Has anyone seen Predestination?

[AVSJason]

Has anyone seen Predestination?

Sitting in my hotel room the other night I was scrolling through the available movies to watcha nd came across Predestination. Im not really even sure how to explain this movie, it was something like Looper meets Inception. Has anyone else seen this movie? If so what did you think?

[AVSCraig]

Yes - I have the Blu-ray. I loved it the one time I watched it, and it's been on my rewatch list for awhile now. I need to do a " time travel " movie week!

[AVSJason]

Yes - I have the Blu-ray. I loved it the one time I watched it, and it's been on my rewatch list for awhile now. I need to do a " time travel " movie week!

I liked it but man did it get confusing at the end. Ethan Hawke did a great job and so did Sarah Snook, but that ending had me going WTF haha. I read its a remake of a Robert A. Heinlein story, who is the author of Stranger in a Strange Land, which was the book next to the type writer the barkeep uses. Heinlein wrote All You Zombies which is the story this film was based off. Very interesting premise.   

[David Vaughn]

Has anyone seen Predestination?

Sitting in my hotel room the other night I was scrolling through the available movies to watcha nd came across Predestination. Im not really even sure how to explain this movie, it was something like Looper meets Inception. Has anyone else seen this movie? If so what did you think?

Never heard of it, but it does look interesting. 

[AVSCraig]

I liked it but man did it get confusing at the end. Ethan Hawke did a great job and so did Sarah Snook, but that ending had me going WTF haha. I read its a remake of a Robert A. Heinlein story, who is the author of Stranger in a Strange Land, which was the book next to the type writer the barkeep uses. Heinlein wrote All You Zombies which is the story this film was based off. Very interesting premise. 

You just need to watch it again. As do I!

[bmoney]

It’s incredible how many movies are out that I’ve never heard of. Do they just get released straight to video? No advertising?

[AVSJason]

It’s incredible how many movies are out that I’ve never heard of. Do they just get released straight to video? No advertising?

I feel the same way, I have been travelling for work more the past few months, so I check the free movies available and have been seeing several I never knew existed. I would imagine most are direct to streaming now with all the different outlets, and unless you subscribe to that service, you probably wont see any advertising. 

[AVSCraig]

It’s incredible how many movies are out that I’ve never heard of. Do they just get released straight to video? No advertising?

Generally speaking I have neither the time nor interest in watching movies of that ( low ) caliber.  

[Paul Heroy]

Quote from: AVSCraig 1/22/2024, 1:14:44 PM
Generally speaking I have neither the time nor interest in watching movies of that ( low ) caliber. 

10 years ago I would have agreed with you. But streaming is so ubiquitous now that the big companies like Netflix, Amazon, Apple, HBO etc have all released high quality movies on their streaming platforms. This was a big controversy recently in the industry with many old guard directors and others feeling strongly that their creations are intended to be viewed on a large screen (and our home projection screens may not quite qualify) by an audience experiencing it with other people, not alone at home. I think the Academy even added a requirement for the awards that a movie have some level of theatrical presentation done. (Checked - yep, must have 7 days in theaters in at least 10 of the top 50 markets to be eligible for Oscars.)

But the assumption that "direct to streaming" is the same is the "direct to VHS/DVD" of yesteryear is IMO misguided. Now, if you say that there's too much already available between new & catalog releases, that's tough to argue. (Except we've been bitching about the decline in quality of some things like MCU movies that have been stalwarts for the last 15-20 years.)

Here are a couple of examples that might be worth at least considering. The recent Napoleon biopic was theatrically released, but is going to have an expanded version (something like 100 minutes longer) released only on Apple TV+. Greyhound with Tom Hanks was a solid WWII movie on Apple.

[AVSCraig]

10 years ago I would have agreed with you. But streaming is so ubiquitous now that the big companies like Netflix, Amazon, Apple, HBO etc have all released high quality movies on their streaming platforms. This was a big controversy recently in the industry with many old guard directors and others feeling strongly that their creations are intended to be viewed on a large screen (and our home projection screens may not quite qualify) by an audience experiencing it with other people, not alone at home. I think the Academy even added a requirement for the awards that a movie have some level of theatrical presentation done. (Checked - yep, must have 7 days in theaters in at least 10 of the top 50 markets to be eligible for Oscars.)

But the assumption that "direct to streaming" is the same is the "direct to VHS/DVD" of yesteryear is IMO misguided. Now, if you say that there's too much already available between new & catalog releases, that's tough to argue. (Except we've been bitching about the decline in quality of some things like MCU movies that have been stalwarts for the last 15-20 years.)

Here are a couple of examples that might be worth at least considering. The recent Napoleon biopic was theatrically released, but is going to have an expanded version (something like 100 minutes longer) released only on Apple TV+. Greyhound with Tom Hanks was a solid WWII movie on Apple.

Probably all true, but the fragmentation of new content onto multiple streaming platforms behind individual paywalls mean many people will never see these movies. In the coming years I will have even less time to watch stuff. I'm certainly not going to subscribe to a bunch of streaming services to burn up my time trying to separate the wheat from the chaff.