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  • JollyJ Offline
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    Jolly
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    It's a summer SF action adventure movie. Hamlet it ain't. But, c'mon man! It's not that horrible...

    “Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”

    Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton

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    • JollyJ Jolly

      It's a summer SF action adventure movie. Hamlet it ain't. But, c'mon man! It's not that horrible...

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      Doctor Phibes
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      #17

      @jolly said in The Tomorrow War:

      It's a summer SF action adventure movie. Hamlet it ain't. But, c'mon man! It's not that horrible...

      My son is giving me a big lecture on how it wasn't that bad, too. But he watches all kind of shit.

      I was only joking

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        The premise is that they need bodies to go to the frontline. Statistically, you’d figure four to five times more Chinese would get sent than Americans as the current population count is 1.444 billion Chinese nationals vs. 333 million US nationals.

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          Don't forget, they also need to be dead before their arrival time.

          “Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”

          Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton

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          • JollyJ Jolly

            Don't forget, they also need to be dead before their arrival time.

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            @jolly said in The Tomorrow War:

            Don't forget, they also need to be dead before their arrival time.

            You‘re saying the Chinese nationals live longer than the US nationals? Life expectancy statistics generally do not support that.

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              The implication was that the whole world was supplying soldiers, it’s just they didn’t show anybody else.

              I was only joking

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              • LuFins DadL Offline
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                I’ve got to side with Phibes on this. We turned it off an hour into it.

                It’s like they decided to mash up Independance Day, Edge of Tomorrow, and Interstellar…

                The Brad

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                • Doctor PhibesD Online
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                  Having thought about it a bit, the disappointment for me was the lack of humour. It was a waste of Chris Pratt. Fighting ridiculous aliens from the future should not be a serious business.

                  I was only joking

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                  • JollyJ Offline
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                    Audience score at Rotten Tomatoes is 80%. IMDB gives it a 6.7 score.

                    “Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”

                    Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton

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                      It was like watching a SyFy production with a bigger budget. I know that they have already approved 2 more, but ugh. I suppose I will power through the second half one night…

                      The Brad

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                      • CopperC Offline
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                        Why didn't they just send a Terminator back?

                        Problem solved.

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                        • JollyJ Offline
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                          Jolly
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                          Ah-nuld wasn't available.😊

                          Some interesting figures...Amazon paid somewhere around $200M for this movie and it was the most watched premiere on any streaming service. Therefore, sequels.

                          They are currently poised to spend $1B on a multi-year LOTR series.

                          The big money is coming out to play.

                          “Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”

                          Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton

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                            I didn't think this movie was a patch on The Witcher on Netflix, The Expanse on Amazon, or the Marvel stuff on Disney+, all of which I've enjoyed.

                            I really hope they do a good job with the LoTR universe - I've been a big Tolkien fan since I was 10. It would be very easy to make a mess of it.

                            I was only joking

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                              I didn't think this movie was a patch on The Witcher on Netflix, The Expanse on Amazon, or the Marvel stuff on Disney+, all of which I've enjoyed.

                              I really hope they do a good job with the LoTR universe - I've been a big Tolkien fan since I was 10. It would be very easy to make a mess of it.

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                              @doctor-phibes said in The Tomorrow War:

                              I really hope they do a good job with the LoTR universe - I've been a big Tolkien fan since I was 10. It would be very easy to make a mess of it.

                              I wonder if they'll follow any canonical story. The characters or plot lines don't need to come from any canon, they just need to avoid contradicting canon.

                              Education is extremely important.

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                                @doctor-phibes said in The Tomorrow War:

                                I really hope they do a good job with the LoTR universe - I've been a big Tolkien fan since I was 10. It would be very easy to make a mess of it.

                                I wonder if they'll follow any canonical story. The characters or plot lines don't need to come from any canon, they just need to avoid contradicting canon.

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                                @horace said in The Tomorrow War:

                                @doctor-phibes said in The Tomorrow War:

                                I really hope they do a good job with the LoTR universe - I've been a big Tolkien fan since I was 10. It would be very easy to make a mess of it.

                                I wonder if they'll follow any canonical story. The characters or plot lines don't need to come from any canon, they just need to avoid contradicting canon.

                                They should have a fair amount of freedom, as it's set in The Second Age. Presumably they'll dip into the Silmarillion for ideas - there's a ton of potential material in there.

                                I was only joking

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