Annihilation and the Hugo Dramatics

[psocoptera]

Watched Annihilation for Hugo purposes - I refuse to watch Quiet Place (I don't like horror! don't like being tense and upset!) but I figured Annihilation would be the lesser of two evils and also I was curious about it as an adaptation. I still found it pretty unpleasant even having read a spoilery synopsis awhile ago... Josh, in contrast, said he didn't even feel like it was horror, that he never found it scary, but I very much felt like they were doing horror stuff with the tense music and atmosphere of worsening dread. Anyways, it was interesting to see how they went about filming what I would have said was an unfilmable book (which I talked about here), imposing a more movie-friendly narrative, and how they visually represented the weird biology.

Hugo Dramatic Long thoughts/predictions/ballot under the cut; I can say right here that in the Hugo Dramatic Short category I am watching none of the television and casting a vote for Dirty Computer anyways.



I talked about Infinity War here, which I didn't like, Black Panther here, which I nominated, A Quiet Place I am skipping as mentioned, Sorry To Bother You here which I also nominated, and Into the Spiderverse here which I also also nominated. I have been saying for awhile that I think this is a race between Black Panther and Spiderverse and my prediction is that Spiderverse will win - it was just so fun and stylish and innovative and good.

My ballot:

1 - Into the Spiderverse
2 - Black Panther
3 - Sorry To Bother You
4 - Annihilation
(5 - if it gets that far Infinity War and Quiet Place can slug it out without my input)

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[psocoptera]

Also I keep getting "annihilation, life is your creation, come on Barbie let's go party" stuck in my head, thank you Aqua for this lifelong gift. :/