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Post by evileeyore on Sept 25, 2019 1:18:46 GMT
Oh, just a warning, one that I wish I'd recieved: Ad Astra is not a scifi movie. Yeah, "most accurate space travel" movie my ass. |
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Post by Eldorian on Sept 25, 2019 17:57:07 GMT
The space travel was like... a road trip movie where they really nail the interior of the cars, but they're traveling from France to New York.
And that wasn't the worst part. The basic plot of the movie had no science fiction elements. That is to say, the mission his dad left for was irrelevant to the plot.
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Post by evileeyore on Sept 25, 2019 21:03:39 GMT
Yeah, the movie is great if you're there for the psychological impact of extended confined space on the psyche of astronauts... but if your'e there for sci-fi, hard or otherwise, you've gone to the wrong movie.
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Which isn't to say it's a bad movie. Just that it's improperly deceptively advertised.
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Post by Eldorian on Sept 26, 2019 5:36:04 GMT
Not super spoilery but enough. I honestly don't know if it's a good or bad movie, because I went in expecting a scifi movie and was disappointed. And I didn't even notice the psychological impact of extended confined space stuff you're talking about. The main character is mostly affectless, only displaying emotion when he's talking to his dad over the radio, and Jones's character was obsessed before he left for the mission.
And I don't even know about the advertising. I successfully avoided basically all the advertising. I think it's more deceptively set in space for what kind of story it is. And since it did such a poor job with the setting (the obstacles struck me as stupid each time) I was constantly in a state of "well this is dumb". |
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Post by evileeyore on Sept 26, 2019 11:13:41 GMT
Not super spoilery but enough. I cut the spoilers out since quote tags don't support them. Le sigh. This is mostly true. I missed the adverts as well*, however I did catch the director talking about it on a show and he was all "my movie is the first to accurately depict space travel" so after seeing it I was... "What crack is he smoking?" I came away feeling it wasn't a bad movie. It's not a good movie either though. If you're there to watch an astronaut go through motions while dealing with isolation, it's great†(which I've come to discover is what the director meant by "accurately depict space travel"). I didn't leave wanting my money back, which I suppose is a damnably low bar though. * Upon reflection, that probably should have been a sign. Movies that refuse to plaster everything with adverts are usually avoiding adverts for a reason. †Or big name recognition. He got an all star cast for this. |
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Post by evileeyore on Oct 12, 2019 6:00:30 GMT
Finally watched Stranger things season 3... so, who else thinks that... ... Hooper escaped into the Upside Down and was rescued by the Russians somehow? |
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Post by mustrumridcully on Oct 12, 2019 13:18:36 GMT
Finally watched Stranger things season 3... so, who else thinks that... ... Hooper escaped into the Upside Down and was rescued by the Russians somehow? Yeah, seems possible. At the minimum, he isn't dead and the way to get him back is the upside down. But really, how many "Americans" that we could care about would be imprisoned by the Russians? I think the only other person I heard might be plausible might the American head scientist for the original project, though I don't even remember who that was and what happened to him that would make that plausible. |
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Post by Ovinomancer on Oct 12, 2019 13:39:44 GMT
Hey, Mustrum. Did you see that OA was cancelled? Sucks.
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Post by evileeyore on Oct 12, 2019 14:26:49 GMT
I think the only other person I heard might be plausible ... We never find out what happens to that guy at the end of Season One either. And that would also give a reason for how the Russians found out about the Upside Down. |
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Post by Ovinomancer on Oct 12, 2019 14:49:51 GMT
I think the only other person I heard might be plausible ... We never find out what happens to that guy at the end of Season One either. And that would also give a reason for how the Russians found out about the Upside Down. You guys do know there's a ST3 thread, right? |
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Post by evileeyore on Oct 12, 2019 16:47:23 GMT
You guys do know there's a ST3 thread, right? Huh, I thought that was on the old boards. |
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Post by mustrumridcully on Oct 12, 2019 17:27:06 GMT
Hey, Mustrum. Did you see that OA was cancelled? Sucks. Yes, I know. It sucks indeed.  |
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Post by evileeyore on Oct 13, 2019 23:09:29 GMT
I've run out of shows I care enough to bother watching... despite having a backlog that staggers belief (over 290 episode pile up in the cue...).
Maybe I should work on the movie backlog...
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Post by Eldorian on Oct 13, 2019 23:40:27 GMT
I read a book when that happens.
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Post by evileeyore on Oct 14, 2019 1:40:26 GMT
I read a book when that happens. I don't have any I want to read, or I'd ahve been reading them when I was in my "too tired to care about watching tv" phase up till last month. On a related note, y'all can safely skip Hellboy (2019), it's trash. There was a nugget of a good movie buried under the shitty musical score, the try-to-hard comedy, and the 'let's cram everything into this movie', but then the shitty musical score, try-to-hard comedy, and overstuffed plot ruined it. Also, and I hope I never have to say this again, but casting Ian McShane in this movie was a shitty choice. Fuck the casting director for making me type these words. Fuck him with every broken broom handle forever. |
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