watched ready or not, hahaha my wife was asking WTF movie I'm watching

y make no sense one

AD ASTRA... is a decent sci-fi movie alto poor at box office.

i had expected more, but no... it's ok but hasn't got that wow and oomph factor.... unlike interstellar or gravity.

still, if u like sci-fi-space, it's watchable.

stars brad pitt, tommy lee jones, donald sutherland. 3/5.

If Interstellar can get 5 stars, Ad Astra will be 1 star

Haha! That movie was hilarious and no need make sense.

3 star.

1 star.

Tonight I will watch it. Later comment. Haha!

Just watched it, I'd be kinder, 1.5 stars

This post has been edited by colossians: Dec 7 2019, 06:47 PM

Finally I finish watching it Ad Astra I had mix feeling on this film. It is either 4 Star or 1 Star to me.
More to 4 Star as make sense sometimes is not important, it just a movie.

My summary view of this film. Alert: Following had some spoiler of the film.

It is freaking fictional and does't make sense, he can drop from space to Earth by only wearing a space suit? I not sure what century they put, maybe it make sense in the future. But no matter how, certain plot is some how silly. Fighting in the Moon? really? The monkey attack one of the space craft and is the monkey eat them 100%? Where is the left over body... .... Cannot have emotional and this will make you disqualified to continue the journey? Lastly I think they is no security control at Mars, so easier to break in. lol.

His father refuse to home because he fail to find others life. Let him be, but this will make impact to the so call interference to earth and mars where came out from that space ship where locate so far away at Neptune and need to destroy? This part is the most does't make sense at all.

He basically violate the laws and kill the others and he is free from any judgement? because he success destroy it. hmm...

Anyway beside all the does't make sense, the acting was great, the cinematography or CGI view was brilliant and I actually quite enjoy the view. I give it high score as 4 Star for this but If talk on make sense, this movie is 1 Star.



This post has been edited by Andrewtst: Dec 8 2019, 03:51 AM

Watched The Farewell this weekend. It's a comedy family drama with a very simple story line. Yet it is very strong in the acting and message.
The main plot is the moral dilemma of the family, to be true or lie. It correlate deeply with asian culture. Best part of this movie is it is based on the director own family story.
The movie also focus with details on some of the small everyday things, kind of like how Japanese focus it on their movie/drama/anime/manga.
Rotten Tomatoes and majority of audience give it a very high score, which I fully agree to it.

There's also an audio narrative of the story that helped to convince the producers to make the movie. It's less than 30 minutes. Before that she have approached plenty of producers but all turned it down because the movie is not Chinese enough nor American enough. I advise to watch the movie first before listening to the audio narrative. But do listen to the audio narrative after that as it expands and give more realism to the story.
https://www.thisamericanlife.org/585/in-def...rance/act-one-7

This post has been edited by xxboxx: Dec 7 2019, 11:20 PM

Cornetto Trilogy - The best trilogy direct by Edgar Wright. All 5 Star.
Edgar Wright is a great director and I like all his directing film.

I had re-watch all this 3 titles in 4K HDR with DTS-HD MA 7.1, awesome transfer. No regret to re-watch.

This post has been edited by Andrewtst: Dec 8 2019, 01:01 AM

This is not awesome and not bad either. I just can't feel it that much. 3 Star.

How on earth this movie is category as Comedy?!!? This is not a comedy, they is no sense of humor in the entire film. This is simply a drama. Acting was good but just missing something on it, no sadness on it, no joy on it, it just show a simple culture differences in between different country. I do agree sometimes a good lie is good for certain situation.

This movie suddenly let me remember of "The Wedding Banquet" which had similar of lie to family for the goods.

The Chinese title "Don't Tell Her" is a better title than The Farewell.



This post has been edited by Andrewtst: Dec 8 2019, 03:50 AM

You don't find the movie's humour as funny? For me it were funny, not the kind over the top but just simple thing that made me chuckle, like grandma on the roof.
No sadness no joy? Feels like we talking about different movie. I do feel the sadness when she found out she was rejected for fellowship and when her uncle broke down and cry while giving congratulatory speech. There's joy feeling when seeing how the dog can call it's name or when the family playing drinking game. There's feeling of tense too in her family every time she started talking to her grandma, everyone were worried she will spill the bean. I feel the movie emotion is subtly portrayed, it's easy to miss it, like how her cousin face show he bottled up his feeling throughout the movie and finally broke down after too much drinking.

i watched this FAREWELL some weeks ago.

not bad, i quite liked it... some humor, emotional subtleties, realistic life situations.

the story is supposedly based on the real life experience of the director. 3/5.

Have you listen to the audio narrative? It help to explain some of the things that happen in the movie, like what she think of her uncle lecture about keeping it secret when they walk back together.

Nope nothing is funny for me. The speech part sadness is too little. No feeling she get rejected for fellowship. The dog can call it's name? The dog is singing only.
If die die want to said humor, they is only one very little humor where talk about dead people.

The tense feeling yes but not sadness.

The acting was good but not in level to make me in sadness & feel want to cry level.
Maximum I can give is 3 star because it is not good enough but not bad also. So it is in between.

I know why this story get reject by many studio when the director show to studio because it is way too common, it is like watching common known Asia Family life style and tradition.

You also give 3 star. What I want to said is it is not awesome but not bad either.

This post has been edited by Andrewtst: Dec 9 2019, 03:36 AM

Doctor Sleep - A very well done sequel to The Shining. Mike Flanagan did a great job to balancing it on what Stanley Kubrick had change. He success convince Stephan King and did it brilliantly. 5 Star no doubt.



This post has been edited by Andrewtst: Dec 9 2019, 02:28 AM

Yeah, sometimes some movie just doesn't connect to some people. Maybe it appeal more toward western audience than asian audience.
But it has gotten 10 wins and 29 nominations so far so that's something I guess.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8637428/awards

that can only be true.

which is why there are tons of movies - take yr pick!

martin scorcese's opinion:



This post has been edited by AVFAN: Dec 9 2019, 11:25 AM

The guy that said Marvel movie are theme park ride and not cinema.
As how he doesn't feel Marvel movie are cinema worthy, there's also people that feel his movie such as The Irishman are not cinema worthy.
Especially more now when cinema were equipped with so many latest tech such as 3D, ATMOS, moving seat. Cinema are becoming more like a theme park ride.
He'll be surprised superhero movie also can be unexpected, such as Infinity War ending.

I think there's more diversity in movie these days. Like there's kids friendly superhero movie and there's for adult only superhero movie. Because of the diversity it's impossible to eliminate risk. There's people that only will watch The Irishman and there's people that only will watch Endgame. Both also have it's own risk.

and there is ppl like me that watches frozen 2

I watch anything. From animation to marvel to drama to psycho to as long it is a film.

They is no specific genre to me.

This post has been edited by Andrewtst: Dec 11 2019, 03:56 AM