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When I saw it earlier this week with someone and we both thought there were branching stories they started to travel down that ultimately were never followed or explained.

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jbone@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Unless I missed something, there was never any branching in the movie. To be honest, it didn’t see like that kind of movie, there was never a thriller/mystery vibe. In many ways it was a very straightforward narrative and almost classical high-level story format.

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- Thassodar@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Not sure if the spoiler tag is working, tried to send this earlier but lemm.ee was down:
  
  ::: The brunette love interest. Came in, showed interest in splitting attention with Mickey, disappeared the rest of the movie until she shows up with a random girl at the end.
  
  The dictator/politician guy getting puked on by the alien and having a noticeable cough in the later scenes, with no payoff.
  
  The guy in the pigeon suit? Never explained.
  
  The secret team on the deck that facilitated the mutiny by recording the torture of the alien, never explained or hinted at until they literally show up and say “we need more for our team”.
  
  The weird Church/cult vibe and hymn? Never explored.
  
  How the alien knew his name before they had a translator or knew English? Alien’s answer? “SECRET” :::
  
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  - Eyck_of_denesle@lemmy.zip ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Spoiler tag not working
    
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  - jbone@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Ah, I thought you meant branching in context of the main hook. Something along the lines of Primer.
    
    Yeah, I totally agree with you regarding those point, it was pretty strange.
    
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  - treyf711@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS
    
    Tap for spoiler Another thing I noticed was one of the very last scenes where they were re-printing a new Mark Ruffalo. I wondered if that was supposed to be some kind of big different ending, but turned out to just be Mickey having fantasize the whole thing. I thought they were gonna show that the thing that they were demonizing they were doing the entire time.
    
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