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Companion
« on: January 31, 2025, 10:09:33 PM »
Not much I can say about this without ruining the movie.

Pretty good flick though... maybe not the most original thing I ever saw but it brings something new to the idea anyways.

Sort of a thriller/horror movie but has some comedy elements in it also... I didn't find it that funny but people were laughing at some of the dialogue.

Cute girl from Heretic is in most of it too so thats helps it along..  :P
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Re: Companion
« Reply #1 on: February 01, 2025, 08:16:57 AM »
Forgot to add movie will be much more interesting if you don't know the gist of whats going on...

The trailer etc kind of gives a big part of it away which is lame...

If you have not seen it, don't watch trailers or read reviews or eyeball the poster, will be better that way.
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Re: Companion
« Reply #2 on: February 05, 2025, 08:24:49 AM »
Saw it last night.

First thing, yes the movie wasn't what I expected. From the trailers I expected a shitty horror movie from the same people who made Barbarian which was also a shitty horror movie.

So was pleasantly surprised that this was in fact.. a SCI-FI Thriller instead. There's some violence but no way this is the horror movie the trailer implied.. and I think it may have hurt this movie more than it helped.

I agree this would have been better going in blind. Had you not known about the robot angle from the start it would have been a much more interesting film.. but that's marketing for you. I'm sure the Keanue cameo in that upcoming Ballerina movie was also supposed to be a surprise then marketing was like.. no we need him in the trailer.. so there you go. We can have nothing nice.

Anyway Companion.. tight and well made Robot thriller. Not entirely original as this ground has been covered multiple times.. much of this reminded me of the TV show Humans from a few years ago which explored similar themes and one of the main characters was even a sex robot.. but I guess once you go down the robot grapevine it mostly leads to the same place.

I do think it was meant to be funny in parts they definitely sprikled in some humor here and there.

But yeah don't want to spoil more of the film other than to say go see it. Once again the low budget movies seem to try harder and accomplish more.
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