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Ad Astra (2019)
Suitable for Sleep Disorder Treatment
If any movie will put you to sleep, it's this one. Slow moving, script made very little sense, and is a totally worthless waste of time. Oh,..in this movie, there IS gravity in space!
Here's a spoiler...this movie has nothing to do with space. All the scenes between the beginning and the end, is nothing but filler and wasted celluloid. The space crap is just a pretty pretext to get you into the theater to see the movie.
Here's the bottom line, in a nutshell...it's about Brad Pitt's transformation from an insensitive, uncaring, self-absorbed jerk (just like his dad), to a more, sensitive,caring guy.
Badda Boom Badda Bing. That's it. Everything in between is just tedious, boring, slow-moving, and incoherent space garbage.
Dead Men (2018)
An example of how NOT to make a movie
This is the most atrocious movie I have ever seen. Generally, I don't mind bad acting, or bad dialogue, low budget, or other attributes of relatively poor productions, but this one takes the cake. I don't normally post movie reviews and just leave it up to the viewer to decide if they like the movie or not. But this movie has so many bad directorial and production issues everything that you could do wrong was compiled into this one single film.
Believe it or not, the one saving grace was that the acting was OK, in spite of what the actors had to work with. In fact, Sasha Higgins and Craig Hensley did a superb job, as did the Apache cast. However. it's the rest of the production that let them down. This is just a few examples, but there are many more to choose from:
Continuity sucks. The plot and story line is all over the place. Flashbacks, dream sequences, and other events don't make logical sense. For instance, in one scene, the main character (Jesse Struthers) leaves the tribe, and during his absence, the Army meets with the Indians and gives them an ultimatum to relocate. Later, when Jesse confronts the Governor about the gold mine, out of nowhere it's like...Oh and I want the Indians given what was promised...? He wasn't there during the conversation, and hadn't been back to the tribe since. So what's the tie-in? (Maybe the Force was with him...?) In an earlier scene, Vance Edison is left for dead, and out of nowhere, days/months/years later (? who knows) he comes to life while a vulture is eating his eye. Not to mention his gullible quest for vengeance (of the person who shot his friend...not him) makes him look like a buffoon. And what about Jesse Struthers conveniently digging up the original deed to the mine? Right under the new owner's sign! How did it get there? Why was it there? Not in a box or anything. Just a piece of paper laying under 6 inches of loose sand for at least a year or more? And in one scene, the mayor makes a comment to Jake Struthers about his parentage or lineage (if only the public knew...) but it's never explained or clarified. Are they hinting at another plot line that wasn't followed through? This is just a few of the unexplained inconsistencies in the film.
Crappy editing. Scenes cut to black for no reason. Scenes often don't have a logical transition. Next scene pops up out of nowhere. No establishing shots. It seems as if nothing was left on the cutting room floor. No editorial focus. If something was shot...by golly they're gonna stick it in somewhere, even if it didn't make sense. A lot of wasted footage that added nothing to the story. That's probably why it's 3 hours of incoherent nonsense.
Makeup sucks. The repair to Vance Edison's eye looks like someone put a patch of silly putty on his face and didn't even bother to blend the edges or match his skin color. Doesn't even look an anatomically correct surgical procedure.
Weapons are inappropriate for the post Civil War time frame depicted in the movie. Zero effort at authenticity and accuracy.
And the ending didn't make sense or bring anything to closure. It looked like they tried to make a some kind of ambiguous ethereal statement but, as usual it was never followed up and left you hanging. It's like they either ran out of money, or ideas, or just got bored with the whole useless production and quit. Or maybe someone rang the bell for last-call so the cast and crew left the set and forgot to come back and finish the movie.