Ad Astra (James Gray, September 20, 2019) Movie • Page 4

Very disappointed with this. It looked beautiful and there was pretty good acting but the story and resolution was white bread.

 

Brad Pitt is my boy. Probably my favorite actor and this was a slog. Slow movies are great but this was slow in a bad way.

 

I will say I loved the monkey surprise but that was the only unexpected thing. Everything else was boiler plate.

 

This movie wishes it was Sunshine but it’s nowhere close.

 

That’s all I can think about, like is there something I need to know about the state of the universe from that scene

 

God I love Sunshine.

 

IMAX tickets booked for tonight. I'm really looking forward to it.

 

Hmmm, seems like a movie that doesn't fall in the middle for most people; you either like it a great deal, or are pretty disappointed with it.

 

This movie 100% works and 100% doesn’t somehow at the same time.

I’m enamored and my best friend thinks it’s the worst thing she’s seen since Jupiter Ascending.

 

I thought this was fantastic. Beautifullly shot. Loved the interpretation of near future.

 

I wonder why there's such a divergence of opinion, how the gap is so wide.

 

Seems like you feel nothing about the story or absolutely everything, I unfortunately felt nothing

 

Audience score for this is 40% lower than critic score on RT right now. Doesn't really surprise me, though. The more I think about the movie, the worse it gets.

Not to mention Brad should've been burnt alive when the rockets ignited on Mars.

 

It’s definitely not a mass market blockbuster like it was marketed as

 

I think it’s because it’s not a daring film. It’s so middle of the road, as far as the story and themes go, that it’s harmless and some people can be into that and others are bored and frustrated by it.

 

Yeah they didn't really show him actually opening the hatches and climbing in; all of a sudden essentially he was just in the rocket, no harm

 

It's visually quite great and visually develops it's themes. It then just bashes you over the head with them in the voiceovers, too. It works for me, I think, because of my brand of daddy issues and how this film works in that same space.

 

The more I think about it the more my “meh” is turning into hating it. There were periods where I wanted to walk out of the theater, that rocket part being the main one, but I wanted to see their reunion near Neptune. But then that turned out to be a wet noodle.

I haven’t seen anything else by Gray before and this makes me not want to either.

 

The image of them tethered together floating outside of the ship in front of Neptune deserved a better ten minutes around it. It's a truly stunning visualization of the theme.

Part of me kinda wishes this would've played out like the last twenty minutes of Annihilation where the acting and music carried 97% of the load. Brad and Tommy have the acting ability for it.

 

The space baboon is maybe the most I’ve been caught off guard by a movie in awhile

Anyways I think if I hated my dad this might be my favorite movie of all time

 

people whose opinion i trust have regarded this pretty highly, still pretty excited to see it this weekend. aggregate score sites are meaningless.

 

Roy def climbs into a hatch while climbing up to the rocket. Not sure if it leads into the rocket or whatever. Either way it never once registered to me as a big deal although I'm sure plenty of people will wave it around as a massive plot hole or something.
The whole Mars section was fantastic. Incredible production design throughout but especially here.

 

I liked this, at times quite a bit, but it was also very heavy-handed (especially in some of its emotional moments) to the point that I rolled my eyes a number of times. Lots of telling as opposed to showing. Great performances and visuals, though.

 

This was great. I didn’t expect to get so many Tree of Life vibes (even aside from it being about Brad Pitt and daddy issues).

 

There were also times where the narration sucked and he would say something that we literally just saw but other times it was genuinely introspective and good.