Oh yeah and when he was on his way out to Neptune, they showed that little going insane montage. But then heâs fine and was totally level headed when he met up with dad.
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The entire reveal of the dad and subsequent scenes with him are so amazingly at odds with this deranged obsessed murderer theyâd built up before that point.
I like the idea of them just TNG-style talking him down and empathizing with him, but if they were going to do that, why add in all the elements where heâd killed innocent co-workers?
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killing that crew inadvertently while trying to defend himself just because he wanted to go see his dad and nobody ending up giving a shit presumably for political reasons since he did end up saving the earth was interesting. oops, thatâs what ends up happening in violent confrontations between people. another movie would of lamely tried to justify it by making the crew secretly black bag assassins or some kind of cannon fodder.
what came of the moon pirates and orangutans is cool âspace is dangerousâ adventures. I actually canât believe how many complaints about the moon pirates Iâve seen for this movie. theyâre moon pirates, I wouldnât of thought this was some iffy subject for anyone?
they explained the pulses, his dadâs shipâs antimatter drive got damaged in the mutiny.
the dad was kind of weird. his crew mutinies and he kills them because heâs so desperate to find some enlightened perfect alien life. the damaged drive is torching earth and he doesnât really do anything about it because heâs more interested in a maybe out there than the definite down here. what can ya do heâs a bit antisocial. tommy lee jones character in sunset limited quit being a professor and went to become an astronaut
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ad astra is awesome because it knows space is bullshit
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Donât get me wrong, the space pirates and the orangutans were the most memorable parts of the movie (well, that and the sheer visuals of every planet, which were stunning). I just wish theyâd been relevant to the story in some way. Feels like there were way more interesting stories to be told in this universe than the one we got.
i just went to an early screening of uncut gems and got to look adam sandler right in the eyes. i wont say anything else cause that shit was fucked up
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I canât wait for this movie, Good Time knocked my socks off.
Frozen 2: A Review
Elsaâs still not gay
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itâs not even better than the version in movie
the movie version is hilarious because they go all the way in making it a power ballad kind of thing, right down to doing every ballad music video trope. meanwhile, the credits version is like, just done straight.
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I liked the Space Pirate part. Well, except for the super spin to perfect getaway LMFAO. Is this Fast and Furious? Until that point, I actually considered he might not make it to the initial launch to Mars.
I just didnât like the entire sneaking on the ship thing. The fact he was able to. That they didnât abort the launch. That they unbuckled their seatbelts mid-launch. That they pulled out guns on a spaceship. And really, that their first reactions was âthis guyâs gotta dieâ. Indeed, they played it all out so that Brad Pittâs character wasnât actually a first degree murderer. But, theyâre all dead because of him. And the duration of the flight bothered him more than that.
Also, we have remote destruction switches on our rockets. Houston or whoever, could have blown him up with a button. And they absolutely should have. They werenât even gonna tell him theyâd made contact with his dad. But nowâŚtheyâre gonna let him kill a whole crew and commandeer a rocket?
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The Irishman is messy. Its pretty great, anytime its showing you stuff and actually being an acted film. But its also got a whole lot of narration and speaking directly to the camera? Show, donât tell. I was constantly at odds with how much I was pulled out of it. Silence had similar problems. Big stories, indeed. I really have to wonder what these past couple films may have been like, if heâd had a team tell him âno man, we really need to re-write this and figure out how to actually play it straight.â
Everybody is great in this. I think my favorite little bits though, were whenever Pesci was dealing with his frustrations that Deniroâs young daughter never really took a liking to him. I believed the hell out of those moments and forgot I was watching something.
gravity is a little different on the moon. I donât think doing a big jump or whatever in a moon buggy means itâs in fast and furious territory.
they were using weird tube space guns, probably using some kinda ammo that is good for going through persons and not spaceship hulls
brad pittâs character kind of has an empathy and emotion problem.
I just liked the movie ok but some of this is some cinemasins nonsense that you can solve with a shred of imagination of 2 seconds effort of working with the movie
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the movie is your sad old lonely grandpa youâre visiting in the old folks home telling a rambling bullshit artist story because he lived around some people who knew some real mob people and wants to impress you so youâll visit again
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I meant that the super spin landing into a large crater was perfect with zero damage. After they were just rubbing wheels for damage.
AKA âThe Bachelor Experienceâ
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when i intuited that the plot of ad astra didnât involve tommy lee jones meeting aliens and helping them plan their invasion or whatever i kind of lost interest
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Frozen 2 did not have the strength of itâs convictions and undoes itâs own pathos but I laughed like six times and the Power Ballad was the only good song so good movie I guess.
For the first hour I kept going âwhat is this movie about?â Then I kept holding my breath because it was almost a great movie and then it decided this was Disney.
it could have also been called Famous Youtubers get 23 and me results.
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Well yeah, of course. Weezer cover versions are notable either the exact same song, or notably worse.
I think a lot of Ad Astra is showing that in the future when weâre in space society hasnât really changed at all. The same kinds of consumerism, just on the moon. The same kind of violence, just with moon gravity. The same kind of random and meaningless deaths that happen by accident, like in the science lab. The gunfight in the rocket bothered me too though, because people pulling out guns and shooting inside the cockpit seemed like such an obviously dumb idea. There are probably a dozen more options they should have attempted first that didnât have a 95% chance of getting themselves killed. It just felt very forced and contrived like the movie didnât know how else to get Damon alone in a rocket ship.
I also vaguely recall the agency of that one woman on Mars Damon was talking to being disappointing? The one whose parents died; I remember her seeming like someone who wanted to get some sort of closure on her parentsâ death but somehow in the end sheâs more willing to help Damon secretly go into space rather than doing it herself or going with him.
I think my main issue with Ad Astra is that you kind of get the message in the first 15-20 minutes and I didnât feel like it had much new to say after that, or much variance in its messaging. I didnât hate it or anything I donât think; I just gradually lost interest.
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Iâm just very angry that all of Elsaâs songs are moving the âFrozen is about Elsa coming outâ thing from subtext to punching you in the face and then the movie ends and the whole thing is straighter than ever
edit: also both of Olafâs recounting the events of the first movie and the short version he does of the second after the end of the credits are hilarious and serve to highlight how poorly written and slapped together the first one was
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I had to watch the 2000 Jim Carrey How the Grinch Stole Christmas today at work and good lord, what in the hell was going on that someone decided to spend 125 million dollars making that? Itâs so aggressively unlikeable. Everything is both trying too hard but also so poorly thought through.
Thereâs so much added crap that makes no sense, much of which is embodied in the character of Martha May Whovier, played mostly by Christine Baranski. A major subplot of the movie involves an 8 year old version of Christine Baranski getting super hornt up for 8 year old Grinch Jim Carrey, trying to lick a lolipop at him (literally). The thing that makes the 8 year old Grinch hate Christmas is that he tries to shave his beard (because he has a beard at age 8, and the whos all HATE facial hair) and he screws it up, so he cuts himself and the other kids laugh at him and so he flips his shit. Also, later on, some 30-40 years later depending on ages, adult Christine Baranski is still super hornt for the Grinch, even though her former classmate Jeffrey Tambor is the mayor and trying to marry her.
Lest you think she is not there to just make sex a Thing in the movie, Christine Baranski canât be on screen without cleavage, which of course Jim Carrey âaccidentallyâ motorboats at one point in the movie. Oh also there is a whole long scene of Baranski shooting lights our of a ridiculously phallic gun onto her house while moaning loudly. Itâs fucking weird, and why it is in what is osstensibly a kids movie, I will never know.
Whatâs even weirder is that the movie goes out of its way to point out that there is no sexual reproduction among the whos. Who babies are literally just dropped in from heaven and land on peopleâs doorsteps, but then there is a weird joke about a husband saying âbut this baby looks like your boss!â to his wife and I have no idea.
Jim Carrey tries so fucking hard in this movie. All. The. Time. There is no downtime, ever, and it is so exhausting after like 10 minutes. Itâs like someone watched his performance as the Riddler in Batman Forever and was like "this is way too coherent.
What made all of this even weirder was my coworkers just cracking up at it all. I had no idea where I was. I felt incredibly uncomfortable.
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