Movies The Tomorrow War Starring Chris Pratt Teaser

[silentbob]

Still need to watch but they better call it “The Day After The Tomorrow War”

[ShreddieMercury]

I haven't seen this, but how bad is the story in comparison to Looper, which I consider the dumbest time travel movie of all time?

[silentbob]

10 minutes ago, ShreddieMercuryRising said:

I haven't seen this, but how bad is the story in comparison to Looper, which I consider the dumbest time travel movie of all time?

Like I said, I haven’t seen but YOU TAKE THAT BACK ON LOOPER

[Kal-El814]

8 hours ago, Dre801 said:

The director is hinting at a follow-up that may give more insight into the Whitespikes.

No thank you. 

[Mercury33]

8 hours ago, Dre801 said:

The director is hinting at a follow-up that may give more insight into the Whitespikes.

boom sign me up. Gonna need the full trilogy treatment from this. 

[EternallDarkness]

‘The Tomorrow War 2’: Amazon & Skydance Already In Talks For Sequel Reteaming With Chris Pratt, Director Chris McKay & More

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EXCLUSIVE:  In response to this past weekend’s hugely successful global streaming debut of The Tomorrow War, Skydance and Amazon Studios are in discussions, I hear, on the development of a sequel t…

 

[AbsolutSurgen]

19 hours ago, ShreddieMercuryRising said:

I haven't seen this, but how bad is the story in comparison to Looper, which I consider the dumbest time travel movie of all time?

I've only watched the first half of this so far..  I thought Looper was decent.

 

This one is much, much dumber.

[Kal-El814]

19 hours ago, ShreddieMercuryRising said:

I haven't seen this, but how bad is the story in comparison to Looper, which I consider the dumbest time travel movie of all time?

 

The “story” here is skull fuckingly stupid.

[Captain Pickle]

Only watched 1/3 so far.  It’s more like edge of tomorrow than looper but 10 times dumber than both.  I loved both those by the way, especially edge of tomorrow.  This is a turn your brain off popcorn flick, don’t hate it so far

[Keyser_Soze]

19 hours ago, ShreddieMercuryRising said:

I haven't seen this, but how bad is the story in comparison to Looper, which I consider the dumbest time travel movie of all time?

 

[Greatoneshere]

Looper is so well made on every level the fact that it's premise is thin is the dumbest thing to focus on with that film. The too long third act on the farm is probably the best criticism of that film I can come up with. To wit:

 

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Film Crit Hulk Smash: HULK VS. PLOT HOLES AND MOVIE LOGIC

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Hulk smashes the plot hole town criers.

 

[number305]

To add my two cents... this is an okay turn your brain off kind of movie.  But it is really poorly done in several areas.  The effects at times are laughably bad.  The dialog is often corny.  The direction and the editing are poor.  This seems almost like a cheap made for TV movie except with big time expensive actors.  

[Kal-El814]

1 hour ago, number305 said:

To add my two cents... this is an okay turn your brain off kind of movie.  But it is really poorly done in several areas.  The effects at times are laughably bad.  The dialog is often corny.  The direction and the editing are poor.  This seems almost like a cheap made for TV movie except with big time expensive actors.  

 

This is a good call. It’s basically… what if someone made a Lifetime movie for men and had Amazon money while doing it?

[Mercury33]

Lol what? Maybe it feels that way but at no point do the production values of this movie come even close to resembling a cheaply made TV movie lol

[Kal-El814]

1 hour ago, Mercury33 said:

Lol what? Maybe it feels that way but at no point do the production values of this movie come even close to resembling a cheaply made TV movie lol

 

That's why I said they had amazon money while making it.

[TheLeon]

It really does feel like one of those terrible direct to video movies, just with a budget of 150 mil instead of 150k. 

[Gavin King]

Watched last night. It's a fun popcorn action movie, nothing more. Don't expect much and it's a fun ride. If you like Chris Pratt you'll enjoy I think.

 

Not nearly as smart as Looper or Edge of Tomorrow. Other than the basic concept of being sent to the future, there is really no ah-ha or brain teaser. It's a very straightforward plot. 

[dualhunter]

I enjoyed it.

[ShreddieMercury]

On 7/8/2021 at 9:06 PM, Greatoneshere said:

Looper is so well made on every level the fact that it's premise is thin is the dumbest thing to focus on with that film. The too long third act on the farm is probably the best criticism of that film I can come up with. To wit:

 

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Film Crit Hulk Smash: HULK VS. PLOT HOLES AND MOVIE LOGIC

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Hulk smashes the plot hole town criers.

 

 

I am generally able to suspend my disbelief during a movie and I try not to actively nitpick or find plotholes.  But if stuff is too glaringly obvious while I'm watching the movie, and isn't the result of thinking about it or dissecting it later, then I consider it a problem with the film.  My issue with Looper wasn't the "drop them into the ocean or a furnace" thing.  But from pretty early on, I kept thinking to myself, "why send people back to themselves if there are other loopers".  It makes no sense at all.  Yes, I understand that there would be no movie if he doesn't escape, but if a plot hole hits you in the face that hard, it's pretty impossible to not ignore.

[Commissar SFLUFAN]

Dear God - this marketing poster REALLY attempts to make Chris Pratt look like Tom Cruise at first glance:

 

[SimpleG]

1 hour ago, ShreddieMercuryRising said:

  My issue with Looper wasn't the "drop them into the ocean or a furnace" thing.  But from pretty early on, I kept thinking to myself, "why send people back to themselves if there are other loopers".  It makes no sense at all.  Yes, I understand that there would be no movie if he doesn't escape, but if a plot hole hits you in the face that hard, it's pretty impossible to not ignore.

Because killing yourself is a better guarantee to close the loop. If you and I are loopers and I kill your future self and you find out sometime later that I did it and kill me , it keeps the loop open.

[Greatoneshere]

1 hour ago, ShreddieMercuryRising said:

 

I am generally able to suspend my disbelief during a movie and I try not to actively nitpick or find plotholes.  But if stuff is too glaringly obvious while I'm watching the movie, and isn't the result of thinking about it or dissecting it later, then I consider it a problem with the film.  My issue with Looper wasn't the "drop them into the ocean or a furnace" thing.  But from pretty early on, I kept thinking to myself, "why send people back to themselves if there are other loopers".  It makes no sense at all.  Yes, I understand that there would be no movie if he doesn't escape, but if a plot hole hits you in the face that hard, it's pretty impossible to not ignore.

 

No worries, everyone's got their own red line on that stuff. But I think to even enjoy Looper you have to accept its premise, and once you do the rest of the film is quite good actually.

[Kal-El814]

23 hours ago, ShreddieMercuryRising said:

I am generally able to suspend my disbelief during a movie and I try not to actively nitpick or find plotholes.  But if stuff is too glaringly obvious while I'm watching the movie, and isn't the result of thinking about it or dissecting it later, then I consider it a problem with the film.  My issue with Looper wasn't the "drop them into the ocean or a furnace" thing.  But from pretty early on, I kept thinking to myself, "why send people back to themselves if there are other loopers".  It makes no sense at all.  Yes, I understand that there would be no movie if he doesn't escape, but if a plot hole hits you in the face that hard, it's pretty impossible to not ignore.

 

That’s not a “plot hole” though, that’s the actual premise.

[LazyPiranha]

If we’re going to talk about plot holes in Looper and NOT bring up scars suddenly showing up in real time then what even is the point?

[Keyser_Soze]

33 minutes ago, Kal-El814 said:

 

That’s not a “plot hole” though, that’s the actual premise.

 

It's not a plot hole it's the whole plot!

[ShreddieMercury]

4 hours ago, Kal-El814 said:

 

That’s not a “plot hole” though, that’s the actual premise.

 

I thought the premise is that people are sent back in time due to the difficulty of committing murder in the future, and assassins eventually must succumb to the same fate.  I think that the reason for the loopers' escape being that they are unable to kill themselves is super, duper dumb, because there is seemingly no reason that any of the other loopers couldn't finish the job.  The fact that the film's rules revolve around something so arbitrary and easily avoidable is why I didn't like it.

[AbsolutSurgen]

Time travel movies inherently don't make sense.  

 

You have to suspend your belief, and go with whatever nonsensical rules the movie creates for time travel and changing what happened in the past.

[Keyser_Soze]

@ShreddieMercuryRising How much did you enjoy Predestination?

[ShreddieMercury]

6 hours ago, Keyser_Soze said:

@ShreddieMercuryRising How much did you enjoy Predestination?

 

I didn't love it, but it was interesting, and I really like Ethan Hawke.  I'm trying to think of other time travel stuff I enjoyed - I remember liking Timecrimes.  Not time travel related but I really liked Coherence as well.