The trailer had my attention, and looked like it might be another serious sci-fi film, until it showed a "car chase" on the moon.
what do you mean ? You can do awesome burnouts & donuts on the moon! China is building a racetrack on the dark side of the moon as we speak unless I've been misinformed. Anyway NO SHIT you may not believe this but as I watched the trailer and saw Brad Pitt I thought "damn as Pitt ages he's starting to look like Tommy Lee Jones" (in a good way) and then a few seconds later BAM! I see TLJ is actually in the movie too, playing (I think) his father. Coincidence or damn good casting? I'd say damn good casting! It actually looks pretty interesting.
John Campea (who I often agree with) didn't care for it. Critics are liking it more than audiences on RottenTomatoes. Hmmm. On the fence about seeing it...
okay...deliberately slow paced space movie taking on deep humanistic questions....2001 A Space Odyssey all over again? And Liv Tyler in yet another moon movie? What's up with that?
I was seriously thinking about going last night to see it but after I read the plot synopsis on Wikipedia and then the internet movie database I decided not to. It sounded too bloody for Amy's taste and I rarely go see movies without her. Besides which I'm always wary of any movie where the biggest praise is how great the acting is.
There's no way this car chase will beat the epic car chase in Star Trek Nemesis. That film set the bar for car chases on other celestial bodies.
DenOfGeek says it's great until Pitt's character gets out past Mars whereupon things get too rushed. Suspect this is code for "they built a great world but the worldbuilding took three-quarters of the movie". Tyler's almost "blink and you'll miss her", apparently, just playing "the ex-wife" in flashbacks to show how Pitt's character has put his career ahead of his personal life and relationships, which probably mirrors his Dad.
Saw it tonight. It's Solaris meets Apocalypse Now as viewed through a 1950s science fiction lens. Not as good as Solaris, it may not be your cuppa. I found it worth the $17 for imax, but I'm glad the Mrs. decided to pass. I don't think Neptune's rings are as densely populated by debris as portrayed here. It didn't annoy me like Gravity did, but Gravity had better effects. ETA: too many plot holes and silly scenes. B movie SF. Don't expect to be wowed.
Yeah, it was good but not great. You could see what they were aiming for but it was all a little bit heavy handed and there were too many loose ends. Highlights were the acting and the effects.
Having worked for astrazeneca support I am totally under the impression this is a propaganda movie for the pharmaceutical industry.
Just saw it last night. I agree with your assessment. They were definitely trying to make a powerful statement but it got sidelined by too many issues. Still, a pretty enjoyable film. Good, but not quite the greatness it strived to be.
Saw it on video last night. Meh. A solid performance from Pitt, but a long and mostly tedious allegory about a man overcoming the emotional programming Daddy did on him. 6/10.
I was actually enjoying the sort of apocalypse now descent into madness. It was a somewhat interesting idea about what might happen when people are exposed to confined spaces for long terms accompanied by weightlessness and perhaps the differences of nutrition of space travel. I was even accepting the monkey ship excursion as part of Pitt's character being confronted with madness sort of like how the Sheen's character was descending into this crazy world of tribal madness that was bringing him into contact with the opponent who had really lost his mind. then the ending came. Nope, his dad was just an anti-social dick who turned killer because people were not following him. So really Pitt's character masacred the people on the uranus trip to get to his dad just so he could get over his daddy issues that were brought about because his dad turned out to be alive. Then he finally has his grand epiphany that he should have paid more attention to his hot wife instead of galavanting across the galaxy running away from everyone like his dad? This brings us to the point that the whole movie could have been settled by sending a missile to blow up the rogue space station, and not telling brad pit to kill whover he has to so he can meet up with his dad. If you were just going to nuke the space station anyway it made no sense to send pitt in the first place as his presence could have only fucked the whole mission up. Then why does Pitt have any problem with tossing his dad into the void of space? Every horrible thought about his father is revealed to be true from the moment they start talking. His dad thinks he was a waste, ran away from humanity and killed everyone on the ship because he hates humans, and he is the only survivor threatening the lives of human beings on earth because he won't turn off his machine because he wants to take pictures of planets and talk to aliens. really, I could have spent this time watching event horizon.
I just watched this movie and it was boring as fuck. The shootout on the moon was stupid. The moon looked like a shopping mall, but the lunar rovers looked like they were from the sixties with slightly updated tech. Then the Mars rovers look a little closer to what they’d probably look like, but I’m sorry, it’s going to take a long time and energy and cooperation to build the kind of communities they show on both the moon and Mars. I can buy a war on the moon, but I didn’t really buy it in this. This reminded me of those Star Trek fan films that have great production values and the creator is friends with a famous actor and begs them to be in their film, but the story and screenplay is lacking.
