Remarkableriots Posted July 24, 2021 Share Posted July 24, 2021 Releasing on July 30th Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remarkableriots Posted July 25, 2021 Author Share Posted July 25, 2021 Sad how something unique and creative like this gets nobody else excited to see it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remarkableriots Posted July 26, 2021 Author Share Posted July 26, 2021 @sblfilms Did you watch this movie? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted July 26, 2021 Share Posted July 26, 2021 Hmmmm...this looks interesting to me! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 26, 2021 Share Posted July 26, 2021 32 minutes ago, Remarkableriots said: @sblfilms Did you watch this movie? They had a screening last week but I was on a quick trip with the fam. I’m sure I’ll catch it soon though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CitizenVectron Posted July 26, 2021 Share Posted July 26, 2021 It looks interesting...but the entire idea that someone's character is pre-destined (and not almost-entirely formed by happenstance and nurture) doesn't appeal to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheLeon Posted August 10, 2021 Share Posted August 10, 2021 I went into this movie a little skeptical. I wasn't sure how I would handle this weird, lo-fi, almost mumblecore vision of limbo (or whatever you want to call it). And I did have a hard time connecting to it for the first 20-30 minutes, but eventually I was able to get on its wavelength. And then I melted; I was an emotional wreck by the end. Simply beautiful stuff. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silentbob Posted August 10, 2021 Share Posted August 10, 2021 On 7/26/2021 at 5:20 PM, CitizenVectron said: It looks interesting...but the entire idea that someone's character is pre-destined (and not almost-entirely formed by happenstance and nurture) doesn't appeal to me. Yeah but we all still manage to like Loki Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skillzdadirecta Posted August 10, 2021 Share Posted August 10, 2021 this flew completely by my radar. Now I wanna see it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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silentbob Posted August 10, 2021 Share Posted August 10, 2021 46 minutes ago, Remarkableriots said: I was going to post this interview too, because it’s part of his upbringing/heritage. Plus his James Brown request was great, like watching a little kid dancing with a street band I saw in New Orleans Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeluge Posted August 11, 2021 Share Posted August 11, 2021 The premise sank this thing from the start for me, and it comes twofold. The first has already been brought up by @CitizenVectron. One key thing about fiction that looks at the possibility of the after-life is that you can populate this world with people who have had a multitude of life experiences that they can bring into this new chapter and fill it with their regrets and memories and joys. However, when the writer here came up with the concept of a “pre-life” — however cute that concept may be on paper — you immediately have to solve the problem of your cast largely being comprised of what are essentially newborns. So to solve that, they present the dubious concept of these candidates being fully-formed individuals within a few hours of this inexplicable pre-existence. But the more significant issue here is the selection process that’s left entirely to the errant whims of random individuals (how are they chosen? Who knows?!) and the idea of weeding out the majority of these pre-existers for one to move on to a body, and this process going by with almost no critical eye to it other than one of the candidates paying brief lip service to how it’s not fair. It’s like a dystopian future in which the hierarchy is never questioned on an explicit or implicit level and the storyline of the rebel fighting against the system is a mere blip in the course of the story. And from there, you can spiral into more granular and picky critiques, but this is pretty much what went through my head the entire movie, and it made it difficult for anything to land when I found the basic premise to be so inherently flawed. The only thing I can say I liked (beyond the performances, everyone is quite good) is Spoiler The recreation of the experiences. Appreciated the theatricality of it. Also not the biggest fan of how they executed the last scene. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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