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by Fullofkittens 08/31/2016, 6:57pm PDT |
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Its Visual Effects guy went on to direct the shitty new Godzilla movie and is directing the Star Wars Expendables movie. :(
I agree that the beginning and end were not great in terms of fx and editing but I do like what they do in the movie structurally. The theme of the movie is that fear keeps races hating each other. The monsters have killed a lot of people it's because they're on a planet they don't understand, they try to start families and new lives here but humans keep killing them. So they try to fight back and things just keep getting worse for both sides. The lead characters gradually come to understand this and during the gas station scene they finally get confirmation of what is really going on...
...how do you end it at that point? The rich white people go on the news and say "the monsters* are just like us... if we find a way to help them they won't hurt us?" That ending would be so much dumber than what they landed with: it starts with the only scene of a monster actually flipping its shit and killing people - establishing that yes, they are super dangerous - and at the end it turns out that it was killing two of the few people that had tried to understand it. That's an okay ending, I like that ending.
I also just really like the feel and pace of the movie. It works as a fantasy travelogue to a place that kind of actually exists on Earth in real life(???). I enjoyed and rewatched Troll Hunter for the same reason.
*nonwhite people |
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