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Originally Posted by troutman
I thought Ad Astra was an excellent movie. 9/10. My deductions are minor - the astronaut cast adrift on a spacewalk is fairly cliche - done before in 2001, Gravity, Mission To Mars. I didn't know how the anti-gravity energy was such a threat, or how a world economy could afford to build such a big infrastructure in the solar system. The music did not make much of an impact (compare that to 2001).
Most of the movie was very original, with things I have never seen in a SF movie: the space elevator, a car chase on the moon, and I was surprised by the reveal on the biological research ship. Visually, the movie was amazing, worth the ticket price alone. I assume there was a good deal of CGI, but it was hard to notice. Pitt trying to send a signal to his father, then to be coldly dismissed was well done.
Certainly there were nods to Apocalypse Now (the father as Kurtz) and 2001 (the flight to the moon). The movie needed to be focused on Pitt, because it was all about solitude. So many of the people he tried to help died anyway, and the World will probably never know about the success of his secret mission. I was surprised by what Project Lima did not discover, and not until Pitt looked back at the distant sun did he understand that we may only have each other, and that is okay. Ad Astra is latin for "to the stars". The sun is a star. Pitt seems like a machine bound to follow his program, but like HAL 900, he learns what it means to be human.
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Good breakdown. I was hesitant to go this deep for the spoilers but yep, you got it. I want to watch it again as I feel there's some really nice nuances missed in the first watch. It is a good movie. I just left wanting a little bit more at the end.
I did however love the perspective shift at the end as well. "He thought he failed, he didnt he discovered a universe full of beauty"