Brad Pitt is Space Antifa...the ends justify the means...he kills the entire Xevious crew even though they have the same mission to save the earth by destroying Lima. This movie is a liberal's wet dream. The patriarchy is villanized by being portrayed as the cold, uncaring father-figure played by Tommy Lee Jones. Brad Pitt is the 'heroic' son who follows his father's footsteps. He is haunted by his own inner termoil and has full-on conversations with himself in his own head for more than half the movie. Space travel/exploration is portrayed as an ultimate waste of time and resources as there is 'nothing out there.' The movie is as spiritually empty and morally indifferent as Pitts' character as he enjoys the rest of his life with his wife on earth and no longer needing or wanting to explore. The End.
@@dshehny if you're going to correct someone on grammar which is annoying as hell as this isn't English 101 at least do it right. Were*, they're*, they're*, Earth*, Foreshadowing*, father* although, farther works as a pun.
I thought it was a beautiful close. A man abandons his humanity and everything in a search for life far away that doesn’t exist, and in turn, his son is left wanting and he travels to Neptune for a father that doesn’t exist. The father couldn’t turn back, but the son could, and stopped running from his humanity. All throughout the movie shows how dangerous and difficult space travel is. I ultimately don’t agree with the movies message about space exploration, but I do love it’s human message.
I dont agree with Pitt killing off all his multicultural crew members in order to essentially do what they could have easily done, in order to preserve his and his fathers legacy...minus all the murders they both committed.
Brad Pitt is Space Antifa...he murders the entire crew of the Xevious, even though they have the same mission to save the earth...'the ends justify the means.'
CoryL I think we’re supposed to disagree with that because that is part of him the resembles his father. His detachment from human life for the sake of his mission is the thing he has to overcome.
I love that Brad Pitt is back in business. He was laying low too long, we need him more on the big screen. Loved the performance, still my favourite actor.
@@dancan4949 Moon is more seated in reality where ad astra is an analogy for a man's journey/quest to rediscover himself. Hence the stupendous journey to moon/mars/neptune, it's a long journey and one can only make it himself (everyone who travels with him, dies)
@HenryRide same thing I was saying watching the movie lol I started to get sad asf, I only liked the space scenes other than that they could of done better with movie (not change it but the meaning and vibes of it)
I think one of the key moments in the movie was when Pitt's character made the decision to return to his ship and try to get home. I wonder if in that moment he realized that if he gave up and floated away, he'd have become what his father became. The best way to "honor" his father's work, in a sense, was to go back home and connect with the wife that he'd distanced himself from -- since, as his father had discovered, "we're all we've got."
I wanted a space movie and they gave me a space movie. I would have loved more moon pirate battles but I’m still amazed by the fact they avoided Uranus the whole movie.
From the trailer I was hoping it was full of moon combat. I could have turned it off after that. How does one simply stow away up the backside of a launching rocket? Why would a crew leave their posts to fight a stowaway DURING A LAUNCH? How long did it take Brad to get back from Uranus? This movie hurt my head.
Thats is not only in this movie, Uranus is also avoided to be mentioned by name on the whole academic and scientific community exactly for the reason its name sounds funny, curious isnt?
Roy McBride: “He could only see what was not there and miss what was right in front of him.” Haha reminds me to appreciate and cherish what I have, not coveting what belongs to others!
The movie expressed the trauma of abandonment and of inward disconnection. In search of life, because he could not find life around him, Roy's father traveled the void of space. He was unable to see life in the eyes of his wife and son, who he abandoned. Traumatized by this, Roy carried the "sin" of his father; but the sin is just an expression of the initial trauma, and so after inheriting his father's abandonment trauma, he too abandoned his wife and humanity. This forms the basis of attachment to objects that represent absence. We chase them into the darkness on a path of self-destruction. The theme of the movie was also that of becoming machine like in order to fulfill the cold objectives of modern society. But his humanity, which he ran away from, was slowly unveiling itself. When he came face to face with his father, who expressed that he did not love his son, Roy says he knows, and says that he still loves him while a single tear emerges. Embracing his humanity and his frailty, his sadness and his pain, the tragic story of the son who kills the father was transformed into the tragic story of the son who tries to save his father; in that sense, he does kill the father, but it was the old father who his whole life has been trapped in his own attachments. "Let me go, son." were the final words, as attachments were severed.
I agree the CGI was kind of bad, but I liked the moral dilemma it generates (staying truthful to the mission as his dad wich led to de death of many, or doing things differently, which eventually leads to a grizzly death)
This movie is a masterpiece. Sadly nowadays people consider this movie as “boring”. Don’t expect an action movie. It’s a bit slow, but never boring. It has very original ideas in it and it has beautiful cinematography and effects. Imagine 2001 would come out today. Everyone would call it boring....yeah well ad astra is one of these movies
2001 had plot, characters and ideas.. this really didn't. So many plot holes, bad (really bad) science and poor pacing sets it so far below 2001 that SK is slightly spinning somewhere.
@Orpheus Seven ok - plot hole - Why did the military need Brad Pitt at all? They knew where the Father was - they knew there was an imminent threat from the surge - why not send military ships? Why drive buggies across the lunar landscape? In 2001 - they even had flying (non air of course) craft.. why not here - oh because without it - there wouldn't be a contrived attack by pirates.. that were trying to steal what exactly? Their buggies? It only takes 4 months to reach Neptune but they wait over 20 years to look for the Lima expedition (despite knowing that it is the most likely source of the 'surge' which is killing people). No consequence for Brad Pitt when he returns to Earth for commandeering the Neptune bound ship and killing its crew. Why did the military have to use civilian ships? Just to allow the contrived circumstances for Brad to make it alone. What would have happened in the story if he had failed his psych eval on the way to Mars. Shouldn't that come before he's off on a 19 day trip? Bad science - ships kept in gravity wells, no gravity effects when on the moon or Mars, zero g while accelerating, a research ship with full size baboons in the space between Earth and Mars and not in orbit that their ship can just stop by to visit, how convenient that all the planets were in alignment so we'd the audience could see every planet. Brad Pitt jumping off from his Father's ship to intercept his own ship that was clearly miles away while using a shield to deflect ring debris without decelerating or being deviated from his course. Characters - were there any? Besides staring with a blank expression and the droning narration - what can you say about Brad Pitt's character.. was he broken up about the deaths he caused? Did he actually miss Liv Tyler? Why did Ruth Negga's character help him? What was her motivation? Overall it's a meh film; but to say it's a 'masterpiece' is a real stretch.
@@Amazingsloth well put. This was no masterpiece. It was obvious that the director didn't have a concise vision for what they were trying to portray. Pretty sure they were just banking on making it seem weird and drawn out, in hopes that normal people will think they are not smart enough to understand it, and then praise it as a masterpiece. Positives - cinematography and music. However, the music ended up being used far too much and starting becoming really annoying. Overall, it was a pretty shoddy project. Certainly doesn't deserve the praise it is getting, and tbh I wouldn't recommend this movie to anybody
I thought it was slow AF and besides the moon chase there was very little action. The Space Baboons part just lost me. This Looper video has me thinking about the message, but during the movie I couldn't care less.
I just watched Interstellar (One of the best Science Movies of our time) for the 5th time (yes, I DID not use the word Science Fiction). So the musical score of Ad Astra was just mediocre.... Just like the film itself.
@@mosesmarks Interstellar was at times pretty spectacular. But it was a jab at people who believe in a higher power. Right in the beginning it takes a jab at the biblical reference of Eden: We are not caretakers (like Adam in the garden) but pioneers (Nimrod the hunter - builder of cities and carver of his own destiny). That pioneering spirit is kind of what drives cooper into actually becoming a "god" or supernatural being himself (in a sci-fi kinda way) - the poltergeist thing. It's deep, but for me, for all the wrong reasons - and I like the movie because of that. It helped me figure out my place in the world. I don't want to be cooper or be part of that world view. Ad Astra helped me in another way. It kind of helped me get back to living now. Like the biblical reference of not worrying about tomorrow but living for the day. The people you love and the things I can value today. My personal search for meaning has had a bitter and almost nihilistic end because I can find no meaning in the world. Everything I did, all the good and bad in my life has no meaning because death is waiting. I have reached as far as I can in my abilities for answers and it has left me desolate and alone. Ad astra in a weird sci-fi way made me wonder if I didn't miss something. There was no jab at a higher power nor some preachy finger pointing. But one thing I admired about Roy was he had a purpose and he went with it. But he was no savior, no hero in the normal sense of the word. He was a man who went to ends of the world and came back defeated but with new purpose. Classic. And I don't care what people say - I love moon pirates.
Couldn't agree more. Also terrifying is the fact that every single baby being born is handed, at the same time, a de facto death certificate by nature. A birth certificate and a death certificate. Only we choose not to see the latter one.
The message is not complicated. The son longed to reconnect with his father and it occupied his mind, preventing him from leading an emotionally fulfilling life. His overt focus on work was no doubt motivated by feeling obligated somewhat to his father's memory and legacy. Upon meeting his father, he realized he idolized him too much and that his father didn't really care about him the same way. So the son decided to leave the father, close this chapter of his life and move on to more fullfilling tomorrows. It's a very universal message. People who are on way or another abandoned by their parents feel something missing and want to reconnect or regain their initial relationship with their parents. They often don't realize the initial relationship was maybe just in their head all along, that they're chasing some idealized version of their parents that never existed.
It was that comment "Were all we got" which allowed Roy to change his mindset in his failing marriage. He returned home, smiling to see his wife, realizing that life here on earth was much, much more important than he realized.
I still think that they showed aliens in this film. Roy was looking away when he saw a large bright blue light shining very far away when he had to kick his father off and hang around a spot for awhile. The film basically tells the viewer that Clifford found tons of new planets that might contained life, and when he was let loose by Roy, making him finally feel emotional about what happened and starts screaming, the light shines upon him, giving him the courage and energy to not give up, but that light, are the aliens to me. That was the moment he changed from stonecold like his father, to the loving kind man. So yeah, that's what I got out of it.
@@GaiaLegend In one shot they do show a blue dot which is the earth as seen from Neptune. I guess they were trying to visualise Carl Sagan's words that "Earth is just a blue dot in space."(These aren't the exact words he used). That is what you maybe referring to I guess.
DO NOT go into this movie expecting anything like interstellar. It’s a family pursuit drama with a tad of mystery that just so happens to be set in space. Still worth a watch.
many of the visuals were amazing looking but were depicting ridiculous stuff so it took me out of it. when his dad is floating away and then for some reason screams, i laughed. the pacing was off it seemed. why did he accelerate into the boulder ring around neptune? he didn't hit the first rocks very hard, yet they keep hitting him harder and harder and then he hits the ship going way too fast. what was accelerating him the whole time? his rocket pack? why did he overshoot so goddamn much?
The visuals and score was the only thing going for it. The symbolism was like that of a beginning film maker. When his Father told him he needed to let him go I was seriously cringing. This was billed as something deep but instead we got trite.
Does Tommy Lee Jones just play himself in every movie? He never changes his accent attitude character anything. Same as Donald Sutherland he just plays himself in every movie he's in.
@@KiloPage777 how were the baboons a metaphor for Clifford. The baboons were used and experimented on until they went crazy and took over the ship. Clifford on the otherhand became so obsessed with his mission that he would rather let his crew die then abandon the mission and accept that he failed. 2 completely different scenarios.
@@mister0sir where we are with animal training expertise plus considering how much more advanced they are in this movie animals don't just go crazy. The baboons going crazy obviously had something to do with how long they had been away from home. This is the same with Clifford, he'd always been obsessed with his mission of finding ET, why do you think he went to Neptune? The being away drove him to insanity in the form of his mission. Remember he had crew members but they were there for years not hundreds of days like Roy by himself. Also Roy only had a 70 day trip and his defining trait as an astronaut is being level headed and yet he barely survived the trip mentally being driven to the brink. From such a surface level the baboons and Clifford may look like different cases but they are driven by the same thing, a lack of home.
They sent him to mars to send a transmission because all of the transmitters on earth weren’t working... It’s just like when the battery dies on your cellphone, so you decide to fly to China to make your phone call. And that was driving the first 2/3 of the movie...
I thought it had something to do with the fact it was a secure laser transmission. still, one could be sent from earth to mars any time if one could also be sent from mars to neptune.
i personally enjoyed the movie and found it very touching. he travelled half across the galaxy to reach the for help for his problems. still the problems inside his laied even deeper... comparing these distances: universe and once own feelings really touched me.. hope you got the message, sorry for my bad english
I gotta say I didn’t think the movie was that great but it definitely made me feel things. I’ve had a rocky relationship with my father and watching it made me pretty sad honestly.
I watched Ad Astra yesterday I thought it was a great movie.I'm a big fan of space exploration movies,I thought it was so cool Brad Pitt went from Earth to the Moon to Mars,he went pass Jupiter,he went pass Saturn,ending up at Neptune was so cool...
No it wasn’t? He had to go to the Mars to sent a message to Neptune, because earth is too far away from it. Space X (I believe they‘re called that way) wanted to use Brad Pitt to send the message, so the father can trust them. Space X‘s plan is to kill the father, but Brad Pitt didn’t know anything of the plan. So...no it wasn’t pointless to go to the Mars at all.
I know you‘re german btw (because I saw you at this german movie channel CSB) and the movie has a clear message about God and humanity. In germany 95% people don’t believe in god at all. That’s why most people won’t get the message or will find this movie weird and boring.
Moviemaker Reviews I agree with you. The main message I took away from the movie is that some things just aren’t worth pursuing. And if they are, at what cost?
My question is how did Roy travel so fast from moon to mars and then to Neptune? Whereas it seemed like the father got there after decades. What were the space apes? And those killers /people at the moon?
@@binbin6878 A space suit is a space suit. Not really much that would change, despite technology. However, major technological advancements could definitely improve space craft. Making a ship able to reach somewhere faster > a space suit looking the same.
if you think that all there is to the possibility of alien life, that it's green men either saving us or eating us, then no wonder this movie didn't go so well
This was a really good but very slow film. It was not at all what I thought it was going to be. This is not a sci fi actioner, It's a very melancholic and personal story wearing the disguise of a blockbuster. I found it to be really touching by the end, It's a film about letting go and finding closure to move on. Beautiful movie, and 2 of the best performances of the year from Brad Pitt. Also, Max Richter's score is stunning, would expect nothing less from the man who composed "On The Nature of Daylight".
For me, the beauty and majesty and loneliness of Neptune made up for the shortcomings of the film. The scene of passing through the rings is just fantastic. Throughout the film I kept on asking myself though, what year could this feasibly be? I thought it would have to be at least 300 years into the future, with so many countries and bases spread through the moon and the entire solar system. What do you guys think?
Looking at the birth date on Clifford's poster at "NASA base", and that Lima project occorrued at 2079 (even plus 29 years on the future), I think the film is at the year 2108
Visuals were great and the battle on the moon was okay I guess. I can’t believe how people acted like that was normal. Like after that moon battle they got back on the station and were like Welp onto the next one! I was like wtf?? I think I related to him trying to hold onto his father that clearly didn’t want to go home, or be a father or a husband; he had no interest. And no matter what his son did, there was no way he would go back. Now as far as the whole story...and how Pitt’s character got away with those deaths, yes manslaughter but still that was like eh....what? Did he think he would get on board and everybody would be happy to go rescue his dad? Bruh...no! To people who are comparing this to Instellar, that movie also had many unrealistic moments. Pitt’s surfboarding through Neptune’s orbit was no different than Mcconaughey surviving a fall through a black hole! Both ridiculous but it’s science fiction so lighten up!
I think what he did may be argued that his take over of the rocket was necessary to save the planet remember that he has first hand experience that can be confirmed by the ship that the current captain was unfit to complete the mission. The older guy who went with Roy certainly didn't take the death in front of him very well, it may have stressed him to death flaring other pre-existing conditions. You can call it cheap but Roy is extremely cool headed and had 0 real connection to the people who died and he had what looked like an entire crew of friends die in the first scene so if he wasn't numb already which you can see he is as he walks out the door, he will be after their death. You can see the effect the baboon death had on the crew who knew him with the new captain not being able to land the craft how they got to fly it again is beyond me. Also that going through Neptune's ring was laughable since that equivalent to being pelted by thousands of bullets with a piece of metal as his only defense that somehow perfectly covered him.
everyone has missed the WHOLE point. It lies in one word that we miss because we think it is a directive, a simple instruction to the recording computer at movie's end, but no. Pitt, after finishing his final statement and hesitating, is not just telling the recording computer to submit his statement report, he is telling the audience, humanity, every individual that the answer to all of this great mystery is simple and pure: Submit. Just SUBMIT.
Spoilerific question here .... How it is possible Roy overcame gravity to reach the ship he used at the end?! Shouldn’t he have been pulled towards the planet while trying to pass through the ring layer?
It's like Space Odyssey without the mysterious Monolith, Interstellar without the artificially built wormhole, or Sphere without the time traveling spaceship and the mystical sphere it carried.
The conclusion was played out so strangely to me; Roy enters the satellite and instantly sees corpses, then his father emerges in a weirdly sedate manor, the two talk quite passively, there’s a warm soft echo on their voices, making it feel somewhat fantastical. Considering Roy had just spent the last several weeks isolated and deteriorating mentally, I honestly convinced myself Cliff was actually dead, another of the floating corpses, the dialogue of their conversation was so blatant, self defeating , it came across more like all the things Roy had wished he could say to his father, or perhaps all the things he wished his father had said to him. I was waiting for the reveal that Roy was in fact talking to a corpse, but ultimately this wasn’t the case...
People seem to complain about how Brad Pitt just had daddy issues. His character goes beyond just having daddy issues. Roy obviously is dealing with a severe form of depression. He's self destructive, only caring about the things he deems worthy while ignoring the people who loves him the most. However, he's deadly afraid of this since he recognizes the same traits in his own father, who'd chosen to throw away everything for the sake of his endeavor to find intelligent life among the stars. After finding out that his father might still be alive, Roy engages in the same behavior and leaves everything behind to find his father. But throughout the trip, he starts to doubt his decisions as his decisions had lead to many tragedies. By the end, Roy finds his father and tries to bring him home. His father then tells him that he never cared about him and Earth as the only important thing to his father were "bigger things". With a drop of tear rolling down his eye, Roy simply replies: "I know dad". His father seems to comply at first but then decides to end his life as he believes that he's a failure and there's nothing left for him. Roy grants his father's wish because he understood his father. Although struggling a bit, Roy eventually found the will to go back home as he realizes that he's been wrong this whole time. His father, although found a lot of beautiful planets, was too focused on the life that wasn't there instead of focusing on what was right in front of him. Roy realizes that now and, through that, found the strength to return home; to right all the wrongs he's done to the people who loves him, therefore, completing his arc. So yeah. Quite real actually.
Beautiful summary. I wish so much of this didn't seemingly go over peoples' heads, but it seems most people aren't used to storytelling that uses the places and events to thematically and metaphorically tell a story about the character, as opposed to characters mostly just being there so the events can happen. This is a film about a person and his personal, emotional journey, and absolutely everything that happens exists to tell that story, no the other way around.
here`s a hint: you didn`t miss much. for a really good science fiction movie during which you definitely won`t sleep, watch "arrival" instead: brilliant!
@@Unnanymous wow... Then you didnt get the movie at ALL... It was SO deep. So filled with feelings and thoughts. And the whole aura was just so... Im speachless
I actually loved the movie. If you go into the theatre expecting this movie to be an action thiller you will probably be disappointed. Also not every movie has to have some plot twist in the end. Sometimes things are as simple as human error.
@@holeindanssock156 if u talk about flaws, my man went directly from Neptune to Earth. It makes absolutely 0 logistical sense especially when they have a base on Mars. Never talked about fuel, didn't even mention the space baboons to anyone, went through Neptune's ring with a piece of metal. I mean the movie kinda sucked story wise but the visuals were fantastic and it was mesmerizing to look at.
Just saw it last night. The impression I took away from it is a watered down version of Apocalypse Now set in space. Slow burning, beautiful cinematography. Captures the grim emptiness of space very well. Not for everyone. Would rate 7/10. Best performance I’ve ever seen of Brad Pitt by the way.
The baboon scene added the rage of beings forced into situations for the good of mankind. The rage that Roy also felt. The moon pirates indicate the violence and lengths people go for moon resources, it shows how divided mankind is when presented with new unclaimed territory with resources. They both show faces of mankind, faces in which Roy sees himself.
Can anybody explain the light that was going across space after Brad let go of his father. For a moment I thought his father was right and there was other life in space.
Michael Benedetti Can someone please explain how Roy and Clifford were originally going to return to the Cepheus??? This is a bit of a plot hole, is it not? Cliffords pod was damaged/discarded, and there seemed to be no plan for them to get back, even before the father son “struggle” and then Clifford managing to use that piece of the ship as a shield from the rings... If anyone has an explanation, I’d really appreciate it! 😀
@@pears0094 Remember the spinning part, presumably some kind of radar? It's implied that both were to be flung back to the ship. You can see Roy (Brad Pitt) looking at it in a way to measure the rotational speed. I bet the writers thought Roy would use the rope attached to his father, to catch onto pole or something. As for going through the rings, well, I expect both would use the radar??? housing as a shield like Roy did (which made no sense).
Trailers set the wrong expectations. People went in expecting an adventure set in space, not a character study. This film is geared towards a specific audience, but marketed as being for everyone. Big mistake by the studio because I think it will hurt the movie in the long run. They should have showed more faith in the materiel and not show the moon chase or the space monkey to make it look exciting.
I usually eat this kind of movie up... but I just didn't give a shit about anything that was happening at all. also, the space baboons and things like astronauts getting out of their seats to shoot guns in the middle of a launch were just ridiculous.
Lol space babboons and climbing up a rocket as it’s about to take off also space battle?! No explanation no true sign of any conflict before other than the first scene which coulda been an attack but they went a different route but like space battle. Then ok we’re just gonna move on. That space battle is probably one of the dumbest scenes in movie history. Other than those three fuckerys it was an okay movie i give it a 4//10
In many ways, he resembled his own father even though he said he's not his father. His father idolized alien life and even killed people to find it. Just as the main character idolized his father, or rather the pursuit of his father and of the truth, and finding closure. In both scenarios people died in the process. His father had so much Beauty in his findings but only looked for alien life which wasn't there, and more than that he had a wife and son to care for, yet even as his son was right in front of him he committed suicide at the ultimate realization that he failed his mission. Just as the main character has so much to care about and to Love on Earth that he has been ignoring because of the damage that his father caused him when he vanished, and the pursuit of his father or what his father would have wanted. But now that he has closure, now that his father is dead, he proves that he's not like his father by accepting the loss and focusing on what's more important back home, whereas his father remained in space, ignoring his son and wife, and choosing to kill himself then to come back home.
Could've recorded the message from earth to send to mars and sent to neptune. Didn't need space pirates. Didn't need the distress call. Didn't need the short haired mars lady. Right there I took out 30 to 35 min out for a smoother and less dragged out experience. P.S. don't wildly shoot a gun in a spaceship, bro.🙄 4/10 looked pretty but pretty dull. Check mate, mate.
Might as well just throw out the whole ambience and insanity the movie was built around... it wanted you to pull your hair out for it. And your comment proved it
I don't get why in this movie they expect him to be some kind of robot that can't show emotion. Like is that some kind of requirement of being an astronaut? That part just doesn't make sense.
This was such an amazing movie... In time it will be a classic... The audiences these days are ruined by Marvel movies,... feel bad this movie is not getting the recognition it actually deserves ...
I was hoping that when the nuke went off his ship went the opposite way of earth pushing him farther into space past Pluto maybe to one of the planets his dad had found. Then when he landed instead of earth it was a new unknown planet that had similar conditions as earth and instead of humans that got him out of the ship they were aliens of some sort. I just wish there had been some kind of alien contact in this film fam is that too much to ask for shit
Probably a good ending but the premise of the movie as I understand it is that we're all alone in the universe and have to work together to solve our problems...in other words we're screwed.
Yes to what Andrew said... “other planets” orbit other suns/stars... the nearest star to our solar system is nowhere near us... there are no other planets in our solar system other than the dwarf planets they are still discovering... that’s not what LIMA was discovering
I honestly think the movie was intended as a pan-faced comedy. Seriously, Brad Pitt playing an emo boy and speaking with one-liners for the whole duration of the movie is hilarious. ("The are using me. Bastards." - says he, referring to the SpaceCom that sent him to _save_humanity_. LOL).
I like AD ASTRA a lot but I think it's silly to journey to edge of the solar system only to conclude that no intelligent life exists. We're just not technologically capable or collectively mature enough to find it yet. We've just gotten out of the cradle, we're not yet ready to open the front door and explore the neighborhood. That was the part of the movie that rang a bit hollow to me: that Clifford McBride (Tommy Lee Jones), being an intelligent and rational scientist wouldn't come to that conclusion and use that to stay sane. Our solar system is just an infinitesimal speck in All That Is. I can only imagine that spending so much time in a great empty void just broke him down psychologically and he gave in to space madness. Who knows how anyone would react to being so far from Earth? I do think AD ASTRA is a public service message to the world that space is about to be open for business. It's not so much about entertainment as it exists to inspire future scientists and astronauts and to stir thought as to how humanity will live in the void.
You do realize that this is a sci-fi movie right and that the technology in the movies is far more advanced. Also, I'd like to see you kill your friends and then be by yourself in a space capsule in the middle of nowhere for 16 years and not go crazy.
@@georgecolina326 Yes, I DO realize AD ASTRA is a movie. And my previous comment even acknowledges that Tommy Lee's character's actions can be psychologically affected by the crushing loneliness of his location in space so far from other human beings. But my question, as I was watching the movie, still stands. I think parking a ship on the edge of the solar system and expecting to find extraterrestrial life across billions of stars is a fruitless endeavor when we have so many other challenges to solve, let alone wondering if we're alone in the cosmos. If, for instance, Clifford McBride had failed in implementing a new form of FTL propulsion or something similar, I could have accepted that a bit more readily. But searching space for life, I think, is far too big and, given the size of the galaxy, would take, I believe, decades or generations, not just a few years. It's like dropping your car keys into the Grand Canyon at night and trying to find them with a flashlight. It's akin to evangelists claiming to know the will of an all-encompassing God when humans themselves haven't even learned to care for each other. We are too small and primitive, as evidenced by mercenaries killing each other on the Moon. What advanced race would want to deal with us? Unless they're as warlike as us and would kill us to make way for an interstellar bypass... But, being a philosophical movie, searching for cosmic brethren does make sense in the context of relationships. I just don't think we'll find them like Clifford tried to. Besides, If UFO believers are right, then the ETs are already here on Earth with us (sarcasm). I'm criticizing the movie as a work of fiction, not as a real event. Why would you assume that I am? All I'm saying is that it didn't buy that of the story. Otherwise, I liked the movie.
I just came from the theater, seeing this movie. It had me up until it suggested that exploring space and possible life was pointless. Actually suggesting that we're alone. A conclusion that no species could possibly know given how little that species - like us - have actually attempted to explore outer space. We've gone no further than the Moon in our manned missions. Gray's comment clearly shows he took his opinion on intelligent life and shoe-horned it into the story. Taking a story about the relationship between a father and son, and turning it into, "Don't bother looking, there's nothing to see". Something I'd expect from the makers of the ultra-religious, "Left Behind". No matter. The movie was a long-winded, billion mile long story about nothing we haven't seen before.
Did anyone else notice the symbology in Mars ? The odd looking woman at the "Mars reception" the scribble on the wall next to the guard, the bird cage and the two dolls ?
This movie was awful, and left me with the same eternal question humans have had forever, which is “what’s the point of it all”? What the hell was the point of this 2.5 hour slog of a movie? That you don’t HAVE to turn into your toxic parent? That you shouldn’t become a workaholic? That you should spend time with loved ones? Outside of those things “which we already know”, the movie was pointless. His father was THAT obsessed with finding alien life that he killed his crew, and stayed in deep space alone for like 25 years, then just lets his son blow up the ship with zero resistance? Why exactly did he kill himself? Shame? Fear of punishment? Considered space to be “home”? How did Roy’s ship survive an unstoppable shock wave from a nuclear explosion in space, considering we hear that pulses get more intense as they travel through space? This movie was just pointless, and Brad Pitt should personally hand out refunds.
Only unrealistic part about the movie was the moon rovers having 0 armor and being open top anyone with a brain would have armored the crap out of that thing but no they had to make it nostalgic
I was very hopeful for this movie. Unfortunately i found plot holes large enough to drive a space shuttle through. Some of the bigger ones are 1) we have all this amazing technology in this film yet detecting enemies on the lunar surface proved too difficult. 2) Brqd was basically walked out of his room, met with someone who had all these answers, and no one even knew he was gone until he boarded the ship. For auch a top secret a vital mission it seems he qouod have been more heavily guarded. 3) the monkey station sent out a mayday...but apparently you have to be within a mile of the station to get it. Weird. I loved the vision of things to come though. Not far fetched like the space movies of the late 20th century and more in line with "2001". Ill think about it some more but was a little disappointed.
Greg you forgot the main plot hole, the fact he HAS TO. GO TO MARS, but if mars was getting communications from earth, why not just recorded his message in spacecom and send it to mars and from there to neptune....even on his trip to neptune he has communications, so much he has to turn it off
@@carlospaniagua405 you know that was ghe first thing i thought of. Surely we have the tech to mimic his voice. I guess they were hoping for the emotional side to come out.
I guess it’s because Earth’s Comms were destroyed by the pulse too. Remember, the Mars base was spared because it was underground and probably on the far side of the sun from Neptune
this film was a bore. Its not really a space film. Its a story about being apathetic about life and then realizing that life is better when u care about people. Like I said, boring. Beautifully shot film though. Otherwise, not worth 2 hours of your life. Not even better than Rocket Man, when it comes to space films.
Luckily I went it knowing it wasent gonna be an epic blockbuster space film, however as a pure space fan I did enjoy seeing our solar system planets on the big screen, graphics were superb. Trailer is a little misleading tho
Too bad that the only good performance came from Brad Pitt. And as far as explained the ending, Roy was already worn out and distressed because of his loneliness and after he fell from the space ladder in the beginning, he was broken and the rest of the movie was his imagination trying to reconcile his past and his disillusionment. You see he is in the bed after his falling to earth again at the end of the movie between his being in uniform and reminiscing, hence all that happened after his fall was fantasy because he was disturbed and longing to hope that his father was not dead.
Actually this was intentional from the directors part. Apparently Bradd crying wasn't in script and he improvised the emotion of the scene, he then went to tell the director that in 0g the tear would float rather than fall.The directior loved the acting so much he left it in as is.
Visually this movie is incredible but that’s about where it stops. This movie isn’t deep at all. It tries very hard to be but it’s actually really straightforward and the “twist” at the end with Tommy Lee Jones is a very underwhelming ending. 2001: A Space Odyssey is still the superior space movie and if you think Interstellar is better than you are *wrong* lmao
I didn't see it. much of the CGI was believable but not extra impressive beyond that. probably europa report and interstellar were the last two movies to get space visuals right. to everyone else it's an art project where they make ridiculous ships that stage in unreal ways and fly with blue plasma clouds. The mars stuff looked good but also the conditioning rooms were basically bed sheets and projectors and it looked unlike a government mars facility, even a run down one as it was supposed to be depicted. One thing it got totally right is the displays. no holograms in sight, just 2D 4x3 or 16x9 flat panel displays, just like we've been using for decades now and will continue to use for probably a couple hundred years.
@Joshua Semer so if someone doesn't like the thing you like, you insult their intelligence? It's not a smart movie. They act like it's deep by slowing down the pace and explain everything point by point and on the nose. He *literally* must let his dad go at the end. It could have been a good movie, but there's just so much fluff and then the point of the movie comes across less as "Appreciate what you have" and more, "We're all alone and can't handle the trip to viable places, so why bother?"
Nah, they covered ir up because he saved the world and didn't want to avoid a scandal. He also explained (and it's on the black box) that he didn't pose a threat.
So it was fine with everyone back home that he high-jacked a ship and indirectly killed the crew as long as he learned the lesson that 'we are all we have, so let's make the most of it'? I suppose technically he saved the planet, but the original crew were going to do that anyway. The families of the dead pilots must have been happy that he got the chance to say goodbye to his dad. The irony of ending up in jail after months in space isolation would not have made a good ending I suppose.
If you could travel to deep space, would you?
@@ChrisBcracker-CBC you're first alright. First to eat horse shit 🐎 💩
Hell yesss I would!!!!
what a waste you are.
Yes
Brad Pitt is Space Antifa...the ends justify the means...he kills the entire Xevious crew even though they have the same mission to save the earth by destroying Lima. This movie is a liberal's wet dream. The patriarchy is villanized by being portrayed as the cold, uncaring father-figure played by Tommy Lee Jones. Brad Pitt is the 'heroic' son who follows his father's footsteps. He is haunted by his own inner termoil and has full-on conversations with himself in his own head for more than half the movie. Space travel/exploration is portrayed as an ultimate waste of time and resources as there is 'nothing out there.' The movie is as spiritually empty and morally indifferent as Pitts' character as he enjoys the rest of his life with his wife on earth and no longer needing or wanting to explore. The End.
I assume the space apes where there to show what happens to animals if there too far away from earth. foreshadowing what happened with his farther
Baboons are basically like that on Earth too. Decompression doesn't make things turn inside out btw.
They’re* 🤦🏻♂️
@@dshehny well done, here's a cookie 🍪
@@dshehny if you're going to correct someone on grammar which is annoying as hell as this isn't English 101 at least do it right. Were*, they're*, they're*, Earth*, Foreshadowing*, father* although, farther works as a pun.
Maybe
I WANT TO KNOW MORE ABOUT THE SPACE BABOONS AND THE CONFLICT ON THE MOON DAMMIT!!!
Obviously Norwegians revert back to baboons in space
A conflict on the moon is for Helium- H3 obviously. Also;
Silicon. ...
Rare Earths. ...
Titanium. ...
Aluminum. ...
Water. ...
Precious Metals. ...
Helium-3.
@@Mars2152 helium 3?
what was even the purpose of that sequence anyway?
Yup would have made for a much better film....
I thought it was a beautiful close. A man abandons his humanity and everything in a search for life far away that doesn’t exist, and in turn, his son is left wanting and he travels to Neptune for a father that doesn’t exist. The father couldn’t turn back, but the son could, and stopped running from his humanity. All throughout the movie shows how dangerous and difficult space travel is. I ultimately don’t agree with the movies message about space exploration, but I do love it’s human message.
I like your interpretation - too bad the movie is a filet Mignon in a moldy tortilla.
I dont agree with Pitt killing off all his multicultural crew members in order to essentially do what they could have easily done, in order to preserve his and his fathers legacy...minus all the murders they both committed.
Brad Pitt is Space Antifa...he murders the entire crew of the Xevious, even though they have the same mission to save the earth...'the ends justify the means.'
CoryL I think we’re supposed to disagree with that because that is part of him the resembles his father. His detachment from human life for the sake of his mission is the thing he has to overcome.
Rui clearly...but that’s not going to fly with a judge
I love that Brad Pitt is back in business. He was laying low too long, we need him more on the big screen. Loved the performance, still my favourite actor.
He was so good in "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood"
You can say that again!
His dad went to the outer edge of the universe and never came back. My dad went to 7-11 to buy a pack of smokes and never came back.
Rok711 Really sorry for you,.. but if your dad did not pack and leave ,... he probably got killed by someone..
@@beamboy420 ok boomer
Outer edge of the solar system u mean, getting to the outer edge of the Universe is very Long and hard
bruh
It goes, he went for a pack of cigarettes and a lottery ticket.... and never came back.
This movie was depressing as hell, but really good. Kind of like a space drama.
I recommend you watch Moon (2009). It is also a really good space drama and it is similar to this movie in tone. It also has good soundtrack.
@@dancan4949 thanks!
@@dancan4949 Moon is more seated in reality where ad astra is an analogy for a man's journey/quest to rediscover himself. Hence the stupendous journey to moon/mars/neptune, it's a long journey and one can only make it himself (everyone who travels with him, dies)
Dan Can moon is so good
@HenryRide same thing I was saying watching the movie lol I started to get sad asf, I only liked the space scenes other than that they could of done better with movie (not change it but the meaning and vibes of it)
So now we know what tommy Lee Jones was Doing all those years after space cowboys
Nah he didn't exist for a while, he was part of the MIB. He went to space after he retired 😉
XDXD
I was just eating with him yesterday here in san antonio he is a good guy but can get grumpy if you ask him about movies etc lol.
So funny.....
I think one of the key moments in the movie was when Pitt's character made the decision to return to his ship and try to get home. I wonder if in that moment he realized that if he gave up and floated away, he'd have become what his father became. The best way to "honor" his father's work, in a sense, was to go back home and connect with the wife that he'd distanced himself from -- since, as his father had discovered, "we're all we've got."
I wanted a space movie and they gave me a space movie. I would have loved more moon pirate battles but I’m still amazed by the fact they avoided Uranus the whole movie.
Mykil47 I know right wtf
From the trailer I was hoping it was full of moon combat. I could have turned it off after that. How does one simply stow away up the backside of a launching rocket? Why would a crew leave their posts to fight a stowaway DURING A LAUNCH? How long did it take Brad to get back from Uranus? This movie hurt my head.
You noticed that too? It's like they were scared of saying the word "Uranus" or something!
A86 Brad went up the rings of Uranus lol
Thats is not only in this movie, Uranus is also avoided to be mentioned by name on the whole academic and scientific community exactly for the reason its name sounds funny, curious isnt?
Roy McBride: “He could only see what was not there and miss what was right in front of him.”
Haha reminds me to appreciate and cherish what I have, not coveting what belongs to others!
video should be called "explaining the whole movie"
A good movie should lead to interesting discussion, not ask for explanation
Actually, this movie should be called, explaining the whole movie.
Brad Pitt couldn't shut up narrating the whole damn time.
Glad I never saw the film.
Lucas Ward Wish I hadn’t, my life feels worse for it...
Hahaha!
The movie expressed the trauma of abandonment and of inward disconnection. In search of life, because he could not find life around him, Roy's father traveled the void of space. He was unable to see life in the eyes of his wife and son, who he abandoned. Traumatized by this, Roy carried the "sin" of his father; but the sin is just an expression of the initial trauma, and so after inheriting his father's abandonment trauma, he too abandoned his wife and humanity. This forms the basis of attachment to objects that represent absence. We chase them into the darkness on a path of self-destruction. The theme of the movie was also that of becoming machine like in order to fulfill the cold objectives of modern society. But his humanity, which he ran away from, was slowly unveiling itself. When he came face to face with his father, who expressed that he did not love his son, Roy says he knows, and says that he still loves him while a single tear emerges. Embracing his humanity and his frailty, his sadness and his pain, the tragic story of the son who kills the father was transformed into the tragic story of the son who tries to save his father; in that sense, he does kill the father, but it was the old father who his whole life has been trapped in his own attachments. "Let me go, son." were the final words, as attachments were severed.
lol your talking complete shite!
@@nickhay1822 You're* quite inquisitive and add so much to the above comment, don't you? ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
This comment it better than the video
Will Camacho yes. People aren’t intelligent enough to examine the questions this film seeks to answer.
Bravo! This answer is beautiful and so was the movie. Your comment is 100% correct.
So we're going to ignore the space baboons.
I agree the CGI was kind of bad, but I liked the moral dilemma it generates (staying truthful to the mission as his dad wich led to de death of many, or doing things differently, which eventually leads to a grizzly death)
That was freaky. Probably shouldn't bring animals that big up into space.
@@thenewadventuresofhenry6998 yeah part of me was wondering what kinda experiments were done on those animals to make them extra savage
@@tefosemanate9514 how was the cgi bad -_- you do the cgi then, you ungrateful dickhead
@@misfitsBP18 wow ... emotionally invested enough to insult total strangers based on the sharing of a casual opinion. That's kinda sad dude.
This movie is a masterpiece. Sadly nowadays people consider this movie as “boring”. Don’t expect an action movie. It’s a bit slow, but never boring. It has very original ideas in it and it has beautiful cinematography and effects. Imagine 2001 would come out today. Everyone would call it boring....yeah well ad astra is one of these movies
2001 had plot, characters and ideas.. this really didn't. So many plot holes, bad (really bad) science and poor pacing sets it so far below 2001 that SK is slightly spinning somewhere.
Lmao a movie can be slow and look pretty but there has to be some sort of payoff in the end. This literally has none.
Not a masterpiece. Too much fake Oscar bait in it. Interstellar is way better.
@Orpheus Seven ok - plot hole - Why did the military need Brad Pitt at all? They knew where the Father was - they knew there was an imminent threat from the surge - why not send military ships? Why drive buggies across the lunar landscape? In 2001 - they even had flying (non air of course) craft.. why not here - oh because without it - there wouldn't be a contrived attack by pirates.. that were trying to steal what exactly? Their buggies? It only takes 4 months to reach Neptune but they wait over 20 years to look for the Lima expedition (despite knowing that it is the most likely source of the 'surge' which is killing people). No consequence for Brad Pitt when he returns to Earth for commandeering the Neptune bound ship and killing its crew. Why did the military have to use civilian ships? Just to allow the contrived circumstances for Brad to make it alone. What would have happened in the story if he had failed his psych eval on the way to Mars. Shouldn't that come before he's off on a 19 day trip? Bad science - ships kept in gravity wells, no gravity effects when on the moon or Mars, zero g while accelerating, a research ship with full size baboons in the space between Earth and Mars and not in orbit that their ship can just stop by to visit, how convenient that all the planets were in alignment so we'd the audience could see every planet. Brad Pitt jumping off from his Father's ship to intercept his own ship that was clearly miles away while using a shield to deflect ring debris without decelerating or being deviated from his course. Characters - were there any? Besides staring with a blank expression and the droning narration - what can you say about Brad Pitt's character.. was he broken up about the deaths he caused? Did he actually miss Liv Tyler? Why did Ruth Negga's character help him? What was her motivation? Overall it's a meh film; but to say it's a 'masterpiece' is a real stretch.
@@Amazingsloth well put. This was no masterpiece. It was obvious that the director didn't have a concise vision for what they were trying to portray. Pretty sure they were just banking on making it seem weird and drawn out, in hopes that normal people will think they are not smart enough to understand it, and then praise it as a masterpiece. Positives - cinematography and music. However, the music ended up being used far too much and starting becoming really annoying. Overall, it was a pretty shoddy project. Certainly doesn't deserve the praise it is getting, and tbh I wouldn't recommend this movie to anybody
Wow perfect timing, just came home from the theater.
What did you think? I saw it earlier today.
Movie was ok in some respects, straight butt cheeks in other respects. But at the very least....it’s a story that doesn’t need to be told.
@@JBoogie1977 I liked it, its beautiful but very slow. I heard people say there is no payoff but I like the message
I thought it was slow AF and besides the moon chase there was very little action. The Space Baboons part just lost me. This Looper video has me thinking about the message, but during the movie I couldn't care less.
@@Ephemeral82 exactly. The whole time I was waiting for something to happen. But nothing did. Lol.
Brad Pitt traveled to space as an emotional broken man, returned back whole
The Musical score was brilliant. The music behind these scenes were amazing.
OneShot_PACATT I agree. Stunning music
I just watched Interstellar (One of the best Science Movies of our time) for the 5th time (yes, I DID not use the word Science Fiction). So the musical score of Ad Astra was just mediocre.... Just like the film itself.
Moses S' Nyein Chan Tha we all know what interstellar is and how groundbreaking it was.
@@mosesmarks Interstellar was at times pretty spectacular. But it was a jab at people who believe in a higher power. Right in the beginning it takes a jab at the biblical reference of Eden: We are not caretakers (like Adam in the garden) but pioneers (Nimrod the hunter - builder of cities and carver of his own destiny). That pioneering spirit is kind of what drives cooper into actually becoming a "god" or supernatural being himself (in a sci-fi kinda way) - the poltergeist thing. It's deep, but for me, for all the wrong reasons - and I like the movie because of that. It helped me figure out my place in the world. I don't want to be cooper or be part of that world view.
Ad Astra helped me in another way. It kind of helped me get back to living now. Like the biblical reference of not worrying about tomorrow but living for the day. The people you love and the things I can value today. My personal search for meaning has had a bitter and almost nihilistic end because I can find no meaning in the world. Everything I did, all the good and bad in my life has no meaning because death is waiting. I have reached as far as I can in my abilities for answers and it has left me desolate and alone. Ad astra in a weird sci-fi way made me wonder if I didn't miss something. There was no jab at a higher power nor some preachy finger pointing. But one thing I admired about Roy was he had a purpose and he went with it. But he was no savior, no hero in the normal sense of the word. He was a man who went to ends of the world and came back defeated but with new purpose. Classic. And I don't care what people say - I love moon pirates.
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Everybody talking about Brad, but I also thought this was Tommy Lee Jones's best work in years. Solid acting from all.
What? 15 minutes of nothingness
True...true
What a scary thing an obession are!
Either we are alone or we are not, both outcomes are equally terrifying.
Couldn't agree more.
Also terrifying is the fact that every single baby being born is handed, at the same time, a de facto death certificate by nature. A birth certificate and a death certificate. Only we choose not to see the latter one.
@@LV-426... wow. That was deep.
Guy who's bad at relationships, goes on a space adventure to deal with his daddy issues. - Ad Astra badly explained
Cristian Montellano it is though
Yeah... Was not expecting more science and space stuff and less emotional crap, it felt like chick movie.
Perfectly explained, I'd say
The message is not complicated. The son longed to reconnect with his father and it occupied his mind, preventing him from leading an emotionally fulfilling life. His overt focus on work was no doubt motivated by feeling obligated somewhat to his father's memory and legacy. Upon meeting his father, he realized he idolized him too much and that his father didn't really care about him the same way. So the son decided to leave the father, close this chapter of his life and move on to more fullfilling tomorrows.
It's a very universal message. People who are on way or another abandoned by their parents feel something missing and want to reconnect or regain their initial relationship with their parents. They often don't realize the initial relationship was maybe just in their head all along, that they're chasing some idealized version of their parents that never existed.
Great movie about human connection and what happens when you can’t appreciate what you have around you in favor of compulsively seeking for more.
Phenomenal summary in just a single sentence. I wish the themes didn't escape so many people.
It was that comment "Were all we got" which allowed Roy to change his mindset in his failing marriage. He returned home, smiling to see his wife, realizing that life here on earth was much, much more important than he realized.
I still think that they showed aliens in this film. Roy was looking away when he saw a large bright blue light shining very far away when he had to kick his father off and hang around a spot for awhile. The film basically tells the viewer that Clifford found tons of new planets that might contained life, and when he was let loose by Roy, making him finally feel emotional about what happened and starts screaming, the light shines upon him, giving him the courage and energy to not give up, but that light, are the aliens to me. That was the moment he changed from stonecold like his father, to the loving kind man. So yeah, that's what I got out of it.
That light was from Roy's ship Cepheus😑
@@NIKRdoke There were other lights but one large one very far away in a different direction. I don't think that was the ship
@@GaiaLegend In one shot they do show a blue dot which is the earth as seen from Neptune. I guess they were trying to visualise Carl Sagan's words that "Earth is just a blue dot in space."(These aren't the exact words he used). That is what you maybe referring to I guess.
@@NIKRdoke Alright, well, if I was wrong then I apologize for it. I do like the movie and I do feel it has some deeper meaning though.
@@GaiaLegend it is for us to interpret as deep as we possibly can
No space movie will top interstellar in my opinion but gonna go see this tomorrow
It's a good movie but doesn't top it
@@WilliamsWrestlin it's better than interstellar
It‘s *much* better than Interstellar
DO NOT go into this movie expecting anything like interstellar. It’s a family pursuit drama with a tad of mystery that just so happens to be set in space. Still worth a watch.
Angelo Avetti thanks I appreciate your honesty
It was actually an amazing watch. The visuals were just as breathtaking as Interstellar and The Martian.
many of the visuals were amazing looking but were depicting ridiculous stuff so it took me out of it. when his dad is floating away and then for some reason screams, i laughed. the pacing was off it seemed. why did he accelerate into the boulder ring around neptune? he didn't hit the first rocks very hard, yet they keep hitting him harder and harder and then he hits the ship going way too fast. what was accelerating him the whole time? his rocket pack? why did he overshoot so goddamn much?
Chrismofer that was Roy screaming not his father.
@@jacobf7409 Is that right? i was laughing too hard to tell
The visuals and score was the only thing going for it. The symbolism was like that of a beginning film maker. When his Father told him he needed to let him go I was seriously cringing. This was billed as something deep but instead we got trite.
How dare you relate this trash to those masterpieces
Does Tommy Lee Jones just play himself in every movie? He never changes his accent attitude character anything. Same as Donald Sutherland he just plays himself in every movie he's in.
Not at all.
Check his performance in Under Siege, or Small soldiers, to name a few.
the space baboons had absolutely nothing to do with the plot. I was a "how do we spice up an otherwise dull space journey?" "Space baboons?" "Sold!"
Couldn't agree more. I should have waited for Joker.
@@KiloPage777 how were the baboons a metaphor for Clifford. The baboons were used and experimented on until they went crazy and took over the ship. Clifford on the otherhand became so obsessed with his mission that he would rather let his crew die then abandon the mission and accept that he failed. 2 completely different scenarios.
@@mister0sir where we are with animal training expertise plus considering how much more advanced they are in this movie animals don't just go crazy. The baboons going crazy obviously had something to do with how long they had been away from home. This is the same with Clifford, he'd always been obsessed with his mission of finding ET, why do you think he went to Neptune? The being away drove him to insanity in the form of his mission. Remember he had crew members but they were there for years not hundreds of days like Roy by himself. Also Roy only had a 70 day trip and his defining trait as an astronaut is being level headed and yet he barely survived the trip mentally being driven to the brink. From such a surface level the baboons and Clifford may look like different cases but they are driven by the same thing, a lack of home.
Screen rant / Pitch meeting overdue on this :D
Felt like one long Chanel No5 commercial. Brad and his voice overs.
One of the most unpredictable movies ever.
They sent him to mars to send a transmission because all of the transmitters on earth weren’t working...
It’s just like when the battery dies on your cellphone, so you decide to fly to China to make your phone call.
And that was driving the first 2/3 of the movie...
I thought it had something to do with the fact it was a secure laser transmission. still, one could be sent from earth to mars any time if one could also be sent from mars to neptune.
@@chrismofer Yeah, it seems crazy that Brad Pitt couldn't read his message on Earth, then send that to Mars to be re-transmitted.
The stupidest and most improbable thing ever.
Lmao if Roy would've just left a voicemail on a flash drive, they could've mailed it to mars and transmit that way.
i personally enjoyed the movie and found it very touching. he travelled half across the galaxy to reach the for help for his problems. still the problems inside his laied even deeper... comparing these distances: universe and once own feelings really touched me.. hope you got the message, sorry for my bad english
I gotta say I didn’t think the movie was that great but it definitely made me feel things. I’ve had a rocky relationship with my father and watching it made me pretty sad honestly.
I watched Ad Astra yesterday I thought it was a great movie.I'm a big fan of space exploration movies,I thought it was so cool Brad Pitt went from Earth to the Moon to Mars,he went pass Jupiter,he went pass Saturn,ending up at Neptune was so cool...
Yeah, but this is pointless.
No it wasn’t? He had to go to the Mars to sent a message to Neptune, because earth is too far away from it. Space X (I believe they‘re called that way) wanted to use Brad Pitt to send the message, so the father can trust them. Space X‘s plan is to kill the father, but Brad Pitt didn’t know anything of the plan. So...no it wasn’t pointless to go to the Mars at all.
I know you‘re german btw (because I saw you at this german movie channel CSB) and the movie has a clear message about God and humanity. In germany 95% people don’t believe in god at all. That’s why most people won’t get the message or will find this movie weird and boring.
And I know what I‘m talking about, because I‘m german myself
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I agree with you. The main message I took away from the movie is that some things just aren’t worth pursuing. And if they are, at what cost?
"Ad Astra" sounds better than Daddy Issues In Space
My question is how did Roy travel so fast from moon to mars and then to Neptune? Whereas it seemed like the father got there after decades. What were the space apes? And those killers /people at the moon?
Because the technology advanced in 16 years my guy so it took less time to make the trip in the moment than it took 29 years ago.
@@georgecolina326 but then, how the hell roy has the same space suit with his father?
@@DrManhattan8472 no the announcer states that the asteroids are mining zones and mining in the wrong zone is an act of war
@@binbin6878
A space suit is a space suit. Not really much that would change, despite technology.
However, major technological advancements could definitely improve space craft.
Making a ship able to reach somewhere faster > a space suit looking the same.
@@Memento--Mori what did Clifford ate all this time while he was on space
if you think that all there is to the possibility of alien life, that it's green men either saving us or eating us, then no wonder this movie didn't go so well
There's nothing out there, we are all we have!
cybermavrik k
Do you really think humans would be able to run earth without destroying it without alien help? Thankfully.we aren’t all we have
we're gonna ignore the moving light he saw on neptune?
The only people who need an explanation are marvel fans
They must also be the same marvel fans that think every marvel movie needs an Oscar
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This was a really good but very slow film. It was not at all what I thought it was going to be. This is not a sci fi actioner, It's a very melancholic and personal story wearing the disguise of a blockbuster. I found it to be really touching by the end, It's a film about letting go and finding closure to move on. Beautiful movie, and 2 of the best performances of the year from Brad Pitt. Also, Max Richter's score is stunning, would expect nothing less from the man who composed "On The Nature of Daylight".
For me, the beauty and majesty and loneliness of Neptune made up for the shortcomings of the film. The scene of passing through the rings is just fantastic. Throughout the film I kept on asking myself though, what year could this feasibly be? I thought it would have to be at least 300 years into the future, with so many countries and bases spread through the moon and the entire solar system. What do you guys think?
Looking at the birth date on Clifford's poster at "NASA base", and that Lima project occorrued at 2079 (even plus 29 years on the future), I think the film is at the year 2108
Dont spend your lives obsessing about parents or relatives who in reality 'may' not give a damn about you - AD Astra
Visuals were great and the battle on the moon was okay I guess. I can’t believe how people acted like that was normal. Like after that moon battle they got back on the station and were like Welp onto the next one! I was like wtf??
I think I related to him trying to hold onto his father that clearly didn’t want to go home, or be a father or a husband; he had no interest. And no matter what his son did, there was no way he would go back.
Now as far as the whole story...and how Pitt’s character got away with those deaths, yes manslaughter but still that was like eh....what? Did he think he would get on board and everybody would be happy to go rescue his dad? Bruh...no!
To people who are comparing this to Instellar, that movie also had many unrealistic moments. Pitt’s surfboarding through Neptune’s orbit was no different than Mcconaughey surviving a fall through a black hole! Both ridiculous but it’s science fiction so lighten up!
I think what he did may be argued that his take over of the rocket was necessary to save the planet remember that he has first hand experience that can be confirmed by the ship that the current captain was unfit to complete the mission. The older guy who went with Roy certainly didn't take the death in front of him very well, it may have stressed him to death flaring other pre-existing conditions. You can call it cheap but Roy is extremely cool headed and had 0 real connection to the people who died and he had what looked like an entire crew of friends die in the first scene so if he wasn't numb already which you can see he is as he walks out the door, he will be after their death. You can see the effect the baboon death had on the crew who knew him with the new captain not being able to land the craft how they got to fly it again is beyond me. Also that going through Neptune's ring was laughable since that equivalent to being pelted by thousands of bullets with a piece of metal as his only defense that somehow perfectly covered him.
everyone has missed the WHOLE point. It lies in one word that we miss because we think it is a directive, a simple instruction to the recording computer at movie's end, but no. Pitt, after finishing his final statement and hesitating, is not just telling the recording computer to submit his statement report, he is telling the audience, humanity, every individual that the answer to all of this great mystery is simple and pure: Submit. Just SUBMIT.
Spoilerific question here .... How it is possible Roy overcame gravity to reach the ship he used at the end?! Shouldn’t he have been pulled towards the planet while trying to pass through the ring layer?
It's like Space Odyssey without the mysterious Monolith, Interstellar without the artificially built wormhole, or Sphere without the time traveling spaceship and the mystical sphere it carried.
Yeah, I am a big Space Movies fan and Ad Astra was a little disappointing, but the delivery and setting was fine.
actually, "ad astra" is pretty much the exact opposite of "2001" in more ways than I can mention!
“Daaaaaaaad would ya stop blowing up the world” the end
The conclusion was played out so strangely to me; Roy enters the satellite and instantly sees corpses, then his father emerges in a weirdly sedate manor, the two talk quite passively, there’s a warm soft echo on their voices, making it feel somewhat fantastical. Considering Roy had just spent the last several weeks isolated and deteriorating mentally, I honestly convinced myself Cliff was actually dead, another of the floating corpses, the dialogue of their conversation was so blatant, self defeating , it came across more like all the things Roy had wished he could say to his father, or perhaps all the things he wished his father had said to him. I was waiting for the reveal that Roy was in fact talking to a corpse, but ultimately this wasn’t the case...
People seem to complain about how Brad Pitt just had daddy issues. His character goes beyond just having daddy issues. Roy obviously is dealing with a severe form of depression. He's self destructive, only caring about the things he deems worthy while ignoring the people who loves him the most. However, he's deadly afraid of this since he recognizes the same traits in his own father, who'd chosen to throw away everything for the sake of his endeavor to find intelligent life among the stars. After finding out that his father might still be alive, Roy engages in the same behavior and leaves everything behind to find his father. But throughout the trip, he starts to doubt his decisions as his decisions had lead to many tragedies. By the end, Roy finds his father and tries to bring him home. His father then tells him that he never cared about him and Earth as the only important thing to his father were "bigger things". With a drop of tear rolling down his eye, Roy simply replies: "I know dad". His father seems to comply at first but then decides to end his life as he believes that he's a failure and there's nothing left for him. Roy grants his father's wish because he understood his father. Although struggling a bit, Roy eventually found the will to go back home as he realizes that he's been wrong this whole time. His father, although found a lot of beautiful planets, was too focused on the life that wasn't there instead of focusing on what was right in front of him. Roy realizes that now and, through that, found the strength to return home; to right all the wrongs he's done to the people who loves him, therefore, completing his arc. So yeah. Quite real actually.
Beautiful summary. I wish so much of this didn't seemingly go over peoples' heads, but it seems most people aren't used to storytelling that uses the places and events to thematically and metaphorically tell a story about the character, as opposed to characters mostly just being there so the events can happen. This is a film about a person and his personal, emotional journey, and absolutely everything that happens exists to tell that story, no the other way around.
It is numerically impossible that their is no other life in the infinite universe.
I don't fall asleep in movie theaters..... But on this one, I had a really good nap.
Not sure WTF was going on.
Hahahahaha SAMEE!! It was so boring😂
That's what i feel
here`s a hint: you didn`t miss much. for a really good science fiction movie during which you definitely won`t sleep, watch "arrival" instead: brilliant!
@@Unnanymous wow... Then you didnt get the movie at ALL... It was SO deep. So filled with feelings and thoughts. And the whole aura was just so... Im speachless
@@donkeyshot8472 she clearly doesnt get deep movies, so why would she like arrival more, when its the same type of "boring" movie?
I actually loved the movie. If you go into the theatre expecting this movie to be an action thiller you will probably be disappointed.
Also not every movie has to have some plot twist in the end. Sometimes things are as simple as human error.
No, I went in thinking it would be a thought provoking movie. Instead it turned out to be a movie TRYING to be a thought provoking movie.
I was hoping your explanation would reveal something I missed. It was a shallow simple silly tale.
Yeah, he also went home and had a coffee....
Killed 3 Astronauts and violated multiple orders... No court Marshall? Huge flaw in script. Huge.
@@holeindanssock156 if u talk about flaws, my man went directly from Neptune to Earth. It makes absolutely 0 logistical sense especially when they have a base on Mars. Never talked about fuel, didn't even mention the space baboons to anyone, went through Neptune's ring with a piece of metal. I mean the movie kinda sucked story wise but the visuals were fantastic and it was mesmerizing to look at.
Just saw it last night. The impression I took away from it is a watered down version of Apocalypse Now set in space. Slow burning, beautiful cinematography. Captures the grim emptiness of space very well. Not for everyone. Would rate 7/10. Best performance I’ve ever seen of Brad Pitt by the way.
Angelo Avetti no fucking way lmao he’s definitely had better roles then this
They still never told us why the power surge was happening or why his dad built it
Platinum Pineapple did you watch the movie it was from the fight the dad had with his copilots.
Toronto Hoodman yes i watched the movie on the thursday premiere
Toronto Hoodman oh ok, so he made a surge becuz the co pilots didnt want one? He ended up killing them all
Platinum Pineapple if i remember correctly it was an accident caused by tommy lee jones killing the rest of the crew and was trying to fix it.
chris cordova so how did the power surge start? by killing the crew? that makes no sense
The baboon scene didn’t add anything. The moon pirates thing was ridiculous as presented although I’m sure it sounded good on paper.
The baboon scene added the rage of beings forced into situations for the good of mankind. The rage that Roy also felt. The moon pirates indicate the violence and lengths people go for moon resources, it shows how divided mankind is when presented with new unclaimed territory with resources. They both show faces of mankind, faces in which Roy sees himself.
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Huppogramus increíble comment
Can anybody explain the light that was going across space after Brad let go of his father. For a moment I thought his father was right and there was other life in space.
Sorry, but this ain't no 2001 : A space Odyssey. That movie was pure brilliance. This one is semi interesting, and pretty well done.
yeah
Really no one is talking about he is having a bad dream from minute one to the last minute
The ending of 'Ad Astra' explained: Colonel Kurtz entices Captain Willard to take over from him, and when rejected chooses ritual suicide.
Michael Benedetti Can someone please explain how Roy and Clifford were originally going to return to the Cepheus??? This is a bit of a plot hole, is it not? Cliffords pod was damaged/discarded, and there seemed to be no plan for them to get back, even before the father son “struggle” and then Clifford managing to use that piece of the ship as a shield from the rings...
If anyone has an explanation, I’d really appreciate it! 😀
It's called "Making it up as I go along"
@@pears0094 Remember the spinning part, presumably some kind of radar? It's implied that both were to be flung back to the ship. You can see Roy (Brad Pitt) looking at it in a way to measure the rotational speed. I bet the writers thought Roy would use the rope attached to his father, to catch onto pole or something. As for going through the rings, well, I expect both would use the radar??? housing as a shield like Roy did (which made no sense).
those who complained this movie is boring probably havent watched 2001 yet.
Interstellar is better than 2001.
@@elitnizmajici4790 how is it better than 2001? tell me.
@@malayneum 2001 is too complex.I always feel lots of emotions when watch Interstellar.
Trailers set the wrong expectations. People went in expecting an adventure set in space, not a character study. This film is geared towards a specific audience, but marketed as being for everyone. Big mistake by the studio because I think it will hurt the movie in the long run. They should have showed more faith in the materiel and not show the moon chase or the space monkey to make it look exciting.
2001 is a master piece, this movie is garbage that's trying to be a space movie.
I usually eat this kind of movie up... but I just didn't give a shit about anything that was happening at all.
also, the space baboons and things like astronauts getting out of their seats to shoot guns in the middle of a launch were just ridiculous.
Sam T Space baboons lol. Yeah this film did not know what it wanted to be. I love these types of movies and it’s a damn shame.
Lol space babboons and climbing up a rocket as it’s about to take off also space battle?! No explanation no true sign of any conflict before other than the first scene which coulda been an attack but they went a different route but like space battle. Then ok we’re just gonna move on. That space battle is probably one of the dumbest scenes in movie history. Other than those three fuckerys it was an okay movie i give it a 4//10
How come no one seems to see that Ad Astra is a near death experience. It is an amazing movie if you go in thinking this.
In many ways, he resembled his own father even though he said he's not his father. His father idolized alien life and even killed people to find it. Just as the main character idolized his father, or rather the pursuit of his father and of the truth, and finding closure. In both scenarios people died in the process. His father had so much Beauty in his findings but only looked for alien life which wasn't there, and more than that he had a wife and son to care for, yet even as his son was right in front of him he committed suicide at the ultimate realization that he failed his mission. Just as the main character has so much to care about and to Love on Earth that he has been ignoring because of the damage that his father caused him when he vanished, and the pursuit of his father or what his father would have wanted. But now that he has closure, now that his father is dead, he proves that he's not like his father by accepting the loss and focusing on what's more important back home, whereas his father remained in space, ignoring his son and wife, and choosing to kill himself then to come back home.
Could've recorded the message from earth to send to mars and sent to neptune. Didn't need space pirates. Didn't need the distress call. Didn't need the short haired mars lady. Right there I took out 30 to 35 min out for a smoother and less dragged out experience.
P.S. don't wildly shoot a gun in a spaceship, bro.🙄 4/10 looked pretty but pretty dull. Check mate, mate.
Might as well just throw out the whole ambience and insanity the movie was built around... it wanted you to pull your hair out for it. And your comment proved it
I don't get why in this movie they expect him to be some kind of robot that can't show emotion. Like is that some kind of requirement of being an astronaut? That part just doesn't make sense.
Excellent performance from brad. This has been his year. An emotional drama
He meets George Clooney from Gravity and the the film turns into a heist ( Oceans 14
I was thinking about him meeting George Clooney while watching the film lol
This was such an amazing movie... In time it will be a classic... The audiences these days are ruined by Marvel movies,... feel bad this movie is not getting the recognition it actually deserves ...
I couldn't agree more, this film was a masterpiece loved everything about it
Has as much chance of being a classic as a Vauxhall Astra
What a pitty they spent more time listing the producers in the closing credits than paying for a dialog track. Because there isn't any.
I was hoping that when the nuke went off his ship went the opposite way of earth pushing him farther into space past Pluto maybe to one of the planets his dad had found. Then when he landed instead of earth it was a new unknown planet that had similar conditions as earth and instead of humans that got him out of the ship they were aliens of some sort. I just wish there had been some kind of alien contact in this film fam is that too much to ask for shit
Don't worry you'll have your space probe soon enough!
That’s a better ending
Now that sounds like something I would watch. Not this snooze fest.
Probably a good ending but the premise of the movie as I understand it is that we're all alone in the universe and have to work together to solve our problems...in other words we're screwed.
Yes to what Andrew said... “other planets” orbit other suns/stars... the nearest star to our solar system is nowhere near us... there are no other planets in our solar system other than the dwarf planets they are still discovering... that’s not what LIMA was discovering
The ending needs explaining because most viewers were sound asleep by then.
What's to explain? It was a very unimaginative and anti-climatic ending.
Sparky Yes!
unfortunately, i must agree with you about that. loved the visuals but the ending fell horribly flat.
Anyone know the name of the background song used in this video? I love it!
Save your money. Worst movie ive ever seen. It will be on Netflix in 2 weeks
Really no one talking about the weird scale of Neptunes ring shown in the movie?
Or the fact that the inverse square rule is apparently inverted, meaning that infinite energy is just around the corner for humanity!
I fell asleep asleep Midway through
ok boomer
I honestly think the movie was intended as a pan-faced comedy. Seriously, Brad Pitt playing an emo boy and speaking with one-liners for the whole duration of the movie is hilarious. ("The are using me. Bastards." - says he, referring to the SpaceCom that sent him to _save_humanity_. LOL).
I was disappointed Actually..
I like AD ASTRA a lot but I think it's silly to journey to edge of the solar system only to conclude that no intelligent life exists. We're just not technologically capable or collectively mature enough to find it yet. We've just gotten out of the cradle, we're not yet ready to open the front door and explore the neighborhood.
That was the part of the movie that rang a bit hollow to me: that Clifford McBride (Tommy Lee Jones), being an intelligent and rational scientist wouldn't come to that conclusion and use that to stay sane. Our solar system is just an infinitesimal speck in All That Is. I can only imagine that spending so much time in a great empty void just broke him down psychologically and he gave in to space madness. Who knows how anyone would react to being so far from Earth?
I do think AD ASTRA is a public service message to the world that space is about to be open for business. It's not so much about entertainment as it exists to inspire future scientists and astronauts and to stir thought as to how humanity will live in the void.
You do realize that this is a sci-fi movie right and that the technology in the movies is far more advanced. Also, I'd like to see you kill your friends and then be by yourself in a space capsule in the middle of nowhere for 16 years and not go crazy.
@@georgecolina326 Yes, I DO realize AD ASTRA is a movie. And my previous comment even acknowledges that Tommy Lee's character's actions can be psychologically affected by the crushing loneliness of his location in space so far from other human beings.
But my question, as I was watching the movie, still stands. I think parking a ship on the edge of the solar system and expecting to find extraterrestrial life across billions of stars is a fruitless endeavor when we have so many other challenges to solve, let alone wondering if we're alone in the cosmos. If, for instance, Clifford McBride had failed in implementing a new form of FTL propulsion or something similar, I could have accepted that a bit more readily. But searching space for life, I think, is far too big and, given the size of the galaxy, would take, I believe, decades or generations, not just a few years. It's like dropping your car keys into the Grand Canyon at night and trying to find them with a flashlight. It's akin to evangelists claiming to know the will of an all-encompassing God when humans themselves haven't even learned to care for each other. We are too small and primitive, as evidenced by mercenaries killing each other on the Moon. What advanced race would want to deal with us? Unless they're as warlike as us and would kill us to make way for an interstellar bypass...
But, being a philosophical movie, searching for cosmic brethren does make sense in the context of relationships. I just don't think we'll find them like Clifford tried to. Besides, If UFO believers are right, then the ETs are already here on Earth with us (sarcasm).
I'm criticizing the movie as a work of fiction, not as a real event. Why would you assume that I am?
All I'm saying is that it didn't buy that of the story. Otherwise, I liked the movie.
I just came from the theater, seeing this movie. It had me up until it suggested that exploring space and possible life was pointless. Actually suggesting that we're alone. A conclusion that no species could possibly know given how little that species - like us - have actually attempted to explore outer space. We've gone no further than the Moon in our manned missions. Gray's comment clearly shows he took his opinion on intelligent life and shoe-horned it into the story. Taking a story about the relationship between a father and son, and turning it into, "Don't bother looking, there's nothing to see". Something I'd expect from the makers of the ultra-religious, "Left Behind". No matter. The movie was a long-winded, billion mile long story about nothing we haven't seen before.
You had me until the inexplicable bit about religion.
Did anyone else notice the symbology in Mars ? The odd looking woman at the "Mars reception" the scribble on the wall next to the guard, the bird cage and the two dolls ?
I wanted to try that yoshinoya at the moon
This movie was awful, and left me with the same eternal question humans have had forever, which is “what’s the point of it all”?
What the hell was the point of this 2.5 hour slog of a movie? That you don’t HAVE to turn into your toxic parent? That you shouldn’t become a workaholic? That you should spend time with loved ones?
Outside of those things “which we already know”, the movie was pointless.
His father was THAT obsessed with finding alien life that he killed his crew, and stayed in deep space alone for like 25 years, then just lets his son blow up the ship with zero resistance?
Why exactly did he kill himself? Shame? Fear of punishment? Considered space to be “home”?
How did Roy’s ship survive an unstoppable shock wave from a nuclear explosion in space, considering we hear that pulses get more intense as they travel through space?
This movie was just pointless, and Brad Pitt should personally hand out refunds.
Why explain this ending? It was an awful movie
Stop hating just because you aren’t intelligent enough to examine the deep and real questions this movie seeks to answer.
@@SoberHighDrunk Ah, a typical dimwit fan of garbage
Only unrealistic part about the movie was the moon rovers having 0 armor and being open top anyone with a brain would have armored the crap out of that thing but no they had to make it nostalgic
I was very hopeful for this movie. Unfortunately i found plot holes large enough to drive a space shuttle through. Some of the bigger ones are 1) we have all this amazing technology in this film yet detecting enemies on the lunar surface proved too difficult. 2) Brqd was basically walked out of his room, met with someone who had all these answers, and no one even knew he was gone until he boarded the ship. For auch a top secret a vital mission it seems he qouod have been more heavily guarded. 3) the monkey station sent out a mayday...but apparently you have to be within a mile of the station to get it. Weird.
I loved the vision of things to come though. Not far fetched like the space movies of the late 20th century and more in line with "2001". Ill think about it some more but was a little disappointed.
Greg you forgot the main plot hole, the fact he HAS TO. GO TO MARS, but if mars was getting communications from earth, why not just recorded his message in spacecom and send it to mars and from there to neptune....even on his trip to neptune he has communications, so much he has to turn it off
@@carlospaniagua405 you know that was ghe first thing i thought of. Surely we have the tech to mimic his voice. I guess they were hoping for the emotional side to come out.
I guess it’s because Earth’s Comms were destroyed by the pulse too. Remember, the Mars base was spared because it was underground and probably on the far side of the sun from Neptune
@@rockomax2732 thou makest me go hmmm
Apocalypse Now meets
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner in space.
this film was a bore. Its not really a space film. Its a story about being apathetic about life and then realizing that life is better when u care about people. Like I said, boring. Beautifully shot film though. Otherwise, not worth 2 hours of your life. Not even better than Rocket Man, when it comes to space films.
Luckily I went it knowing it wasent gonna be an epic blockbuster space film, however as a pure space fan I did enjoy seeing our solar system planets on the big screen, graphics were superb. Trailer is a little misleading tho
I agree 100%. The theme doesn’t matter if the story telling sucks.
Too bad that the only good performance came from Brad Pitt. And as far as explained the ending, Roy was already worn out and distressed because of his loneliness and after he fell from the space ladder in the beginning, he was broken and the rest of the movie was his imagination trying to reconcile his past and his disillusionment. You see he is in the bed after his falling to earth again at the end of the movie between his being in uniform and reminiscing, hence all that happened after his fall was fantasy because he was disturbed and longing to hope that his father was not dead.
His tear 😢 in zero G running down his face, brought tears to me as well... fail 😂
All I could think about is, "Why is the tear running 'down?!"'
Actually this was intentional from the directors part. Apparently Bradd crying wasn't in script and he improvised the emotion of the scene, he then went to tell the director that in 0g the tear would float rather than fall.The directior loved the acting so much he left it in as is.
Visually this movie is incredible but that’s about where it stops. This movie isn’t deep at all. It tries very hard to be but it’s actually really straightforward and the “twist” at the end with Tommy Lee Jones is a very underwhelming ending.
2001: A Space Odyssey is still the superior space movie and if you think Interstellar is better than you are *wrong* lmao
I didn't see it. much of the CGI was believable but not extra impressive beyond that. probably europa report and interstellar were the last two movies to get space visuals right. to everyone else it's an art project where they make ridiculous ships that stage in unreal ways and fly with blue plasma clouds. The mars stuff looked good but also the conditioning rooms were basically bed sheets and projectors and it looked unlike a government mars facility, even a run down one as it was supposed to be depicted. One thing it got totally right is the displays. no holograms in sight, just 2D 4x3 or 16x9 flat panel displays, just like we've been using for decades now and will continue to use for probably a couple hundred years.
I thought the movie wasn’t good
@Joshua Semer I think he expected jhon carter kind of shit .lol
@Joshua Semer so if someone doesn't like the thing you like, you insult their intelligence? It's not a smart movie. They act like it's deep by slowing down the pace and explain everything point by point and on the nose. He *literally* must let his dad go at the end. It could have been a good movie, but there's just so much fluff and then the point of the movie comes across less as "Appreciate what you have" and more, "We're all alone and can't handle the trip to viable places, so why bother?"
Joshua Semer that must’ve been it, not the simple fact that the movie wasn’t good.
They only make it out to Neptune and still make a conclusion that they're the only life in the universe? I don't like this movie's bad screenplay.
Clooney,gosling and now pitt.All the best looking men go into space wtf😂😂
cant forget McConaughey
The emotions of this movie surpassed of those in The Martian. These two movies will be in my opinion, the two best space movies after 2001.
wasn't Roy supposed to get arrested for killing an entire crew
Nah, they covered ir up because he saved the world and didn't want to avoid a scandal. He also explained (and it's on the black box) that he didn't pose a threat.
@@jacobstaten2366 exactly 👍
So it was fine with everyone back home that he high-jacked a ship and indirectly killed the crew as long as he learned the lesson that 'we are all we have, so let's make the most of it'? I suppose technically he saved the planet, but the original crew were going to do that anyway. The families of the dead pilots must have been happy that he got the chance to say goodbye to his dad. The irony of ending up in jail after months in space isolation would not have made a good ending I suppose.