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I felt compelled to start a new thread on the subject separate from the score discussion.
It is apparent that many of you did not get the theme of the movie.
The movie has a kind of B-movie feel, and ignores some vital mechanics of space travel; but this is not the point of the movie. The space travel and immense gulfs between people, and all the dystopian paranoia are all a means to examine contemporary humanity.
If that elementary part of the movie’s theme eluded you, well, yes, the experience of watching the film will be quite turgid for you.
Let me put it into terms I know we will all get. Imagine it’s Wesley Crusher going to look for his long lost father, or a Picard or Riker who’s gone native, just in a contemplative way that Star Trek: The Next Generation doesn’t have time for.
...and if this thread degenerates into a Star Trek thread, there will be hell to pay.
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yeah, we all got it, but it is just not a very good movie
It is not exactly a bad movie. I would give it 3 stars out of 5.
But it fails about as much as it succeeds.
Did Thor change his screen name to BOAJ?
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I enjoyed it too. It’s Hollywood daring to do something adult.
The people who’ve been steamrolled by media conglomerate hype (I’m looking at you, Disney and Netflix) into re-defining middlebrow entertainment as highbrow—and that’s a lot of people with good taste who should know better—will think this movie’s thematic ambitions overshot them.
If that’s the case for you, I suggest you watch it again without the escapist mindset. This is not a film catering to that mentality.
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yeah, we all got it, but it is just not a very good movie
It is not exactly a bad movie. I would give it 3 stars out of 5.
But it fails about as much as it succeeds.
Did Thor change his screen name?
Well I guess not.
Lol!
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yeah, we all got it, but it is just not a very good movie
It is not exactly a bad movie. I would give it 3 stars out of 5.
But it fails about as much as it succeeds.
Did Thor change his screen name?
Well I guess not.
Lol!
I don't know how you could confuse Ado with Thor. Of course Thor was gong to rave about it.
No. I meat BOAJ.
Remember the BATMAN AND ROBIN comments?
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Sep 27, 2019 - 10:49 AM
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What's not to get when, for almost 2hrs, Pitt wouldn't shut the hell up about it?
Sorry to disappoint, while Gray may disavow Bergman, he's also hardly a Tarkovsky.
This sorta of 1st year, onanistic navel-gazing pasted onto a dumbed-down, dime store sci-fi thriller and then sold like a weighty philosophical meditation is such blatant hucksterism.
If Pitt wasn't starring, and they hadn't spend a billion dollars on the effects, no one would pay any attention to this movie.
yup, right on the money.
Gray fancies himself something like Kubrick, but he does not have the chops.
The voiceover, a total film killer.
It really does reach for something deeper, but it never gets there.
The ending here with the dad, strictly dull stuff, flat, dull, predictable and uninspired.
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Spinmeister: This sorta of 1st year, onanistic navel-gazing pasted onto a dumbed-down, dime store sci-fi thriller and then sold like a weighty philosophical meditation is such blatant hucksterism.
Ado: yup, right on the money.
Gray fancies himself something like Kubrick, but he does not have the chops.
The voiceover, a total film killer.
It really does reach for something deeper, but it never gets there.
The ending here with the dad, strictly dull stuff, flat, dull, predictable and uninspired.
You two are proving my point. The movie is making the point that reaching for the stars, in the end, may be a simpler endeavor than reaching out to the person next to you.
If that’s too haughty, highbrow or pretentious for you, your Netflix or YouTube queue will be happy to provide you with false succor, I’m sure.
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Sep 27, 2019 - 12:04 PM
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Ado
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Spinmeister: This sorta of 1st year, onanistic navel-gazing pasted onto a dumbed-down, dime store sci-fi thriller and then sold like a weighty philosophical meditation is such blatant hucksterism.
Ado: yup, right on the money.
Gray fancies himself something like Kubrick, but he does not have the chops.
The voiceover, a total film killer.
It really does reach for something deeper, but it never gets there.
The ending here with the dad, strictly dull stuff, flat, dull, predictable and uninspired.
You two are proving my point. The movie is making the point that reaching for the stars, in the end, may be a simpler endeavor than reaching out to the person next to you.
If that’s too haughty, highbrow or pretentious for you, your Netflix or YouTube queue will be happy to provide you with false succor, I’m sure.
So you are basically saying it is supposed to be a bad movie, because if it was a good movie it would not be deep?
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