Annihilation is a gorgeous movie that went terribly wrong
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I called this movie being a trainwreck. I love the books, but there is just no way that it could make a decent film.
Other reviews I read paint a very different picture. Interesting, Garland's and Jones' new movies hit at the same time and the former gets good, while the latter gets terrible reviews.
Weird, I thought this movie was fantastic and really enjoyed it. Almost every other review that I've seen has been mostly positive as well.
I imagine everyone who didn't read the book and then saw the movie enjoyed it a lot. Seems that way. If you did read the book and enjoyed it, you've done a way better job than me compartmentalizing this movie away from everything the book is. I basically rushed to see this because I read the book some time last year and liked it a lot and really wanted to see what they were going to do to make this watchable. The answer is that Alex Garland basically saw some neat things in the book and used them to make a movie about something completely different. Even the title of the book and movie have completely different meanings. In the trailers they say it's "based on" the book and that is a very, [I]very[/I] hard "based on". The vast majority of things that made the book such a trip were not in the movie and even things like the choice of music were really pretty dumb. I did not like the movie.
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