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    Quote Originally Posted by jpmuscle View Post
    It’s like folks are incapable of simply going to the movies nowadays simply for the sake of being entertained.

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    If I'm going to see King Kong vs. Godzilla, I have certain expectations and standards.
    If I'm going to see a film about Omaha Beach, I have certain expectations and standards.
    If I'm going to see a film about time / space / black holes / space travel, I have certain expectations and standards.

    My expectations and standards vary from genre to genre. Interstellar and The Arrival show what Hollywood is capable of, the rarity of films of that quality shows that Hollywood mostly doesn't care about quality films.

    Look at what got nominated (or won) for an Academy Aware in the last 10 years and it's mostly shit.

    Bohemian Rhapsody is the only film I recall liking from 2018 and honestly it was "just ok." In 2017 "Darkest Hour" was ok and honestly Dunkirk was crap. 2016 "Arrival" was great (but didn't win) and "Hacksaw Ridge" was ok. 2015 pretty much everything sucked including "The Martian." 2014 I liked "American Sniper" but hated that it was mostly fiction. 2013 was really the last year of amazing films with "American Hustle" and "Wolf of Wall Street" but most people hyped "Gravity" (which sucked) and "Capt. Phillips" which mostly sucked. 2012 also had two great films, "Argo" and "Zero Dark Thirty" but everyone talked about "Django Unchained" (which sucked) and "Lincoln" which had a few too many historical inaccuracies (umm hello he was a Republican) to be enjoyed. It's hard when a Speilberg film is unwatchable.

    2011, nothing. Everything sucked. 2010, nothing. Everything sucked. 2009, nothing. Everything sucked. In fact you have to go all the way back to 2005 to find an excellent film and there was only one, "Munich."

    So that's not even one great film a year and how many films get cranked out?
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    I stand by my statement.


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    I liked it..



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    Quote Originally Posted by Alex V View Post
    I didn’t read your warning in time. lol



    The whole space monkey scene was totally superfluous. Just like the moon pirate scene. What the hell was the point of that. Neither added anything to the story except runtime.

    Also, the metal shield trip through the rings was annoying AF. He didn’t have enough momentum to overcome the impacts of all those rocks/ice. They would have imparted enough force on him to rob all of his velocity. He would have just become part of Neptune’s rings.

    Plus, they said the goal of the project was to go beyond the Sun’s Heliosphere. The Heliopause is 120+AU from the sun. Neptune is something like 30AU. They were a quarter of the way there. WTF?

    At least in Interstellar the science was right up to the 5th dimensional tesseract and even that has a basis in physics. The Martian was really close to real science too, the boom more than the movie. Gravity had the physics right but some of the action was far fetched. This movie was just silly.

    Dude... the more I think about it the more upset I get lol
    It almost lulls you into thinking it's a good movie due to the visuals and perhaps the cast, but yes, more I think about it the worse it gets.
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    Quote Originally Posted by WillBrink View Post
    It almost lulls you into thinking it's a good movie due to the visuals and perhaps the cast, but yes, more I think about it the worse it gets.
    They tried to be 2001 with the visuals but failed. The $125 pillow and blanket on the flight to the Moon was kinda funny, but it was a rip off 2001.

    Tried to be Apocalypse Now and failed. The narration of the main character who was tasked with the assassination of an idol. Countless side quests that are fun but add nothing to the story. In Apocalypse Now it worked, here it didn't.

    Tried to be Interstellar and failed. Long distance space travel but completely unrealistic. In Interstellar it too the crew of the Endurance 2 years to get to Saturn. Saturn is 8.5AU from the Earth. So the trip is roughly 4.25AU/Yr. With the distance to Neptune being +/-30AU, it should take 7 years not 79 days.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Alex V View Post
    They tried to be 2001 with the visuals but failed. The $125 pillow and blanket on the flight to the Moon was kinda funny, but it was a rip off 2001.
    Or a rip off for BL 2049. Some scenes were damn close to identical.

    Quote Originally Posted by Alex V View Post
    Tried to be Apocalypse Now and failed. The narration of the main character who was tasked with the assassination of an idol. Countless side quests that are fun but add nothing to the story. In Apocalypse Now it worked, here it didn't.
    On a few occasions the narrative was well done, but there was too much if it and most of it sounded like someone recently took a college philosophy course or something.

    Quote Originally Posted by Alex V View Post
    Tried to be Interstellar and failed. Long distance space travel but completely unrealistic. In Interstellar it too the crew of the Endurance 2 years to get to Saturn. Saturn is 8.5AU from the Earth. So the trip is roughly 4.25AU/Yr. With the distance to Neptune being +/-30AU, it should take 7 years not 79 days.
    Not unless they had some tech that does not exist, nor will exist in the near future where the story takes place. They were chemical rockets. There was a few shots on the mars 2 Neptune mission showed what may have been ion drive or something, but they're very slow to accelerate. Regardless of tech, to make that trip in 79 days, what would the Gs be? You'd be under Gs the entire time and yet (because apparently there's no crew quarters at all in a ship expect to carry 4 people round trip from freakin' mars to Neptune) he's floating in the middle of the damn (only?) segment of the ship while sleeping.

    How about climbing onto a lifting rocket to find a very convenient hatch right into the crew capsule? That was yet another WTF? moment among many in that movie that prevented me from enjoying.

    Any episode of The Expanse was better then that movie and does a great job of paying attention to the science to boot.
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    Quote Originally Posted by SteyrAUG View Post
    If I'm going to see King Kong vs. Godzilla, I have certain expectations and standards.
    If I'm going to see a film about Omaha Beach, I have certain expectations and standards.
    If I'm going to see a film about time / space / black holes / space travel, I have certain expectations and standards.

    My expectations and standards vary from genre to genre. Interstellar and The Arrival show what Hollywood is capable of, the rarity of films of that quality shows that Hollywood mostly doesn't care about quality films.
    Precisely so. I gave high marks to the recent Godzilla for example. If I go to see a movie about Omaha Beach where the US lands in Japan and the Germans have M4s, I don't care how good it looks, I'm still gonna review it as a crappy movie.
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    Quote Originally Posted by WillBrink View Post
    Precisely so. I gave high marks to the recent Godzilla for example. If I go to see a movie about Omaha Beach where the US lands in Japan and the Germans have M4s, I don't care how good it looks, I'm still gonna review it as a crappy movie.
    I predict in out lifetime, there will be a film where the Germans actually bombed Pearl Harbor and Bluto will be vindicated.
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    Saw it today. Total waste of time.

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