Yes, my reaction to this movie was so extreme that I had to sign up on IMDB to express my distaste. I haven't seen a bad sci-fi movie like that in ages, and as an enthusiast of the genre I cannot find the words to describe the feeling of waste of time and money, the feeling of an insult The Titan made me feel. The premise - a dystopian future reality flirting with human DNA manipulation to push us to the stars - seems interesting, although a little cliché, and at the beginning I had faith it was going to develop and become an interesting experience. My mistake! The plot is absolutely outrageous, predictable, full of gaps, a real offense to any intelligent brain, without a single plausible reasoning or argument to sustain it. The most cliché structures were there: the fearless ultra-viril hero that had everything to be super violent but sticks to the most sterile and flat concept of love, the conformed and abdicating wife that moves mountains to serve as her husband doormat, the kid that serves only to convince the walls that "if somebody is a parent, then that somebody is a good person", the CGI/aesthetics trying desperately to fill the eyes with the content that was not provided to the mind or the emotions, and so on. The psychologic dimension of the characters made me cry - of boredom, disappointment or angry! I still cannot understand how a movie that deals with the concept of deep transformation can end up at an incredible shallow and miserable perspective of a tremendous human change - it's literally all about the skin. I felt zero empathy for the dramatic arc (if we can call it "arc" or "dramatic" at all). At the last three quarters I was praying for the movie to end as soon as possible. Don't waste your time, simples as that.
Review of The Titan
