Ad Astra (2019)

[MountainRaven]

Sounds like y'all got another Interstellar.

[jpmuscle]

Sounds like y'all got another Interstellar.

It was not as good as interstellar. The ending was anticlimactic I will admit.

And despite what the amateur fan fic LARP writer says it was/is not a dud.

To that end I feel it pulled together a number of different avenues in science fiction that we should absolutely be pursuing in real life, but I digress.


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[WillBrink]

Sounds like y'all got another Interstellar.

Interstellar was a better movie by a long shot.

[SteyrAUG]

Sounds like y'all got another Interstellar.

I really liked Interstellar and the fact that it worked mostly in the "theoretical" meant a lot could be forgiven.

[Alex V]

Ad Astra wants desperately to be deep, philosophical, profound, and existential, and it misses the market totally. This movie is a big mess with disjointed action scenes that are unrelated to the plot (shown if the trailers to get people to see it) which drags on and on through one implausible event after another. We get long internal monologues from Pitt on the meaning of existence his inability to form close relationships with people, and so forth.

The visuals/CGI range from breathtakingly beautiful to cheesy and cheep looking. The build up to the grand finale at the outer reaches of the solar system so anti climatic I looked at my watch to see when this movie would end, and that's never a good sign.

The all star cast does their best to make it work, and Pitt is always compelling when on screen, but none of them could save this movie from itself. Finally, and there's zero excuse for this in 2019, there was a lot of bad science in this movie all of which could have been avoided by consulting someone from NASA etc who are always happy to see good science being had in such movies.

I had high hopes for this movie (and made the rare trip to a movie theater to see it...) but it as not to be. It's clear director James Gray was attempting to make this generations 2001. He failed and failed badly. Oh, and critics will love this movie cuz it makes them seem edgy and woke. C+

Went in hoping for Interstellar. Walked away with a weird love child of 2001 and Apocalypse Now. Too much narration, not enough anything else. Some of the visuals were trippy but I was disappointed overall.

The wife says I’m not allowed to pick movies for a while.

[Alex V]

Per above, some of the imagery is beautiful. Not really a spoiler, as one physicist wrote about the "To get to Neptune from Mars in 79 days, the average speed of the spaceship would have to be over 1,400,463 MPH. Maybe an ion thruster could achieve that, but it would take a huge amount of time to speed up and slow down because while ion engines have a huge top speed, they have extremely small amounts of thrust."

It's clear they were using chemical rockets. There was no apparent crew quarters in that rocket, he they didn't apparently have enough fuel to return making it a one way suicide mission but there's no mention of that, so he uses a nuke to give him a nice little push off for home, using a freaking Neptune's rings shielded only with a space station panel, etc, etc The list is long. The science nerds I know are having a field day with all the bad science and I'm no physicist, but I was rolling my eyes all through this movie. Oh, and after a space monkey eats guys face, he used duct tape (yes duct tape) to cover the helmet opening and go into the vacuum of space with duct tape set up.

Much of iy was not bad science per se, just totally implausible and double eye rolling.

I think they used chemical rockets to get off the surface of Earth/Moon/Mars. With the first stage dropping away the engine they used for long distance travel wasn’t the same. It was glowing blue not red/yellow/orange flame of the first stage.

Even so, 79 days from Mars to Neptune is some crazy ass shit. It would require a crazy amount of thrust and a long duration of a lot of Gs. Meanwhile, the whole time he was weightless which would mean no acceleration but the engine appears to be lit which would mean he is accelerating. WTF?

Watney used duct tape on his cracked visor in The Marian and people said it was plausible. Plus, the captain didn’t survive so...

[WillBrink]

Went in hoping for Interstellar. Walked away with a weird love child of 2001 and Apocalypse Now. Too much narration, not enough anything else. Some of the visuals were trippy but I was disappointed overall.

The wife says I’m not allowed to pick movies for a while.

I warned ya... it's just not a good movie.

[WillBrink]

I think they used chemical rockets to get off the surface of Earth/Moon/Mars. With the first stage dropping away the engine they used for long distance travel wasn’t the same. It was glowing blue not red/yellow/orange flame of the first stage.

Even so, 79 days from Mars to Neptune is some crazy ass shit. It would require a crazy amount of thrust and a long duration of a lot of Gs. Meanwhile, the whole time he was weightless which would mean no acceleration but the engine appears to be lit which would mean he is accelerating. WTF?

Watney used duct tape on his cracked visor in The Marian and people said it was plausible. Plus, the captain didn’t survive so...

The movie was full of fail like that. I don't think duct tape would work in the vacuum of space, but more importantly, they don't have anything better in their emergency kit to cover a busted face place (and lets not even mention how goofy that whole killer space monkey scene was....) than duct tape?!

Bad science and or just sloppy movie making, just too much of that stuff for me to give it a good rating.

[jpmuscle]

It’s like folks are incapable of simply going to the movies nowadays simply for the sake of being entertained.

Everyone’s an amateur critic


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[Alex V]

I warned ya... it's just not a good movie.

I didn’t read your warning in time. lol

The movie was full of fail like that. I don't think duct tape would work in the vacuum of space, but more importantly, they don't have anything better in their emergency kit to cover a busted face place (and lets not even mention how goofy that whole killer space monkey scene was....) than duct tape?!

Bad science and or just sloppy movie making, just too much of that stuff for me to give it a good rating.

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