I already hate Wonder and I haven't even seen it. Been curious about Iron Sky for awhile.
A shame about Annihilation. I know you caught some flak in the RTLMYS thread for your take on it. I don't love the movie and I don't think it's as smart as it thinks it is, but it's definitely more intelligent and imaginative than the overwhelming majority of Hollywood blockbusters you criticize it for being. And I personally thought the acting was uniformly strong, especially from Portman.
Sometimes an 'ode to a classic scene' is appropriate for a film, say like The Martian where it's clearly acknowledging a past sci fi classic...But when a film is aimed at a higher level like Annihilation was, then it's just plain lazy film making to copy scene/shot ideas from other well known sci-fi films, and to do it ad nauseum is just infuriating. That was one of my big qualms.
The other qualm is the dialogue part of the script was lazy. I don't feel we got to explore the shimmer enough, and for fans of horror elements there wasn't enough creepy beasties to eat the hapless scientist. So in both ways the build up of the mysterious shimmer was a let down for me.
And of course, if dna is recombined by being refracted, which causes animal-plant cross over mutations, then something like 99.9% of all mutations are lethal. Unless the alien entity in the shimmer was consciously directing the recombined dna, then none of these things we seen would have came to be. I haven't read the book so don't know if it explains that more fully. But from the film it seems the dna is randomly being combined, so I couldn't believe the end results of that, as shown on the screen.
I think Jennifer Jason Leigh who I use to like, was downright robotic. I've noticed that good actors when cast in sci fi movies sometimes play their roles like they have no emotions. She was outright bad in this. Natalie Portman was decent, but she's done much better...She was so much better in V for Vendatta. Tessa Thompson was my favorite as her fear and interpretation of the shimmer seemed natural, and that made me feel she was in real peril. It's too bad they didn't carry out her character's story arch of fearing mutating. She was the only person I believed as genuine.