Flesh of the Gods

Hell yeah, another Panos Cosmatos movie! I don't even need to see a trailer. At least that guy's doing some pretty original stuff. He's almost like the modern day Jodorowski.

If it's set in the '80s I'm assuming this will probably have a pretty fantastic synthy score, too.

LiquidDeath said:

Oscar Issac had me like

Then Kristen Stewart had me like

I really like all the stuff he's done, though, especially Mandy so I'm in.

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I have a sneaking suspicion this might be one of the greatest movies ever made. It's pretty cool that he's able to get bigger name actors behind his projects, I would imagine they probably look at it like hey I've never done anything like this ever, so I'm in, and I won't charge you an arm and a leg.

LiquidDeath said:

Oscar Isaac strikea me as the type to do just that.

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He was in Annihilation, and despite pretty much bombing, was a pretty decent adaptation of the novel, Area X.

I could see him being enthusiastic about doing something like this. Especially if he's trying to recant for the Star Wars abominations.

Furry said:

Annihilation didn't get the love it deserved. Super good slow burn horror sci fi. I'm a huge sucker for the genre, and to me that movie was pretty damn good. I'm not surprised it bombed. If I recall, the trailers made it look like it'd be more stupid woke girl power nonsense.

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I listened to all three of the books originally, and I need to go back and burn through them again. The first book has kind of odd pacing, I don't remember much about the second, but the third was actually really good. The guy's got his own unique writing style though, and he gets a little purple prose-ish at times.

I thought the movie was a very wonderful adaptation. But Alex Garland's a fantastic director. They obviously changed up quite a bit to make it a film format, but I wonder whether he had gotten like maybe a four or six part HBO produced mini series on a high level budget, or maybe even 10-12 episodes and covered all three books or something. Could have done three or four episodes of novel.

That would have been pretty amazing.

Bandwagon said:

The only part I remember hating was the aliens interpretive dance at the end

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I never looked at it that way but now you supplanted that notion in my brain, like a goofy song out of the '80s, and I can' unthink it,
Asshole....

Go to rewatch it. It's a pretty good movie and there's a I guess close to the second act and see that is one of the most horrifying moments in a movie that I've seen within the past decade hands down.