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title = "Ad Astra (2019)"
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date = 2020-11-01
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updated = 2021-02-12
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tags = ["reviews", "movies", "2019", "brad pitt", "tommy lee jones",
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"donald sutherland", "stars:2"]
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[IMDB Summary](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2935510/):
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Astronaut Roy McBride undertakes a mission across an unforgiving solar system
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to uncover the truth about his missing father and his doomed expedition that
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now, 30 years later, threatens the universe.
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{{ stars(stars=2) }}
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I remember some friends saying that "The movie looks like sci-fi, but it
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isn't", but I have to say, it *is* sci-fi. It's not classic sci-fi, in which
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they use some futuristic/scientific-based upgrades to explore some other topics
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-- Star Trek is a classic in doing this. But this movie does a whole *metaphor*
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using sci-fi.
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One of the curious aspects is that they managed to make old actors look like
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old people. Tommy Lee looks old. Donald Sutherland looks old. Even Brad Pitt
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looks somewhat older than me (well, *almost* older than me). Gone are the days
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of 51-year-old Tom Cruise looked like 30-something in "Oblivion". No, Brad Pitt
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character looks 40-almost-50, Tommy Lee looks like the father or someone
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40-almost-50 and Donald Sutherland looks like the colleague of that father. It
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is a nice change, though.
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The visuals are impressive, almost "Gravity" quality. The space elevator/power
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generator looks like a real thing. I almost got pissed in that intro 'cause it
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seemed they forgot something, but then things happen and I wasn't that pissed
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anymore.
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The movie pacing is weird. There are not speed ups and no speed downs, but the
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whole thing moves like a crawl, to the point of boredom. I could watch
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something on my phone during the movie (I watched at home, not in the cinema,
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don't worry) and I didn't lose anything, in the end.
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And, speaking of the end, that's when the whole metaphor downs to you. But
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then, you're tired of the crawling pacing and it feels really "meh".
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I may watch again for the visuals, but would probably switch channels in some
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less visually appealing scene and get lost in some other movie.
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