Sigh. The ridiculous filters on TA strike again. Replace the * with an O in the url. (Capital o)

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Now THAT was the trailer I was expecting the first go-around. THAT was the trailer that finally gives off the Heart of Darkness / Apocalypse Now vibe being ascribed to this film. Holy hell, sign me up.

Of all the current franchises that I would have pegged to be on the moon, Hudson News would not have been one of them.... yet there they are with the biggest neon sign of them all.

I took it to be the equivalent of a glorified airport, and I see Hudson News in just about every airport. Nice little touch...

This looks great. Most excited I've been for a movie in a while.

The music was fantastic. Loved it. But still trying to figure out if I'm gonna be into the plot.

Although having a shoot out on the moon will be insane to watch. Very Moonraker-esque.

Looks awesome. Gonna be very excited for this one.

Looks fantastic!

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(I've seen Armageddon so many times I may or may not still be able to recite this entire scene.)

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Michael Bay gets a lot of flak for his movies, but Armageddon is one of those that I will watch repeatedly ... so much so that once not too long ago, I stopped on it while going through the channels and the wife said, oh hell no!

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I too love that movie too. I don't have a wife so I can watch it anytime.

This continues to look so damn good. One month...

Just saw the ad during the Miami vs Florida game. Looks great!

Sutherlin then makes Pitt and Tommy Lee fight at the cornucopia.

Looks bad ass.

What's so cool about that clip is that, while watching it, it immediately hit me that it's a concept I'd never seen before. As in, I'd never seen a low gravity chase/gun fight with only space suits between our heroes and the vacuum of space. Which makes for an incredibly tense and visceral experience, even in just a two-minute clip, one that's heavily edited at that. It's like Mad Max in space or something. Just so cool.

In the future, I think we'd have some lunar drones armed to the teeth to guard our heroes against space pirates. Or maybe equip the rover with some machine guns or lasers rather than rely on pistols.

Otherwise it's a cool visual.

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In the future, I think we'd have some lunar drones armed to the teeth to guard our heroes against space pirates. Or maybe equip the rover with some machine guns or lasers rather than rely on pistols.

Otherwise it's a cool visual.

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If they show a Predator drone on the Moon, I'm walking out of the theater.

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New trailer tomorrow...

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*drool*
The man is still hot. Men somehow manage to age so much more gracefully than women in Hollywood.

Anyhow the movie looks like it has potential. I like sci-fi and space and Brad Pitt so I will try to catch it in theaters.

Got my IMAX ticket for Thursday.

Great poster.

Only, my local AMC - one of the company's flagship theaters that constantly hosts critic screenings - is showing f-ing Downton Abbey in Dolby Cinema this weekend instead. Seems like false advertising to me. Downton Abbey will no doubt sell more tickets this weekend, but NOTHING about that movie needs to be in Dolby Cinema, where as Ad Astra is like the perfect Dolby Cinema movie. And I don't know that I want to drive 45 minutes for true IMAX in Hollywood. Will probably just end up seeing Saturday night at my go-to Landmark theater.

I'm looking forward to Ad Astra......but I'm also a 47-year old child of the 80's, so I've already bought my ticket for Rambo: Last Blood on Thursday night.

The local Cinemark in B/CS is showing Rambo on their XD screen over Ad Astra, so I'm taking advantage of that.

Premiere is going to have Ad Astra on the IMAX screen. I swear they coordinate ahead of time on these things.

I stand by my earlier prediction on this movie that it's a lot weirder than the previews make it seem.

Disclaimer: I love space movies.

That was pretty great. It's definitely a slow burn, but the visuals are just so great.

I can't quite put it up there with Interstellar, but it's just as good as First Man. (Maybe the score wasn't as good though.)

I did think there was one sequence which felt pretty out of place and unnecessary. (You'll know it when you see it.) And maybe a bit of the main inciding incident felt a bit hand-wavey and not quite explained enough, but overall very solid movie.

But be warned, this is not an action movie whatsoever. This is more 2001 than Gravity.