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Well, that sounds pretty great to me. Doesn't open here in the states until Friday, but I'm probably going to check it out.
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Just saw it, this movie is really fucking good, borderline great.
I was really skeptical going in, cause I hated Tron Legacy, but man Kosinski is really a guy to watch.
The design and vfx work here is STAGGERING. I can't believe this is a March release, a few years ago this would be the tentpole movie of the summer. And unlike Tron, this has strong confident pacing, well directed/hard-hitting action sequences, and likable actors and characters.
That being said, it is very derivative, pretty predictable, and the premise makes no sense when you think about it, but that doesn't bother me this time out because it has its heart in the right place. The logic problems are really with the basic premise, but once you accept that (and I did), the story holds together pretty damn well, doesn't pull any 3rd act bullshit, and is REALLY, REALLY well executed.
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That's not really fair though, Tron Legacy had a shit script, but also really dull and lifeless direction,
from all the performances, to the pacing, to the boringly staged, anti-septic action scenes.
Kasinski was fairly blamed for that stuff, but I'm really glad to see him come into his own here.
There's a mid-movie extended setpiece in Oblivion that is really exciting, well shot, and has a really good
build to it. Very effective stuff. Also, the VFX work is absolutely seamless, like I seriously hope the other summer movies can step their game up to this level.
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For those that haven't seen it yet, I recommend the IMAX presentation as (1) you're more likely to get the 4K resolution (2) much greater screen coverage due to the squarer aspect ratio.
In other words, you literally see only 'half' the movie in a bog-standard suburban multiplex.
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I saw it a few days ago here in Sweden, 2.35-presentation digitally.
The end feling was a lukewarm 5/10. Unfortunately it is awfully derivative, and there isn't enough substance in other areas to compensate for this. Basically, you've seen this movie before if you've seen Independence day, Moon, The Matrix. Most likely you will be able to guess the plot way before any twists occur.
The score is also your standard Zimmer clonejob. Certain 30-second passages you literally could not tell which was which, even if you had the two side by side. Labelled. No nuance, just string ostinato lines and brass blaring sections from Inception at you.
Visually great, but that also becomes a bit "meh" after a while, after the first 10 minutes you've seen most design elements already.
For me the rotten tomatoes score of 56% seems accurate. I suppose your milage will vary depending on how fresh the story elements feel to you.
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Aaaabsolutely LOVED Oblivion.
To paraphrase Trey: it's not perfect - but I'm SO GLAD they make these movies!
I gave it a 9/10. After thinking about how much fridge-logic there actually is, maybe I'll push that to 8.5/10.
It didn't touch movie-of-the-year (Wreck-it Ralph, 10/10) but it's a good 2nd so far.
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Ridges like that have been filed down for many thousands of years. There is plenty of snow, wind and rain but a decade or few don't make any dent in them in such a short timespans.
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So I FINALLY caught up with this last night. AMC was doing a $3 showing for charity, so my friends and I decided that we might as well. I really, really liked it. Was it derivative of other sci-fi movies? Maybe. But while you can draw comparisons to other movies, I think that Oblivion is great in its own right. I'm so glad that movies like this exist. It isn't trying to reinvent the wheel, it's just trying to tell a cool story. And I found a lot of its twists pleasantly surprising. If I have one complaint, it's that for most of the second act I was REALLY confused about what was going on, mostly pertaining to Morgan Freeman and his people. Other than that, though, Oblivion is a great movie, and I'm glad I got to see it on the big screen.
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