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Bud Brewster Galactic Fleet Admiral (site admin)
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Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2019 4:34 pm Post subject: Ad Astra (2019) |
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This one is coming out in May of this year. Here's what Wikipedia says about it.
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Ad Astra is an upcoming American epic science fiction thriller film directed by James Gray, and written by Gray and Ethan Gross. The film will star Brad Pitt, Tommy Lee Jones, Ruth Negga, Donald Sutherland and Jamie Kennedy.
The Plot
Twenty years after his father left on a one-way mission to Neptune in order to find signs of extra-terrestrial intelligence, Roy McBride, an Army Corps engineer, travels through the solar system to find him and understand why his mission failed.
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Here's what IMDB says.
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Astronaut Roy McBride (Brad Pitt) travels to the outer edges of the solar system to find his missing father and unravel a mystery that threatens the survival of our planet. His journey will uncover secrets that challenge the nature of human existence and our place in the cosmos.
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Heres the trailer, but don't expect much. It doesn't sell the movie well at all.
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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
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Eadie Galactic Ambassador
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Posted: Thu May 02, 2019 9:28 pm Post subject: |
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It doesn't matter anyway.
Brad Pitt’s Ad Astra Disappears From May 24 Release
https://variety.com/2019/film/news/brad-pitt-ad-astra-delayed-1203203583/
Brad Pitt’s science-fiction adventure movie Ad Astra has quietly vanished from the release schedule, three weeks prior to its previously announced May 24 opening date.
Fox had originally dated Ad Astra for January 11, 2019, then decided in late 2018 to move it back four months to the Memorial Day weekend on May 24.
Disney closed the deal for the 20th Century Fox film assets in March and has not done any promotion for the movie since then — no trailer or stills have been released. Ad Astra was not included in early tracking numbers released Thursday for the Memorial Day period, expected to be dominated by Disney’s live-action Aladdin.
Pitt is expected to be at the Cannes Film Festival for the premiere of Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, in which he co-stars with Leonardo DiCaprio. The screening will likely be on May 21, the 25th anniversary of Pulp Fiction.
The studio had no comment Thursday. Disney distribution head Cathleen Taff told exhibitors last month at the CinemaCon convention that the studio would be moving around distribution dates on some of its titles.
James Gray directed Ad Astra from a script he co-wrote with Ethan Gross. Regency Enterprises and Fox produced in association with Bona Film Investment Company, which will distribute in China.
Tommy Lee Jones, Ruth Negga, Jamie Kennedy, and Donald Sutherland are also starring in Ad Astra. Pitt is playing a man who journeys across the solar system in search of his missing father, a dangerous renegade scientist. Jones is portraying the father.
Pitt is also producing with Plan B partners Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner and RT Features’ Rodrigo Teixeira, Keep Your Head Productions’ Anthony Katagas, and Gray.
Gray began shooting the movie in 2017 and said the film would resemble Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. Gray’s directing credits include The Lost City of Z, Little Odessa, We Own the Night, Two Lovers and The Immigrant. The news was first reported by IndieWire.
[As usual Disney seems to have little interest in sci-fi. It's a case of John Carter (2012) all over again. — Eadie _________________ ____________
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Posted: Fri Aug 30, 2019 8:25 pm Post subject: |
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Brad Pitt has announced that the movie will be about toxic masculinity, and it's detrimental effects and the barriers it puts on society.
WOW! Just what I want to see in a science fiction film.
PASS!!!
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Eadie Galactic Ambassador
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Posted: Thu Dec 05, 2019 2:11 pm Post subject: |
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The "Mondo" Poster:
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Bud Brewster Galactic Fleet Admiral (site admin)
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Posted: Mon Sep 09, 2024 3:58 pm Post subject: |
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Good God a'mighty . . .
I watched this terrible movie and was absolutely appalled by it's incredibly depressing and pessimistic view of mankind's future!
This is the polar opposite of all the movies and TV shows which Baby Boomers like me were inspired by in the 1950s. Frankly if this movie represents the future of mankind, we richly deserve the asteroid which will wipe us out the same way the last one did to the dinosaurs!
The fact that film critics actually praised this unpleasant movie experience is truly baffling!
On the other hand, the public's general lack of interest is both understandable and very encouraging.
Hopefully the millions of dollars that 20th Century lost on this drab version of a horrible fate for mankind will discourage Hollywood from thinking we'll pay good money for theater tickets to endure depressing stories like this. _________________ ____________
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Posted: Wed Sep 11, 2024 12:16 am Post subject: |
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Bud Brewster wrote: | The fact that film critics actually praised this unpleasant movie experience is truly baffling! |
That is why I rarely rely on movie critics' reviews of movies. So many terrible movies have been lauded as great films when, in reality, they are pure turds.
I have also seen the reverse: Exceptional movies that the critics hated.
I think we get better (and truer) reviews right here on All Sci-Fi than what any supposed professional film critics can give. _________________ "You look like a pooped out pinwheel."
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Bud Brewster Galactic Fleet Admiral (site admin)
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Posted: Wed Sep 11, 2024 9:01 am Post subject: |
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Brother, you are preachin' to the choir!
Some of my favorite movies (in every genre) are movies the critics panned and the public ignored. It's puzzling. _________________ ____________
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WadeVC Astral Engineer
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Posted: Tue Sep 24, 2024 8:46 am Post subject: |
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Bud Brewster wrote: | Some of my favorite movies (in every genre) are movies the critics panned and the public ignored. It's puzzling. |
I too am like you Bud. Many of the films I love or truly enjoy are those the supposed "professionals" blasted as being terrible.
I guess there are folks who like being told what they should like, versus those like us who actually form our own opinions based on what we truly enjoy. _________________ "You look like a pooped out pinwheel."
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