I watched Ad Astra today. For the second time, actually. I remember watching it…during the pandemic, I think? Which would make sense because it came out in 2019. Guys…that is a bad movie. It thinks it’s so smart, but holy fuck is that movie stupid. It’s beautiful in parts, good in parts, even, like the lunar chase and when Brad finally makes it to Tommy—the way he dresses him in the suit…but good lord they torpedo anything decent with relentless nonsense and literal stupidity, both from characters, and in terms of basic freaking physics which is wiiiiild because the director went out and said he wanted to make the most realistic space movie ever. He…did not. There’s no such thing, for example, as instantaneous communication between Neptune and Mars.
It was very pretty, though. They spared no expense. I enjoyed that immensely.
Night night.