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The Midnight Sky Trailer (Netflix) - Starring George Clooney In A Post Apocalytic Sci-Fi Tale
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The ending doesn't make sense unless...
it's meant to be that bleak; in which case, fair enough. The couple are simply going back to the planet to live out their life and die. The most likely thing to happen is their daughter buries both of them and then dies alone.
Thing is, they mention the colony ship having meant to be launched in a week's time. Considering there was some warning of impending disaster, since they had time to evacuate, I would have preferred if it had launched early. Maybe in a bad condition due to rushing.
As the Aether came back, Augustine could have realised that the colony ship needed help to get out of orbit or it would fail, but the Aether would need to be alerted and guided to aid them. It would make his journey to contact them more important. It also would have given the space crew an actual goal that meant something. Instead we got kinda busy work repairing the communications dish, which only resulted in a delay in the story.
There could have been real challenges as they helped the colony ship, ending with escorting it to the new world, giving humanity an actual future. Augustine could have died regretting abandoning his daughter but knowing she'd move on to a future without him, as all parents must do. All of this mirroring humanity's failure not to destroy themselves but having hope in the last generation.
It just seemed bleak and meaningless, and not in a good way; more in a bland, flat manner.
Thing is, they mention the colony ship having meant to be launched in a week's time. Considering there was some warning of impending disaster, since they had time to evacuate, I would have preferred if it had launched early. Maybe in a bad condition due to rushing.
As the Aether came back, Augustine could have realised that the colony ship needed help to get out of orbit or it would fail, but the Aether would need to be alerted and guided to aid them. It would make his journey to contact them more important. It also would have given the space crew an actual goal that meant something. Instead we got kinda busy work repairing the communications dish, which only resulted in a delay in the story.
There could have been real challenges as they helped the colony ship, ending with escorting it to the new world, giving humanity an actual future. Augustine could have died regretting abandoning his daughter but knowing she'd move on to a future without him, as all parents must do. All of this mirroring humanity's failure not to destroy themselves but having hope in the last generation.
It just seemed bleak and meaningless, and not in a good way; more in a bland, flat manner.
At the very end of the credits, there is some radio static/noise. I guess it could be nothing, but I was thinking maybe it could mean the colony ship made it out?
Their films are honestly mostly a miss for me. It seems this film isn't any different.
Really didn't like this movie. The trailer was exactly what I typically like, but the movie had no point and did nothing for me. The were also way too many scenes where I would have to suspend my disbelief in what was supposed to be a grounded film.
I was hoping for something in the vein of the superb 'Ad Astra', yet this doesn't even belong in a conversation with that film. Probably my most letdown movie of the year, given that George Clooney usually chooses his films wisely, and has shown that he is a competent director in prior movies too.
I have got to say, Netflix are fantastic in the documentaries and TV shows department, especially this year however, their movies leans far more towards miss than hit.
When did 'Uncut Gems' come out, as that was genuinely the last good film Netflix made/produced?
I have got to say, Netflix are fantastic in the documentaries and TV shows department, especially this year however, their movies leans far more towards miss than hit.
When did 'Uncut Gems' come out, as that was genuinely the last good film Netflix made/produced?
Netflix had nothing to do with the production of Uncut Gems. That's A24. All Netflix did was distribute it internationally.
Yeah and it's crazy since they just buy rights for the most part iirc. So at some point they should be able to land good flicks and it's just isn't happening or very rarely
I just finished watching it a little while ago. I concur. It felt like it could have gone somewhere on multiple fronts but it never quite amounted to anything interesting. I wanted to like it, but it just did nothing for me.
I just think their mostly buying and producing scripts that have been rejected by Hollywood.
You might not agree, but they made some decent action popcorn movies like 6 Underground, Extraction and The Old Guard.
Oof, did not enjoy this. The scenes with Clooney were sort of okay, but especially the astronauts felt like robots imitating humans to me. Like when she announces she's pregnant and they don't even hug? The other ones also felt more like walking clichés to me than people. Didn't care about their fate at all.
"Oh, a new Netflix sci-fi movie.*
*adds to watchlist*
"I wonder what Era thinks of it."
*reads thread*
*removes from watchlist*
*adds to watchlist*
"I wonder what Era thinks of it."
*reads thread*
*removes from watchlist*
If I used Era's general opinion for everything, I'd watch/play nothing. That being said, wasn't that interested in the movie to begin with, so the reactions sort of solidifies that.
I have no clue what you're talking about; if I used Era's general opinion for everything, I'd watch / play literally everything. Era fawns over absolutely every single game, movie and show (as a side effect of selection bias that makes most people only post in threads about things they like). Granted, you also have someone shitting on everything too, especially popular things, but I've never seen a response quite so unanimously negative as this thread; taking into account the aforementioned bias it paints as catastrophic view of the movie as it's actual premise.
I wonder if this would've worked better as a "sci-fi" All Is Lost focused on Clooney.
FTR, my putting it on the level of Ad Astra is not meant as a compliment to either.
Good point, that would make it less bleak, but this is not a movie that should put that information after the credits.
I thought the central conceit was soooo obvious I was surprised they actually tried to make a surprise out of it
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Film was gorgeous though, kinda wish it just focused on Clooney as the spaceship B-plot was horribly underwritten and wasted several great actors.
the kid being a figment of his imagination and Felicity Jones being his daughter
Film was gorgeous though, kinda wish it just focused on Clooney as the spaceship B-plot was horribly underwritten and wasted several great actors.
Way too long. Nothing happens. The whole thing just feels like a giant waste of time, as you said.
Maya dying was so stupid. They death-flagged her way too hard with the whole "I've never walked before" and "My first and last spacewalker". With how much they focused on her family and friends versus the other characters, she was doomed from the start.
The dudes going back to Earth, I guess I get it. There's a 0.01% chance they find the underground bases but no one is gonna let them in. It's a death sentence like you said.
For the twist, yeah, it was dumb. I wish it was presented better as him dealing with what he knows as hallucinations of his daughter and what he thinks she'd be like versus hanging onto some old memory. I was gonna say she's silent because he's never heard her talk, but then again she laughed and he's never heard her laugh.
It was also kind of unclear but they mentioned the colony on K-23 but I'm not sure if the lady was just BSing Augustine. I'm not sure if there's actually a colony like she said? Also, if the two dudes took the ship doesn't that mean the couple can't actually get back onto K-23?
Also I was expecting something supernatural with that bird scene, and the guy in the plane. Got nothing.
The movie seems to want to prey on what you want by dangling something that could be cool in front of your face and then goes "nah".
Arg.
The dudes going back to Earth, I guess I get it. There's a 0.01% chance they find the underground bases but no one is gonna let them in. It's a death sentence like you said.
For the twist, yeah, it was dumb. I wish it was presented better as him dealing with what he knows as hallucinations of his daughter and what he thinks she'd be like versus hanging onto some old memory. I was gonna say she's silent because he's never heard her talk, but then again she laughed and he's never heard her laugh.
It was also kind of unclear but they mentioned the colony on K-23 but I'm not sure if the lady was just BSing Augustine. I'm not sure if there's actually a colony like she said? Also, if the two dudes took the ship doesn't that mean the couple can't actually get back onto K-23?
Also I was expecting something supernatural with that bird scene, and the guy in the plane. Got nothing.
The movie seems to want to prey on what you want by dangling something that could be cool in front of your face and then goes "nah".
Arg.
There are actually two drop ships, it's why Chandler, and Bichir wanted to go down. No colony, the Aether crew was sent out to find answers about k-23, while there was a separate colony (?) ship that left earth a week ago, but they had no contact with (but you hear static at the end of the film lol).
Yeah, Maya might as well as worn a redshirt.
Sanchez going to Earth is especially stupid, as far as they know, the four of them on the ship and Clooney and his hallucination are the last living humans. Humanity itself is at perilous risk. Sacrficing himself to take Maya home puts the future of humanity that much more in jeopardy.
There's no colony already on K-23, but there was a colony ship that was due to launch right after the catastrophe.
As I understood the timeline, the colony ship was scheduled to leave ~2 weeks after the catastrophe, but there was nothing besides the post credit radio static to indicate what happened to it.
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Wow Clooney is a terrible director. I feel like there was enough in the source material to make this a good movie. What we got was an utter mess.
i saw ad astra in a movie theater (remember those) and it was actually pretty boring, but midnight sky feels like the Hallmark straight to dvd version. Nothing happens, the characters aren't really characters (and they're really bad astronauts too), and the Aether is the most unrealistic spaceship ever (seriously the control room looks like the theater room at Facebook).
And at the end, the
And at the end, the
two astronauts leave so they can find kyle's wife? did not hear the part where she said shes in some underground bunker on a dead planet? Plus that only leaves two crew members to fly back all the way to Jupiter? WTF?
And the whole flashback with Spock was so unnecessary. Did anyone not predict child Iris was a figment of his imagination and that his long lost daugter was Jyn Erso?
And the whole flashback with Spock was so unnecessary. Did anyone not predict child Iris was a figment of his imagination and that his long lost daugter was Jyn Erso?
I enjoyed the film, mainly for the beautiful shots and CGI, but it was incredibly predictable.
The way the two crew members so casually left the ship seemed bizarre to me. They will be potentially the last four surviving humans (+ potentially a child) and there is no discussing or consideration of that? I'd have at least expected there to be some kind of chat or even a confrontation about it.
That movie was kinda there... lot of stuff way to predictable and I don't say that often as some high nose internet "experts" who always see everything coming.
A few nice shots but nothing which stuck.
Compared to this Ad Astra had a lot more going on.
Rather a waste of time.
That the one dude was going back to his wife was not out of character since they shoved the info into you that he has really strong ties to his family,the whole time. Expected a heavy dispute between him and crew but he just bailed.
At least i can relate since people here pretend that nobody would rather die with your family in an underground bunker than dieing almost alone on another planet (while the only woman has to pump out kids for the rest of her life, for the slim hope to safe humanity. And also hope not to get disabled kids in the settlement because of the low gene variation...)
A few nice shots but nothing which stuck.
Compared to this Ad Astra had a lot more going on.
Rather a waste of time.
That the one dude was going back to his wife was not out of character since they shoved the info into you that he has really strong ties to his family,the whole time. Expected a heavy dispute between him and crew but he just bailed.
At least i can relate since people here pretend that nobody would rather die with your family in an underground bunker than dieing almost alone on another planet (while the only woman has to pump out kids for the rest of her life, for the slim hope to safe humanity. And also hope not to get disabled kids in the settlement because of the low gene variation...)
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Film went off after 45 minutes, couldn't handle it anymore. So utterly dull, felt like a compilation of all the worst plot elements from the previous two decades of sci fi films
I laugh when I see "OSCAR HOPEFUL" in articles about this movie. If it gets a nomination then you know how meaningless those are.
Yeah, have to agree this movie is dead air. It's fine in parts, I like Clooney and it isn't even the predictable nature of it that's the problem- it's just that the execution is really uninteresting. As a director, I feel like George keeps getting these interesting concepts and scripts with good actors and turns them into really bland films- Suburbicon, and especially Monuments Men were tragically bland.
Lol, this movie is something that just...exists.
Clooney remains a trash-tier director that thinks a good film is all about actors getting a lot of scrrentime to "act," which means a lot of dialog and emotions on display. There are so many times when actors just speak out loud their emotions and mental process which were easily readable without dialog.
The film has no idea what it is and it just comes off as hokey.
Clooney remains a trash-tier director that thinks a good film is all about actors getting a lot of scrrentime to "act," which means a lot of dialog and emotions on display. There are so many times when actors just speak out loud their emotions and mental process which were easily readable without dialog.
The film has no idea what it is and it just comes off as hokey.
