I'm not going to go into the plot of a movie called Predestination. It's based around a paradox and I struggle with some factors of time travel movies. They should've stopped at Terminator 2 and never made the Sarah Connor "Somebody left the portal door open" Chronicles. I refuse to acknowledge the other films. But Predestination wasn't a badly made Australian film. It just had a stupid (in my head) premise that impresses people who find that stuff so complex and deep. I thought it was cringey and the concept of a character falling in love with the opposite gender representation of themselves who turns out to be them, was made stupider for the fact it was "dark" when they had sex and they didn't recognise themselves. The make up is done badly enough it's not realistic that this female character wouldn't recognise the male version of herself. Plus she's set up as an intersex person, so I guess the whole concept of them creating themselves by falling in love with themselves just made me cringe. The plot's designed to follow the very concept of predestination whereby all the main characters are the same person. So it has to function around this, the plot with the bomber is intrinsically linked to the plot of the character John, despite both threads seeming unrelated. But I wasn't satisfied by discovering this twist. Long story short, all I could think of for a tagline was "Go fuck yourself. Literally." You don't really know the motivation of this person other than they're stuck in a loop. Plus I have a weird issue with hybrid Australian/American productions that have mixed casts with Aussies doing bad American accents. I still argue the Matrix is hindered by the Australian factor, I couldn't convince people how necessary they were to the "deal" to film here. I kinda liked Daybreakers but I haven't bothered to watch it again. They're not badly made films production wise, it was just the element of someone not realising they'd had relations with someone else who looked like them, that was the part that broke my brain. It wasn't like they really made the character look more masculine because they were intersex.
I'm probably being unfair it was just something that stuck in my craw.
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