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| Title | The Creator | |


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| | Genre: | Science Fiction, Action | | MPAA Rating: | PG-13 | | Runtime | 02:13:00 | | Release Date (USA): | September 29, 2023 | | Director: | Gareth Edwards | | Main Cast: | John David Washington, Madeleine Yuna Voyles, Gemma Chan, Ken Watanabe | | Summary: | Joshua, an ex-special forces agent, and his team of elite operatives are recruited to kill the Creator, the elusive architect of advanced AI who has developed a mysterious weapon with the power to end the war… and mankind itself. They journey into AI-occupied territory only to discover the world-ending weapon is in the form of a young child. |

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[–] Konman72@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago (6 children)

My wife and I saw the early screening last night in IMAX. The visuals live up to the hype, but honestly we were both very disappointed with... everything else. The story was as generic as it seemed in the trailers, and it goes on way longer than it should. The acting was fine, I guess. The actors put in work, they just didn't have anything good to work with.

Everything that happens simply happens to serve the plot, not the characters. No one ever acts like a normal person, they are all just rote movie characters like it's paint-by-numbers. And the editing is atrocious. There's a lot of off-screen exposition, like they had to fill in story gaps. Similarly, scenes will just kinda end. Characters get into a predicament that seems impossible to escape? Cut away! Explain what happened? Nah, just keep moving cause we've got plot points we have to hit, and fast cause the audience certainly already knows where this is all heading anyway.

I love supporting original sci-fi in theaters, but this is just an unoriginal, bad movie imo.

[–] nostradiel@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've seen it yesterday and I completely agree with you. Such a waste of money and time.. I was so amazed during first 5 minutes but after an hour I wanted it to finally end.

[–] Konman72@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

I used A-List so it was free and I still felt ripped off.

My feelings toward the movie started strong and only dropped from there. My wife wanted to leave halfway but I hoped it would stick the landing. It only got worse from there and by the end I was rolling my eyes and laughing (not loudly) at how terrible it all became. It just kept going and it thought so highly of itself the whole time. The title cards felt so ridiculous in retrospect.

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