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Sci-Fi Movies

  1. 1
    Exit 8
    Director
    Genki Kawamura
    Year
    2025

    Feels like the book "A short stay in hell" but it's unclear if the hero is dead or not. One review I read thought it was a description of a Buddhist concept (https://ashabardongaminglorist.substack.com/p/exit-8-explained-the-buddhist-elements) , and to make a game (and a movie) from a concept like that seems intriguing; concept + location + story. I also like how simple the concept of the game is while still being hard to impossible depending on how complicated you want to make it (that wall had 1000 tiles this time and only 999 tiles the next).

  2. 2
    Project Hail Mary
    Director
    Phil Lord and Christopher Miller
    Year
    2026

    If you didn't read the book a lot of this movie may not have made very much sense. really any movie that needs to be over 1 1/2 hours should just be a TV series. The film doesn't really cover what I like about the books, and that was the problem, solve problem with science aspect of it; even at 2.5 hours they still didn't have enough time (although there were many scenes that went on way too long that could have been cut.)

    They also dumbed down Rocky and made him more of a pet than the super engineer that he was.

    Overall this movie felt like a movie preview for the book, and if you want the full story you'll need to read that.

  3. 3
    Backrooms
    Director
    Kane Parsons
    Year
    2026

    Was excited to see the movie, wasn't so excited after I saw the movie; a lot of slow build up for a lot of meh. Continues building on my dislike of movies.

  4. 4
    The Maze Runner Trilogy
    Director
    Wes Ball
    Year
    2014

    do something stupid, yell, run, get away, repeat. do this over and over for three movies with no real other plot going on.

    Example of stupid:
    - person 1 : "I found the way out of the sewer over here"
    - person 2: "I found zombie stuff back in this corner.
    - person 1: "zombie stuff??! that's way more interesting than getting out of this zombie tube."
    - person 2: "look the zombie stuff is moving"
    - person 1: "maybe if we watch it for a bit something fun will happen"
    - person 2: "look more zombies are running at us now."
    - person 1: "should we leave now?"
    - person 2: "I duno, probably would be a good idea."
    - person 1: "ya, they are getting close, we should probably initiate the yell and run loop for a bit."

    Maybe the book is better? I don't have much faith in the ability for movies to have any real plot anymore. There might be hope for tv shows that have more time to develop the story, but even at 2+ hours, movies are a poor type of story telling.