Ad Astra
Posted: 19 Sep 2019, 18:41
Went to see Ad Astra today, truly awful, dont waste your money!
Not even the subtlest nod to physics, and some laughable action scenes.
Moon pirates? really?
Sneaking aboard a rocket at T-10 seconds inside its firing booster stage? assuming he was superhumanly blastproof, is there even a path from inside a booster to the capsule? 
Far too many "...but that wouldnt happen" moments to even concentrate
on the 'story', right from the beginning where the reason for the mission
is revealed (a typical "...but that wouldnt happen"), to the very end where Brad saves the
world (of course) by nuking an antimatter power source. On Neptune. Over four billion km away
You couldnt make it up. Except they did
Not to mention audible explosions, identical gravity on earth/the moon/mars/Lima, exploding monkeys (another "but that wouldnt happen") and laugh-out-loud surfing Neptunes asteroid belt on a bin lid.
Whoops, I mentioned all of them [Not all - see edit!]
Monumental fail
...and yet, you wont find a single bad review on the entire net. Weird eh?
You'd expect that we'd come a long way since Kubricks "2001 a space oddyssey", but no....
Cheers
Phil
Edit: It seems Astronomer Dr Andy Howell agrees - plus he spotted a few goofs I'd missed, like the fact that Neptune is well inside the heliosphere (going beyond the heliosphere was the stated reason for choosing Neptune), the silly "antimatter chain reaction" concept, and the impossibility of stopping mid-flight to check for exploding monkeys There are many more. Its a ridiculous film.
Heres a 'how' video, very interesting from a tech viewpoint and the CG effects etc
but also quite amusing in that they dont know what the moon's relative gravity is
Watch the whole thing but note the video narrative at 4:52 and the correction in the Youtube description:
Not even the subtlest nod to physics, and some laughable action scenes.
Moon pirates? really?
Sneaking aboard a rocket at T-10 seconds inside its firing booster stage?
assuming he was superhumanly blastproof, is there even a path from inside a booster to the capsule? Far too many "...but that wouldnt happen" moments to even concentrate
on the 'story', right from the beginning where the reason for the mission
is revealed (a typical "...but that wouldnt happen"), to the very end where Brad saves the
world (of course) by nuking an antimatter power source. On Neptune. Over four billion km away
You couldnt make it up. Except they did
Not to mention audible explosions, identical gravity on earth/the moon/mars/Lima, exploding monkeys (another "but that wouldnt happen") and laugh-out-loud surfing Neptunes asteroid belt on a bin lid.
Whoops, I mentioned all of them
[Not all - see edit!]FailWikipedia wrote:Produced, co-written and directed by James Gray, the project was announced in early 2016, with Gray saying he wanted to feature "the most realistic depiction of space travel that's been put in a movie".
Monumental fail ...and yet, you wont find a single bad review on the entire net. Weird eh?
You'd expect that we'd come a long way since Kubricks "2001 a space oddyssey", but no....
Cheers
Phil
Edit: It seems Astronomer Dr Andy Howell agrees - plus he spotted a few goofs I'd missed, like the fact that Neptune is well inside the heliosphere (going beyond the heliosphere was the stated reason for choosing Neptune), the silly "antimatter chain reaction" concept, and the impossibility of stopping mid-flight to check for exploding monkeys
There are many more. Its a ridiculous film.Heres a 'how' video, very interesting from a tech viewpoint and the CG effects etc
but also quite amusing in that they dont know what the moon's relative gravity is
Watch the whole thing but note the video narrative at 4:52 and the correction in the Youtube description: