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Best Female Actor in a Film – Musical or Comedy
Problems with this movie
Great movie with a bit underwhelming rushed end and that's it! **Spoliers**
Season 5 - JJL owned it!
One of Most Beautiful Women in the World
Watching Alien: Covenant (especially in 4K HD) after the release of Alien: Romulus
The Subplot of Thomas Wayne seeking help from Falcone was needless.
How many of you simply digested the end and went home all done?! ***Spoilers***
If the goal of the Romulus crew was to extract DNA.........***Spoilers***
Thank you Fede for Making Alien: Covenant Look Great
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<blockquote> Demi just sits at home and ages badly while someone else is out having all the fun. </blockquote>
This is true.
<blockquote> Demi is having all the fun while someone else sits at home and ages badly. </blockquote>
This also very much true.
Hence the paradox and a problem for the one who ages. That's why the Substance is not a workable product since it does not provide shared memories - but anyone can get carried away and get infatuated with it first - thinking about the second option. Just like how one can get carried away with drugs/alcohol/cigarettes and then repent later. That's human nature.
You still didn't get it. Sue (Margaret Qualley) <i>is</i> Elisabeth, also.
This is similar situation like 'The Prestige' where Hugh Jackman clones himself letting the original die; questioning whether the original doesn't happen to relish his achievement and simply sacrifices himself or is the clone, original?
<blockquote> The other girl has all the fun, while I sit at home, get no NEW memories, get no experiences, and start losing body parts while aging wildly...Yeah, great deal for me! </blockquote>
Nope! At that moment when she decides to use the substance she thought of turning young! And that happened; After she went unconscious, she woke up to find herself with a younger body.
<b>Point is that you can view it this way also - Original Demi Moore transformed but got bagged with one old stranger whom she will have to take care. And you can view it this way also - Original Demi Moore gave birth to some stranger. Paradoxically true it is and that's why this method will never work with anyone and hence the whole project failed - and that's what the movie is about. </b>
They both possess the same memories until up they split. So both are original versions of Demi Moore. Instead of "Stranger ripping out of my back", you could think of 'I come out of my old body as all new younger self'
When you come out of your own body all young, you obviously remember all the past memories, the latest humiliation and frustration and you see yourself in mirror in shock and then over-joyed. Its you!! And then you turn back and see your older body.
We see the movie from start from Demi Moore's perception and hence we as audience relate her as original. But both are originals because both share the same memories & skills they possess until they split. From Demi Moore's POV, she wanted to be reborn! And The Substance did that job...But it also brought along a burden she couldn’t foresee—a burden she underestimated, ultimately leading to chaos and loss of control.
Eventually, the manufacturers of The Substance would stop producing it, much like any other failed startup project that collapses when its flaws and consequences become evident (unless their goal was purely to witness the havoc it created for people).
You can also put it this way....If you're Demi Moore, would you care so much of coming out of your own body, as hot and young version of yourself which you desperately wanted?
The young version indeed have all the memories until they split.
So, infact both are original. It's just that the older version have to continue with her body. While the Demi Moore (who had turned old and fragile), now with younger body, got what she wanted and started to enjoy her life!
Both had to respect each other's existence, but practically, it cannot work out. And that's what the movie is about - The Susbtance's failure.
Here......some more salt for your wounds:
Crossed 320 Million Global Box office!
Hahaha....Butthurt hater going gaga over 'depth'!
Agree!
And the opening scene is still a facepalm situation for me. Stumbling upon the Xenomporph floating around the Nostromo remains discarding the fact that the Nostromo parts would have been speeding at thousands of kms/per second in all directions after that massive nuclear self-destruct explosion.
Btw, no Alien movies are bad. This one was just an average; a needless inclusion and essentially a remake of Alien: Resurrection (space station researching Xenomorphs, Intruders with a good robot arriving and an Alien baby expelled out of space). I watched it again, but wasn't that much of an entertainer and fell flat except the adrenaline Elevator shaft scene. The Alien baby design was lame and bringing out engineer's feature was a lame idea which they did just to tie up with Prometheus.
This move did nothing except raising appreciation for the Prequel series which tried to do something new and expanded the universe getting away from the over-played Xenomorphs.
They are not 'one'. And that's why the Substance supplier keeps insisting them to believe 'they are one'. But it can never work out. When two persons are infact different, how so hard they try, can't think of one and eventually would end up in differences in respecting each other.
I doubt the director wanted a 'hot' looking actress with 'sex appeal' that could distract the audience from the substance of the movie; instead, they likely opted for someone quirkier with good shape. After all it's not a Michael Bay movie. The beauty of the movie is that at no nude scene, one would think of ILF intention, and the viewers are still glued to the plot and visuals of the movie.
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