Summary

If you found out we weren’t alone, if someone showed you, proved it to you, would that frighten you?

Director
Steven Spielberg

Writer
David Koepp

Cast

  • Emily Blunt
  • Josh O’Connor
  • Colin Firth
  • Colman Domingo
  • Eve Hewson
  • Wyatt Russell
  • Noah Robbins

Rotten Tomatoes: 81%

Metacritic: 75

  • lath@piefed.social
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    1 month ago

    No. The opposite does. We’re too dumb to succeed, so when we unavoidably off ourselves, no one would be there to pick up the slack.

  • Hal-5700X@sh.itjust.works
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    1 month ago

    Is this really was just a modernized re-telling of Close Encounters of the Third Kind, except not as good?

  • Shadow@lemmy.ca
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    1 month ago

    It was… ok.

    Maybe I’ve just been watching too many vfx breakdowns on YouTube, but I found them disappointing in this. The animals and the car / train scene in particular.

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      29 days ago

      I read on IMDb that they used a real car and a real train wagon, allegedly spent a lot of time designing all that. And yet it looked so bad in the movie. CGI is rather weak, we had this level of quality 10 years ago.

  • zabadoh@ani.social
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    29 days ago

    Steve Spielberg’s movie, A.I. Artificial Intelligence, was released in 2001.

    24-25 years later, AI is everywhere.

    Disclosure Day in 2026, so in 2050-2051…

  • placebo@lemmy.zip
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    29 days ago

    This movie has a lot of features of a typical shitty Hollywood film: cliches, glaring plot holes, weak cinematography with blurred backgrounds and screen edges, monotone color grading in many scenes, etc. But the story was interesting, and I enjoyed it.

    I read that Emily Blunt spent months practicing Russian and Korean. I don’t know about Korean, but I was pretty impressed with her Russian. Not only could I understand what she was saying (as a native speaker, I usually need subtitles when Hollywood speaks “Russian”), but her delivery felt so natural in that scene. She’s good.