• But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world
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    Citizen Kane has nothing on Ice cube yelling “got em!” At a computer screen.

    Also you can see the green screen reflected on his glasses the whole time

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    I watched this movie for less than 10 minutes out of curiosity. Towards the end of that short time, I was thinking, “When will the scene change? This computer bit seems to be going on a bit long…” Luckily something came up, I got distracted and never finished the movie. Later I find out via memes that was the entire movie 🥴

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      Something that you missed, which became increasingly amazing as the movie went on was the elastic nature of time.

      It took the same amount of time for earth to globalize its military, fight the tripods successfully, have the tripods break into data centers, disable all the military technology, and put the military on the defense as it did for a car with his daughter in it to drive a mile.

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    Why did anybody spend money on producing this “movie”? I mean really… somewhere in the midst of this someone should have started question their life choices.

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      It’s a 89 minutes Amazon ad. “See? We’re delivering with Amazon prime even during an alien invasion! So efficient” or “See? Even when the world banking got destroyed you can count on Amazon gift cards as a method of payment. That homeless gonna love that $1000 Amazon gift card!”

      Edit: forgot that bezos had to shill also Tesla “full” self driving and that the movie ad ends with Joe Rogan tweeting a YouTube video that mainstream media and the government hid the truth (conveniently, the aliens ate all the data for all the websites except YouTube)

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        The movie telling us that Teslas can be remotely hijacked feels like it should counteract any positives about automatic driving.

        Then again this movie starts with an armed warrant execution for posting a YouTube video critical of the NSA, so the values are bit catawampus.

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    The concept isn’t bad as such. But I’m not surprised at all that they botched it as it’s not easy at all to pull off.
    Disclaimer: I didn’t see it.

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    THERE’S LIKE ZERO HINTS ON WHAT MOVIE THESE REVIEWS ARE OF YET EVERYONE HERE INHERENTLY KNOWS WHAT MOVIE IT IS AND I’M JUST SITTING HERE OBLIVIOUS OH GOD

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    I made it 10min, once he started “hacking” teamvewer with a generated master password I GTFO. They tried real hard to make it realistic by having real software and apps but it’s bad, really bad.

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      This stuff is still crazy to me. Every movie these days seems to cost at least 100 million dollars, because every movie that doesn’t make billions is a failure. But they can’t get something like a guy working a computer right… Ever. Or plumbing, it’s always a guy turning A random valve or tighten some bolt with the wrong tool. Everyone playing a video game in a movie is just hitting all the buttons. It’s eventually not what makes or breaks a movie, but it’s so annoying

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        What’s weird about video games is there isn’t a library of stock prop games. It doesn’t take a ton of time to make something in a free engine. I’m sure studio VFX departments have people who could whip up a few demo sized “games” that can actually be controlled and played but don’t have failure states so actors can actually “play” them while filming without having to be too distracted from the scene itself. It would also ensure no rights issues come up with game studios about showing the footage.

        Instead we get actors often overenthusiastically wiggling controllers around and insert footage of games that don’t match the motions at all.

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          Sometimes they don’t even show the game and people are still going nuts on the controller. Put on smany game and let them play while they act. It makes the conversation look way more natural, because they still have to look at the screen while talking, like you would irl.

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        Even having the characters drive a car is pretty hit or miss, so anything more complex is predictably, right out.

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      I think it’s the same production company that made Searching and Missing. Those movies are good.

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    Matthew M doesn’t realize that a half star is actually an emotional response and if it took him 15 minutes to write something, that movie had him THINKING. Thats what Art should do. Art can be something you HATE. That is an emotion. Art is suppost to make you feel something, and feeling something at the extream makes it pretty fucking good Art.

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      feeling something at the extream makes it pretty fucking good Art.

      Uh, no. A good movie should make you feel something at least close to an intended emotion set, or at least get you thinking about its content.

      I’m gonna venture a guess that nobody intended for the reaction to the movie to be someone having trouble thinking about how to write a 0.5 star review for it and then quit and tell other people not to waste their time.

      The people watching yet another rehash of war of the worlds are not going to be (for the most part) art snobs. When the audience that would bother watching this watch it and say it sucks, I fucking believe them.

      I haven’t wasted my time because I heed warnings rather than touching hot stoves.

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      By this definition, performing a genocide is art.

      Edit: I have been informed by replies, thank you.

      By this definition, performing a genocide can be art.

      Also, this post was art because I pissed off a bunch of people to the point that they were compelled to respond.

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        The Pitch Meeting video is how I first learned this movie exists. Sent it to a friend with the message:

        I haven’t watched the pitch meeting yet but there is no chance in hell this movie is better than the original

        Secretly I was hoping I was wrong, but oh boy, that turned out to be an understatement. Turns out my friend had actually already watched it with his mother… Or rather, tried to watch it. They had to stop hallway through because of how shit it was.

        So glad I didn’t have to experience that.

        (Note: I have since learned that the movie I was thinking about is not the original, there was an older movie and they’re both based on a book)

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        I watched the Pitch Meeting because of this comment. I’m tempted to watch it. I loved hate watching Madam Web with friends. Would this be fun too?