@porteruk Honestly, I don't even think Brad Pitt's performance was that great. Like, the cinematography and music were trying to make you think there was a good performance going on there, but maybe it was just the dialogue, but a lot of his lines weren't very convincing to me. Honestly, I thought that was true for a lot of the characters, so it was either the writing or the director.
@porteruk oh... I don't know about that. Some great nods to several space movies including 2001 a Space Odyssey and even Tommy Lee Jones' end in Space Cowboys. Works good as just an action picture. The real magic I though was just how deeply the metaphors are stacked. I mean... the pulse and its cause, the active war zones on the moon, the baboon primal rage, not reporting the acting captain, leaving his spacecraft behind... all essential to the deeper meaning of the film.
I thought it was a very good examination of human, particularly male patterns of behaviour. Pitt's character is far from a machine. He represents every male I've known from a particular era compartmentalizing his emotions and faking his way through the psych evaluations of life. Note his treatment of every individual he encounters. Holds their gaze, smiles appropriately, emanates warmth... all the while feeling nothing.
@porteruk couldn't have said it better myself.
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I feel like I don't want to be too harsh on this film but I have to be sadly....
Boring. Slow. Uninvested. Unoriginal.
A very slow and predictable plot. Uninspiring turn from Tommy Lee Jones, who phones in his performance with all the class of a 1980s Motorola cell phone! I couldn't have cared less about whether this father/son relationship had any development. Why? Because Brad Pitt's character is also boring. He's a machine - we get that spelled out to us several times.
Now... Brad Pitt acts well. The visuals are good - but in a world of Interstellar and Gravity, they're underwhelming.
I liked the view of Moon travel. That's the only positive.
For a 2 hour film though, it felt like 3. That's a bad sign for any film. I'll be avoiding this one when I see it advertised on TV.
I'm settling on 5/10 because of Brad Pitt's performance and some of the visuals (particularly the Moon). But I could have gone as low as 3/10 or 4/10 based on my mood leaving the cinema!