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Coherence (2013) Uncut Reaction! (Patreon)

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Kara

For sci-fi month: Have you watched Ex Machina or Annihilation? Two incredible sci fi movies from Alex Garland (also did Men and the tv show Devs). Ex Machina particularly is a banger.

James vs Cinema

Yes, but I was actually thinking of doing a rewatching of Ex Machina. Similar to how I did Whiplash.

Yannick Manwaring

I haven't yet finished your reaction but in case you didn't know : not only is the film very low budget, but this is how they made it : The director and another cameraman spent 5 days in a house with the actors. 95% of the movie is improvised. The actors didn't know what was going to happen (the lights going out, the whole plot, eachothers agendas). Every morning, the director would give a small card to each actor with a few guidelines, sometimes conflicting (Kevin would have "leave the house" and Emily would have "don't let him leave the house" on their cards) which made for very tense scenes where the actors almost had to break character because they were confused. I feel like when you know this, it makes the movie that much more exceptional. For me, it's a masterpiece. It's a crazy idea and it's crazy that it worked.

MrBooShoes

Primer was the other movie you were thinking of - the time travel movie, Scanners was the David Croenenberg telepath-exploding-heads movie

MrBooShoes

A fantastic sci-fi movie that was relatively low budget ($3 mill), but also has some horror-esque vibes is Upgrade (2018). Absolute banger of a film, would love to see it pop up here, interesting style and compact lean story.

MrBooShoes

It's interesting how a lot of sci-fi crosses over into psychological-thriller/horror. Bending the nature of reality truly fits in both sci-fi and horror realms and the title of this movie captures the reason why - to cohere is literally holding together and resist separation, in a sense just to cohere is to exist and both Sci-fi and horror play with that concept both psychologically and physically

Kara

Just finished, great reaction. Perfect example of "low budget, high concept" sci-fi, glad it got picked. Lots of crunchy details on rewatch too, like how at the beginning Laurie doesn't remember Mike playing a character on 'Roswell' - people theorise its because she's already from a different reality where he never acted on that show, like everyone is from a different reality because they drove through the 'darkness' to get there. The twists are so perfect, like you think it's 2 realities, then maybe 3-4? Then infinity. Brain-breaking stuff. I'm sure someone else has said but all the dialogue is improvised, the actors were given information and plot beats and then made it up from there. Results in some really authentic dialogue, combined with the editing. Wish more similar productions did this.

Tetley

Another interesting low-budget movie is Darren Aronofsky's debut feature Pi (1998). I'm not so sure how strictly you could categorise it in the sci-fi genre. But it deals with the cosmic aspects of mathematics, which is definitely an alien concept to me. Could be a good one to discuss in terms of what constitutes "sci-fi".

Kelvin

Yeah I liked this movie a lot when I saw it years ago but finding out how it was made recently on a rewatch blew my mind a little. Very cool stuff. It also fleshes out how natural the conversation feels with overlapping crosstalk and also how they could often be different versions of themselves without much trouble

Dajefe70

It's always fun to go into a movie without any idea of the plot. I definitely feel The Thing vibes, with that feeling of realizing all of a sudden, you can't trust your best mate. The movie was great with keeping the unknown throughout the movie, yet nice twists throughout. And it was done on a low budget.

Fred Migliorini

A word about James Ward Byrkit who was the writer/director for “Coherence”. My wife and I saw this film at Alamo Drafthouse in Littleton, Colorado at which James was present to talk about his movie and answer questions from the audience. We asked him if he had any advice for our daughter who was a high school senior interested in film animation as a career. He told us to bring her to the following night’s showing of “Rango”, for which he had written the story and created the artwork for the animated characters. He said he would be happy to talk to her. We brought her the next night and James spent at least an hour talking to her about the creative process and the film industry. While we were there my wife purchased a couple of pieces of his artwork and wrote him a check. A few weeks later, a large envelope showed up in our mailbox addressed to my daughter. The return address was James Ward Byrkit. He sent my daughter a letter of encouragement along with several of his first sketches of Rango. We were puzzled because we had not given him our name or address. Then we remembered the check!! The man is a tremendous talent and an extremely thoughtful individual. I also highly recommend Rango.

Kelvin

Main thing on this rewatch is that I agree with your point about the human drama. In fact, the film basically rests on that. It establishes the characters and makes you care about them at least enough to pay attention to them and that means the viewer is noticing all these quirks and behaviors shift. Especially on any rewatch you really notice how many little reactions don't make sense if they are the from the same universe but do because we are not looking at all of the same characters as we think we are in the first viewing. Characters at various points have half seconds of confusion, misremember or don't remember things, repeat conversations (because they happened in another universe not theirs), or don't react to bits of conversation that reference details that happened earlier that night (because they didn't experience them in their universe). Really dope film if that type of thing interests you, and that's on top of all the other stuff.

Maurissa Fields

I loved this movie it felt like a Sci-Fi version of Clue.

deadlogo

Dude if you loved this then I really think you need to check out Resolution and then follow up with The Endless. The perfect appetizer followed by the main course. You wanna talk about high concept, low budget sci-fi... those are your movies man.

cindygrape

Movie that always comes to my mind when talking about this movie is Triangle (2009). Horror sci-fi, best to go in completely blind! Also The Invitation (2015), I actually don't remember much else than it was tense and had similar group dinner gathering aspect so maybe that's why it felt similar to this one. Also Finland represent! 🇫🇮 Torille! as we say lol

Linda

Just the right amount of mystery and creepiness. Super fun mind fuck. 😊 Another fun comet flick is cult fave Night of the Comet. 🌠

Kara

That's an amazing story, thanks for sharing.

Kelvin

Triangle's a good followup to this one for various reasons. The Endless too