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PostPosted: Sun Feb 14, 2021 4:20 pm    Post subject: The Tomorrow War (2021) Reply with quote



First of all . . . boy, does that poster suck! Rolling Eyes

Remember the days when posters were colorful works of art that promoted the movie with images based on the movies' premise? Confused

Good lord, whatever happened to artists like Richard Amsel and Drew Struzan, those guys who created masterpieces like these? Shocked








These days we get crap like that poster above! A B&W photo of guys in black outfits, standing in a line looking tough and unemployed! Rolling Eyes

Anyway, here's how Screenrant describes this movie.
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Director Chris McKay - who most recently helmed The Lego Batman Movie - marks his first foray into live action with military sci-fi movie The Tomorrow War. In the future, humans are losing a war against an alien invasion. Scientists devise a potential way to win the war by recruiting soldiers from the past. Chris Pratt leads a large ensemble cast that includes Yvonne Strahovski, Betty Gilpin, and J.K. Simmons.
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The premise might be good . . . or it might suck as badly as the poster. We'll just have to wait and see.
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PostPosted: Sat May 29, 2021 2:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Okay, I screwed up and started a duplicate thread, I guess because I wasn't paying attention. Fortunately Bud caught my goof-up, and here is my post in the correct thread.

"The Tomorrow War" (2021) is a theatrical movie, that due to circumstances is going to be shown on Amazon Prime in July 2021.

I have only seen the trailer, which tells of people coming from 30 years in the future to convince people to come help fight an invasion that they are losing. Chris Pratt plays a former solder and teacher who gives up his deferment to save his wife from being drafted.

Okay without having seen the movie, I'm going to make a criticism.

Maybe the movie addresses this...But if you are in a war, and posses time travel, even if you have to travel back a few decades...THEN WHY THE HELL ARE YOU LOSING!?!

Time travel is an UNBELIEVABLE advantage. If you are being invaded, then go a few decades into the past, and start ramping up for war! ANYTHING the enemy does can be prepared for decades in advance. Just think of the technological developments for the war you could have!

There's a story. A new company buys up miles of land and builds an enormous compound. An investigator finds out that the company is time travelers who have come to the past to prepare Earth for a future invasion. Developing technologies, setting up systems that can be used in war time. But they are trying to do as little damage to the past/present as possible.

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PostPosted: Mon Jul 05, 2021 3:00 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

"The Tomorrow War: Why Chris Pratt’s Character Doesn’t Get Time Travel"

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For those viewers who, like Chris Pratt’s Dan Forester, need a time travel primer for The Tomorrow War, here’s our breakdown of the rules.

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This The Tomorrow War article contains major spoilers.
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 05, 2021 12:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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IMDB has several interesting trivia items for this production. Very Happy
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~ J.K. Simmons' (66-years-old) much-talked-about 'buff old man' look in the movie, according to director Chris McKay, is actually based on Instagram pictures of Simmons that went viral in 2016 after his trainer Aaron V. Williamson posted them.

The series of gym shots showed Simmons with a huge shaggy white beard, wearing a sleeveless muscle-shirt, doing intense bicep curls with his biceps bulging out incredibly.

When it came to casting the role of the crazy but bad-ass father (of Chris Pratt) who is living off the grid, McKay said he immediately recalled the viral images, reached out to Simmons and asked him, "Hey, I don't know what shape you're in now. But if it's possible, I really want you to get to that jacked-up guy again and grow out your beard".

Simmons said of the 2016 pictures, "That blew up after it was posted on Instagram". He nevertheless accepted the role as he was attracted by the challenge of building that body again. In the final film, Simmons puts his muscular arms on full display first in a tight bicep-hugging t-shirt and later on in a sleeveless muscle-shirt that shows off his biceps even more prominently.


Note from me: What a pleasant surprise this item was! I had no idea that J. Jonah Jameson (J. K. Simons) was buff, cut, and sexy! Shocked






~ There are 3 popular time travel theories in sci-fi movies.

Fixed timeline - What you change in the past does not really matter, it was predetermined and everything will fall into place equally).

Dynamic timeline - Any change in the past will drastically affect and modify the present).

Parallel timelines - Any change in the past will create an alternative timeline, kind of a separate universe.

This movie does not explain which one it is, but it heavily implies the last (parallel timelines).

Present humans are fighting in the future to save their children's timeline, but their own is already different with the knowledge that aliens will arrive at some point. If it was a dynamic timeline the 'future' would change with every single interaction or jump between present and future.


Note from me: I'm going to watch this movie today on Amazon Prime, and I hope I'll gain a better understanding of what the above comment means. Like the statement which says —

"Present humans are fighting in the future to save their children's timeline, but their own is already different with the knowledge that aliens will arrive at some point."

— seems illogical. How can they be saving "their children's timeline" when "their own" is already different? Do these folks have children in the "changed" timeline that can't be saved? :;shock:

I don't get it . . . Confused

However, while pondering this dilemma I suddenly realized how Back to the Future could have ended in a manner which eliminates one of it's biggest plot holes.

Click here and read what I came up with. Very Happy Back to the Future trilogy

~ During the film, when the military man talks about how the time travel works, he says 'it's like putting chicken wire together with bubble gum'. Which is a clear reference to a scene in the time travel movie, 'Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure'.

Note from me: Bill and Ted (with the help of several historical figures traveling through time with them) did indeed use wads of bubble gum to repair the broken antennae on top of the time machine phone booth.

~ Chris Pratt says "I will be back" in the film which is a slight variation from his father-in-law Arnold Schwarzenegger's famous one-liner "I'll be back" from The Terminator (1984).

Note from me: Amazing. Chris Pratt's father-in-law is Arnold Schwarzenegger. (I wonder if I could somehow get myself invited to their Thanksgiving Dinner!) Cool

~ Chris Pratt said the shooting location for the winter scenes in Russia was on a glacier in Iceland that had never been filmed on before. He added that a few weeks prior to shooting, a couple's bodies had been discovered down a fissure. They appeared to be preserved from about 1940.

Note from me: "Gee, I hope none of us falls into one of these fissures," said Chris. Sad

"Don't worry, somebody will find us. That's what happened the last time!" Very Happy

(This next item is long, so I broke it up into paragraphs which include different concepts. It gives information I did not know concerning both The Thing and Alien!) Shocked

~ The film has parallels to classic space-alien films The Thing and Alien/Prometheus.

As in The Thing, an alien spacecraft crash-landed many years ago (about 1,000 in this film, vs 100,000 in The Thing) in the ice, where the pilots died and the cargo remained frozen in the ice until, in this film, global warming freed them.

In The Thing, the alien was disturbed by scientists, though it was an interstellar prisoner being transported, as opposed to a planet-cleansing species like the White-Spikes or Xenomorphs are theorized to be.

In Alien, a space vessel crash-lands on a rocky planet in deep space as opposed to Earth, though also carrying thousands of alien creatures meant to destroy a planet's population. This concept was expanded in Prometheus.

In this film and The Thing, the crash appears to be unexplained, although the pilots have long since died after the crash. In Alien, the Space-Jockey pilot appeared to have crashed due to the cargo infecting it and killing it.


Note from me: I confess to not knowing a darn thing about that "planet cleansing" aspect of the aliens in Alien.

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PostPosted: Fri Aug 06, 2021 4:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Well, I watched this movie free of charge today on Amazon Prime — which, ironically, I've had for years but never bothered using because I was having too much fun buying a zillion DVDs. I just like the way the boxes look in my racks, and it's fun to have so many movies at my fingertips whenever I get in a specific mood.






Besides, my motto is, "The dumbest thing a guy can do is to die rich. If you do that, somebody else gets to spend your money!"

But the fact that The Tomorrow War is an Amazon Exclusive meant I could watch it free and right away! All I had to do was figure out how to get Amazon Prime on my TV.






That turned out to be easy, so I watched the movie and loved it! Cool

Unfortunately I looked at their list of features and didn't see a damn thing I was interested in! So . . . I guess I'll just keep buying DVDs and Blu-Rays! Very Happy

As for all you folks who are saving money by not buying DVDs and Blu-rays, you're sure doing your kids, grandkids, and widows a big favor! I'm sure they'll think kindly of you when they inherit all the money you didn't spend on yourself. Very Happy

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PostPosted: Fri Aug 06, 2021 7:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Bud, use the "search" feature to find other good movies and series. I'd recommend THE BOYS as a deconstructed take on the superhero genre.
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 21, 2023 8:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Thanks, Gordo! Very Happy

I probably gave up too quickly because I saw so MANY movies I had absolutely no interest in watching. However, logic dictates that if they have "so many movie" I don't care to watch, a more thorough search will turn up "a few movies" that I'm interested in. Very Happy

And so . . . I'll persevere. Cool

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