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AD Astra | Sep 20 2019 | Sci Fi | Best movie of the year with a B- cinemascore? | Brad Pitt

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Date Title (click to view) Studio Lifetime Gross / Theaters Opening / Theaters Rank
4/14/17 The Lost City of Z BST $8,580,410 866 $110,175 4 2
5/16/14 The Immigrant Wein. $2,025,328 150 $44,064 3 4
2/13/09 Two Lovers Magn. $3,149,034 148 $94,986 7 3
10/12/07 We Own the Night Sony $28,563,179 2,402 $10,826,287 2,362 1
10/20/00 The Yards Mira. $889,352 146 $57,339 8 6
5/19/95 Little Odessa FL $1,095,885 - n/a - 5
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7 minutes ago, The Futurist said:
Date Title (click to view) Studio Lifetime Gross / Theaters Opening / Theaters Rank
4/14/17 The Lost City of Z BST $8,580,410 866 $110,175 4 2
5/16/14 The Immigrant Wein. $2,025,328 150 $44,064 3 4
2/13/09 Two Lovers Magn. $3,149,034 148 $94,986 7 3
10/12/07 We Own the Night Sony $28,563,179 2,402 $10,826,287 2,362 1
10/20/00 The Yards Mira. $889,352 146 $57,339 8 6
5/19/95 Little Odessa FL $1,095,885 - n/a - 5

True enough but:

Date Title (click to view) Studio Lifetime Gross / Theaters Opening / Theaters Rank
6/28/17 Baby Driver TriS $107,825,862 3,226 $20,553,320 3,226 1
8/23/13 The World's End Focus $26,004,851 1,553 $8,811,790 1,551 3
8/13/10 Scott Pilgrim vs. the World Uni. $31,524,275 2,820 $10,609,795 2,818 2
4/20/07 Hot Fuzz Rog. $23,637,265 1,272 $5,848,464 825 4
9/24/04 Shaun of the Dead Rog. $13,542,874 675 $3,330,781 607 5

 

 

And unlike Wright track record, Ad Astra is quite significantly bigger in cast/budget/spectacle than the previous.

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Trailers are showing up for this on CNN, so The Mouse is spending some money on marketing.

The trailers are selling this as a straight up Sci Fi Adventure which from the reviews it is not; always have some concerns over trying to sell a film as something it is not. Bait and Switch seldom works.

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4 hours ago, dudalb said:

Trailers are showing up for this on CNN, so The Mouse is spending some money on marketing.

The trailers are selling this as a straight up Sci Fi Adventure which from the reviews it is not; always have some concerns over trying to sell a film as something it is not. Bait and Switch seldom works.

I really hope that's not the case. I like what I saw in the latest trailer and that's the movie I want. 

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Why is no one here talking about the AWESOME Moon Rover Chase scene that leaked and took YouTube by storm?? Everyone there is talking about how great it looks - and it also looks much better than the fake Apollo moon rover reel, but that's because of 50 years of SFX of course.

 

You people disappoint me.

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6 minutes ago, shayhiri said:

Why is no one here talking about the AWESOME Moon Rover Chase scene that leaked and took YouTube by storm?? Everyone there is talking how great it looks - and it also looks much better than the fake Apollo moon rover reel, but that's because of 50 years of SFX of course.

 

You people disappoint me.

I disagree, the 1969 moon footage still holds up today. 

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35 minutes ago, Avatree said:

I disagree, the 1969 moon footage still holds up today. 

 

No, only some of it. And the part that holds is because it's all practical effects. They had no CGI technology in the late 1960ies (let alone space travel technology, lol). The director was also a big name. But part of it actually looks laughable, especially by today's standards.

 

What is interesting is they went with a highly fictionalised image of the Moon - it doesn't actually look any way like this* - but this artificial image has substituted the real one, and even Ad Astra uses it now in that scene.

 

* the Chinese rover photos from last year - probably the first real ones - show brown and earthly Moon, not the Apollo silver dusty guesswork.

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No, only some of it. And the part that holds is because it's all practical effects. They had no CGI technology in the late 1960ies (let alone space travel technology, lol). The director was also a big name. But part of it actually looks laughable, especially by today's standards.

 

What is interesting is they went with a highly fictionalised image of the Moon - it doesn't actually look any way like this* - but this artificial image has substituted the real one, and even Ad Astra uses it now in that scene.

 

* the Chinese rover photos from last year - probably the first real ones - show brown and earthly Moon, not the Apollo silver dusty guesswork.

 

Wow, I haven't seen those photos before. The moon is brown? Is that maybe not something to do with the torches/lighting on the cameras?

 

It looks pretty silver/grey when I see it in the sky.

 

Anything Kubrick touches is gold dust, just look at the modelwork in 2001. I watched a brand new 70mm print of that last year and it looks utterly authentic.

 

 

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Aaaanyway, I was hoping there'd be more buzz for this. Guess that's what happens with a movie that's been delayed a couple times. Still looks really good though. It'll likely be the last film I see in theatres until Joker.

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