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Cool idea, failure in delivery....


I wanted to like this movie. It seemed really interesting, however, the movie was really disjointed and failed to actually convey what was going on. It needed more explanation to actually understand what was happening throughout the movie.

I am all for the use of ambiguity, as long as you setup the setting properly. As a fan of H.P. Lovecraft, he often left the reader hanging by restricting specific details, and only identifying how people went insane, mad, or otherwise based on traumatic events, or evil beings. Yet in this film, I was only left to briefly wonder what the premise was suppose to be about, and just moved on 5 minutes after the movie, because it was too vague and uninspiring. It failed to conjure worry, fear, apprehension, horror, immobilization, anxiety, etc... So, whats the point?

Either this movie was made from a book, and then they lost the point of the entire story, or the original idea was too simplistic, where the writers said "Lets make a movie about some alien force that alters biology, then scientists have to figure out whats happening." Well, you are going to spend millions of dollars on an idea like that? Sorry, but this movie failed.

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Well, you are going to spend millions of dollars on an idea like that?

https://www.ted.com/talks/jennifer_doudna_we_can_now_edit_our_dna_but_let_s_do_it_wisely
https://lifescivc.com/2016/05/riding-gene-editing-wave-reflections-crisprs-impressive-trajectory

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Intelligent responses only plz, lol.

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For intelligent person only, lol.

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When I was done with the movie all I could say at least it had nice visuals.... I can't stand when people act so illogically just to have the movie or book move forward.
The shimmer would have been nuked out of existence once it started growing and in this era of almost constant info this wouldn't be kept secret [especially all the people ursurped from their homes]

And ... They wanted to get to the lighthouse but why go through land with all the dangers and why not just take a fucking boat right up to it?

And at the end: ooogah they are both eye shimmering aliens? Give me a break, right into the incinerator with those two

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