9 месяцев назад

14:00 - "So was she cheating with this guy?" - "On Oscar Isaac!?" I really get you girl...

@nikolaikai940 Год назад

Can someone get Stella a booster seat for those group shots? 😅

@questionablehumor2800 Год назад

The "Ship of Theseus" is also a thread to pull on

@janeryder43 10 месяцев назад

I really love when it's the four of you, it feels like I'm with friends having epic conversations about movies. The one with 2001 and this one are my favourites!

@joerafferty3248 11 месяцев назад

Your point at the end about how this is such a vague film that doesn't leave clues to explain what happened, is exactly what i love most about this film. It doesn't feel the need to spoon feed you closure and instead asks you to make up your own mind about what "The Shimmer" really is as well as the effect it has on humans. I'm a pro ambiguity person when it comes to stories, especially if it's done well as opposed to just shoehorned cliffhangers that are done to set up unnecessary sequels or spin offs. I highly recommend Ex Machina as well done by the same writer/director Alex Garland. A true work of art that is one of the best science fiction films of my lifetime.

@ulfingvar1 Год назад

Masterpiece. Total masterpiece. It's almost up there with 2001.

@axeisthill5386 Год назад

its just bad metaphysics like the rest of scifi.

@ulfingvar1 Год назад

@@axeisthill5386 Then, please, go back to masturbating to fucking Marvel

@ulfingvar1 5 месяцев назад

@@axeisthill5386 Very insightful reply. Now go watch some Marvel shite.

@rayhutchinson640 Год назад

Fanrtastic reaction! I loved your editing and 4-screen setup, too, as well as the after-show analysis. It made me want to watch more of your reactions!

@Sleepingenthusiast 10 месяцев назад

The tattoo is Uroboros, a symbol for self-destruction. The entire movie is a metaphor for self-destruction

@IsmaelSilva7 Год назад

Good reaction guys, i recommended you guys this movie like 5 years ago, finally the day has arrived lol. This movie was great bc it leaves you equally intrigued and disturbed and you keep thinking about it days (weeks?) after. Hope you guys check out more Cosmic Horror (Event Horizon, The Empty Man, The Color Out of Space) and Space Horror (Apollo 18, Life). Also the "No one will save you" movie that just came its so good, you'll enjoy it.

@robertfishburn8545 Год назад

Amazingly under rated movie. Great suspense building, music, characters, and i love Natalie Portman

@malexander4094 Год назад

@48:00 You're close! My own take on this moment of the movie is that a being capable of willing itself to self-destruct "teaches" an alien being, which does NOT know self-destruction, only self-duplication...like a tumor...Leena gives the alien a new knowledge it did not previously have. That's why it didn't "want" anything. It's a wild, wild meditation on our innermost natures, and not just us either, but life itself: why does it seem "programmed" within every biological lifeform to be capable of destroying itself? THAT is why Ventress picked these team members: **they are all self-sabatoging people.** Kane decided to go on a suicide mission when he realized his wife was cheating on him. What are ways we, even the seemingly healthiest & sanest of us, slowly sabotage ourselves? Meanwhile the alien is a being that does not seem to know what annihilation even is. But in turn, this makes life into a malignant force, neverending, always growing...so, does life *need* annihilation? I don't think there's been a star-studded sci-fi movie as brilliant as this one since "Children of Men." And, I also (personally!) like this movie better than the novel it's adapted from.

@daviviana8016 20 дней назад

I got huge Darkwood vibes, the thing that falls from the sky and starts changing everything around it etc, damn I want a game of this movie

@yzolakitchi Год назад

Such a beautiful film. Blew my mind the first time I watched it. I love the ambiguity, the questioning of what we deem our identity to be composed of. Really loved your quizzical commentary ;-0 You must check out EXISTENZ (1999) which also stars Jennifer Jason Leigh who played Dr Ventress. Another beautiful and strange sci-fi horror.

@CanalTremocos Год назад

I watched that movie when it came out and was very excited to learn about Cronenberg's take on the emergent gamer culture. A very new concept at the time. The movie didn't disappoint.

@yzolakitchi Год назад

@@CanalTremocos Yes, very ahead of his time. I particularly like his use of bioports which surely can't be that far off, given the speed at which VR, prosthetics and AI seem to progress😁 Not sure I am ready to fully integrate myself with biological material just yet, though 😳😳😳

@tylerhackner9731 Год назад

Awesome film

@unknowngaming1432 Год назад

I love this movie. My personal interpretation is that the movie is like The Shimmer. Its refracting our life in a way that is mutated and different. Its similar, but not quite the same, like the copying in the film. The visuals are both beautiful and terrifying, occasionally at the same time. Every good things has an equal bad, (The flower species being mixed into one plant mirrors the soldier whos body got mixed with the fungi.) But it also goes to show that life doesnt choose, it doesnt want anything, it just does. The deer in the forest are like an example of twins, copies of the same cell. We usually would say thats a beautiful thing, but when cells copy in a cancerous way, then it becomes terrible. I think the "thing" in the lighthouse was the embodiment of life itself. It had no form, no shape. Its indescribable. It just is. I also think a big reason why this movie is so impactful is because, im my interpretation is correct, its close enough to something we know that it can feel comfortable, but its different enough to seem alien and be scary. P.s. the song choice at the end at the lighthouse id have to say was an AMAZING choice. It feels otherworldly but familiar enough to recognise it as "music" and not just sounds. For those wondering its "Interlude" by Moderat

@XENONEOMORPH1979 Год назад

i guess the film when the first guy could not remember anything is to give thoes going in the bubble was to give them pens and a note pad to write in detail of their experiences.

@rationalthought846 9 месяцев назад

I thought this movie was excellent cosmic horror and the movie makes much more sense than the book(s) (though the books are extremely eerie). The shimmer (likely) has NO meaning- it is neither evil or good nor does it necessarily even think or want to communicate- it is alien. It takes everything apart and recombines them. This includes light, DNA, personalities. Lena's doppelganger allows herself to be destroyed because it picked up Natalie Portman's self destructive tendencies that led her to cheat. Lena's other self, picks up to her need to return to her "husband" to search for forgiveness. Her husband loses his sense of self (because her infidelity) but still loves her hence his doppelganger picks up the need to return to her (even though the other half immolates himself). The crystal trees are a combination of trees, and the lighthouse Fresnel Lense. All the characters are destroyed or modified per their personalities. Josie is accepting and turns into a plant, Dr Ventress wants to know what the shimmer is and the knowledge destroys her, Sheppard has lost herself because of the tragedy in her life and lives in fear and loneliness and her fear is absorbed into the bear (which also has other faces growing out of its hide implying that it absorbed others). Perhaps the guy with the snakes or worms in his belly did not like himself and thought he was a snake? The books are excellent but in typical Vandermeer style don't make sense. The movie is much more logical while maintaining the eeriness of the books.

@ArunKumar-bp5lo Год назад

my theory every scene is perspective of the copy , copy started existing hen they entered & as it develops it stores memory that's why they don't remember where they entered , how many days have passed as the copy was was just initial stage of developing inside them

@MRLuckyE85 Год назад

This is a spectacular movie about interaction with alien life. Nothing malicious, no master plan to obliterate humanity with lasers. It's more like a seed from an invasive species fell off a ship. There's nothing intentional, it's just nature from another planet, growing on earth, interacting strangely with earth's biology and matter. As with invasive species, it is ultimately destructive and can throw everything out of balance. The copy of Lena that the core of the anomaly created is dead, it was unsuccessful. Lena at the very end, however, is in more of a "Ship of Theseus" situation, where her cells have changed so much, more amounts of her are replaced with alien material than not. At which point does she cease to be her old self? Maybe her husband didn't feel he was any longer his old self, and feels the copy is more recognizable as him than he is, so he killed himself, and told his copy to find her.

@Saturnm0ss 10 месяцев назад

The visceral horror I feel at the Bear scene makes me cry

@firestorm1088 Год назад

This is what cosmic horror is supposed to be. The alien is so alien that it’s completely beyond the capacity of our primitive ape brains to make sense of what they’re seeing. It warps our reality with it’s mere presence and all we can do is stare at it while our natural curiosity battles our fear of the unknown.

@changsangma1915 Год назад

If Lovecraft was alive today to see this, he'll be proud to see people achieved to make a way to create otherworldly visuals he could only imagine through his writings.

@The_LaughingHyena 10 месяцев назад

On the topic of the time dilation, it is possible that time can be refracted within the shimmer since it is a defined area of our world. It could have an upward limit, since to influence the sun the shimmer would have to be large enough to envelope it as well. It is entirely possible that time jumps and refracts in odd ways in the shimmer but still have standard night and day cycles.

@TiberiusTheLivingLegend Год назад

46:22 ok now I remember where the meme music came from😂

@Shyknit 11 месяцев назад

I'm so happy y'all reacted to this no one ever does and it's one of my favorite cosmic horror movies!

@proosee Год назад

Probably the only Netflix movie that is actually worth recommending.

@boboboy8189 Год назад

Because this movie is not produced by Netflix but paramount Who sell the rights to Netflix after production studios were against director vision.

@proosee Год назад

@@boboboy8189 damn it, I thought I found at least one decent Netflix movie 😅

@alexfielding7191 11 месяцев назад

There is a theme as to why they're all women, in fact they said why minutes before you talked about it. The previous missions were military and were teams of men so now they're trying a team of women instead.

@TheQuestingBeastSpotted Год назад

I think they were already doubles when they "woke up" in the campsite- I think they all died then they crossed and were replaced already, which explains why they didn't remember anything before the campsite. And why they all got stranger and stranger- they were refractions of themselves, not the originals. Each refraction becomes more and more distorted until they become part of the shimmer and unrecognizable, but at what point are you still you? If the bear takes your voice, is that still you? If you become plants, are you still you? How many permutations can you take before you are no longer Theseus's ship? I freaking love this movie. It's so beautiful and scary.

@Hereticked Год назад

If at the end of this movie all your questions are about what the shimmer was and what it was doing, you're focused on the wrong elements of the movie. Watch a video called "Annihilation and Decoding Metaphor" for a good rundown of the film's themes. This is not a movie where literal analysis of the plot will help you understand it. The dialogue and social interactions are key. It's all about the metaphors.

@mmmaxxx__ Год назад

*Why Kane died* there are two main links that need to be analyzed: kane and his clone, and kane and lena. you could make the argument that kane developed suicidal mental illness, either preconceived by the cheating and exacerbated by the shimmer, or kickstarted purely by the shimmer. body and mind can both mutate; while some people turned into plants or fungi, others felt early onset dementia symptoms or became more emotionally unstable. others remained largely unchanged. the movie continuously explains that the shimmer is not evil, it just exists, mirrors, and creates, all at an alarmingly fast rate. by the time kane's clone developed self awareness, it experienced the same mental illness kane developed throughout the expedition. when kane was driven over the edge, his clone's mental illness did not help the situation, it didn't stop him, probably felt empathetic and as irrational as kane, and allowed him to end his life. as the clone mirrored kane's thoughts, the reason why the clone didn't kill himself too becomes clear. kane wanted the clone to live on, find lena, be there for her (for whatever reason, he couldn't do it himself, and chose death), so the clone also mirrored that wish. this is also supported by the movie giving hints to the idea that kane and his clone were on talking terms, holding conversation, but before we even get to know this, we first hear the following monologue by Kane: *"I thought I was a man, I had a life, people called me Kane, and now I'm not so sure. If I wasn't Kane, what was I? Was I you? Were you me? My flesh moves like liquid. My mind is cut loose. I can't bear it. I can't bear it."* this is not directed at the clone, but at Lena, not necessarily expecting that she will find this video. he explains she was everything to him, and the cheating destroyed him; a sort of "without you i'm nothing", his wife's infidelity broke his own identity. as someone else once put it, self destruction was a key theme to the movie and he went into the shimmer because he had a wife that was cheating on him and nothing to live for. what comes next isn't for lena, but a casual conversation between him and the clone that implies they had been talking for quite a while. his last words: *"You've ever seen a phosphorus grenade go off? They're kinda bright. Shield your eyes. If you ever get out of here, find Lena."* the clone's purpose is for lena to still have a husband, so that she does not learn that the real kane couldn't live with his wife's brutal betrayal and decided to end his life due to it. he acted selflessly to protect her even after she was selfish. "if you ever get out of here" could mean that they both shared suicidal ideation, so kane was hoping for his clone find a way to live on and survive. it's so interesting how, while we are perfectly aware of the cheating, the movie is so beautiful and bizarre it completely puts Kane's mental illness and betrayal driving him to commit suicide to the side, and only comes back to the main stage once we try to make sense of the film. the movie isn't vague at all, but the stories inside the film are broken into so many little pieces by the shimmer and covered by this kaleidoscope of stimuli that they must be put back together in order to understand

@guardian35 Год назад

This movie is the epitome of Cosmic/Existential/Lovecraftian Horror. Encountering some seemingly unstoppable and indescribably force or entity so beyond the scope of human understanding that you can only hope to survive and not be driven completely mad by the experience. You won't find answers. Only the dreadful fear of not knowing. The only thing you are suddenly absolutely sure of is how small, insignificant, and utterly helpless you are when even your basic understanding of reality, perception, and your place in the universe has just been shattered and realizing you will never be the same because of it. The Color Out of Space and The Void are also great Lovecraftian horror movies to watch. "The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown...Some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new Dark Age." ~H.P. Lovecraft

@benjaminschinella3491 Год назад

I literally JUST watched this again this morning and was hoping yall would watch it sometime and here we are lol

@TJMiton Год назад

this is one of the best recent hard sci fi movies. it's so gorgeous and just brilliantly done in its dedign and writing. PS: it burnt the husband and her to hide their bodies once the shimmer drops.

@QueenElderberry 10 месяцев назад

I’m a huge fan of both the book and movie for this. They’re really not comparable, because they’re almost entirely different, but both very good.

@codyfletcher7218 Год назад

As for your discussion about time being relative, concrete or refracted, remember at the beginning Lena said she doesn’t remember eating, and then immediately upon waking in the Shimmer, finds out they had already eaten 4 days’ supply worth of food without remembering. Which means while time seems to pass normally for us and the world, they could be lost in thought or memories for days at a time and not realize it, interestingly bringing up the idea that every single thing we see in the Shimmer is the ONLY things they actually experience, and would feel like the structure of a film while they’re trying to interpret through context what is going on at the moment.

@dragonlily29 11 месяцев назад

Love this movie, so interesting and the ideas and set designs and creatures and such is so beautiful and cool. I think that Lenas double accepted death because of the self destructive aspect and her deep regret. She wanted that part of herself that betrayed her husband to be gone and dead and when the double was made she was able to truly cleave that part of herself off and it willfully died as she wished. People can always change and evolve who they are and who they want to be. But in the end the shimmer bended, blended and changed everything it came in contact with. Lena will never be the same. It begs the question, what makes us who we are? There is another older movie called Dark City that I won't describe cuz it gives too much away but the purpose of the film is to ask; Are we who we are because of a predestined or innate "soul" or are we shaped by our surroundings and experiences? Or both? This reminds me of it a lot even though the films are quite different.

@dragonlily29 11 месяцев назад

As for why Lena COULD survive it was pretty clear. It was a suicide mission. Everyone the psychiatrist vetted to enter were people who had nothing to lose or were accepting of possibly not returning for various reasons. Lenas husbands double returned because Kane still loved Lena and gave it purpose to return to her. Lena returned because she entered with the purpose to save Kane, to save him she had to return. You had to have a strong enough will to return, to live. A reason, a purpose, resolve.

@SerenePaletteStudios 11 месяцев назад

💀💀 the girl with red-ish hair already is scared of crocodiles and when the guy with the heart for cinema said "just a crocodile" ... she went What do u mean it's just a crocodile. Man i love watching while zooted ❤ keep up the good work

@Fredsyah 11 месяцев назад

This movie... Even tho there's no jumpscare, i can still feel the horror... It's make feel uncomfortable, sometimes i feel curious too. Some scene are very beautiful yet so horrifying... The music also... Very memorable... Overall i love this movie, I've never feel this from any other movie...

@gargin1633 2 месяца назад

We truly need a "What the heck?" counter for y'all.

@alexpalaciossantos4940 11 месяцев назад

i think the fact that lena is a biologist and she is introduced talking about cells is an important clue. She says that all cells originate from one cell. we have undifferentiated cells in our bodies, stem cells, and i think that metallic fractal kaleidoscope in the lighthouse might be like the alien, super -omipotential cell that can divide into anything. So i think that lena and the "copy" are more like the end product of one cell that has undergone mitosis and become two. between the two cells, which one do you say is the original and which one do you say is the copy?

@pendulumandraven9338 Год назад

I have a theory. the copy set the light house on fire because of "self-destruction"... like the ouroboros tattoo literally means self destruction I'm an old sub of your channel and i f love it when you guys react to these kinds visually magnificent of movies.

@romakizino6131 Год назад

After knowing what Stalker, picnik on the roadside and Solaris is, its kinda difficult for me to get this movie serious.

@jons8607 Год назад

Wow, can't believe you mentioned life is strange. Actually really like that game. Definitely deserves a remake/reboot.

@solarianess Год назад

i actually watched this movie for the first time myself a couple weeks ago ! I throughly enjoyed it because it's one of those sci-fis that makes you truly think and it also looked so stunning to me. Just an interesting movie for sure

@in6087 Год назад

It’s said that the refraction of the water glass in the scenes between Natalie and Oscar is wrong (a cgi effect)

@haleyblank9679 Год назад

If you liked the movie you should definitely check out the books. I saw this movie and couldn’t stop thinking about it afterwards and so I picked up the books and absolutely devoured them. The books won’t answer your questions, but they will expand the concepts and characters in ways the movie couldn’t

@pearluniverse7878 11 месяцев назад

omg this is one of my faves! i see almost no reactions to this. not many people watch cosmic horror

@KoppelSS 8 месяцев назад

I really liked this movie, watched it few times and the soundtrack is beautiful and most scary I have heard.

@carlossaraiva8213 Год назад

After watching her in two seasons of Westworld playing a very hateful femme fatalle character, this movie made me like Tessa Thompson a lot, she nailed the sweet nice geeky girl to the T.

@ravissary79 Год назад

I think she didn't come back. She, like her returning husband, is a copy... but shes better. The alien is trying to adapt and is failing by mixing what it encounters, its like mutation and evolution. Nothing survives change, yet change is the only means of survival. She is the only one to survive because she adapted... or did she, maybe the alien finally adapted, this time fully... so effectively that she IS her. They're the same. Whether she changed it or it changed her, effective survivable change is the result: a kind of heigelian dialectic of theisis and antithesis resulting in synthesis. After the interview she just FEELS different, like she's finally escaped the shimmer, that she has a secret no one could possibly understand except her husband.

@ravissary79 Год назад

I think a true copy can't tell which is which. YES, like what Stella said.

@theramdomchannel8329 10 месяцев назад

She is not Lena anymore, but its not becouse she's a copy, its becouse she's mutated, so she isn't exactly the same person who enetered the shimmer He is not Kane either, but she loves him becouse there is still some of the original Kane in him The alien was a creature similar to cancer. It doesen't think, it doesen't want anything, it just expands and copies and combines everything arround itself, but when the change is too much, when every single molecule is mixed, its all just a blurr, a cancerous growth. Its destroyed. She killed it by transmiting into it the human instinct of self destruction, wich we all have coded in us for some reason, tho we see it in diferent stages in the diferent characters: the ones who had no aparent reason to kill themselves but volunteered for the mision, the ones who wanted to figure it out no matter what becouse they were already dying, the ones who gave themselvels up to the muation process... And the portagonists, who manages to overcome it becouse she has a good reason to live She also transmited to it her love for Kane, thats why the creature carases Kane's dead body before crawling back into the hole. Maybe she loved him so much she wanted to die with him, burn everything hthat had killed him. that's what she gave up to come out of the shimmer a new person who can start anew with the ne Kane

@marinagreens8910 Год назад

I rented this movie after it was released and could not get passed 30 minutes before stopping in frustration, just not for me

@cozydayzandnightz Год назад

If I had to guess, at the end, I think she is the real her. At this point, given how long she's been in the shimmer, though she is her, what her body has mutated into is unclear. Another question is, did the entity destroy the shimmer due to the coding of self destruction, or did it have no reason to be now that she is the host and carrier of all of the shimmer? I dunno, it asks a lot of cool and interesting questions.

@notyouraveragelemon6128 Год назад

Yo, I just rewatched this like, a week ago

@okanda4041 Год назад

The bear just f*cked me bro its so scary

@rx303303 Год назад

This movie is a criticism of a self-destructive nature of the humankind and the life itself. Cancer is an example of such "life" which self-destructs itself by growing. All squad members are self-destructive in their relations. Lena's double copied that her tendency and destroyed itself. And, yeah, go watch Stalker.

@OGJohnMarston Год назад

They were saying at the table when they all met for the first time, its all scientist women because so far its all just been military teams, presumably male military teams. Just switching to see if anything different happens.

@ukaszgrzesik7231 11 месяцев назад

The movie was ok but it is based on first book of a trilogy. And I feel story should be experienced as part of greater one.The Southern Raach by Jeff Vandermeer. An amazing series by amazing author. The most dread inducing books I ever read. I also highly recommend his Ambergriss series.

@Yakerina Год назад

My thought on what happened was that they traded bodies.

@SerenePaletteStudios 11 месяцев назад

OH my god my suspicion towards the blonde woman chief is very hard, i feel like she might have manipulated her into the mission, or maybe it's my weird skepcism towards my therapist lmao

@captainteeko4579 Год назад

Ayyyyy I was wondering if y’all had seen this one ✨ that bear/human creature is terrifying 😭

@jamesprime7932 Месяц назад

The best part of this is you guys keep saying whats in their minds. And none of it is lol. Its all really happening. Its all physical, real, none of it is deception, the bear is yelling help me with its victims voice.

@georgenelawson9917 Год назад

The mirroring replicating is like what happened to Michael Myers he could have been duplicated or replicated by this thing and nobody can see the difference but he acts little different like body snatchers

@jakemcnulty Год назад

The other possible reason the team’s all women is also likely due to being out of men with equivalent qualifications and capabilities to send into the shimmer

@napostrophen Год назад

The original girl made it out alive and the copy died in the fire because it couldn’t be put out due to the cells constantly growing, essentially making the fire continuous until everything died. The shimmer is in her cells just like the copy of the husband who is with her.

@matt-oo6fu Год назад

i LOVE this movie so much

@CryptidGirlNextDoor Год назад

The bear in my eyes was ✨perfection✨ Overall it’s a great movie! ❤️

@ShilohSmith Год назад

My theory is that the second anyone steps into the shimmer they’re no longer who they were. It instantly starts morphing and mutating the DNA. In the end, there was no right or wrong person because no one creature or person existed as they did before. They’re all one organism made of everything. The clone both was and wasn’t a clone of Lena. It was both Lena and not Lena. EVERYTHING about this movie makes sense if you think of it that way, it’s all mirroring everything at the same time. “I used to think I knew who I was but now I’m not sure, and I me? Am I you? Am I anyone?” Nobody and nothing in there knows what it is because it’s constantly bouncing back and forth

@madmonkey545 Год назад

I watched this movie with my friend and I have never hated a movie so much like I am so sorry yall it didn’t make any sense to me 🥴 BUT I did like the visuals I felt like I was tripping

@jenniferdarling6 Год назад

I'm on book 2, so good!

@meowza3k Год назад

The movie borrows alot. the pacing and mysteriousness is Kubrick and Tarkovsky. The plot is Who goes there? / The Thing(82) and classic Body Snatchers(although it includes the environment here). The affected area reminds me of a B-movie from 1966 called The Bubble(somewhat recycled in 2015 as Under the Dome)

@lucaacatalepsy9725 Год назад

THEORY INSIDE! beware lol. from what I understand the shot where you see the tattoo it's like where you switch POV and where Lena becomes two minds. the one with the tattoo that was forming is supposedly Lena, the copy that is based on her genes wouldnt have the tattoo because ink isnt genetic - at least as far as I know and I don't think the movie states otherwise, I think how she got the tattoo is that during the trip the characters were refracting off each other like a room becoming orange if it shines against something coloured orange first, hence tattoo - so when we cut to the grenade, now Lena2 shares the same thought that Lena1 had "pull the grenade pin" but to me she almost looks confused when she exits. then Lena1 the biologist would know that to remove cancer you would have to remove the source, so in the fog of knowing she wants this to end (possibly for the same reason Kane, her husband, killed himseld, because of the cheating and what it did to them mentally) but is divided from the Lena2 task of surviving, fulfills the remainder of what she knows which is "Annihilation", thus destroying the seedbed of this alien. I also think that in this process it makes the other particles of cancer "Kane2" and "Lena2" benevolent tumors instead of malignant and the body (the world outside the bubble) is no longer trying to destroy them. so I think the movie is more the Annihilation of Kane and Lena, their relationship, their identities, from being married, Kane being depressed and likely suicidal due to Lena's cheating, Lena being the same due to the guilt she feels. this is the path to self-destruction that I think is somewhat referenced in her memories, where Kane says everyone eventually self destructs. I also think (but very loosely) that the reason why there is any remnant of this alien is because Lena from the start believed that it's not humans' purpose but a genetic fault, so theoretically Kane2 and Lena2 are the "solution" to human's path to self destruction that is aging. I did see a review of the movie before and these are the conclusions and theories that i like that the creator also approved of, but the meaning is never explained by the creator, there are just known theories that they like, but that doesn't mean that that is the truth.

@patsey3199 Год назад

This is a rare occurrence of me skipping the reaction to see the review. I fully intend on watching the reaction; but I had too little time in the moment.

@georgenelawson9917 Год назад

Maybe the real him was feeling himself dying he knew he couldn't go back to her he could feel the things moving inside him like the footage he showed before they had opened somebody up and there was something moving inside that person same with him probably

@santiagohardy2728 Год назад

One of my very favorite sci fi films to come out in the last decade. It showed me something completely new. The third act, the sound design was a character unto itself. Garland's vision of the book, STUNNING.

@davegnarlsson4344 Год назад

The lady on the right had the answer and you guys dismissed it. Remember the title of the movie. It's much simpler than you think it is. The alien left the shimmer as a copy of her husband. It takes two to reproduce. The women went in and that gave the alien a chance to sent itself out as a female, too. The shimmer dissipated because the alien achieved its goal. It is now able to reproduce and annihilate.

@prettybxy77 3 месяца назад

If you liked this movie, then you have to read the books. It's a trilogy. The characters are queer and/or people of color. The lore is deeper and better explained. The biologist goes through the most character development, including completely losing her humanity. You learn a lot more about the government facility and the people who run it. (The psychologist is actually the center director.) Nevertheless, the movie is one of my all-time favorites.

@shakeramendez2417 11 месяцев назад

You guys should watch no one will save you.

@WheresWaldo05 Год назад

I was half asleep during the bear sequence. Never again will i watch this movie.

@kengwallgmail Год назад

This is a highly metaphorical film. Folding Ideas has an excellent analysis of the themes in the film.

@jwhite-1471 Год назад

I do think the copy died, but Lena is forever changed by having been in the shimmer. The tattooo that formed on her came from one of the other members of her team originally. The shimmer was just grabbing stuff and mixing it all together, and randomly splicing those features into everything that was inside it, with items close to each other getting the most sharing (hence the bear that tore out the woman's throat getting her voice). I personally believe that, ultimately, Lena brought the shimmer out with her -- when she stood right next to the heart of it and stared into it, it became part of her. I think her husband was a copy, but she was somehow infused with its essence while still remaining mostly herself. The only real question is why she survived when no one else did, but that might just be a device to show us that in the end, it's not the end -- the shimmer goes on, the alien is among us.

@emilywilhite5807 Год назад

I agree. I think Kane is the ‘copy’ and Lena is the original but mutated.

@necrona Год назад

I think the bear and every other being inside survived too and idk if they managed to control the area... birds an bugs might definitely get out into the world.

@changsangma1915 Год назад

That's what makes this movie eerie and unsettling, that this world is f*ked because the Shimmer will continue to slowly affect everything.

@lucar2293 11 месяцев назад

The tattoo was on the body that was "blooming" in the military base swimming pool.

@Ariq1144 10 месяцев назад

@@changsangma1915 I think once the Shimmer's field / Area X is gone, the mutations are no longer possible (and thus won't spread to the world). But then again I don't know much about this movie so maybe you're right

@vendy8207 Год назад

One ending explanation that I love most : Notice when alien is copying Lena, first it mirrors her every action. But as it turns more human, background music changes from synth to human and the alien also shows signs of independent action as he doesn't mirror her every action but still copying her thoughts and personality. That's why its palm is reversed as it accepts the grenade. Why did it do that? Because she was suicidal, depressed and guilt ridden over cheating on Oscar (which led to his death as he took the mission to go away) and alien accidentally copied her biggest trait : to burn her own house down! Hence the main alien doesn't bother with fire and instead of running or extinguishing the fire, goes into the deepest part of his layer. "Isn't self destruction coded into us?" Her cheating saved the world, woohoo. Just one interpretation ofcourse! Also I believe in the ending, Oscar was a copy and Natalie was a mutation.

@brooklynnewyork23 Год назад

That's interesting but problem I have with that theory is that for me the alien doesn't have any motivation. It just is what it is. Mixing up everything it comes into contact with. Sometimes beautifully, sometimes horrifically. But that measure is completely subjective. With this expedition into Area X, the team is revealed to be self-destructive and our biggest flaws become the biggest asset to destroy the shimmer. Kane having a southern accent and Lena having Anyas tattoo are physical manifestations of that, and we also get their monologues that they thenselves don't even know who or what they are anymore because their minds are also spliced as well.

@applegeepedigree Год назад

@@brooklynnewyork23 At the end of the day, it doesn't matter if Lena is a copy or not because the point is that she is no longer the same person anyway. She and Isaac are both irreversibly and forever changed by their experiences and metaphorically didn't survive.

@Johnny_Socko Год назад

I didn't latch onto this on my first viewing, but my theory is similar to yours, except that the trait it copied from Lena was her desire to destroy the Shimmer. As one of the characters observed earlier, "Ventress wants to face it, you [Lena] want to fight it." But that can still go hand-in-hand with Lena's own self-destructiveness and guilt.

@brooklynnewyork23 Год назад

Yea, it's the old War-of-the-Worlds-trope, which doesn't even feel cliche when it's done well like it is here. Apparently humanity sucks so bad this thing unalived itself in the end really

@80Jay71 Год назад

The selfdestruction is coded into our DNA to fight of rouge cells mutating beyond control. Cancer is simply cells where that safeguard has failed.

@EChacon Год назад

Apparently the film had some behind the scenes drama between David Ellison of Skydance who co-financed the film with Paramount and Scott Rudin the producer of the film during a test screening in the Summer of 2017. Ellison became concerned that the movie was “too intellectual” and “too complicated,” and wanted changes made to make it appeal to a wider audience which included making Portman’s character more sympathetic as well as tweaking the ending. Rudin on the other hand who was Alex Garland’s cheerleader and also produced _Ex Machina,_ sided with Garland, defending the movie and refused to take notes. Paramount who was caught in the middle of the conflict eventually decided to sold the international distribution rights to Netflix where it was streamed instead of being released to theaters while Paramount retained the theatrical rights in the US and Canada and China where the film underperformed at the box office. I would love if all four of you would react to _Ex Machina_ on the channel which was also directed by Alex Garland and starring Oscar Isaac who appeared in _Annihilation_

@turtlepope7802 Год назад

This is one of those movies where it's best to look at from a poetic, metaphorical lens instead of a science fiction "this is how it works" lens. It's a vibes movie, not a lore movie. The shimmer is unknowable, incomprehensible, a true eldritch being. It doesn't even seem to seek harm, it just is, and it is incompatible with us. It rejects understanding. But above all it's metaphor. Annihilation is its title. Self-destruction. Change. Trauma. Cancer. Grief. Death. Almost everything in this movie has a double meaning that tie into its themes. As Dan Olsen says in his fantastic video "Annihilation and Decoding Metaphor", which I highly recommend, "in this movie, metaphorical IS textual".

@j.f.fisher5318 Год назад

Focusing on lore ruins cosmic horror. Its the sense of dread and things aren't right. It's the Monty Hall problem but it's infected all of reality. Plotting out C'thulu's family tree ruins it.

@Tasuva Год назад

Very well said.

@SirMan48 6 месяцев назад

You nailed it. The Shimer IS the being. People seem to think the mimic is an entity, alien or living thing. It isn't. It's a complicated duplication of Lena created by her interaction with the source of the Shimer.

@SirMan48 6 месяцев назад

Just want to reiterate it. You nailed it. The being is the Shimer. The mimick is NOT the bring. The Shimer is.

@desivergara3002 Год назад

My favorite part about the bear scene is that the bear isn’t using Cass’ last words intentionally. It doesn’t know what syllables are words together and what order they go in. It’s just using the sounds without any context, screaming the ‘me’ out of ‘help me’ and using her screams intermixed. It’s just a creature ultimately, even if it held a shard of her voice in the moment of her death. That’s just terrifying to me. Like Josie said, Cass died in fear and pain and that was the only thing that survived her death. Nothing about her intelligence and kindness in life.

@LangkeeLongkee 10 месяцев назад

To me that mirrors the alien. Like Ventress said she doesn't think it wants. I don't think the alien MEANT any harm its just toxic to us by existing.

@desivergara3002 10 месяцев назад

@@LangkeeLongkeethat’s true! they didn’t have any concept of what they were doing particularly , just following their natural path. I’m sure the bear didn’t mean to absorb Cass’ last impression, surely just being a victim of the refractions.

@alexdavis5810 Год назад

I have to say it is really refreshing how empathetic you all are to the different characters, as opposed to others judging or hating on them and making fun the entire time.😊