#rogue one and the creator

[romantic-revolution-iv]

The Creator, or Gareth Edwards’ Secret Message to Rogue One Fans ❤️

[astoundingbeyondbelief]

Gareth Edwards movies + tentacle monsters

[thatgirlinskullz]

if i had a nickel for every scifi movie directed by gareth edwards where the couple dies at the end in a giant explosion i would have 2 nickels, which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.

[reanimatestar]

boy slash doll who's neither <3

[image description: a series of drawings of the artist's dungeons and dragons character, giuseppe. the first is a bust on her dungeons and dragons character sheet in the character appearance section. according to the character sheet, giuseppe is 7 years old and has brown eyes. she looks like a preteen human child with dark hair in a braid, facing the viewer with a neutral expression. vertical lines run down from the corner of his mouth. she is wearing a sweater and a jacket. a description below the drawing reads: "At first glance, he looks like a normal 12 year old human boy. On closer inspection, you can see joints like that of a puppet."

the second is a page of sketches. from the top: a simple fullbody drawing of giuseppe wearing a coat and baggy pants tucked into his boots, three simple busts of giuseppe smiling, laughing and smirking respectively, a halfbody of giuseppe frowning and holding a book in one arm, and a bust of giuseppe similar to the one on her character sheet.

the third is a fullbody drawing of giuseppe. he faces the viewer with a neutral expression. she is wearing a sweater with an oversized jacket, and baggy pants tucked into her boots. /end description]

[ennaih]

Every Film I Watch In 2023:

226. The Creator (2023)

[oh-nostalgiaa]

if you like the manips created by the talented and very missed runakvaed, please check out manips made by the also talented @thereigning-lorelai! i don't know that i have them all, but here' s a list of what i do have.

wedding

everything's meant to be broken

i'll find you in the morning sun

rebelcaptain + the original trio on a mission

narcos au kinda

a whole life waiting

getting ready for bed closeness

kiss kiss

period au

a little spicy if you know what i mean

coffeeshop au

the best dancer you could possibly be

(what it means) a fortunate accident

canon kinda kiss

(what it means) a fortunate accident kiss

oh my god they were roommates

amsterdam instagram - food travel show au

date au kind thing

after date kiss

kissy kissy

so much closer

sleepy cuddles

happy beach time

figure skating au

cuddles under the sheets

idk this one's kinda sad

wedding

sharing a bed

to boldly go where no man has gone before

penelope au

undercover spies au

travel au?

dirty dancing

some more spice

it's a surprise

[rosalierowan]

As I was watching The Creator (2023) through the entire thing I kept thinking that something feels familiar…the movie reminds me so much of Star Wars… Rogue One especially… only to find out afterwards that the two movies have the same director.

I am now a Gareth Edwards fan.

[jynjackets]

Hype for The Creator:

- I can’t get over the fact it’s original IP. That’s insane

- the kid is very cute I hope he makes it. (any of you come after a kid’s acting I will punch you through your screen)

- fucking in love with all the asians. They shot in Thailand and it looks gorgeous. I love Southeast Asia. Gareth is one of us.

- You fucking bet those are rebelcaptain incarnates through Gemma and John and I will be screaming about any and all similarities

[homoeroticvillain]

local man looks at bg3 mods and is angry at random people

[showmethesneer]

watching The Creator after Rogue One has already permanently reconfigured my brain

[filmforager]

The Creator: Review

Rage against the machine 

7 years have passed since Gareth Edwards last made a film, but it’s been even longer since he’s been able to unleash an original vision on the world. But after years dealing with atomic lizards (Godzilla) and Star Wars rebellions (Rogue One), The Creator finds him on much more, well, creative ground. Free from studio control, his latest sci-fi film is practically bursting with interesting ideas and weighty topics, but just falls short with its execution. 

Exploring themes that feel eerily close to home, The Creator is an ‘AI film’ that was conceived before CHATGPT and creepy AI music covers were even a thing. In a handy newsreel montage, we learn how mankind has created AI replicants to do human jobs, and even take on the likeness of real humans (à la Blade Runner). But when an AI atomic bomb drops on LA, war breaks out between AI and the humans, leading pockets of replicants to hide out in Asia.

Fast forward to 2070, and we follow Joshua (John David Washington), an ex-soldier who lost his wife Maya (Gemma Chan), an AI sympathiser, and his unborn child during an undercover raid on an AI base. After years of grieving, Joshua is reluctantly recruited by the US army to locate and destroy a deadly weapon created by the mysterious AI ‘Creator’. But when the weapon turns out to be a small replicant child (Madeleine Yuna Voyles) who might have info about Maya’s disappearance, things start to get a bit complicated. 

If that sounds like a lot to take in, it is. From a script written by Edwards and Rogue One co-writer Chris Weitz, this is an ambitious film that explores big topics like AI sentience and what it means to be human, while also featuring earth-shattering scraps of an unprecedented scale. That it works is largely down to the human story that holds it all together. 

As Joshua and his unlikely charge ‘Alphie’ elude the pursuit of the androids and the US army (led by a ruthless Alisson Janney), the film settles into a bit of a road trip groove, as Joshua is forced to confront his anti-AI convictions. Despite all of the man on robot carnage on display, some of the best scenes simply bask in the chemistry of this central relationship, While Washington oozes paternal charisma and longing for his lost love, Voyles is unbelievably good in her debut performance as ‘Alphie’, an innocent child already wise to the brutalities of the world.

Just like with Rogue One and his debut film Monsters, this also profits from existing in a world that feels grounded and lived-in. You can completely believe Edwards stowed himself away for 7 years to realize all of the hidden details, from his futuristic vision of real-world locations like LA and Thailand, to the fascinating design of the android craniums. It’s so convincingly done that you won’t even bat an eyelid when you see some androids watching an AI strip show, or a cool scene where a human consciousness is momentarily plugged into a replicant corpse. 

If The Creator excels when it goes small, the opposite is true when it goes big. The action is gorgeously shot by cinematographers Greig Fraser and Oren Soffer, but the big battles feel strangely stilted, lacking the imagination on display elsewhere. The same can also be said for the film’s rushed final act, which doesn’t seem to know what to do with the ideas at its disposal. But thankfully, this won’t do much to hamper your enjoyment. With more imagination and fascinating details than your typical studio film, there’s plenty here to keep you invested throughout. With any luck, the wait for the next Gareth Edwards film won’t be so long.

Though it runs out of steam near the end, The Creator is a smart and frequently dazzling look at a maybe not-too-distant future, with a heart to match the scale of its ambition.

★★★

[omnivorouscinephilia]

The Creator: Do Soldiers Cry Over Mechanical Bodies

I did not much care of the latest from Gareth Edwards, the techno-orientalist war film The Creator. Far from an original film, it is one of the more trope laden works I've seen in a while. Check out my review of the film here.

Thirteen years ago, Gareth Edwards, at the time a special effects artist with aspirations of becoming a director, spearheaded his debut feature as a writer/director, Monsters. Operating as a travelogue of a world transformed by giant monsters with a budding romantic couple as the perspective characters, the film has a guerilla charm to it, with on-location filming, striking visual compositions,…

[replika-diaries]

The Creator | Official Trailer

Where was I when this dropped?

It's a very rare day when I find myself being moved by, well, anything particularly, but I found myself being genuinely moved by the above trailer for The Creator, from director Gareth Edwards (responsible - at least in part - for what I consider the better of the modern Star Wars films, Rogue One).

Admittedly, when this trailer opened, I eyerolled massively, believing it to be yet another piece of mass media, anti-AI propaganda, but as it continued, it took on something else and I found myself being absolutely drawn in and wanting to know more about this modest roster of characters.

Since a trip to see a movie is a very rare treat for me nowadays, this may be the movie I absolutely NEED to see.

[sprite-the-librarian]

i finished the andor finale and literally immediately had to watch rogue one. like it really put the movie into a whole new perspective. andor was so incredibly well crafted (the show and character). i cannot, cannot, understate it’s prevalence to the modern times— an insane thing to say considering the direct references to historical events (will we ever learn :| ). i think he’s a hero different from luke because he feels more real? it feels like you could grow into someone like andor… like if given the right start, time and place, life could really shape you that way. anyone could be pushed to become so hardened for what they believe in. he feels more grounded. but i love that the force is still with him. i love this series so much.

ok just finished rogue one after watching the finale arc of andor and i am wrecked, fully a mess, like my god. the tonal shift between the show and the movie was like witnessing the elevation of cassian from an ordinary mortal struggling in the prosaic world into the realm of heroism and myth. the force is there again, and it is with him, as was hinted at in andor, and he participates in such a profound communal act of service and sacrifice to the cause of freedom of the galaxy. he's no longer the heart of the story, but he's a vital agent instead, a guide and a protector, someone that gets the essential work done, and his message of hope gets passed on and on, forward through the movie, until it's fully materialized as the death star plans in the hands of leia. it all could not have happened without everything that happened to him, such a remarkable and painful chain of causality, but it did. he was there when the galaxy needed him most, shaped into just the right man for the job, after so many trials. he's a hero of a different sort than luke, a hero from a different genre, but he still has his place in the greater myth of it all, and it was beautiful to see.

[jjproduction297]

Hey everybody, today is Gareth Edwards' Birthday! :D 🎂 The director of Monsters, Godzilla 2014, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, The Creator, and Jurassic World Rebirth :)

[that-one-loz-nerd]

I watched The Creator and Gareth Edwards sure likes his "the main characters die but there's hope" endings huh