this post was submitted on 15 Mar 2025
38 points (93.2% liked)
movies
3048 readers
844 users here now
Matrix room: https://matrix.to/#/#fediversefilms:matrix.org
Warning: If the community is empty, make sure you have "English" selected in your languages in your account settings.
A community focused on discussions on movies. Besides usual movie news, the following threads are welcome
- Discussion threads to discuss about a specific movie or show
- Weekly threads: what have you been watching lately?
- Trailers
- Posters
- Retrospectives
- Should I watch?
Related communities:
- !showsandmovies@lemm.ee
- !animation@lemm.ee
- !homevideo@feddit.uk
- !horrormovies@lemm.ee
- !martialartsmovies@lemm.ee
Show communities:
Discussion communities:
RULES
Spoilers are strictly forbidden in post titles.
Posts soliciting spoilers (endings, plot elements, twists, etc.) should contain [spoilers] in their title. Comments in these posts do not need to be hidden in spoiler MarkDown if they pertain to the title’s subject matter.
Otherwise, spoilers but must be contained in MarkDown.
2024 discussion threads
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Unless I missed something, there was never any branching in the movie. To be honest, it didn't see like that kind of movie, there was never a thriller/mystery vibe. In many ways it was a very straightforward narrative and almost classical high-level story format.
If you don't mind, please share what part you thought was branching (via spoiler tag?), I am genuinely curious. I don't remember being distracted, I enjoy the movie. 😄
Not sure if the spoiler tag is working, tried to send this earlier but lemm.ee was down:
::: The brunette love interest. Came in, showed interest in splitting attention with Mickey, disappeared the rest of the movie until she shows up with a random girl at the end.
The dictator/politician guy getting puked on by the alien and having a noticeable cough in the later scenes, with no payoff.
The guy in the pigeon suit? Never explained.
The secret team on the deck that facilitated the mutiny by recording the torture of the alien, never explained or hinted at until they literally show up and say "we need more for our team".
The weird Church/cult vibe and hymn? Never explored.
How the alien knew his name before they had a translator or knew English? Alien's answer? "SECRET" :::
Ah, I thought you meant branching in context of the main hook. Something along the lines of Primer.
Yeah, I totally agree with you regarding those points, it was pretty strange.
Btw, spoilers don't seem to work. I think the last bit of code needs to be on separate line.
SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS
Tap for spoiler
Another thing I noticed was one of the very last scenes where they were re-printing a new Mark Ruffalo. I wondered if that was supposed to be some kind of big different ending, but turned out to just be Mickey having fantasize the whole thing. I thought they were gonna show that the thing that they were demonizing they were doing the entire time.