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I just watched "The Creator."
How come a movie with such great visuals and high production value can be so poorly written and nonsensical?
(note to self: read movie reviews before watching them, it's not like you have the opportunity to watch movies all the time these days)
@David
Awful movie. Here's my take:
"Something about the US making war on robots in Asia. I just cannot come to terms with the fact that in scifi film-making, they can put millions of dollars into the stage sets and effects without coming up with a script that makes any sense whatsoever. It’s all just confused tear-jerkiness, explosions and armed combat. Aggressively nonsensical. Grade: Fail."
@mrundkvist Yep, that's pretty much my take too.
Note that Gareth Edwards is also the screenwriter and the producer of the movie. That explains why the script was accepted by the producer.
(on the other hand, I think I now understand why he was fired from Rogue One, I can see how Rogue One could have "been" that movie)
@David
Rogue One though is great!
@mrundkvist Because Edwards was fired and replaced by Gilroy. Otherwise, I can easily see it being very similar to this movie. Some scenes even feel like they were written for Rogue One (the battle on the floating bridge, the finale in "almost space" and such)
@David It looked SO good and then I started hearing about it just being a snoozer. I'd still like to watch it sometime, but it isn't anything I'm seeking out.
@josh I don't know if snoozer is the right term as there is an explosion every minute or so, but the thing just doesn't make sense: inconsistent world-building, bad writing left and right, it tries to be philosophical but falls flat stumbling on its own clichés and whatnot.
Maybe you shouldn't watch it, it's really infuriating to see such amazing production with such terrible writing.
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