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Post by movieliker on Jan 5, 2021 17:23:04 GMT
You have seen Netflix's "Another Life". You and I trashed it together. You wrote this; "I agree with everything you've said. I got as far as 3/4 of the way through episode one and turned it off. It was ridiculously stupid in every way. I was happy to see Starbuck, and she was the only one on the damn show that could act, but honestly she's overdone it with the plastic surgery.
Within the first episode an alien spaceships lands on earth and there is no military presence, nothing. It's left to do what it wants and even kids can play with it. Then poof just like that a crew are sent into space. A crew that would be better off in Big Brother or some other rubbish reality show. There doesn't seem to be a real chain of command; no uniforms - the doc/psychologist or whatever he'she was, is dressed in drag and high heels - give me a break! I give it a 2/10"Oh yes, I remember now. I do have memory problems because of PTSD. That was one really bad show. Did you get PTSD from watching "Another Life"? I wouldn't blame you if you did. That was one terrible show. |
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Post by Morgana on Jan 6, 2021 11:40:54 GMT
 Oh yes, I remember now. I do have memory problems because of PTSD. That was one really bad show. Did you get PTSD from watching "Another Life"? I wouldn't blame you if you did. That was one terrible show.
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Post by movieliker on Jan 6, 2021 14:46:28 GMT
Did you get PTSD from watching "Another Life"? I wouldn't blame you if you did. That was one terrible show. 😁😁😁😁😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣 |
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Post by Nora on Jan 13, 2021 7:45:51 GMT
After hearing about the movie, I read the book. Saw the movie yesterday. The book was more depressing. I liked seeing the movie, though. can u tell me how the book and the movie differ please? |
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Post by hi224 on Jan 13, 2021 7:48:15 GMT
After hearing about the movie, I read the book. Saw the movie yesterday. The book was more depressing. I liked seeing the movie, though. can u tell me how the book and the movie differ please? Well different kinds of conclusions, more character development within the book, Augie's much older within the book etc. |
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Post by Nora on Jan 13, 2021 7:54:00 GMT
can u tell me how the book and the movie differ please? Well different kinds of conclusions, more character development within the book, Augie's much older within the book etc. can you be more speficic? what conclusions are different? how are characters more developed, do we find out for sure Iris is his daughter and more about his life before the “mistake” but after he left the mom? thats what i missed the most the character depth. we didnt get to know anybody really, was hard to root for either of them... and it could have been great. Look at All is Lost or Arctic.. |
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Post by hi224 on Jan 13, 2021 8:01:54 GMT
Well different kinds of conclusions, more character development within the book, Augie's much older within the book etc. can you be more speficic? what conclusions are different? how are characters more developed, do we find out for sure Iris is his daughter and more about his life before the “mistake” but after he left the mom? thats what i missed the most the character depth. we didnt get to know anybody really, was hard to root for either of them... and it could have been great. Look at All is Lost or Arctic.. For starters we get a better sense of who Augie is within the book. He's a man whose never quite satisfied with his station in life and is constantly chasing perfection. He's look for that one great discovery to make him feel at peace, and yet had also resigned himself into realizing it will never happen. He attempts to send his daughter letters which end up return to sender, he's a man whose just completely detached from human existence. I also wish they left the original title from the book. I mean there's a point to the book being called Good Morning Midnight as well. Within the face of hopelessness and sheer cynicism, both Augie and Sully find the means to keep fighting for survival as well. Calling it Midnight Sky, is woefully derivative and feels more generic. It's sort of like with Irishman, I heard you paint houses actually had a direct connotation and point to the proceedings, irishman is more vanilla. Furthermore, Sully is a woman whose better defined as someone who has been thrown into a career and values the tangibles and wonderment of space. She's a contrast to Augie. Also when I read the book I kept picturing either possibly Harrison Ford or possibly perhaps Dustin Hoffman as Augie. |
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Post by SciFive on Jan 16, 2021 12:25:23 GMT
can you be more speficic? what conclusions are different? how are characters more developed, do we find out for sure Iris is his daughter and more about his life before the “mistake” but after he left the mom? thats what i missed the most the character depth. we didnt get to know anybody really, was hard to root for either of them... and it could have been great. Look at All is Lost or Arctic.. For starters we get a better sense of who Augie is within the book. He's a man whose never quite satisfied with his station in life and is constantly chasing perfection. He's look for that one great discovery to make him feel at peace, and yet had also resigned himself into realizing it will never happen. He attempts to send his daughter letters which end up return to sender, he's a man whose just completely detached from human existence. I also wish they left the original title from the book. I mean there's a point to the book being called Good Morning Midnight as well. Within the face of hopelessness and sheer cynicism, both Augie and Sully find the means to keep fighting for survival as well. Calling it Midnight Sky, is woefully derivative and feels more generic. It's sort of like with Irishman, I heard you paint houses actually had a direct connotation and point to the proceedings, irishman is more vanilla. Furthermore, Sully is a woman whose better defined as someone who has been thrown into a career and values the tangibles and wonderment of space. She's a contrast to Augie. Also when I read the book I kept picturing either possibly Harrison Ford or possibly perhaps Dustin Hoffman as Augie. Nora, something else is that Augie and Sully never figure out in their brief communications at the end of the book that they are father and daughter. In the movie, he knows but she doesn't.
Sully is a good person but she never really learned how to love her family (an ex-husband and a young daughter who is with him) because her own mother didn't do well at it either. Her mother married someone else and gave birth to twins, I think, and then died in childbirth a bit after that. Sully felt abandoned by her mother and the new family.
Sully ends up loving the captain on the ship and it's the first time she really experiences it (just as Augie loving the imaginary little girl is the first time he learns to love someone). They both learn how to love at the end of the book.
Sully, Captain and an Israeli guy are headed down to an unknown situation on Earth and the Captain calls her "Iris" (the name of the little girl with Augie). So we know for sure that Augie loved the imaginary little girl who was his daughter.
We don't know what happens to Sully, Captain and the Israeli guy as they head towards Earth - the book ends there. We do presume that Augie dies because he hugs a bear that he realizes is dying. They seem to lie there together at the edge of the water.
The two men left aboard the space station have no way to go anywhere so they are presumed to be about to starve to death at some point much later.
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Post by Nora on Jan 16, 2021 13:20:08 GMT
For starters we get a better sense of who Augie is within the book. He's a man whose never quite satisfied with his station in life and is constantly chasing perfection. He's look for that one great discovery to make him feel at peace, and yet had also resigned himself into realizing it will never happen. He attempts to send his daughter letters which end up return to sender, he's a man whose just completely detached from human existence. I also wish they left the original title from the book. I mean there's a point to the book being called Good Morning Midnight as well. Within the face of hopelessness and sheer cynicism, both Augie and Sully find the means to keep fighting for survival as well. Calling it Midnight Sky, is woefully derivative and feels more generic. It's sort of like with Irishman, I heard you paint houses actually had a direct connotation and point to the proceedings, irishman is more vanilla. Furthermore, Sully is a woman whose better defined as someone who has been thrown into a career and values the tangibles and wonderment of space. She's a contrast to Augie. Also when I read the book I kept picturing either possibly Harrison Ford or possibly perhaps Dustin Hoffman as Augie. Nora, something else is that Augie and Sully never figure out in their brief communications at the end of the book that they are father and daughter. In the movie, he knows but she doesn't.
Sully is a good person but she never really learned how to love her family (an ex-husband and a young daughter who is with him) because her own mother didn't do well at it either. Her mother married someone else and gave birth to twins, I think, and then died in childbirth a bit after that. Sully felt abandoned by her mother and the new family.
Sully ends up loving the captain on the ship and it's the first time she really experiences it (just as Augie loving the imaginary little girl is the first time he learns to love someone). They both learn how to love at the end of the book.
Sully, Captain and an Israeli guy are headed down to an unknown situation on Earth and the Captain calls her "Iris" (the name of the little girl with Augie). So we know for sure that Augie loved the imaginary little girl who was his daughter.
We don't know what happens to Sully, Captain and the Israeli guy as they head towards Earth - the book ends there. We do presume that Augie dies because he hugs a bear that he realizes is dying. They seem to lie there together at the edge of the water.
The two men left aboard the space station have no way to go anywhere so they are presumed to be about to starve to death at some point much later.
that sounds so beautiful and intense and much better than the movie. thank you for sharing. now i wish they had followed the book more. |
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Post by SciFive on Jan 16, 2021 14:58:54 GMT
Nora , something else is that Augie and Sully never figure out in their brief communications at the end of the book that they are father and daughter. In the movie, he knows but she doesn't.
Sully is a good person but she never really learned how to love her family (an ex-husband and a young daughter who is with him) because her own mother didn't do well at it either. Her mother married someone else and gave birth to twins, I think, and then died in childbirth a bit after that. Sully felt abandoned by her mother and the new family.
Sully ends up loving the captain on the ship and it's the first time she really experiences it (just as Augie loving the imaginary little girl is the first time he learns to love someone). They both learn how to love at the end of the book.
Sully, Captain and an Israeli guy are headed down to an unknown situation on Earth and the Captain calls her "Iris" (the name of the little girl with Augie). So we know for sure that Augie loved the imaginary little girl who was his daughter.
We don't know what happens to Sully, Captain and the Israeli guy as they head towards Earth - the book ends there. We do presume that Augie dies because he hugs a bear that he realizes is dying. They seem to lie there together at the edge of the water.
The two men left aboard the space station have no way to go anywhere so they are presumed to be about to starve to death at some point much later. that sounds so beautiful and intense and much better than the movie. thank you for sharing. now i wish they had followed the book more. The book is definitely more intense than the movie.
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