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I have no great love for Garland's productions in general. He has a nasty habit of devolving complex beginnings of storylines into incoherent murder festivals and out-of-place inanity when he realizes his plans have far outstripped his intellect; he badly needs a co-director with power equal to his own, as do many big-budget directors of the past couple decades. However Annihilation's visuals are so fascinating that I wanted to give this one another shot. This is way better than the original, with a pile of goofy shit toned down or removed entirely to keep the tone much more cohesive. Perhaps The Scribbling Man should be Garland's co-director?