Oblivion (Post-release)

Just got home from seeing this. Yeah, it is a Tom Cruise movie. Someone said he plays the same character in all his movies. That's true, but here that character actually works. Great visuals, sound effects were great, loved the sounds the drones made with the booming bass. All in all a nice movie. I'll buy it when it comes out on DVD.
 
I'm gonna go against what the others are saying here. I thought the idea for the film was terrific as were the effects, but I thought that they tried to reach to far with it. They seemed to be trying to make it more than it is, there were a lot of lines that all seemed to be trying to be "The Line" they also gave too much verbal exposition at the beginning of the film. I also felt like they did the same thing with the music they spent the whole time trying to make it be WAY dramatic and I noticed the music which I don't normally do because I felt that it pulled me out of the moment.

That being said it was a really good movie, I just think that it had a huge potential and they fell short in the end.
 
This is actually one of the few movies i want to see this year. Sadly there isn't much original in hollywood anymore and if it is they won't fund it because it's an unknown. the movie "Love" is that way. It's done really well on dvd and in small releases but the dude filmed it in his backyard and Gunner Wright who is the main actor helped out with construction and moving stuff around.
 
Unpopular opinion go:

I saw this two hours ago, and I think it was pretty horrible. It felt as though they took 5-6 really good sci-fi movies and smashed them together in the hopes of making a great movie. Instead it came across as trying to rip them off. I lost it when the antagonist was literally HAL-9000 (not really, its a pyramid with a big red eye, but incredibly similar). The entrance into the tet was lifted straight from Independence day.

SPOILER!!!!!
I called the scav's were human from the beginning. The shock that I was supposed to feel when the wool was removed from my eyes just wasn't there.

One good thing I will say about the movie is the design. I thought it was very organic and really embodied the two sides. Also, Tom Cruise and Olga Kurylenko had great chemistry.
 
Really enjoyed this movie. Clean look and there weren't any slow parts (in my opinion). Great idea, but there seems to be a lot of this "life after Earth has been attacked" sort of movie happening now in sci-fi.
 
Really enjoyed this movie. Clean look and there weren't any slow parts (in my opinion). Great idea, but there seems to be a lot of this "life after Earth has been attacked" sort of movie happening now in sci-fi.

I enjoyed it as well. I try to avoid as much as I can in the way of plot and spoilers before I see a movie and it's served me pretty well so far. Knew nothing of the plot other than it was an "after Earth is attacked" type premise. So much better to go into something open minded instead of bringing "baggage" along with you to taint your initial impression.

As far as the similarity in concepts floating around Hollywood this season, it's really the same every year. Not sure exactly how it works, but one studio gets a hot commodity and every other studio seems to have to find something that's just about exactly the same. I think Oblivion will probably benefit most since it's the first out of the gate.
 
Honestly. it was great! the helicopters were all tech out, and i really liked the achitechual designs of their house/headquaters. and victoria's computer table was just like jarvis yet without the high tech stuff.

what i didnt like their was the plot twist;like which one is jack's lover? victoria or julia?,why is there two jacks? what the heck happened to earth? what are they fighting for? it's...it's just sick.

but honestly great movie!
 
Saw the movie...

Loved the costume and effects...

The plot twist also intrigued me... was not expecting it... so that was good...
 
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Don't post spoilers maan


it was a decent movie. the plot is nothing spectacular. There were some parts which were dumb and only served to move the plot along but it was still entertaining to watch.

visually tho its A+ and is super great looking on the big screen. Part’s of it were almost exactly like watching someone play Halo (not in a lame way, just in that a lot of the visual elements are similar). The music was great also, and the drones & their bleep bloop scary noises were a particular highlight for me. no complaints about the acting it was all pretty solid (except for jamie lannister lol)

I’d say it’s worth seeing on the big screen, but only if you’re into cool looking sci-fi stuff. If it didn’t have the ballin’ visuals or the great music / sound design I’d probably be really disappointed right now.
 
The shock that I was supposed to feel when the wool was removed from my eyes just wasn't there.

Exactly. The movie really wastes time on that alleged 'twist'...did ANYONE fall for it? :lol And geeze, Morgan...'old stealth fighter technology'...really? Why your people just stop wearing it later on, then? I'd have killed that whole Scav plotline. Let the horrible truth be really horrible: have the Jacks and the Vikas be the last humans left...
 
Saw it last thursday, it was decent, nothing too great or amazing though. The story was really predictable and you knew there was that "twist" coming. That combined with a somewhat unpolished story and huge plot-holes kind of killed it for me. Visuals were great and if they had spent as much time/money/effort on refining the script/story as they did on special effects, than we would have had a great movie.
 
So apparently we got a "The Jetsons" movie that everyone was asking for?

Pass on paying money for anything with Tom 'Scientologist Freak' Cruise for me.

I think Tom Cruise is a decent actor, did you see Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol? I take the movie for what it is and keep my feelings about his personal life separate.
 
Visually pleasing, but plot wise...very predictable. I felt Cruise did a good job. Overall a decent, not great flick.
 
SPOILER!!!!!
I called the scav's were human from the beginning. The shock that I was supposed to feel when the wool was removed from my eyes just wasn't there.
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I think most would have at least been thinking that. Nobody yeld it out when i seen it tho.
 
Went into it with the only preconception that it would look and try to be "epic". I stowed away the cynical critic in me and just let myself indulge in the experience, much like I did with The Hobbit, and I left the theater breathless.

Yes, you can probably more easily poke more holes in it than a shotgun blast through aluminum foil, but I don't really care. The thing left me feeling the way I expected Prometheus to, but didn't.

The only ting that kinda really intruded on the experience for me were a couple "why would something like that act that way" moments and the fact that Every Single Shot seemed to be a piece of concept art. I'm guessing the latter only bothers me because I work in games and in this industry concept art, beautiful as it is (and no offense to any artists reading because you're just doing your jobs and it's the fault of other departments), sometimes takes a little bit too much space in the production.
 
I watched the movie a few days ago with a mate! The visual effects were amazing, good actors, amazing weapons and vehicles! The Heli-plane or what ever it's called is just insane. These scenes were tom started the plane and flew backwards till he was horizontal - AMAZING Highly recommend...
 
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