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Post by Jep Gambardella on Apr 21, 2021 15:24:10 GMT
I hadn't heard about it until earlier today. On IMDb the release date is listed as tomorrow (22/April) but I am not sure that is true. Anyway, it looks interesting. Anna Kendrick and Toni Colette are in it. It's directed by Joe Penna, who started as a YouTuber in Brazil and then moved on to directing TV and one pretty decent feature film, Arctic (2018) with Mads Mikkelsen.
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Post by forca84 on Apr 22, 2021 19:50:30 GMT
Don't have Netflix at the moment... but Collette and Kendrick are likeable to me.
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Post by Jep Gambardella on Apr 23, 2021 17:42:18 GMT
It turns out it's on Netflix in the USA but here in Canada it's on Amazon Prime, which I don't have. Bummer.
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Post by Catman on Apr 24, 2021 23:09:45 GMT
It turns out it's on Netflix in the USA but here in Canada it's on Amazon Prime, which I don't have. Bummer. And Catman has Amazon Prime but not Netflix and lives in the USA. Bummer.
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Post by Downey on Apr 25, 2021 12:09:39 GMT
The plot hell the title alone sounds stupid as fuck.
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Post by Nora on Apr 25, 2021 21:59:08 GMT
I really liked Artic but couldnt really get into thisone. Didnt care about the characters much for some reason.
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Post by Mulder and Scully on Apr 25, 2021 22:11:12 GMT
Toni Collette is ugly as hell.
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Post by movieliker on May 1, 2021 15:08:27 GMT
I hadn't heard about it until earlier today. On IMDb the release date is listed as tomorrow (22/April) but I am not sure that is true. Anyway, it looks interesting. Anna Kendrick and Toni Colette are in it. It's directed by Joe Penna, who started as a YouTuber in Brazil and then moved on to directing TV and one pretty decent feature film, Arctic (2018) with Mads Mikkelsen. The acting was great. The takeoff was spectacular. Really, this would have been a good movie if everything had just gone to plan. Toni Collette and Anna Kendrick were terrific. Special effects and music are great. But . . . then a stowaway is discovered in a compartment screwed in from the outside. Who screwed him in?
It only gets worse from there. No public or private space agency would suggest killing anybody. Not even an intentional stowaway. Much less an accidental one. If nothing else, they would just abort the mission. Stupid.
David disobeys orders and decides on his own to give Michael forbidden information and a suicide injection pen from Zoe's medical supplies. Stupid.
Why are they spacewalking without safety tethers?
Why are huge oxygen tank reserves so far from the ship and so hard and dangerous to get to? Why is there no built in ladder?
Why is the smallest girl pulling a big man loose through fragile solar panels where he could be flip flopping around? When it's safer to use the poles she used?
Why is the smallest girl stronger than the biggest man on the original crew?
Why is David such a weenie?
This movie was a 10 until the stowaway was discovered. Then it just got stupid. 4/10 |
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Post by Jep Gambardella on May 2, 2021 12:02:10 GMT
I hadn't heard about it until earlier today. On IMDb the release date is listed as tomorrow (22/April) but I am not sure that is true. Anyway, it looks interesting. Anna Kendrick and Toni Colette are in it. It's directed by Joe Penna, who started as a YouTuber in Brazil and then moved on to directing TV and one pretty decent feature film, Arctic (2018) with Mads Mikkelsen. The acting was great. The takeoff was spectacular. Really, this would have been a good movie if everything had just gone to plan. Toni Collette and Anna Kendrick were terrific. Special effects and music are great. But . . . 4/10 I watched it last night. I liked it more than you did, but I fully agree that some of the writing was very weak.
The presence of the stowaway was bizarre, as you said. It made very little sense, and there wasn’t even an attempt to explain it.
There was a brief mention of turning around and going back to Earth, but the commander says something like “at the speed we are going we don’t have enough fuel to turn around”. Seems a bit strange but I will buy it; from everything I have read this kind of space vessel doesn’t have a lot of room to maneuver in their trajectories.
The oxygen in that tank was not “reserve oxygen” meant for the crew. It was left-over oxygen from the burning of the fuel during take-off. They weren’t even sure how much was there. But about that, it seems a bit strange that ONE of the canisters they filled up would hold enough oxygen to last for one person for several months.
Going out without tethers was ridiculous. I thought the same thing. And that rope flailing around when they were crossing the solar panels was just asking for trouble!
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Post by movieliker on May 3, 2021 3:25:29 GMT
The acting was great. The takeoff was spectacular. Really, this would have been a good movie if everything had just gone to plan. Toni Collette and Anna Kendrick were terrific. Special effects and music are great. But . . . 4/10 I watched it last night. I liked it more than you did, but I fully agree that some of the writing was very weak.
The presence of the stowaway was bizarre, as you said. It made very little sense, and there wasn’t even an attempt to explain it.
There was a brief mention of turning around and going back to Earth, but the commander says something like “at the speed we are going we don’t have enough fuel to turn around”. Seems a bit strange but I will buy it; from everything I have read this kind of space vessel doesn’t have a lot of room to maneuver in their trajectories.
The oxygen in that tank was not “reserve oxygen” meant for the crew. It was left-over oxygen from the burning of the fuel during take-off. They weren’t even sure how much was there. But about that, it seems a bit strange that ONE of the canisters they filled up would hold enough oxygen to last for one person for several months.
Going out without tethers was ridiculous. I thought the same thing. And that rope flailing around when they were crossing the solar panels was just asking for trouble!
I love outer space. I love the space program. I truly believe the future of humanity exist in outer space. I loved the beginning of this movie until the stowaway was discovered. I would have loved to see them get to Mars, land on Mars and live on Mars. I would have loved to see what already existed on Mars before they got there. If this movie had been executed with the quality the takeoff was executed, I would have given this movie a 10. Maybe nobody else would have liked it. But I would. This stupid stowaway gimmick ruined the movie for me. |
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Post by movieliker on May 3, 2021 16:14:29 GMT
The oxygen in that tank was not “reserve oxygen” meant for the crew. It was left-over oxygen from the burning of the fuel during take-off. They weren’t even sure how much was there. But about that, it seems a bit strange that ONE of the canisters they filled up would hold enough oxygen to last for one person for several months. If that is the case, why were they taking it with them? Still, why was it so hard to get to? No built in ladder? I think we agree, this movie had problems. But that stupid "left over" oxygen tank doesn't make sense. Were they supposed to land on Mars with it attached to their ship? If not, how were they ever going to access it? There is no atmosphere in space. A built in ladder would have no effect on travel. I suspect it was used to create artificial gravity. So they were just going to dump it when they got to Mars? |
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Post by movieliker on May 3, 2021 17:18:37 GMT
The acting was great. The takeoff was spectacular. Really, this would have been a good movie if everything had just gone to plan. Toni Collette and Anna Kendrick were terrific. Special effects and music are great. But . . . 4/10 I watched it last night. I liked it more than you did, but I fully agree that some of the writing was very weak.
The presence of the stowaway was bizarre, as you said. It made very little sense, and there wasn’t even an attempt to explain it.
There was a brief mention of turning around and going back to Earth, but the commander says something like “at the speed we are going we don’t have enough fuel to turn around”. Seems a bit strange but I will buy it; from everything I have read this kind of space vessel doesn’t have a lot of room to maneuver in their trajectories.
The oxygen in that tank was not “reserve oxygen” meant for the crew. It was left-over oxygen from the burning of the fuel during take-off. They weren’t even sure how much was there. But about that, it seems a bit strange that ONE of the canisters they filled up would hold enough oxygen to last for one person for several months.
Going out without tethers was ridiculous. I thought the same thing. And that rope flailing around when they were crossing the solar panels was just asking for trouble!
Why couldn't they just wait until the solar flare ended before going back out there for more oxygen? "Most flares are quite short really, less than hour. The longest flare that we've seen with the Japanese Yohkoh satellite was 12 hours though."www.mssl.ucl.ac.uk/www_solar/PUS/PO/explosions.html#:~:text=Most%20flares%20are%20quite%20short,last%20up%20to%2010%20days! |
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Post by Jep Gambardella on May 3, 2021 17:52:06 GMT
The oxygen in that tank was not “reserve oxygen” meant for the crew. It was left-over oxygen from the burning of the fuel during take-off. They weren’t even sure how much was there. But about that, it seems a bit strange that ONE of the canisters they filled up would hold enough oxygen to last for one person for several months. If that is the case, why were they taking it with them? Still, why was it so hard to get to? No built in ladder? I think we agree, this movie had problems. But that stupid "left over" oxygen tank doesn't make sense. Were they supposed to land on Mars with it attached to their ship? If not, how were they ever going to access it? There is no atmosphere in space. A built in ladder would have no effect on travel. I suspect it was used to create artificial gravity. So they were just going to dump it when they got to Mars?
This is how I understood it, but don’t quote me on it:
The tank was part of the rocket that took the crew into orbit. It contained oxygen as part of the process for burning the fuel.
The purpose of dragging it to Mars (and presumably back to Earth on the return journey) was to create artificial gravity, by having it on one end of a long tether while the habitable module was on the other end. With the two spinning around the centre (the solar panels), on both ends there would be the illusion of gravity created by centrifugal forces.
I am not sure how they were going to land on Mars, or back on Earth at the end of their mission. I think there was a small capsule that docked into the habitable module which was already in orbit (and had been already used on earlier trips to Mars). I am guessing that the capsule could detach from the habitable module and land on Mars, and later go back into orbit and dock with it again.
Maybe because if they waited for several hours all the oxygen would have leaked out? Remember that the only way to extract the oxygen into the canisters was by piercing the conduit (a very contrived plot contrivance if you ask me), which would necessarily create a leak? The commander tells Anna Kendrick to be very careful about it, to keep the leak to a minimum. And when she does it, there is a dialogue about checking that oxygen wasn’t leaking too fast.
The main problem I had with the whole oxygen thing (other than the absurd idea that there wouldn’t be a spare or three for one of the most critical pieces of equipment in the whole ship) was that one of those canisters supposedly could hold enough oxygen for one person for FIVE MONTHS! That does not seem even remotely realistic.
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Post by CrepedCrusader on May 9, 2021 5:51:10 GMT
The didn't show the obvious solution: wait until everyone is asleep, and then bash the brains in of two of the people on board.
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Post by Morgana on May 9, 2021 9:45:27 GMT
I watched it last night. I liked it more than you did, but I fully agree that some of the writing was very weak.
The presence of the stowaway was bizarre, as you said. It made very little sense, and there wasn’t even an attempt to explain it.
There was a brief mention of turning around and going back to Earth, but the commander says something like “at the speed we are going we don’t have enough fuel to turn around”. Seems a bit strange but I will buy it; from everything I have read this kind of space vessel doesn’t have a lot of room to maneuver in their trajectories.
The oxygen in that tank was not “reserve oxygen” meant for the crew. It was left-over oxygen from the burning of the fuel during take-off. They weren’t even sure how much was there. But about that, it seems a bit strange that ONE of the canisters they filled up would hold enough oxygen to last for one person for several months.
Going out without tethers was ridiculous. I thought the same thing. And that rope flailing around when they were crossing the solar panels was just asking for trouble!
I love outer space. I love the space program. I truly believe the future of humanity exist in outer space. I loved the beginning of this movie until the stowaway was discovered. I would have loved to see them get to Mars, land on Mars and live on Mars. I would have loved to see what already existed on Mars before they got there. If that movie had been executed with the quality the takeoff was executed, I would have given this movie a 10. Maybe nobody else would have liked it. But I would. This stupid stowaway gimmick ruined the movie for me. Same for me. It would have been more interesting to see them on Mars.
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Post by movieliker on May 12, 2021 20:44:24 GMT
Gravity is the only good movie of those three. Midnight Sky and Stowaway were terrible. |
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Post by paislene on May 14, 2021 7:24:29 GMT
Gravity is the only good movie of those three. Midnight Sky and Stowaway were terrible.
with the story being a futuristic disaster thriller , that is slightly meta-physical . The ending suggested
a continuation , which the viewer knew would never come about . Which left me personally somewhat frustrated .
I thought The Midnight Sky , and Stowaway , carried on a similar tale , thereby providing me with some closure .
Stowaway presented another unsolved space disaster , and The Midnight Sky entertained us again with yet another
metaphysical theme . Which is why I thought , they could make an interesting trilogy together .
   
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