The Tomorrow War
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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...
wrote on 10 Jul 2021, 03:51 last edited by@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.
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wrote on 10 Jul 2021, 10:59 last edited by
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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wrote on 10 Jul 2021, 12:34 last edited by
Don't forget, they also need to be dead before their arrival time.
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wrote on 10 Jul 2021, 12:47 last edited by
@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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wrote on 10 Jul 2021, 13:25 last edited by
The implication was that the whole world was supplying soldiers, it’s just they didn’t show anybody else.
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wrote on 11 Jul 2021, 05:17 last edited by
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…
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wrote on 11 Jul 2021, 11:12 last edited by
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.
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wrote on 11 Jul 2021, 12:06 last edited by
Audience score at Rotten Tomatoes is 80%. IMDB gives it a 6.7 score.
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wrote on 11 Jul 2021, 12:54 last edited by
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…
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wrote on 11 Jul 2021, 13:44 last edited by
Why didn't they just send a Terminator back?
Problem solved.
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wrote on 11 Jul 2021, 14:01 last edited by
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.
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wrote on 11 Jul 2021, 14:20 last edited by
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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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.
wrote on 11 Jul 2021, 14:38 last edited by@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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@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.
wrote on 11 Jul 2021, 14:44 last edited by@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.