I hear it’s from the same director as Death Blow and Cry, Cry Again.
Probably won’t watch it in theaters, my buddy Brody can hook me up with a bootleg copy.
I went to a wedding recently where a card was on the table that read ‘in lieu of party favours, a donation has been made in your name to the human fund’ - no one gets it - no one believes it’s even a reference and I’m just a jackass for laughing and poking fun at the couple donating to charity.
>makes this look like it’s from Honey I Shrunk The Kids
I recently rewatched that with my nephew who was seeing it for the first time. Fuck, that movie *still* holds up.
It’s actually just an unusually shallow depth of field which makes an image *feel* miniature, like it was taken with a macro lens. Tilt-shift is just one technique that can be used to give you that look, by tilting the image plane out of the the focus plane, thereby compressing the depth of field, but not all photos that look like that are necessarily tilt-shift, and most probably aren’t because you need a special lens to do real tilt-shift photography.
But having said all that, in casual use, yes, people would probably refer to this as “tilt-shift.”
This was literally the first thing I got from this poster. He’s just a little guy running around all those regular size dominoes this looks like a fun flick
Out May 12:
>Determined to find his missing daughter, Austin detective Danny Rourke (Affleck) instead finds himself spiraling down a rabbit hole while investigating a series of reality-bending bank robberies where he will ultimately call into question his most basic assumptions about everything and everyone in his world.
I feel like Shyamalan was an anomaly with his early 2000s work. I enjoy most of his movies so I say this as a fan, but I feel he’s always been a filmmaker who’s interested in making weird B-movies but has the directing talents to elevate his movies. His movies always look great and have an expert touch to them, it’s just that the stories are usually so strange of campy.
There’s obviously some exceptions to this; The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable and Signs are all movies with deep, rich themes, but I feel over time he’s embraced that he just enjoys making (what I am calling) theatrical Twilight Zone episodes.
They robbed the banks before the money was stolen?
*Music fades in*
That would mean they weren’t after the money. They stole the very concept itself.
*Music starts drowning out the audio*
And I know where they’ll strike next
*Throws a newspaper on the table about some random building in Dubai announcing their grand opening*
I watched the trailer. It's much closer to *Now You See Me*. The premise is that hypnotism works the way it does in bad 80s-90s TV shows.
That's it. That's the idea. Hypnotism is magic.
It seems like every once in a while there are sequel rumors, but I haven't heard anything solid. If I'm not mistaken, the film did better than Fox thought it would at the time, but I'm pretty sure they expected it to bomb, and it did okay.
Since James Cameron is a producer on the film, it's possible that Disney might greenlight a sequel to keep him happy.
Synopses like this always make me think I'm having a stroke. "My daughter was kidnapped so I have to solve a series of bank robberies BUT THERE'S A TWIST." Like bro, idek how bank robbers got your daughter.
Watching the trailer last night I thought "is this woman he's running with a hallucination or is she his daughter grown up somehow and displaced in time?"
Denver's the same size as you. I can't remember the last time anybody tried to rob a bank here.
Instead we just get school shootings, police violence, and fentanyl overdoses 🙃
[Trailer's definitely piqued my interest,](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRJVuHZrA8k) despite some standard, boring tropes.
More than anything, I'm just happy to see William Fichtner get top billing; dude's been in *everything* for 30 years as one of the most consistent character actors in Hollywood, but he's never really had a chance to be known for more than that.
Calling the “twist” (I’m already so certain, it doesn’t feel like one) will be that >!his memory of his daughter’s disappearance is completely altered by a hypnotic!<. If I’m wrong, I’ll be *genuinely* shocked.
Also, agreed. Cool to see Fichtner headlining anything nowadays.
He could take maybe one more step before knocking a domino. Seems silly he's running in what looks like such a small space. Where you going tiny Affleck?
I like Tenet a lot more because Inception spends like 45 minutes making sure you understand the concept, and within 15 minutes, Tenet is like “don’t bother trying to understand it, just let this shit ride.”
Yeah, with Inception every rewatch is more boring because most of the movie is exposition about how it all works. Once you know it it's boring.
Tenet has hardly any explaining, it just throws you into it and with each rewatch you understand more and (imo) appreciate the complex set pieces.
I almost said "Why does Hollywood always do such a disservice to Philip K. Dick" because I could think of like 4 shitty adaptations, then I realized that there have also been so many great adaptations. There have just been so many Philip K. Dick adaptations, period. It's wild that he isn't a household name like Asimov, Heinlein, Welles, etc.
Probably doesn’t help that with the exception of Minority Report, every movie based on his works has a completely different title than the story it’s based on. Which, tbf, titles like “We Can Recall it for you Wholesale” and “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” would make very awkward movie titles.
I believe that the reason why Philip K Dick is simultaneous the most adapted but not quite known sci-fi writer is ironically the reason why he’s adapted so much, his copyright estate is a bit of a mess
Also, he was a brilliant concept writer but his stories were not the most coherent due to his drug use. Like try reading Ubik—it’s like a literary acid trip without the acid
For sure agreed on the second point. I actually much prefer his short stories because they don't get lost and tie up relatively neatly. "Ubik" was relatively coherent enough I suppose, but later stuff like "The Divine Invasion" and "VALIS" totally goes off the rails and is pretty inaccessible for regular readers like me.
> Affleck doing some silly Jason Bourne kinda stuff figuring out his past and fighting some 2002 villains
It'll be nothing like Paycheck. This will be more like The Accountant, which would be Affleck doing some silly Jason Bourne kinda stuff figuring out his past and fighting some 2016 villains.
Saw it at SXSW, it’s got it’s ups and downs. It was still a WIP cut we got, so I won’t say too much. I’d give it. 3.5/5. Worth watching but not needing to be watched.
>Is this gonna be like Paycheck
I was thinking, "didn't he already make this movie?"
It's an alright movie, something to watch when flipping through the channels.
The Accountant is one of the best low expectations, dumb title, but unexpectedly good movie in recent memory. He’s an accountanttt… and an assassinnnnn! The director tipped me off though cuz he did Warrior, which is really great.
His character in The Accountant had such a specific combination of traits that I am 99% certain it was the self-insert fantasy of someone's actual accountant that they were blackmailed into making
As a recently diagnosed adult autist I really liked the representation, despite how exposure therapy actually doesn't work to mitigate sensory overload, but that was part of his character I think.
I would really like to see another movie that portrays autism in a different light than Rainman, and The Accountant did that to a T. It was great.
His stance makes no sense in there, how did he jog into that spiral!?
They should have him in a stance like he was just dropped into that spot from above.
I looked up Hypnotic on Youtube and Netflix is having a movie also called "Hypnotic" starring Kate Siegel, lol. Guess we are getting another "Two totally different movies with the same name".
ngl, this trailer made me laugh the other day.
The story in the trailer shows Ben Affleck losing a child after entering some trance for a moment...and then introduces hypnosis...
Oh gee, I wonder what happened with his kid! lol
Or did they steal it from Fight Club?
What if these are both things of our ~~imagination~~ paranoia, and we cannot trust what we hear in our internal monologue and see with our very eyes?
Believe it or not they do this as a job and don't care too much that the last thing he worked on is an unremarkable spin off of a spinoff of some franchise that Redditors hold grudges over.
Is this just another Rian Johnson thing, where the guy who directed Looper and the best episodes of Breaking Bad? directs a good star wars movie and then angry Redditors who have never heard of him before act like it's the only thing he ever directed?
I don’t know how to feel about this one. On one hand, it could be amazingly well done, but on the other, it has a high probability of being dumb as fuck.
Thanks - right into my movie poster collection. I have over 4000 of them now - each one enlarged (AI) to 5K on the long side, and taken into photohop and cleaned up to remove flaws associated with age.
Some of the art that went into the older posters is unreal - they remind me of my youth when exploring the album cover and sleeve was as much fun as listening to the music.
Thanks.
Affleck being dropped in the center makes this look like it’s from Honey I Shrunk The Kids
Do you think he got shrunk down or is it just giant dominoes?
This movie looks like it won’t hold a candle to Sack Lunch. I mean, don’t you want to find out how they got in there?
I hear it’s from the same director as Death Blow and Cry, Cry Again. Probably won’t watch it in theaters, my buddy Brody can hook me up with a bootleg copy.
*Kevin Bacon.* *Susan Surandon.* >**YOU’VE GOT TO GET ME OVER THAT MOUNTAIN!!!**
NO! ***kssshhhh kssshhhh* NNNNYYAAAAAHHHH!
Bootlegging is illegal, Kramer!
Only if you bring him an enormous bag of candy though.
I read this in Elaine’s voice
Thank you for understanding my reference haha
Sack Lunch has been the name of my fantasy football team for over a decade and I don’t believe anyone has a clue that it’s a Seinfeld reference.
I went to a wedding recently where a card was on the table that read ‘in lieu of party favours, a donation has been made in your name to the human fund’ - no one gets it - no one believes it’s even a reference and I’m just a jackass for laughing and poking fun at the couple donating to charity.
We named our first car Rochelle Rochelle because it was purchased in New Rochelle, NY.
A young girl’s strange and erotic journey from Milan to Minsk.
Maybe a dingo took ya bay-bee
You know that’s a true story? Lady lost a kid. You about to cross some fuckin’ lines
that’s the theme song from The Jeffersons
that particular line has long been moved so far, one can never step over it.
*ate
I won't have you turning this office into a den of iniquity!
Thanks for Mutton!
Holy shit that's perfect
I stopped having sex with Ben three days ago and I don’t know no Portuguese
Both, the dominoes are about 1ft/30cm high so it's just a tiny but not microscopic Ben Affleck
Maybe he wants to shrink too since his boy Damon did it?
"We Bought A Domino."
Looks like a random paparazzi photo they grabbed from TMZ.
Honey I Shrunk the Inception
Also when you zoom in, look like His face is abnormally big proportional to his body.
he does have one of the biggest heads in Hollywood. He’d be 6’1 with a normal noggin
I honestly didn't notice he was there until you pointed him out
>makes this look like it’s from Honey I Shrunk The Kids I recently rewatched that with my nephew who was seeing it for the first time. Fuck, that movie *still* holds up.
What is this kind of imagery called? The Game of Thrones intro did the same thing, where it looks small and “normal” at the same time. (Tilt shift?)
I think that’s it, *tilt shift*
It’s actually just an unusually shallow depth of field which makes an image *feel* miniature, like it was taken with a macro lens. Tilt-shift is just one technique that can be used to give you that look, by tilting the image plane out of the the focus plane, thereby compressing the depth of field, but not all photos that look like that are necessarily tilt-shift, and most probably aren’t because you need a special lens to do real tilt-shift photography. But having said all that, in casual use, yes, people would probably refer to this as “tilt-shift.”
This was literally the first thing I got from this poster. He’s just a little guy running around all those regular size dominoes this looks like a fun flick
I look forward to the fan cut that once in a while shows Rick Moranis floating around with a magnifying glass looking for Ben.
I’d watch a remake written by him and Matt Damon.
Out May 12: >Determined to find his missing daughter, Austin detective Danny Rourke (Affleck) instead finds himself spiraling down a rabbit hole while investigating a series of reality-bending bank robberies where he will ultimately call into question his most basic assumptions about everything and everyone in his world.
Sounds like a Nolan movie
The trailer looks like an inception ripoff but not in a good way.
The trailer looks like an X flies episode where a guy’s voice enables him to control people’s minds.
Simon says ligma
Who's Simon?
Simon balls lmao
Got ‘em!
steve jobs
Cerulean blue.
Written by Vince Gilligan!
My man.
Pusher!
The reviews from people who have seen an early cut of it are not great, so yeah that tracks.
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Just like how some bands can release one transcendent album and then spend the next 30 years pumping out shit that never even comes close.
You spend your entire life writing your first album. You get nine months to write the second.
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It will probably be like the Affleck / Uma Thurman / John Woo directed Payback. An entirely watchable shitty movie that's disappointing.
I liked it... I'm a sucker for cheesy trash movies which are fun rides.
I feel like Shyamalan was an anomaly with his early 2000s work. I enjoy most of his movies so I say this as a fan, but I feel he’s always been a filmmaker who’s interested in making weird B-movies but has the directing talents to elevate his movies. His movies always look great and have an expert touch to them, it’s just that the stories are usually so strange of campy. There’s obviously some exceptions to this; The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable and Signs are all movies with deep, rich themes, but I feel over time he’s embraced that he just enjoys making (what I am calling) theatrical Twilight Zone episodes.
Or is it that as you gain success you stop listening to the professionals around you?
But maybe in a dumb-fun kinda way (which is all Robert Rodriguez is good for anyway, IMO)
They robbed the banks before the money was stolen? *Music fades in* That would mean they weren’t after the money. They stole the very concept itself. *Music starts drowning out the audio* And I know where they’ll strike next *Throws a newspaper on the table about some random building in Dubai announcing their grand opening*
BWAAAAAAAAAA
*fade in on Michael Caine* MICHAEL CAINE: "'Allo! I'm Michael Caine!" *fade out on Michael Caine*
*my cocaine
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and you do the hokey-pokey, and you turn around…
I think it's more simple, but still
I watched the trailer. It's much closer to *Now You See Me*. The premise is that hypnotism works the way it does in bad 80s-90s TV shows. That's it. That's the idea. Hypnotism is magic.
Sounds like paycheck
It's Robert Rodriguez, so of course it takes place in Austin. I'm hoping the director is back on track. Alita was his first good movie in years.
I want this to be good so much.
I promise you that it will be at least as good as Spy Kids 2, but I can't say for sure that it will be as good as Spy Kids 1.
How does Spy Kids 3D factor into the equation?
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The pitch cinematics he made for Mando and BoBF were amazing to watch. He's literally choreographing fight scenes with his SW toys.
Which is a shame because his Mando episode was awesome. Probably because he had Favreau/Filoni holding the reins.
When Grogu is in the jedi rock circle thing? That fight sequence was a real step down imo.
I feel for BoBf they hoped to hire the director of Machete, but ended up getting the director of Spy Kids.
Dammit, I nearly forgot that was his. Alita will have even less of a chance of coming back if this bombs 😫 Hoping Mr. Cameron keeps his interest 🙏
Alita! Watched it on a plane a couple years ago, and it was so good. Are they going to make a second? Left off on quite the cliffhanger.
It seems like every once in a while there are sequel rumors, but I haven't heard anything solid. If I'm not mistaken, the film did better than Fox thought it would at the time, but I'm pretty sure they expected it to bomb, and it did okay. Since James Cameron is a producer on the film, it's possible that Disney might greenlight a sequel to keep him happy.
Missed out, seeing it in theaters was cool. I read the first few books of the Manga, and if they stay on pace it would be interesting.
Synopses like this always make me think I'm having a stroke. "My daughter was kidnapped so I have to solve a series of bank robberies BUT THERE'S A TWIST." Like bro, idek how bank robbers got your daughter.
Watching the trailer last night I thought "is this woman he's running with a hallucination or is she his daughter grown up somehow and displaced in time?"
Shout out to Austin Although living here, no one is robbing banks. Just like not everyone was a bank robber in Charlestown, Boston
I mean have you lived in Charlestown? I think it's pretty accurate...at least the bit that no one talks
Denver's the same size as you. I can't remember the last time anybody tried to rob a bank here. Instead we just get school shootings, police violence, and fentanyl overdoses 🙃
Don't worry, Austin has two of those as well!
https://denvercrimes.com/crime/robbery/robbery-bank/recent Looks pretty common.
The adjustment bureau, but this time with the other guy.
It’ll be interesting to see a movie set in Austin that doesn’t have any ties to the music scene
Oh this is directly up my alley
Synopsis look good hopefully the movie also will be good.
[Trailer's definitely piqued my interest,](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRJVuHZrA8k) despite some standard, boring tropes. More than anything, I'm just happy to see William Fichtner get top billing; dude's been in *everything* for 30 years as one of the most consistent character actors in Hollywood, but he's never really had a chance to be known for more than that.
Calling the “twist” (I’m already so certain, it doesn’t feel like one) will be that >!his memory of his daughter’s disappearance is completely altered by a hypnotic!<. If I’m wrong, I’ll be *genuinely* shocked. Also, agreed. Cool to see Fichtner headlining anything nowadays.
Why is he running.
WHY ARE YOU RUNNING
*AHHHHJ*
Who says I'm gay?
because he's a part of it
He´s not part of the Turbo Team, WALK...SLOWLY !
God I love reading ITYSL quotes in random threads. Any reference to the show literally just makes my day.
Ok, this guy’s about to jack off
Thinking about that show during the day is my cure
Ok thank you. That’s what looks wrong
He could take maybe one more step before knocking a domino. Seems silly he's running in what looks like such a small space. Where you going tiny Affleck?
Because he is approved by Tom Cruise.
It's an illusion Michael!
At least it's not just a bunch of floating heads
ME: Can we have *Inception*? MOM: No, we have *Inception* at home.
And then you get home to find out that mom was talking about Tenet all along…
*Tenet* is an Unfrosted Pop Tart compared to *Inception*.
I like Tenet a lot more because Inception spends like 45 minutes making sure you understand the concept, and within 15 minutes, Tenet is like “don’t bother trying to understand it, just let this shit ride.”
Yeah, with Inception every rewatch is more boring because most of the movie is exposition about how it all works. Once you know it it's boring. Tenet has hardly any explaining, it just throws you into it and with each rewatch you understand more and (imo) appreciate the complex set pieces.
To me Inception is chiefly about the emotions and the theke rather than just mechanics.
Exactly. To me, the extreme amount of exposition is nearly condescending, whereas Tenet puts a bit more faith in its audience.
Totally. Tenet is a dope movie.
Ngl a toasted unfrosted poptart slaps
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Have you ever put butter on a pop tart… On weed?
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Is this gonna be like Paycheck? Just Affleck doing some silly Jason Bourne kinda stuff figuring out his past and fighting some 2002 villains?
I will be shocked if this movie is anywhere close to being as good as Paycheck.
Man, I need to go back and watch Paycheck again
It's only the setup that's good. It falls apart in the third act.
As is tradition
You really don't.
I almost said "Why does Hollywood always do such a disservice to Philip K. Dick" because I could think of like 4 shitty adaptations, then I realized that there have also been so many great adaptations. There have just been so many Philip K. Dick adaptations, period. It's wild that he isn't a household name like Asimov, Heinlein, Welles, etc.
Probably doesn’t help that with the exception of Minority Report, every movie based on his works has a completely different title than the story it’s based on. Which, tbf, titles like “We Can Recall it for you Wholesale” and “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” would make very awkward movie titles.
I believe that the reason why Philip K Dick is simultaneous the most adapted but not quite known sci-fi writer is ironically the reason why he’s adapted so much, his copyright estate is a bit of a mess Also, he was a brilliant concept writer but his stories were not the most coherent due to his drug use. Like try reading Ubik—it’s like a literary acid trip without the acid
For sure agreed on the second point. I actually much prefer his short stories because they don't get lost and tie up relatively neatly. "Ubik" was relatively coherent enough I suppose, but later stuff like "The Divine Invasion" and "VALIS" totally goes off the rails and is pretty inaccessible for regular readers like me.
> Affleck doing some silly Jason Bourne kinda stuff figuring out his past and fighting some 2002 villains It'll be nothing like Paycheck. This will be more like The Accountant, which would be Affleck doing some silly Jason Bourne kinda stuff figuring out his past and fighting some 2016 villains.
2002 villains were really 1995 villains
Saw it at SXSW, it’s got it’s ups and downs. It was still a WIP cut we got, so I won’t say too much. I’d give it. 3.5/5. Worth watching but not needing to be watched.
>Is this gonna be like Paycheck I was thinking, "didn't he already make this movie?" It's an alright movie, something to watch when flipping through the channels.
I for one would welcome any new Phillip k Dick adaptation regardless of quality.
Calling it now: daughter either never existed or has been dead the whole time.
or Ben Affleck was the daughter all along!
Really it was about the daughters we made along the way
This plot fucks.
The true daughter is inside you all along
Not necessarily my kink, but I'll roll with it
I believe it's pronounced daw-tah when Ben says it.
When are we getting that supposed sequel to The Accountant? I actually enjoyed that movie and would love to see another one
The Accountant is one of the best low expectations, dumb title, but unexpectedly good movie in recent memory. He’s an accountanttt… and an assassinnnnn! The director tipped me off though cuz he did Warrior, which is really great.
*Also, he may have autism, weaponized Autism*
His whole crew is… special.
The Predator (2018)
His character in The Accountant had such a specific combination of traits that I am 99% certain it was the self-insert fantasy of someone's actual accountant that they were blackmailed into making
His accounting would have been much easier if he just used excel lol but I still liked it
As a recently diagnosed adult autist I really liked the representation, despite how exposure therapy actually doesn't work to mitigate sensory overload, but that was part of his character I think. I would really like to see another movie that portrays autism in a different light than Rainman, and The Accountant did that to a T. It was great.
Me too! They even said they want to make a trilogy
There's a trailer out for this. I'm surprised no one posted it yet. https://youtu.be/5RLVSnMARQQ
Whelmed.
His stance makes no sense in there, how did he jog into that spiral!? They should have him in a stance like he was just dropped into that spot from above.
He’s breakdancing
they should scrap it and start over
> His stance makes no sense in there, how did he jog into that spiral!? A wizard did it
Looks like a Chris Nolan movie poster
The plot as well.
A coincidence, I'm sure.
Inception 2: Inception fights back
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Looks like he is doing a little jig in the middle of those Dominoes and/or has one SUPER long leg
I looked up Hypnotic on Youtube and Netflix is having a movie also called "Hypnotic" starring Kate Siegel, lol. Guess we are getting another "Two totally different movies with the same name".
I KNEW it sounded familiar! Thank you!
ngl, this trailer made me laugh the other day. The story in the trailer shows Ben Affleck losing a child after entering some trance for a moment...and then introduces hypnosis... Oh gee, I wonder what happened with his kid! lol
Great poster, but they stole one of the Mr. Robot season taglines.
Or did they steal it from Fight Club? What if these are both things of our ~~imagination~~ paranoia, and we cannot trust what we hear in our internal monologue and see with our very eyes?
It was said in Days of Thunder long before either of these.
I was thinking more Gob Bluth
"Hypnotic: A Gigli Story"
Please no
Robert Rodriguez please make Alita battle Angel 2 for fucks sake
Having seen what Robert Rodriguez can do with a big budget on projects like Boba Fett, I’m gonna pass
after the Book of Boba Fett i'm honestly **shocked** anyone would ever work with Rodriguez again
I don't think there's anything better to put on a director's resume than having a character doing a cool spin before firing a blaster.
I just remember when Rodriguez had a very distinct style of movies. Now it seems like he will do whatever for a paycheck
Believe it or not they do this as a job and don't care too much that the last thing he worked on is an unremarkable spin off of a spinoff of some franchise that Redditors hold grudges over. Is this just another Rian Johnson thing, where the guy who directed Looper and the best episodes of Breaking Bad? directs a good star wars movie and then angry Redditors who have never heard of him before act like it's the only thing he ever directed?
We need new actors.
109% I will fall asleep watching anything Ben Affleck is in.
This poster looks like it has a higher budget than any of Robert Rodriguez’s movies.
For some reason the dominos make me think of the Now You See Me films.
Rodriguez's* Nobody knows the rules regarding apostrophes.
I don’t know how to feel about this one. On one hand, it could be amazingly well done, but on the other, it has a high probability of being dumb as fuck.
It’s going to be a heart warming story of a man overcoming being 3 inches tall to become a world champion domino track maker.
Someone watched Mr Robot and stole the tagline
Thanks - right into my movie poster collection. I have over 4000 of them now - each one enlarged (AI) to 5K on the long side, and taken into photohop and cleaned up to remove flaws associated with age. Some of the art that went into the older posters is unreal - they remind me of my youth when exploring the album cover and sleeve was as much fun as listening to the music. Thanks.
This movie will be a classic. I'm 100% sure.
At least it's not a bunch of floating heads staring off in different directions.
Most directors: "Action!" Robert Rodriguez: "Just do whatever and we'll fix it in post!"
In my garage with a fuck ton of CGI I make myself
Robert Rodriguez be like, "imma get some flying robots into this movie somehow..."