Got to see it in cinema for free the other day. Thought it was pretty good. Pretty creative action sequences, didn't feel 'plot armour' filled at all, soundtrack was awesome, and for the first time ever (for me) CGI gore had me viscerally reacting/cringing in a good way. I was pleasantly surprised the whole way through, especially given the start where it seems like it's gonna be focused around some chipper teenagers being quirky in space. I won't say it was well written in terms of tension and themes and all that malarkey, but it keeps going at a good pace and isn't completely see through.
However, I'm not a big alien fan overall. Only seen the first one, and a decade ago at that. Never researched or thought about the universe of it, just see it as 'cool alien movie'. For that reason, I didn't pick up on the fan service, that when explained to me by my friend did seem pretty cringe (bad cringe).
I made no real attempt to analyse any of it. It's not a movie that's meant for that.
I get what you mean. I'm like that 90% of the time - I think the key is just being very tired when you watch it. I started thinking about the world the characters lived in and whether it was an interesting, realistic, or at all Marxian approach to world building, and then I was like ah, why the fuck am I even bothering? An utterly pointless task. Sit back, enjoy your ice cream, enjoy the huge sound system, and let it wash over you as an exercise of feeling/experiencing rather than an exercise of thinking/logic.
Got to see it in cinema for free the other day. Thought it was pretty good. Pretty creative action sequences, didn't feel 'plot armour' filled at all, soundtrack was awesome, and for the first time ever (for me) CGI gore had me viscerally reacting/cringing in a good way. I was pleasantly surprised the whole way through, especially given the start where it seems like it's gonna be focused around some chipper teenagers being quirky in space. I won't say it was well written in terms of tension and themes and all that malarkey, but it keeps going at a good pace and isn't completely see through.
However, I'm not a big alien fan overall. Only seen the first one, and a decade ago at that. Never researched or thought about the universe of it, just see it as 'cool alien movie'. For that reason, I didn't pick up on the fan service, that when explained to me by my friend did seem pretty cringe (bad cringe).
I made no real attempt to analyse any of it. It's not a movie that's meant for that.
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I get what you mean. I'm like that 90% of the time - I think the key is just being very tired when you watch it. I started thinking about the world the characters lived in and whether it was an interesting, realistic, or at all Marxian approach to world building, and then I was like ah, why the fuck am I even bothering? An utterly pointless task. Sit back, enjoy your ice cream, enjoy the huge sound system, and let it wash over you as an exercise of feeling/experiencing rather than an exercise of thinking/logic.
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