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

[The Futurist]

1 hour ago, lorddemaxus said:

How are critics ivory tower elites? Most of them don't even earn minimum wage.

Sheep earn even less and yet ...

[JB33]

4 hours ago, Eric! said:

 

@Plain Old Tele Is this you? 🤔

Who is that guy? Pretty clueless.

[shayhiri]

Hahahaha, it f*cked Rambo16!

 

Aah, the small joys in life...

[Lucas]

4 hours ago, Eric! said:

 

"I wouldn't give it an 82%" is stupidity at its finest.

[lorddemaxus]

Me RN:

 

 

[OdinSon2k14]

Trailers about to begin...I've already been informed that it's closer to Interstellar (which was a little out there) than Gravity (thrilling). So I  basically know what this is.

[The Futurist]

For the record, 98% of people think RT score is a grade.

And even when you know it is not a grade, your brain plays tricks on you and you talk about it as if it was a grade.

50% on RT is NOT a bad  score people.

It just means half people liked it the other didn't.

And yet, a 50% RT score is talked about as if it was  a very bad number to have on RT.

 

Majority of People read RT score as a grade from 1 (10%) to 10(100%).

Edited September 22, 2019 by The Futurist

[Damianport1]

I will be honest here: it's astonishing film...but not for basics.

[Lucas]

I really wanna see this but I got horribly sick literally on the day it came out. Since it's not doing great, I fear it will be taken out of the larger screens near me pretty soon so I've gotta beat this fucking thing before the smaller screens are all that's left.

[Barnack]

56 minutes ago, The Futurist said:

For the record, 98% of people think RT score is a grade.

98% sound possible (if we can see it on this website with people bringing say Doctor Strange RT score and saying the movie is overrated because it was a strong consensus that it was a passable affair, who knows in the general population but I heard a lot of "normies" saying they saw the RT score has how likely you are to not dislike the movie and the average score for how much you will like it if you do), but for people claiming to be doing a somewhat journalistic job and using for social commentary it should get closer to 0%.

 

[cdsacken]

1 hour ago, JB33 said:

Who is that guy? Pretty clueless.

Trumper film critic blue check rando

[Cmasterclay]

The hatred of "elites" being turned away from rich corporate raiders and onto to regular people with a love of art, progressive values, and deep thinking is one of the great tragedies of our world that explains so much about society today. Anyway, this movie was rad. Hit me hard as someone who has lost a father. Really good stuff here, top three of the year for me with Hollywood and the Farewell. 

[OdinSon2k14]

I dunno 🙂...I dunno 🙂...what some of the critics were saying...I have this slightly ABOVE Gravity and Interstellar...

 

No, it wasnt "slow". EndGame, at almost 180 minutes of mostly "acting" scenes, was slow 🙂. At just over 120 minutes, Ad Astra didnt have enough runtime to be slow.

 

It was excellently paced, with a few action scenes. The so-called "slow" part...knowing the vast distances in space, I was wondering how the slow part was a brief as it was 🙂. 

Edited September 23, 2019 by OdinSon2k14

[RealLyre]

Ad Astra is like Gravity or Interstellar if they didn't have an interesting story to tell. 

[The Futurist]

9 hours ago, Cmasterclay said:

The hatred of "elites" being turned away from rich corporate raiders and onto to regular people with a love of art, progressive values, and deep thinking is one of the great tragedies of our world that explains so much about society today. Anyway, this movie was rad. Hit me hard as someone who has lost a father. Really good stuff here, top three of the year for me with Hollywood and the Farewell. 

Sure, Jan.

[Noctis]

Oh FFS Futurist, your incessant hate of critics is toxic. Why do you care about them so goddamn much? 

[Macleod]

19 hours ago, shayhiri said:

Hahahaha, it f*cked Rambo16!

 

Aah, the small joys in life...

The reason Ad Astra beat Rambo at the box office is that Rambo is a pretty awful movie...and Ad Astra is a significantly better one in every technical context.  But Ad Astra is still pretty disappointing when compared to numerous other sci-fi epics of previous years.  Almost every one of those films mentioned in this thread has more to say about humanity and our possibilities than this, which ends up being *yet another* (as if we don't have enough) Hollywood movie about "Daddy Issues."  

Edited September 23, 2019 by Macleod

[The Futurist]

1 minute ago, Macleod said:

The reason Ad Astra beat Rambo at the box office is that Rambo is a pretty awful movie...and Ad Astra is a significantly better one in every technical context.  But Ad Astra is still pretty disappointing when compared to numerous other sci-fi epics of previous years.  Almost every one of those films mentioned in this thread has more to say about humanity and our possibilities than this, which ends up being *yet another* (as if we don't have enough) Hollywood movie about "Daddy Issues."  

Well, 2001 was too, we ALL come from somewhere.

[Walt Disney]

I didn't really care for this movie. It was very slow, and while I could see what the movie was going for, it just didn't get there for me. 

[OdinSon2k14]

4 hours ago, Walt Disney said:

I didn't really care for this movie. It was very slow, and while I could see what the movie was going for, it just didn't get there for me. 

The movie was excellently paced, with a

high speed moon rover gunfight, Baboon rampage, gunfight inside a rocket, a trip to Uranus, and even a swim in a lake on Mars 😂

! 

 

I enjoyed it more than Interstellar(bizarre) and Gravity (just the earth's orbit).