• RunawayFixer@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    The setup of this movie reminds me of Locke with Tom Hardy. That’s also basically a movie where you watch 1 person in a static situation (in a car in Locke) conducting remote project management. I’d have never expected a full movie to work with that setup, but Locke pulls it off imo.

    • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      11 months ago

      There was a whole movie with a guy in a box hoping to be unearthed (Buried, or something like that). It was quite decent.

    • fibojoly@sh.itjust.works
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      11 months ago

      I remember watching Fail Safe by chance and that movie was so fucking tense! Completely carried by the amazing cast. Maybe I should watch it again!

      It’s about a cold war situation where iirc the USA bomb a city in Russia by accident and the movie / play is about how the two presidents negotiate to avoid all out nuclear war. Fantastic stuff.

  • billwashere@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Why did anybody spend money on producing this “movie”? I mean really… somewhere in the midst of this someone should have started question their life choices.

    • Wispy2891@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      It’s a 89 minutes Amazon ad. “See? We’re delivering with Amazon prime even during an alien invasion! So efficient” or “See? Even when the world banking got destroyed you can count on Amazon gift cards as a method of payment. That homeless gonna love that $1000 Amazon gift card!”

  • But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Citizen Kane has nothing on Ice cube yelling “got em!” At a computer screen.

    Also you can see the green screen reflected on his glasses the whole time

  • ThePantser@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    11 months ago

    I made it 10min, once he started “hacking” teamvewer with a generated master password I GTFO. They tried real hard to make it realistic by having real software and apps but it’s bad, really bad.

    • Wispy2891@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      Real software and apps were used just because they paid for product placement, not for accuracy

    • slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.orgEnglish
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      11 months ago

      This stuff is still crazy to me. Every movie these days seems to cost at least 100 million dollars, because every movie that doesn’t make billions is a failure. But they can’t get something like a guy working a computer right… Ever. Or plumbing, it’s always a guy turning A random valve or tighten some bolt with the wrong tool. Everyone playing a video game in a movie is just hitting all the buttons. It’s eventually not what makes or breaks a movie, but it’s so annoying

      • SSTF@lemmy.worldOP
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        11 months ago

        What’s weird about video games is there isn’t a library of stock prop games. It doesn’t take a ton of time to make something in a free engine. I’m sure studio VFX departments have people who could whip up a few demo sized “games” that can actually be controlled and played but don’t have failure states so actors can actually “play” them while filming without having to be too distracted from the scene itself. It would also ensure no rights issues come up with game studios about showing the footage.

        Instead we get actors often overenthusiastically wiggling controllers around and insert footage of games that don’t match the motions at all.

    • Kairos@lemmy.today
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      11 months ago

      I think it’s the same production company that made Searching and Missing. Those movies are good.

  • KingOfTheCouch@lemmy.ca
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    11 months ago

    My first fucking thought was was “yeah, how about no, I’m in fucking zoom calls all fucking day at work.” I give them credit, interesting idea as a high concept thing, but like no chance I’m even giving this 10 minutes even if the reviews weren’t utter shit.

  • ddplf@szmer.info
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    11 months ago

    THERE’S LIKE ZERO HINTS ON WHAT MOVIE THESE REVIEWS ARE OF YET EVERYONE HERE INHERENTLY KNOWS WHAT MOVIE IT IS AND I’M JUST SITTING HERE OBLIVIOUS OH GOD

  • thingAmaBob@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    I watched this movie for less than 10 minutes out of curiosity. Towards the end of that short time, I was thinking, “When will the scene change? This computer bit seems to be going on a bit long…” Luckily something came up, I got distracted and never finished the movie. Later I find out via memes that was the entire movie 🥴

  • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    11 months ago

    The concept isn’t bad as such. But I’m not surprised at all that they botched it as it’s not easy at all to pull off.
    Disclaimer: I didn’t see it.