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abake
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Just came back from it.
I liked it a lot, yes, it's very slow, and yes, there seems to be a bit of stuff missing to flesh out the drama, but I thought it was a great Sci-Fi movie, and Pitt's acting is fantastic. Loved the spare soundtrack and the cinematography, they gave the movie a brilliant retro feel.
It obviously owes equal parts to 2001 and Apocalypse Now (never achieving such heights, mind you).
I went with my kids (19 and 16), and both loved it.
I liked it a lot, yes, it's very slow, and yes, there seems to be a bit of stuff missing to flesh out the drama, but I thought it was a great Sci-Fi movie, and Pitt's acting is fantastic. Loved the spare soundtrack and the cinematography, they gave the movie a brilliant retro feel.
It obviously owes equal parts to 2001 and Apocalypse Now (never achieving such heights, mind you).
I went with my kids (19 and 16), and both loved it.
jye4ever
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Spoilers ahead
The pace of the movie didn?t bother me it was the severe lack of a compelling drama that did lol
They literally gave away the mystery and climax when Sutherland handed over the classified recording to Pitt on the moon and that was in the first 30 minutes of the movie lol
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The pace of the movie didn?t bother me it was the severe lack of a compelling drama that did lol
They literally gave away the mystery and climax when Sutherland handed over the classified recording to Pitt on the moon and that was in the first 30 minutes of the movie lol
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abake
Rex Tremendae Majestatis
Really? I didn't think so.
The classified recording was what the government thought was happening, Pitt still had to go and find out what was really going on, and more importantly, why it had happened. And, of course, confront his dad...
The classified recording was what the government thought was happening, Pitt still had to go and find out what was really going on, and more importantly, why it had happened. And, of course, confront his dad...
jye4ever
Broke and happy
Spoilers:
All I remember was this happening:
Classified Debriefing: There was a mutiny so your father killed everyone.
Pitt arrives at Neptune: There was a mutiny so his father killed everyone.
lol
I was like seriously they gave that away 1.5 hours ago!
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All I remember was this happening:
Classified Debriefing: There was a mutiny so your father killed everyone.
Pitt arrives at Neptune: There was a mutiny so his father killed everyone.
lol
I was like seriously they gave that away 1.5 hours ago!
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rushmore223
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You're missing the point Jye. The real story was that Brad Pitt traveled 2.7 billion miles, across the solar system, to confirm that his Dad was an A-hole.Spoilers:
All I remember was this happening:
Classified Debriefing: There was a mutiny so your father killed everyone.
Pitt arrives at Neptune: There was a mutiny so his father killed everyone.
lol
I was like seriously they gave that away 1.5 hours ago!
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rushmore223
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By the way, were they slingshotting around the planets, or did they just happen to pass by every planet on the way to Neptune? Im sure most astronomers/astrophysicists would find that cute.
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jye4ever
Broke and happy
The climax was going to be so anticlimactic they prepared us an hour and half before it happened lol
Isolation had like zero impact on him!
He even got up and walked after returning from Neptune!
Did he sail thru a planet ring belt full of rocks just with a door lol
It took Voyager 12 years to arrive at Neptune lol
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rushmore223
Super Freak
One answer... nitrus. They used s little NO to turbo charge the engines. The Ad Astra and the Furious.
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jye4ever
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The more I think about the movie the less I like it
rushmore223
Super Freak
That's because we're sapping the joy from you.
RESIST!
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No, I disliked this one all on my own
Unclechopchop
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The thing that bothered me most was the lack of design. They basically jus recycled everyday suits that are/were used in the past. It?s suppose to be the future, but yet there were no real futuristic cues. It?s jus kinda annoying. Blade runner, 2001, aliens etc had higher concepts. Budget must have went all into Pitts pockets. I couldn?t really take him serious in this movie either. It jus came across borderline cheese. Not that gravity was a great masterpiece or anything, but I think for a more recent sci fi movie, that movie managed to capture a more dramatic feel to it. Jus my opinion. I did appreciate the fact that there was some great concepts as far as space travel goes though.
generalszabo
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I didn't mind the nods to other great films as I'm a nostalgia nerd. Most of it I really really enjoyed, however it would have been perfect if there had been a twist at the end. Something clever that Christopher Nolan might think of which would have elevated ad astra to interstellar realm of quality.
I agree that the voice overs were cheese, but it worked for me.
What a lot of people are saying is that it really represents the reality of space travel, but I sorta think that's still far fetched. However it would have been even slower without a few concessions and artistic licence here and there.
Fantastic action scenes and performances though, just short of greatness IMO
I agree that the voice overs were cheese, but it worked for me.
What a lot of people are saying is that it really represents the reality of space travel, but I sorta think that's still far fetched. However it would have been even slower without a few concessions and artistic licence here and there.
Fantastic action scenes and performances though, just short of greatness IMO
It's not particularly accurate in terms of space travel, it takes a lot more to travel between planets, and especially the stuff he did at the end was not at all reasonable.
They also had some stuff like instantaneous communications between planets, which isn't possible, nothing can move faster than the speed of light so at best that's the max speed that a message could travel, a message between Mars and Earth would take 12 minutes, and a message to Neptune would take 4 hours.
It's also not at all reasonable that he could maintain a heart rate lower than 80
They also had some stuff like instantaneous communications between planets, which isn't possible, nothing can move faster than the speed of light so at best that's the max speed that a message could travel, a message between Mars and Earth would take 12 minutes, and a message to Neptune would take 4 hours.
It's also not at all reasonable that he could maintain a heart rate lower than 80
jye4ever
Broke and happy
I was actually not bored during it and I can easily forgive the space travel and communication stuff but what I can?t forgive is a horrible pointless and lazy ending to what was essentially a decent build up.
That?s not only unfortunate but also unforgivable.
So yes at the end of the day Gravity is the better of the 2 movies way better actually.
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That?s not only unfortunate but also unforgivable.
So yes at the end of the day Gravity is the better of the 2 movies way better actually.
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I really loved Gravity on my initial viewing. I have not been able to sit through it all the way since. I still think its brilliantly made though.
Ad Astra has nothing I can remember that compels me to give it a 2nd watch short of "nothing else on".
I still think its brilliantly made though.Ad Astra has nothing I can remember that compels me to give it a 2nd watch short of "nothing else on".
rushmore223
Super Freak
I enjoy science fiction, and tend to be more forgiving of that genre than most others. Had the payoff been decent, I'd probably be praising the film. As it was, the whole thing was just pointless, and actually denigrates the very genre it is using to bring its message. Sometimes that works, Platoon is a fine anti-war film, just as Unforgiven is the greatest Anti-Western or western made (IMO), but ther message doesn't jibe with the means used to deliver it.
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Yeah. I like the "answer" that 'there's nothing else out there'... spooky, and helps keep your feet on the ground so to speak (despite the fact that I don't believe that message)... but maybe the movie would be more interesting if it had followed the father and his descent into madness chasing this answer at all costs only to be disappointed by his findings. Then, at the end, his son -- the family he left behind -- comes to 'rescue' him.
Either that, or make it more like Capt Nemo (or The Black Hole) where one of the father's scientists is carrying the story from his POV watching this mad man come apart. He could be a kind of conscious character.
In any event, I gained nothing from following the son across the solar system.
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