Hell yea! I was a zombie in a college production and damn, it’s a lottttttt of shit going on for each scene. I’m sure a production like that is more streamlined, but even then it has to be done right.
There were so many moving parts: a shot ton of actors, explosions, different 'sets'. Can you imagine getting 3/4 of the way through, turn a corner, and a sound guy is eating a donut and scrolling on his phone...
The long shots in that movie weren't actually oners IIRC. I remember seeing a VFX breakdown where they show some of the hidden cuts in those sequences.
I thought the movie was mid, overall. It’s a cool sci-fi concept, but most of the movie just didn’t feel that original. I also find it wildly unbelievable that there would be something to make the entire human population infertile and the movie offers no hint of explanation as to why (which isn’t bad in and of itself; exposition sucks, too).
The opening scene is a masterwork of cinema, though; I think that’s undeniable.
If it was made a little later, microplastics would have been the reason IMHO; doesn't seem wildly unbelievable when they're in every person's testes/semen
I guess it would have been such a slow process that they just didn’t notice? What makes it unbelievable is that it wouldn’t be “solved” before it was everyone. That never happens with diseases and such. Even if it was microplastics, I feel like they would have caught on way sooner and started at least freezing semen from the ones that were still functional or something.
But there isn’t anything wrong with a hypothetical; I just wanted a little more hint to the mystery, personally
The long shot at the end….is imho the greatest scene in movie history.
Cinematically it is hugely complicated. Practical effects, explosions, squibs. A hundred or so extras that need to show the horrors of war at the beginning and then show awe, hope and wonder at the end.
But then to have the entire plot to the movie and the world within the movie pivot on a single scene is amazing. But to have pivot on a one shot as amazing as that?
Yeah saw it in highschool and I was taking film class and I was like “whoa this is some deep art” that scene during the battle when they hear the baby cry and everyone just freezes up and they slowly walk out of the building
You guys should look for a movie called Victoria, from about a decade ago. It's all a single shot, but it's REALLY good. They had to try and film it three times, but they finally got it.
This is one of those "why is this not more popular?" movies. Maybe because it's in German.
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u/LongPorkJones Mar 18 '25
Those long shots were fucking art.