Ad Astra (Brad Pitt) | Movie Review - Bull Session
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- It's Ad Astra, the 2019 Brad Pitt Tommy Lee Jones outer space movie!
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Ad Astra (2019) - Movie Review by Bull Session
Starring Brad Pitt, Tommy Lee Jones, Ruth Negga, Liv Tyler, and Donald Sutherland
Released September 20, 2019
Ad Astra is a 20th Century Fox, Regency Enterprises, Bona Film Group, New Regency, Plan B Entertainment, RT Features, Keep Your Head Productions, MadRiver Pictures production, and is distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
This video is a Bull Session Production. All contents are used in accordance with Fair Use for the purposes of criticism and parody.
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Cue the legion of people who think I hated the movie, even though I spent the first two minutes of this video praising it.
I didn't even know this movie was coming out and you made me want to go watch it tonight.
As an aside, how would you compare Ad Astra to Interstellar? I thought Interstellar was an amazing example of giving the general audience a look into space and science without making it too complicated.
I thought Interstellar was a lot more entertaining. I liked the characters more, and it was more emotionally resonant with me. As for the science, this is obviously not going as far out there with trippy sci-fi concepts. Since its a lot more grounded in reality than Interstella, I found it more distracting when the science was botched. That said, both are comparable in tone and subject matter, so I hope you enjoy it!
Yeah, I was let down by this one too. I liked it thematically, and the production values are fantastic like you said. But everything else just didn't land as much as they should have.
Also, I definitely agree on the narration. Some usage of it was fine, but it mostly felt like the film didn't trust the audience when conveying Roy's feelings.
Mhm. It sometimes felt like a post-production decision.
When he was landing that rocket the controls only worked in two dimensions, if that makes any sense. Wonder if anyone else noticed that.
I can forgive the space travel. The immersion was lost on me with the whole “there are countries on the Moon at fighting and also space pirates”.
Day 1 of Space Law 101: Article 2 of the Outer Space Treaty reads “Outer space, including the moon, is not subject to national appropriation by claim of sovereignty, by means of use or occupation, or by any other means.”
The cinematography was neat though.
Something most have happened.
I'm still confused as to why your quality to view ratio is so skewed. What you produce is so much better than so many of the other "bigger" review channels here on youtube.
I honestly hope your channel blows up soon; I hate seeing your uploads having so little views right when you upload them.
Sub, like and bell crew, where you at?
Everything you said in this video was everything I felt watching Ad Astra every time since its release which hampered my enjoyment of and appreciation for the movie. But, after five years of endless rewatches, I can now rest assured that I understand and empathize with the film. It is a masterpiece.
I feel that the character of BRad Pitt's journey was very pointless. because his dad
ended up dying anyway
this movie is all over the place
One note, and I haven't seen the movie, but there are numerous reasons why the time to travel from earth to mars and the time to travel from mars to neptune may not add up. Most importantly is that the planets are not in a synchronized orbit. Mars could be on the other side of its orbit from Earth, but could be fairly well lined up for the journey to Neptune, which would skew the numbers significantly.
I don't know why but I laugh so hard at the intro with it shacking.
Usually I need at least a day to determine a movie is complete dogshit. This was not the case with Ad Astra.
Exactly!
Shame you completely missed the point of this film. The sci-fi is not the point. It's a story of someone reaching outward to find answers, discovering that once can let go of the outward search by letting go of his father, the answers are not found some place far away. They are right in front of us. "We're all we've got". Isn't it Terrifying? Isn't it Terrific?
I just saw the movie so I can't really say how I'll feel in months time but currently, overall, it was good or at least enjoyable. The monologues are bad. The side characters are underdeveloped. The events are contrived. Some important science makes no sense. However, while the themes are flagrant, they do emotionally connect with me. I think a lot of the plot, setting, and motivations are direct results from putting feeling and message first. Everything else suffers to some degree. I suspect a lot of the story was either edited out, unfinished, or retooled somehow. With better editing this film could be a lot more solid in many ways. I'm rambling yes, but I'm just trying to say that like many other movies, I think a lot was lost in editing and reshoots. I think many of the problems could be fixed by a really ambitious fan-edit. Regardless, despite the problems, the movie as it is still engages. I think it's themes and main message conveyed through the father-son relationship works well. Yeah it's doing something other fiction has done a lot better but unlike some less than stellar scifi movies of the past 20 years, this feels like space,. It feels real (surprisingly). That really does more than anything else to convey emotion. Not 2001 or even Gravity, this is definitely worth seeing in theaters, despite many problems. I think you might've been saying that in the review by in large so perhaps this is super redundant!
To me, it felt like it was trying way too hard to be the next 2001, it really took me out of enjoying it.
Are you excited for KSP 2? ua-cam.com/video/P_nj6wW6Gsc/v-deo.html
I've never heard of this, but it looks awesome!
If you're bored watching this, then it just means you have the attention span of an 8yo, despite your claims of liking slow burn sci-fi.
The VO monologs, while not necessary, served the character and mood well in the film, and your comparison of it to a lesser Blade Runner is flawed on top of being predictable.
The only character that matters here is Roy, it's just that type of movie, the rest only serve to advance Roy in the plot, so your expectations of them are irrelevant.
This is what happens when ppl go into a movie with pre-conceived notions and expectations - they get "frustrated" by it. But ok, you're allowed to be wrong.
the film is interesting in that it totally destroyed Brad Pitt's career.
Is there really a space baboon?
Sure is
@@BullSession YES!
Let's face it,the movie industry is pretty much dead.
Space Baboon. Love it
I couldn't believe my eyes.
@@BullSession One of the many reasons I felt insulted by that movie - explosive decompression doesn´t work this way. I know of only one case: Byford Dolphin oil drilling platform, 1983 deep sea divers, decompression from 9 to 1 atm in a fraction of seconds - yes it works! Space: 1 to 0 atm -> don´t hold your breath for a similar scene!
The best word to sum up this 2.5 hour slog of a movie is “awful”. Although pointless and dull also fit well. Save yourselves a few bucks and hours that you can’t get back & steer clear of this one.
Glad I can skip this.
Another pretentious woke movie from Hollywood.
What was the point of this movie or his mission?
Boring Movie and the Title sounds like a Minute Rice Product.