i do wish i'd seen it in theaters if i was gonna see it.... that made gravity a fun watch and it likely woulda helped this. I woulda likely nodded off at the end regardless.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Saturday, 28 December 2019 16:07 (four years ago) link
killer soundtrack tho! will listen again.
the space baboons were lab animals from Earth, no one else is saying anything different, right
"a world so filled with other things to do" is a strange concept in an era when ppl are watching last summer's Tarantella movie 5+ times
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 28 December 2019 16:09 (four years ago) link
Those were space monkeys; I am willing to stake my reputation on it.It’s very rare that I do an immediate rewatch of any film; I could see trying this again if it were in theaters in maybe, oh, five years.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Saturday, 28 December 2019 16:35 (four years ago) link
last year's Tarantino movie is 10x better than this was, jesus.
― akm, Sunday, 29 December 2019 01:30 (four years ago) link
akm otm
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Sunday, 29 December 2019 02:36 (four years ago) link
i'll assume youre wrong
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 29 December 2019 06:50 (four years ago) link
I'll take a self-indulgent/butchered by the studios mess by a good director over anything fucking Tootsie Tarantino does 4eva!
― calzino, Sunday, 29 December 2019 07:18 (four years ago) link
Kinda got overlooked I like this movie quite a bit for what it was, Hollywood outer space pop psych... Sound design was fantastic.
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 14 January 2020 05:33 (four years ago) link
Finally got around to this - a bit ponderous but ultimately solid. Of the nu-ratpack space movies was definitely the best or, at least, the one with the most ideas and best visual + sound design.
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 14 January 2020 16:45 (four years ago) link
yeah i liked this a lot more than i expected to
― que pasa picasso (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 14 January 2020 16:46 (four years ago) link
seemed to draw from various New Wave sf deconstructions of the space program - Moorcock's Black Corridor, various Malzberg books (Beyond Apollo, etc.), but I think Morbz is also correct about the debt to Westerns
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 14 January 2020 17:11 (four years ago) link
just saw this, it was phenomenally stupid. I liked the way it paid the smallest attention to some aspects of physics but completely fucked up almost everything else. Praise for being one of the rare vacuum-is-silent brigade, though.Voiceover was terrible and ponderous. Pitt's line deliveries also often unintentionally funny.Also like the way when they meet the space baboon they don't even bother looking for the people presumably also on the space station (unless baboon sent the SOS itself because it was bored).What the fuck did Tommy Lee Jones eat all those years? His station was tiny.
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Thursday, 30 January 2020 00:23 (four years ago) link
yes, worst movie I saw last year by some distance.
― akm, Thursday, 30 January 2020 00:30 (four years ago) link
nice to read wrongness
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 30 January 2020 00:50 (four years ago) link
It looked nice and I think there’s a seed of a good movie there, but yeah, it is not great. B-rate Malick voiceovers maybe a big part of what dropped it.
― circa1916, Thursday, 30 January 2020 02:06 (four years ago) link
Gray >> Malick this decade
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 30 January 2020 02:29 (four years ago) link
indubitably
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 30 January 2020 02:31 (four years ago) link
I want a panel show with Morbs and Alfred now
― babu frik fan account (mh), Thursday, 30 January 2020 03:20 (four years ago) link
pay us!
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 30 January 2020 03:21 (four years ago) link
He and I meet in Manhattan twice a year.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 30 January 2020 03:21 (four years ago) link
lol
I'm behind on 2019 films, but I've put this at the top of my cue
― Dan S, Thursday, 30 January 2020 03:24 (four years ago) link
the Morbs-Lord Sotosyn doc?
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 30 January 2020 03:25 (four years ago) link
I'd make all my film-loving (hating?) friends throw a pittance at a patreon
I've got a dozen or so
― babu frik fan account (mh), Thursday, 30 January 2020 03:26 (four years ago) link
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, January 29, 2020 8:21 PM (five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
i'd buy tickets to this
― gbx, Thursday, 30 January 2020 03:28 (four years ago) link
I am going to choose to read that as a tryst
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 30 January 2020 04:08 (four years ago) link
no, my hair isn't good enough for him
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 30 January 2020 04:13 (four years ago) link
I mean, I know the fans here want this to be something with fucking, but I just want pure snark. Which is dirtier tbh
― babu frik fan account (mh), Thursday, 30 January 2020 04:18 (four years ago) link
ad astra - visually stunning, some great scenes, some of the most heavy-handed "meaningfulness" i've ever seen in a movie (e.g. when brad and his dad are clinging to each other in space at the end and tommy lee jones says "you have to let me go" and a big blinking neon subtitle comes up that says HE DOESN'T JUST MEAN PHYSICALLY LET HIM GO HE ALSO MEANS EMOTIONALLY as tommy lee jones winks at the camera), overall pretty dumb and a step down from lost city of z
― na (NA), Thursday, 30 January 2020 15:52 (four years ago) link
(e.g. when brad and his dad are clinging to each other in space at the end and tommy lee jones says "you have to let me go" and a big blinking neon subtitle comes up that says HE DOESN'T JUST MEAN PHYSICALLY LET HIM GO HE ALSO MEANS EMOTIONALLY as tommy lee jones winks at the camera)
lol yes, this gave me a severe pain
― Miami weisse (WmC), Thursday, 30 January 2020 16:06 (four years ago) link
lol @ neon subtitle
― babu frik fan account (mh), Thursday, 30 January 2020 16:13 (four years ago) link
I am not afraid to admit that I enjoy a movie where there is SPACEYELLING at SPACEDAD
also SPACE APES
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 30 January 2020 16:22 (four years ago) link
and of course SPACE MADNESS
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 30 January 2020 16:23 (four years ago) link
― na (NA), Thursday, January 30, 2020 8:52 AM (thirty minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
this is basically otm, even though i am generally pretty lenient when it comes to visually stunning space movies
maybe i should see lost city of z??
― gbx, Thursday, 30 January 2020 16:31 (four years ago) link
yes you should
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 30 January 2020 16:32 (four years ago) link
yes!!
― bold caucasian eroticism (Simon H.), Thursday, 30 January 2020 16:32 (four years ago) link
thirded
― babu frik fan account (mh), Thursday, 30 January 2020 16:32 (four years ago) link
n/a's right, and Ad Astra is certainly his weakest film, but the visual and sound design and Pitt and the staging of the violence more than compensanted.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 30 January 2020 16:33 (four years ago) link
I didn’t hate it. It’s no Silent Running, though.
― El Tomboto, Monday, 24 February 2020 22:25 (four years ago) link
What is?
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Monday, 24 February 2020 22:29 (four years ago) link
Could’ve also gone for scratching the AstroKurtz crap and just enjoying a lunar Mad Max movie.
― El Tomboto, Monday, 24 February 2020 22:29 (four years ago) link
more Pop-timist
for Doug Trumbull + Pitt ya got Tree of Life
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 01:19 (four years ago) link
cynical me is getting much better at watching stuff uncynically and I really liked this as a result
― ole uncle tiktok (darraghmac), Saturday, 28 March 2020 17:36 (four years ago) link
Beautiful but ponderous. The narration is at least as bad as the much-loathed Blade Runner voiceover.
― A White, White Gay (cryptosicko), Monday, 29 June 2020 18:53 (three years ago) link
It's not that this film was so monumentally dumb (and as a sci-fi it is staggeringly, relentlessly stupid), it's that it was ever touted as anything else. Looks great, though, and I'll watch any daft shit if it's set in space. I think it might become a camp classic.
― Noel Emits, Thursday, 8 July 2021 13:46 (two years ago) link
― babu frik fan account (mh), Wednesday, January 29, 2020 10:20 PM (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius),
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 8 July 2021 13:55 (two years ago) link
I wish I had!
― mh, Thursday, 8 July 2021 15:16 (two years ago) link
I remember literally nothing about this aside from the rover chase.
― I Scream For Ice Cream But Also Just All The Time And For No Reason (Old Lunch), Thursday, 8 July 2021 15:21 (two years ago) link
how did no one make the horrible Dad Astra pun
― mh, Thursday, 8 July 2021 15:31 (two years ago) link
p sure i made it irl
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 8 July 2021 15:41 (two years ago) link