Yeah this thread has basically convinced me not to see it. Not a fan of Heart of Darkness nor Apocalypse Now. I was hoping this would be an original story. How disappointing.
No kidding. Even down to the facial expressions. When people were saying this way back when A River Runs Through It came out, I didn't see it. It's much more obvious now that Pitt is older.snowdog90 said:
I think Pitt is the clone of Robert Redford.
I thought this was one of the easier things to explain, he had personal thrusters so he only had to launch himself in the general vicinity of his ship, which he did. The movie isn't going to waste time having him jumping off course because it's already in the falling action of the story.wangus12 said:
Really liked it, but as someone else said, probably one I'll only watch once. The score and visuals were all fantastic. I had one major eye-roll that my wife and I shared launching yourself accurately across space, through rings and still ending up hitting your ship.
Otherwise, decent film
Great article, with a movie like this I often can't process all the themes and meanings right away and the article helped alot with that. Thanks!ATM1876 said:
I thought this was a good read.
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Agree with you entirely about overuse of voice over, but I don't think my problem with the movie is that it needed more action. It's that I needed what was in the movie to actually be relevant to the plot.
The sequence on the moon, for example, felt like it was there for the sake of having an action sequence rather than plot or character development. We needed to know more about the society the world takes place in for that sequence to feel earned. In Apocalypse Now the viewer knows enough about Vietnam to understand Coppola's depiction of it.
Lasers still spread over distances. It's not hard to presume that you could paint the whole planet of Neptune with a laser from Mars. Beam divergence aside, you could still sweep an area with the laser, too.ATM1876 said:
They know the Surge originated near Neptune, but they need Roy to go to Mars to send a secure laser transmission in the hope that they get a response so that they can get a better idea of his location and go to Neptune to confront him. If they don't know exactly where he's at, how are they going to aim this laser? That didn't make much sense to me.
If your drones disappeared, its fair to assume a crewed mission would, too. Communicating from Mars lets you make contact first and try not to die on the way, and also locate the true position of the ship.Quote:
I get that the time to travel in space has shortened due to technological advances, but it's almost too short. 19 days to get from the Moon to Mars and then 79 days from Mars to Neptune? Why not just go straight to Neptune if it doesn't take that long and look around for him? They said they sent drones out there and they were all lost around Neptune so there's obviously something going on there. The longer you wait the greater chance you have of another Surge.