SimpleG Posted April 28, 2021 Share Posted April 28, 2021 The world is stunned when a group of time travelers arrive from the year 2051 to deliver an urgent message: Thirty years in the future mankind is losing a global war against a deadly alien species. The only hope for survival is for soldiers and civilians from the present to be transported to the future and join the fight. Among those recruited is high school teacher and family man Dan Forester (Chris Pratt). Determined to save the world for his young daughter, Dan teams up with a brilliant scientist (Yvonne Strahovski) and his estranged father (J.K. Simmons) in a desperate quest to rewrite the fate of the planet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greatoneshere Posted April 29, 2021 Share Posted April 29, 2021 Regardless of the quality of the film, that was a terrible teaser trailer. That felt like one of those "trailers for the teaser trailer" type of things. Awful. The film itself however, we'll see. Written by the guy who wrote Deadfall (not a good sign) but directed by the guy who directed The Lego Batman Movie (which was awesome) means this could go either way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 29, 2021 Share Posted April 29, 2021 1 hour ago, Greatoneshere said: Regardless of the quality of the film, that was a terrible teaser trailer. That felt like one of those "trailers for the teaser trailer" type of things. Awful. It’s a teaser for the trailer tomorrow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greatoneshere Posted April 29, 2021 Share Posted April 29, 2021 5 minutes ago, sblfilms said: It’s a teaser for the trailer tomorrow Ah well then that explains it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reputator Posted April 29, 2021 Share Posted April 29, 2021 2 hours ago, Greatoneshere said: Regardless of the quality of the film, that was a terrible teaser trailer. That felt like one of those "trailers for the teaser trailer" type of things. Awful. The film itself however, we'll see. Written by the guy who wrote Deadfall (not a good sign) but directed by the guy who directed The Lego Batman Movie (which was awesome) means this could go either way. Agreed, that was absolutely abhorrent. Not a great first impression. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyser_Soze Posted April 29, 2021 Share Posted April 29, 2021 2 hours ago, sblfilms said: It’s a teaser for the trailer tomorrow The teaser for the war trailer tomorrow? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CitizenVectron Posted April 29, 2021 Share Posted April 29, 2021 I don't think I've ever seen a good Amazon Prime Video trailer. The worst are their 5-sec ads within Prime Video. Like...they are just awful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spawn_of_Apathy Posted April 29, 2021 Share Posted April 29, 2021 I hate when these places tease a trailer. It’s dumb and they’re never good. We’ve waited this long not caring, we can wait one more day or a few more days for the actual trailer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greatoneshere Posted May 27, 2021 Share Posted May 27, 2021 Well, the full trailer has dropped. Very "Edge of Tomorrow" vibes. Some of the dialogue sounded fun and some of the direction looks pretty cool but the trailer also felt very generic sci-fi too. This could still go either way for me. Mediocre writer, great director. We'll see. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheLeon Posted May 27, 2021 Share Posted May 27, 2021 Can’t believe that we didn’t get any Mike “Spoonman” Mitchell in the trailer. What a waste. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fizzzzle Posted May 27, 2021 Share Posted May 27, 2021 Well it certainly looks like a movie! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted May 28, 2021 Share Posted May 28, 2021 Chris Pratt has never starred in an actually "good" movie so I see no reason for him to break that trend with this one. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyser_Soze Posted May 28, 2021 Share Posted May 28, 2021 5 minutes ago, Commissar SFLUFAN said: Chris Pratt has never starred in an actually "good" movie so I see no reason for him to break that trend with this one. Guardians of the Galaxy wasn't good? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted May 28, 2021 Share Posted May 28, 2021 1 minute ago, Keyser_Soze said: Guardians of the Galaxy wasn't good? Much like the vast majority of the MCU, it was "passable" at best. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silentbob Posted May 28, 2021 Share Posted May 28, 2021 Well. I um was gonna say moneyball but forgot he a side guide. You got the new Jurassic Park series and I’ll take heat on it, but he was pretty good in Passengers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fizzzzle Posted May 28, 2021 Share Posted May 28, 2021 The new Jurassic movies kind of suck (actually every Jurassic Park movie kind of sucks except the first one), but that's no fault of Pratt. He's basically just playing Star Lord in those movies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greatoneshere Posted May 28, 2021 Share Posted May 28, 2021 The only things Chris Pratt is good in are Parks & Recreation, the Pixar movie Onward, The Lego Movies, and playing Star Lord in the MCU. I like and enjoy Chris Pratt and find him funny but he's never really stretched himself as an actor. All the roles I just mentioned are his best starring roles and he's essentially the same in all of them. Two are voice roles. The Jurassic World movies are awful but Chris Pratt is unintentionally (or intentionally? I can't honestly tell sometimes) hilarious in the first one. The second one tries, which makes it just bad. The first is so bad it's good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mercury33 Posted May 29, 2021 Share Posted May 29, 2021 On 5/28/2021 at 12:29 AM, Greatoneshere said: The only things Chris Pratt is good in are Parks & Recreation, the Pixar movie Onward, The Lego Movies, and playing Star Lord in the MCU. I like and enjoy Chris Pratt and find him funny but he's never really stretched himself as an actor. All the roles I just mentioned are his best starring roles and he's essentially the same in all of them. Two are voice roles. The Jurassic World movies are awful but Chris Pratt is unintentionally (or intentionally? I can't honestly tell sometimes) hilarious in the first one. The second one tries, which makes it just bad. The first is so bad it's good. LOL “the only good things Chris Pratt are in...” Then proceeds to list almost a majority of the things he’s starred in. Passengers isn’t great but it’s also not terrible. Magnificent 7 was fun if unremarkable Jurassic World is pretty good it just gets dragged down by nit picking idiots on the internet. Fallen Kingdom straight up isn’t good. But on the other hand, Jurassic Park movies are like Pizza. Even bad ones are still fun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greatoneshere Posted May 29, 2021 Share Posted May 29, 2021 2 hours ago, Mercury33 said: LOL “the only good things Chris Pratt are in...” Then proceeds to list almost a majority of the things he’s starred in. Passengers isn’t great but it’s also not terrible. Magnificent 7 was fun if unremarkable Jurassic World is pretty good it just gets dragged down by nit picking idiots on the internet. Fallen Kingdom straight up isn’t good. But on the other hand, Jurassic Park movies are like Pizza. Even bad ones are still fun. Yeah but in terms of Chris Pratt acting range, he's still pretty much the same amongst all of those films. When it works it works, but he's still always playing basically the same version or variation of his Parks & Recreation character. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iculus Posted May 29, 2021 Share Posted May 29, 2021 1 hour ago, Greatoneshere said: Yeah but in terms of Chris Pratt acting range, he's still pretty much the same amongst all of those films. When it works it works, but he's still always playing basically the same version or variation of his Parks & Recreation character. He's a national treasure! 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyser_Soze Posted June 16, 2021 Share Posted June 16, 2021 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mercury33 Posted June 16, 2021 Share Posted June 16, 2021 Yep I’ll watch that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silentbob Posted June 16, 2021 Share Posted June 16, 2021 Looks like big dumb summer blockbuster fun with just a huge fucking plot hole out in the open. So if they die in the future after being pulled from the past. How the fuck do they even have a human army to fight because they would of Marty McFly their family out of existing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fizzzzle Posted June 16, 2021 Share Posted June 16, 2021 51 minutes ago, silentbob said: Looks like big dumb summer blockbuster fun with just a huge fucking plot hole out in the open. So if they die in the future after being pulled from the past. How the fuck do they even have a human army to fight because they would of Marty McFly their family out of existing. Time travel plots in movies are always ouroboral. Don't think about it too much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greatoneshere Posted June 16, 2021 Share Posted June 16, 2021 Director Chris McKay is the only reason I have hope. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kal-El814 Posted July 2, 2021 Share Posted July 2, 2021 I watched this last night. It’s fine. It looks pretty good and it’s acted earnestly but it is everything you’d anticipate it to be. Everyone you’d expect to be cannon fodder is, everyone you’d expect to have plot armor does, and everything you’d guess about how it’s going to go is what happens. It’s perhaps a bit longer than it needs to be but it’s not too egregious in that regard. Honestly the weirdest thing about the whole affair is a slightly more pronounced problem that the MCU has with the military and governments. Pratt’s character is a competent soldier because he served in Iraq, his father is competent because he served in Vietnam. The world governments convene to help manage the future threat. But the government is also incompetent at managing global affairs in general, the people training the people to go to the future do a straight up terrible job of doing so. It’s not a big deal at all, just notable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EternallDarkness Posted July 2, 2021 Share Posted July 2, 2021 2 minutes ago, Kal-El814 said: I watched this last night. It’s fine. It looks pretty good and it’s acted earnestly but it is everything you’d anticipate it to be. Everyone you’d expect to be cannon fodder is, everyone you’d expect to have plot armor does, and everything you’d guess about how it’s going to go is what happens. It’s perhaps a bit longer than it needs to be but it’s not too egregious in that regard. Honestly the weirdest thing about the whole affair is a slightly more pronounced problem that the MCU has with the military and governments. Pratt’s character is a competent soldier because he served in Iraq, his father is competent because he served in Vietnam. The world governments convene to help manage the future threat. But the government is also incompetent at managing global affairs in general, the people training the people to go to the future do a straight up terrible job of doing so. It’s not a big deal at all, just notable. yeah wasn't horrible tho Spoiler fist fighting the queen at the end had me rolling my eyes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EternallDarkness Posted July 2, 2021 Share Posted July 2, 2021 cool creatures Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kal-El814 Posted July 2, 2021 Share Posted July 2, 2021 1 minute ago, EternallDarkness said: yeah wasn't horrible tho Hide contents fist fighting the queen at the end had me rolling my eyes Yeah that was pretty funny. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodyHell Posted July 3, 2021 Share Posted July 3, 2021 The wife and I enjoyed it last night. It's not an amazing movie, a bit corny, but fun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Posted July 3, 2021 Share Posted July 3, 2021 I enjoyed the first half way more than the second half especially that ending. Still, I enjoyed it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dre801 Posted July 3, 2021 Share Posted July 3, 2021 Not bad. Ran too long though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TwinIon Posted July 6, 2021 Share Posted July 6, 2021 There are a few interesting ideas, I think the actors do a reasonable job with what they're given, and the action is exciting enough, but this is a really really really dumb movie. Spoiler The entire premise just doesn't make sense. Why bother sending people to the future where the war is lost instead of spending all possible resources readying for the fight? Even if you can get over that and convince me it's a reasonable idea to send people to the future, it still doesn't make sense. In a future where all trained armies have already lost most of the earth, what is the point in sending untrained randoms into a fight? They mention that many of the armed forces aren't eligible, then later reveal that eligibility is based on who is still alive, then reveal that only 500k people are still alive. The US armed forces alone have nearly two million people between active duty and reserve personnel. So even if the entire remaining population is US military, most of the current armed forces would still be eligible. Even if they're not eligible for reasons left unstated, it still doesn't make any darn sense to send all these untrained randoms without telling them a darn thing about what they're up against. Also, why bother sending them in with weapons that barely seem to scratch the things unless you hit their soft underbelly? We see later that vehicle mounted .50 cal guns seem to tear through the things. Maybe there's some limit to the equipment you can send people over with, but I kept watching everyone shooting at the monsters and not doing any damage wondering why we bothered to send them over with those guns in the first place. Then you have the whole ending, which really should have been over as soon as they got back from the future. It makes zero sense to go in with a personal team of a few guys and nearly unleash the apocalypse when you have a really good idea of how long it'll take before anything happens. Sure the Sec Def (or whoever) turned you down, but maybe try a bit harder or talk to another government or anything. The whole bit about governments only talking and taking no action sure seemed odd in a movie where we'd seen all the governments of the world instantly coalesce around the stupidest plan imaginable. I have no clue why I bothered to type all that out. It's just a big dumb movie. It probably isn't any worse than any number of others. Still, if anyone was hoping this was another Edge of Tomorrow, it's really not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mercury33 Posted July 7, 2021 Share Posted July 7, 2021 lol yeah it has literally one of the dumbest plots EVER. But I fucking loved it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dre801 Posted July 7, 2021 Share Posted July 7, 2021 The director is hinting at a follow-up that may give more insight into the Whitespikes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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