I wish this had a better title.

Or it's just how it was named based on the book adaptation they're doing.

I was thinking about this yesterday with The Walk, and Bright is another one.

Yeah.... well, the film was titled after the novel it is based on. Couldn’t they have changed it? Meh... I like it. Don’t see what’s the problem with it - it really suits the film.

As for this being an ongoing problem with modern sci-fi flicks, oh please. I would argue that the filmmakers (and “sometimes” the studios) probably want to avoid going with something that is unnecessarily overlong and perhaps cheesy (a la 50’s sci-fi), so they prefer to keep the titles quick and to the point. Besides, hasn’t it been this way for many years now? Most of these titles turn out to be fitting, after all.

But while I kinda agree that some could use longer or maybe more unique titles, a title like “Annihilation completely works for this property. Lastly, I don’t see how “Alien”, “Predator”, “Contact”, “The Thing”, “Signs”, “Aliens” and a number of other well-known older sci-fi films had that much better titles and were ultimately any different than the likes of “Arrival”, “Inception”, “The Martian”, or yes, “Annihilation.” (To reiterate, it’s been this way for years.) Sorry sorry not sorry, “back in my day” xoomers.

This is the film Arrival should have been. It's a Sci-Fi Masterpiece, and the best film I've seen in years! It's rated 8.2 on IMDB,
but I give it a 9.8. The only film I've ever rated higher was 2001, the only film I've ever given a 10. I also LOVE the musical score, and will order the CD tomorrow.



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Why do you think "Annihilation" is not a good title? Isn't it a common concern in sci-fi movies that when mankind learn to gain immortality, we could lose our souls as a tradeoff? Genetic modification might be a path towards that ending.

The title is given much greater significance in the book and is one of the better bits. It's worth a read if you like Lovecraft et al but it's not without its flaws.

I hear ya! I would have called it "Pew-Pew-Kapow Aliens".

I sincerely think you missed the point of this film if you think the title is misplaced. I found it very fitting indeed.

I think we tend to associate our alien encounters and their subsequent attacks to be more like of our own making i.e. guns and explosions. Here we are exposed to a different kind of 'weapon', if it even was a weapon, that if allowed to continue would result in complete and utter annihilation, annihilation in it's truest meaning, no coming back, not a few crates and holes in the ground and radiation to deal with for a few millennia, no... complete and utter annihilation. It's just we associate the word 'annihilation' with violence, but here it was also a 'beautiful' annihilation, somewhat pretty in its dna destruction.

I enjoyed the ambiguity of it all, we still don't know if it was a deliberate attack, first contact, an unintended mistake etc. Are both the main characters at the end both themselves or clones/alien?
Either way Annihilation seemed very fitting indeed.

In all seriousness what would you have thought a better chosen title?