Movie Theater Ad Astra

[Lowlight]

So I grabbed the digital version of this not seeing it in the movies, and I have to say, personally for me, wow ?

I really liked AD ASTRA and think they did a lot of smart things. It combined so many big movies ina really cool way to advance the story. Yes I get the criticism and it can be considered slow, but it’s navigating a really well thought out landscape.

I won’t spoil it and talk aboUt the elements of other movies I saw, beyond the most obvious, 2001. Take out the crappy 2001 opening and focus on the space travel and journey there, ad astra plays very close in a much better way. The parallels to 2001 are easy, but with a more realistic twist thanks to additional time we have a clearer look into modern space travel. But it played practical to me and quite well filmed.

It’s long, it’s slow, even a bit quiet, but it’s nicely shot and there is a story, you need 1/2 a hobbit trilogy to get there. Kidding, it’s not that long. 1/3 the hobbits.

 

[jet_lagged]

Saw it on the plane the other week. There is not a lot great/realistic SciFi out there, so worth seeing at some point. A little too heavy on the psych eval aspects, but who know, maybe we need to go that way.

But if you are in a vacuum and there is an explosion say 30 feet away, do you hear it? Not so sure.

But I will be looking for the moon camo pattern uniform for my mall ninja collection!

 

[Ravenworks]

It almost always sucks waking up in the hospital

 

[fx77]

Great special effects, but soo formulaic an ending...not up to my expectations, and cannot believe it got 86% from Rotten Tomato