Time Travel discussion

pretty much a rave review https://paullevinson.blogspot.com/202...

My husband did it started off good but thought it got ridiculous as it went. I thought it was ok. It does go heavy in the action dn sometimes I get bored with too much action.

Interesting -- I had just the opposite take on the movie. I thought it started off obvious and conventional, and burst into exciting new territory when he went into the future.

Paul wrote: "Interesting -- I had just the opposite take on the movie. I thought it started off obvious and conventional, and burst into exciting new territory when he went into the future."

Going into the future was different and I like the surprise about the colonel (I did figure out who she was before it was revealed). I think I read too much, lol, I kept saying why don’t they do this or that and later they would.

I re-subscribed to prime yesterday (I hop between streaming services every month or two as not only is it more economical for me but it makes no difference in the amount of content I watch apart from waiting for specific anticipated stuff)

So the first priority watch was this film! I see where where Nancy is coming from. It was relentless with the gung ho action, wasn't it!? I reckon this film is very much targeted toward a blockbusting monster mash action lover audience who don't feel in a mood to think too deeply into plausibilities and plot holes or a humourless 3 hour exercise of "hey, I am so complex you need to watch me ten times" (looking at you, Tenet!)...But uh, I am that targetted audience, ha.

It's a guilty pleasure for sure and I loved it. It was a surprisingly funny, high octane, big screen blockbuster that I would have absolutely enjoyed more in a cinema with like minded audience of guilty brainless pleasures :)

Not that I don't like other more thought provoking, complex films/TV but I have already had a fill of that sort with Tenet, and amazon's other TV series offerings of Tales of the Loop and Undone, recently (of which the latter is brilliant, must see!). So this was a welcome contrast.

Having said that, the story was a fantastic concept and in fact, it absolutely shares a great deal in concept to the group read we had a year ago!

Simak's Our Children's Children.


https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...



I wouldn't be surprised if that book was an influence. The film actually moved so fast it pretty much covered first half of the book in the first five-ten minutes as background news reels!

It's not a film that has any sort of class to match classics like Cameron's Aliens, or any ounce of satirical statements. It's purely popcorn fun, that won't linger in the mind and it plays it ultra safe to be thought provoking in any way (although, it's stereotyping comical sidekicks don't escape my concern) but it serves it's purpose to entertain and thrill me for 2 hours. I needed that, even though I didn't realise i needed it!

I loved it and in a way, I reckon it's a loose unofficial adaptation of Our Children's Children.

8/10

Good catch n the similarities with Our Children's Children. Didn’t even occur to me.

Too funny on being part of the target audience, LOLOLOL.

I know, I do like "junk food" movies a bit too much for my own good!