What is the last movie you've seen? Part 2

[Petrolheadia]

Yesterday I saw Yesterday.

[An Alan Smithee Nation]

Yesterday I saw Yesterday.

The day after tomorrow are you going to watch The Day After Tomorrow?

[Snow Bird-Worldism Crash]

the lobster (2015)

[Cannot think of a name]

Whiplash. I'm not sure I've ever found watching a movie so damn stressful. I had to keep pausing to take breaks.

I watched it in the theaters. And I majored in jazz performance at one point.

[An Alan Smithee Nation]

Life of Crime enjoyed it. Great cast. Never read an Elmore Leonard book, but they do seem to make great films.

[HC Eredivisie]

Once upon a time in Hollywood.

[Abercontin-Jereaux]

Angry Birds 2
Forced to watch this by my stupid annoying cousin brother(younger obviously) but it wasn't that bad.

[Free China]

IT: Chapter 2. Thought it was good, few parts were funny.

[Snow Bird-Worldism Crash]

nosferatu: phantom der nacht (1979)

[Abarri]

"Split"

[An Alan Smithee Nation]

Keeping up with the Joneses not very good, but not terrible.

[Cannot think of a name]

Rambo Last Blood is the Gremlins 2 of the Rambo franchise. But not on purpose.

[Nyte]

Rambo: Last Blood. I thoroughly enjoyed it too.

[Valehart]

Ad Astra. Gorgeously filmed, great acting, so-so plot. Honestly, the main quips I had while watching wasn't even due to the movie, but having more to do with the movie theatre.

[Snow Bird-Worldism Crash]

transmorphers (2007) dir. leigh scott

[An Alan Smithee Nation]

The Driftless Area, too quirky for me.

[Guelder]

It was almost a month ago I watch a movie on Netflix, but I watched Sex Education as the last movie

[Hurdergaryp]

The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert

[Nanatsu no Tsuki]

FAG- Todrick Hall

[An Alan Smithee Nation]

The Hitman's Bodyguard I rather enjoyed it, kind of reminded me of a Roger Moore era Bond film, banter and long action sequences.

[The Eternal October]

Ad Astra. Gorgeously filmed, great acting, so-so plot. Honestly, the main quips I had while watching wasn't even due to the movie, but having more to do with the movie theatre.

Here, too, it was Ad Astra.

To continue, it was a so-so plot (seemed lifted from the whole "hero's journey" schtick, you could make many a direct comparison to the various travels taken in Middle Earth), but it was laughably problematic as far as scientific accuracy. Even assuming near-future 'advances'.

There was improbably hyperprofficient orbital aiming skills (e.g. Mars, through the belt, and then the final "boosted" trip) where we might well have had automated or HUD-augmented opportunities to add to this super-astronaut's instinctual skill (and, remember, he had some years of warzone experience to eat into his time at becoming that uber-astronaut?) to allow the necessary lateral thruster corrections to any of these journeys, though I don't believe he had much scope for that for the example when he just had his suit and the deck-plate. You can add similar plot-armour for the little ballistic trip on the Moon, too, with nothing other than luck allowing him a safe landing.

Gravitational effects was another huge bugbear, for me. No apparent effort made to make the Moonbase people lope under 0.166g (looked like the whole old "there's an Earth atmosphere, there's an Earth gravity" thing was just used without thinking too much about it). Mars, ditto, at 0.376ish. Numerous cases where zero-g scenes just had too much clues (clothing, and tears from an eye at one point) that they weren't. I wonder if that was the excuse, though, for the bit where Mars gravity plus acceleration seemed to be no trouble at all? (It was soon after, though, that a separate phase of acceleration was made a plot-point problem!)

Loads of other little niggles. Including a quick (flashback) bit where I'm sure that someone shown with strong wind atmospherically blowing through their air was standing in front of forest of wind turbines that were not spinning. Maybe they were just shut/feathered down (their load not required, or even protecting against overspin from the gale) but it jarred.

As did the "you're going to try to destroy <censored> with a <censored> and that's going to make the unstable <censored#1> safe???" plan. Apparently it did, and stopped the thing that we are told near the start somehow increases with power as it gets further from the source. (Focussed? Apparently not, if it's not deliberate. Maybe something akin to flavour-flipping neutrinos? But still apparently aimed at Earth, with Mars chancing to be in/near the path.) Largely a Mcguffin Threat, though, in many ways.

That said, I liked much of the ship design. Plausible, give or take wriggleroom for future developments. (Not including the "let's just arbitrarily stop off half way" thing. No, just no. Not even because it's a Rule Of Spacefaring that you do. It was a silly stop at a silly reason to have a place to stop at. Unless they had a rather compulsive backstory to that which they then had to cut.)

The thing I liked a lot was the Siri-esque psych-evaluation process. Feasible (if, it seems, normally easily satisfied by a hard-nose astronaut with good pulse control) to have applied machine-learning to the process of automating the process that doubtless every space-goer (of note, but there being many of them in this universe!) has to go through, and creating a level playing field.

So, mostly a Space Comedy, for me. But with an added dose of personal poignancy, when it reminded me of my own last few days with my father, though of course in nothing like the same situation.


And I got a bit of vertigo. The trailer in the screening was of the upcoming historically-inspired film regarding high-altitude balloon flight (taking me back to the time me and my parents had a balloon trip, not my thing at all - and this film dialling things up and the trailer giving 'cliff-hanging' moments made me unnecessarily uneasy in my cinema seat). That done with, we then had the start of Ad Astra and the intro concerning the ISA (no great errors with gravity there, obviously, though it did look strange until it became obvious to me what would be revealed) which gave me a little more of the same.

Until he was loose, and then (culminating in admirable stuntwork, the last bit with the 'ripped fabric' effect, though surely fairly safe to perform) I was Ok. As I was with all other bits in space. It's just not the same without ground and all-too-fallible things to fall off of. Either alone seems to be not as much a problem.


Is it worth seeing? Well, shove quite a lot of your disbelief into microgravity for the duration. Visually stunning. Like Gravity.

And, like Gravity:

...I'm convinced that after some inderterminate point (one of many such potential points), everything that happens to our hero is actually a fast-paced hypoxic death-dream they fall into due to not successfully getting through one or other critical situation.

[Thepeopl]

In the Shadow of the moon

[South Central South-Park]

Gay N-words from outer space

[Syeadeshistania]

I rewatched Full Metal Jacket recently, still a great movie

[The Two Jerseys]

Rockys II thru IV