Voyagers (2021)
Fifteenth review is for a sci-fi, thriller, horror mash up recommended by a friend✨ Survival, control versus nature, aliens?, murder, naïveté, and scary ass space. Includes #spoilers :
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Voyagers (2021) Pros: Off rip I was so excited to see what was about to happen. I didn’t see a trailer so I came into it with fresh eyes. The style, crispness of the futuristic tech and thoughts on human nature reminded me of series Brave New World, (canceled too soon just after 1 season, I still recommend) how it adapted the book and really brought us through the look of utopia and how everything works smoothly, and then BLAM some white boys stop taking the wonder drug and egos go a fucking mess. Events escalated from Richard’s death to the insurrection and people fucking in common places, to the finding of weapons, to the final battle scene then montages of the aftermath. The acting was exciting and well done from the leads. I recognized some of them youths, good for them. I like how in the end they decided to mesh the rules with doing their own thing.
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Cons: So why not castrate them and tell them about it? That ends half the problem right there. What was the plan for reproduction on the ship? Maybe I missed that. Zac got a slick ass tongue, but how he flipped everything and relied on fear had me rolling my eyes a little bit because they just let him speak and take control, in real life they woulda yelled over him, and he wouldn’t get out any of that bullshittiest of shit. When will y’all learn (Brave New World, Level 16, Midnight Mass) if you lie, them kids gon investigate.
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I give it a 7.5. It had diversity, chaos, many characters in a small space, and other things I love. I wanted an alien, I wanted the gestures they took from Alien (airlock final battle) to be elevated. I also had a sneaking suspicion that it was gonna be revealed that they were all related or atleast Sela was to Richard to make it eww that they was bumping and grinding but nahhhh. Also the free spirit side off the blue had no redeeming qualities. Free to love yeah, but mostly we got murder and a witch hunt. In the end, an exciting watch.
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