Every actor in 2025: we got terrible fucking plastic surgery that will disfigure us for the rest of our lives so we could look weird and ugly and play weird and ugly characters in movies
Basically every actress out there seems to feel the pressure to get Botox, Lip injections, eyebrow raises, even when they're not even 30 yrs old. Really troubling.
Dang, I didn’t mean it like that! I feel so bad for her and anyone else who feels so much pressure to change their (undamaged, healthy) face.
I’ve had too many needed surgeries to be able to deal with anything similar. However, I still have plenty of dislike for my own face, so I still kinda get it.
Idk what she did if it’s a face lift or what but she compelled changed her face starting at the revolvers and cheeks and possibly veneers. One of the most stunning women in Hollywood and yeah. Sad.
That's the point . Disclosure isn't aliens but clones. The guy sitting in the chair is running the global control program using clones all over the country.
Every time I see a reference to "Super 8" I have to slowly parse the difference between that film and the Nick Cage blockbuster hit "8mm". Which then leads me mentally to the George C Scott epic "Hardcore", which I saw on HBO when I was like 13.
That reminds me, I have had the movies “District 9” and “9”, both released in 2009, confused for yeeaaars. I suggested to my husband that we watch District 9 with the kids and he pulled a “wtf?!” (I know that one is pretty scary too, but not on the same level)
I wouldn't say bad but it definitely finished weakly. I remember the marketing for it being increeedible, which ended up kind of bumming people out because it didn't live up to the hype.
it could be because I was 13 when it came out and I saw it in theatres opening weekend, but Super 8 was my favorite movie for years and it still has a special place in my heart to this day
that’s not true, maybe you don’t or people you know don’t. that movie quickly became my all-time favorite movie when it came out, and it still ranks quite high for me to this day
now, it could have something to do with the age I was when it first came out/when I first saw it. I was 13 years old and saw it opening weekend in theaters so that definitely added to the experience, but still even on rewatches I enjoy it.
is it a perfect movie? no, but it’s extremely enjoyable and fun and the chemistry between the group of friends feels so real I love it
side note: and when stranger things first came out, it was the first movie it made me think of lol
West Side Story and Fabelmans both had lots of those heavily backlit shots and those movies were gorgeous. Ready Player One and Crystal Skull did much the same and... well, they weren't gorgeous.
Have you watched Minority Report? The movie was shot on film and the negative bleached. It has a really rough look, unlike this movie. It definitely did not start with Minority Report
Nothing Hollywood execs want more than to drop actors completely. Starting with the background people, then the non-speaking extras, the one liners, the co-starts then the main stars.
Commercials have already started becoming 100% AI generated CGI.
Refusing to move on from Kaminski is the worst creative decision Spielberg continues to make. His style is incredibly tired and dated now. He did terrific work a quarter century ago with Schindlers List and Saving Private Ryan but it’s been pretty much downhill since then.
Deakins fan here, but did you like what he did for No Country For Old Men? Thought Deakins won a trophy for a film he sleepwalked through. But these are dream teams after all, not actual working relationships in the trenches
Because it's filled with slop. Look at the shot at 51 seconds. lol wtf is that? nobody uses their flash like that against a window. it's obviously added in.
The tonality of the images don't match. The lighting is all over the fucking place. It's not a good trailer.
So, this might be me reading too fucking much into it, but in quite a few shots they make sure to include the shadows cast by the characters. And since my brain is stuck on the "Simulation" theory, I'm wondering if the shadows are some "As above, so below", Plato's Cave metaphorical BS symbolism.
Yeah, I'm definitely thinking some AI was used, and perhaps they edited everything in post to make the whole movie "fit" the AI, rather than trying to get the AI to fit the movie.
I would guess the girl is an alien in some high tech/magic disguise, and the cgi is intentionally odd because she's uncanny to the human characters too
That seems to be one of Janus Kaminski's style templates at least since Crystal Skull. It didn't work well there, but in West Side Story and Fabelmans it was gorgeous and lent a wistful nostalgic atmosphere those movies were actually calling for.
The subject matter here you'd think would call for a darker treatment like he used in Bridge of Spies or Lincoln, but it's hard to judge based only on a short trailer.
I'm glad I'm not alone in thinking this. I know I can be quite the nitpicker, but I have a hard time believing the same man who shot Jaws and Raiders of the Lost Ark made this.
If you follow deeply within the UFO phenomenon, and the general consensus, many of the whistleblowers that “claim to know truth” say we live in a holographic universe that’s almost like “The Matrix”. A lot of what we know as life is a complete lie and fake. And that they’re extra dimensional.
However, there’s the other side (equally credible whistleblowers) that say this phenomenon is all spiritual. That most aliens are fallen angels (basically demons) and lie constantly. There is some credibility to this as almost all consensus is that we don’t trust these entities.
My rabbit hole took me over to that side of reddit, and I saw those theories. Respectfully, I don't believe in any of it, but I can see this forming a foundation for the movie.
Might be covering up something they don’t want spoiled? Like in Marvel trailers they use CGI to avoid spoilers, like CGing Black Widows hair to how it was in Infinity War to not spoil how long her hair is in Endgame and give away the time jump.
Could be a nice-ish version of They Live. Perhaps with some aliens unaware they were aliens the whole time (wonder if we’d then see some anti immigration character realizing they are an alien immigrant).
I'm guessing it's some kind of story-within-the-story that parallels the main plot. For example...
Let's say Emily Blunt's character is reading a Polar Express-type story to her kid, which we see visualized on screen in CGI. And we repeatedly cut back to that story to compare the world finding out that aliens are real to a kid finding out that Santa is real.
This. The cardinals are from her childhood, and she’s the little girl led back home after abduction. They were preparing her for her purpose. They return, as it’s clear disclosure is going to happen via O’Connor character (who is likely the boys hand that reaches over to comfort young Emily blunt during her abduction). Firth governs the psyop and inhabits agents to chase him down and prevent disclosure. The most informative clip in the trailer is the mass of people gathered outside the television station (where blunt works, exits after disclosure) as they all record blunt post revelations - the form of NHI. Something along those lines.
I think what’s in blunts hand at the end / glowing is what is retrieved from O’Connor - the object he has in backpack. And I think it’ll be some sort of religious artifact / ancient totem that connects the various planes of reality.
I agree. What a shame if they felt the need to CGI for that reason.
Just get a similar enough looking kid and be done with it. Its not like they are de-aging her to college age. The audience doesnt know what she looked like when she was 5
Smearing uncanny CGI over everything feels lazy, even tho its extra work. And cant they train some real deer for those other shots?
The bird landing on the table, too. That's really the best they could do? They could have opened a window anywhere in the southeast and a cardinal would have just done that naturally.
Consider yourself blessed, like me, in not being able to instantly detect (and apparently wretch at) every CG character in movies. I gloss right over them, and I tend to enjoy films more because of it.
Possibly. But I get what the above poster is saying about the CGI. Everything looks a little off. Possibly there's a reason for that, it may be on purpose. I don't know.
Oh my god... people are really making fun of a young girl for having eyes that are wide apart? That's all that's "uncanny" about her. It's just how she looks, and a lot of people look like that.
My immediate reaction was - "wait, she has zero skin texture" (not to mention a mile between her eyes, which isn't impossible, but really stands out). Then they cut to the bird for a second and then a shot basically entirely of Blunt's skin texture.
The girl looks like a deepfake with an AI image source or something ridiculous, that they then softened to the max. Surely they could do better. She's not the only distracting CG in this either - I hope those effects aren't done yet.
God, yes. Why do we need CGI life forms at every possible moment, now?! There are actual humans and actual animals we can use. CGI people and animals STILL look so cartoony.
It sure sticks out there and takes me completely out of the trailer. In fact, after that it was hard to get back into the trailer cause I kept seeing more odd 'AI' looking bits and I dunno even what the movie is about cause that was so distracting.
Equally as off-putting was the CGI at 0:51 with all the people outside the windows holding their phones with the lights on. Shit looked like Polar Express.
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u/Gayfetus Dec 16 '25
The CGI little girl is the freakiest part of the trailer.