Most of Ryland's reaction to the flashbacks are all internal monologues in the book so I always knew that would be a difficult sell. All things considered I think it was handled well. You can't have him sprawling on the floor holding his head after every reveal because I feel like it would get real silly. Don't really have an answer for how they could have sold it more.
I think not making the flashbacks literal real-time realizations was a good choice. It lets the audience know this isn’t a movie about amnesia and a guy getting his memory back.
This has opened to an estimated $80.6m US, which is higher than the highest estimate of $77m, and $141m worldwide. That is a great start, but hopefully it has staying power.
I think it will. This seems very much like something youth groups and stuff will go to because it’s fairly clean and fun.
Hope you are right, just that since 2020, anything that would have been a sure-fire hit pre-2020 seems less likely these days.
It’s been nothing but great word of mouth. I imagine it’s gonna have good legs, especially since nothing big comes out until Super Mario and even then, those are two different audiences.
I saw this today, and I’d say it was good but not great. Ryan Gosling is good in everything but I am not sure this was the right casting for him. The Martian is a comfort movie that I’ll watch whenever out of the blue, and I do not think I’ll return to this once it is available on streaming.
I just did not buy him as a subject-matter expert in molecular biology. Even comparing him to Donald Glover’s character in The Martian, where he demonstrates how smart he is and comes up with the slingshot maneuver, PHM does not do a strong enough job of establishing Gosling the same way. He wrote a paper and was conscripted by the government, and within 10 minutes he’s experimenting in a lab…it just felt very rushed. Also, maybe not Gosling’s fault directly (although he is an executive producer on this movie) - he never ages. The trip to space takes place over 11+ years, and in the book it is MUCH longer - it might have been nice to have some aging makeup on him to show the passage of time, or have him act slightly differently in the flashback scenes to how he was now on the ship.
I had some of the same criticisms until I realized this was more of a popcorn movie and not Interstellar so I wrote them off and just enjoyed the show.
I think they chose to prioritize the wholesome/fun relationship with Rocky and the theme of sacrifice/having someone you would sacrifice yourself for. My wife who loves the book said they went way deeper into the science and the twist about how he ended up on the ship in the book but she was glad they didn’t do that in the movie. It wasn’t really even about extinction or existential death beyond how that threat impacted the Rocky/Grace friendship.
No I really think it was a Gosling problem, which is weird, because I cannot stress enough how much I like his movies! I honestly cannot think of another movie he is in where I was like “I wish it was someone other than Ryan Gosling in this”. I just think his performance was really uneven. I still liked the movie, and as Serenity Now said, it is a popcorn movie for sure so it’s not a big deal either way. I just wonder what a different lead could have done with this role.
I agree with the aging, but disagree with any other part. But I still think it’s a semi-reasonable take. “The Gray Man,” if only because Gosling didn’t need to sully his filmography with “The Gray Man.”
the aging was weird but cryosleep makes you not age is also in Captian America, the timeline overall was confusing
Ehh aging makeup for most of the movie would have just looked like shit. I’m fine with just assuming being in a coma doesn’t age you or whatever.
I have literally no clue what you could be talking about here....oh I just got it as I was trying this out.
I assumed it was some sort of time dilation thing where ~30 years passed on Earth but that same amount of time didn't pass on the ship he was on so he aged slower. That's why Stratt was visibly older at the end but Grace wasn't