Ad Astra (2019)

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Bald Move

Tv & Film, Film Reviews

4.5 • 942 Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2019

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Jim and I went to the outer reaches of the solar system with Ad Astra, the paradoxically slow moving, absorbing, thoughtful, but action packed sci-fi film starring Brad Pitt and Tommy Lee Jones. We spend the better part of an hour talking about what we thought the film was about, and the strange, ultra-realistic yet dreamy quality to a lot of the proceedings. I think we both admired the film more than loved it, but I at least wouldn't be surprised if further contemplation (and watches) revealed some hidden depths. We'll see you in two weeks for The Joker! Please enjoy our spoiler-free review of the movie as well as a discussion of upcoming films and trailers, but if you want to hear our full, spoiler-filled analysis you'll have to be a Club Bald Move member! Support Bald Move: Club Bald Move Leave Us A Review on Apple Podcasts Join the discussion: Email | Forums | Facebook | Twitter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey everybody welcome to another first-run bald movies. Jim and I just had a strange bewildering and majestic experience at the box office seeing one ad Astra
0:11.7	Sorry Brad Pitt Tommy Lee Jones. 30 seconds of Live Tyler. Uh-huh. And it's, it's
0:20.8	had all the prerequisites for a space movie.
0:23.4	You got the space cowboys, you got the Armageddon.
0:25.8	Yeah.
0:26.4	I feel like you just really hit all the bases there.
0:28.8	I forgot about the Armageddon.
0:29.6	There's one shot of Tommy Lee Jones and like a flight outfit that they might have just pulled from a publicity still from space Cowboys.
0:36.0	Right. So you know I'm inclined to be in the tank for a kind of cerebral science fiction film which this most
0:44.9	certainly is. This shares a lot of DNA with
0:48.4	uh... interstellar. It shares a lot of DNA with 2001 a space odyssey.
0:53.8	It's not exactly the same in tone as either of those,
0:56.9	but it's closer to that than gravity,
0:58.6	although it has a lot of gravity DNA in it too.
1:00.6	Does, yeah.
1:01.4	One damn thing after another happening. The film felt longer than its two hour
1:06.0	run time. What did you think? I'm curious. Man, I think the thing that this movie is trying to do is not for me.
1:16.0	But it is for a lot of people I think.
1:19.0	What do you think the film's trying to do?
1:21.0	I don't know how much I want to say in the non-spiler section because it's
1:25.5	this film is a journey. They go a very long way to make the point that they want to make and the movie is that point and if I
1:34.9	start to talk about those things it will kind of spoil the movie you're right
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