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Problem with the ending (spoilers)

posted 3 years ago by Tosh (11)
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I had a real problem with the ending with the two guys who were being noble and heroic for their families by committing suicide, 90% of people on earth would have given anything to swap places with them also they are 2 of the last 4 human beings who will survive the catastrophe and should be more concerned about rebuilding the human race on a new planet, also there's going to be a small problem with inbreeding which they could have helped with unless they left some love juice on the ship before they flew off into oblivion!

[–] John Kyle (647) 3 years ago

That is what helps make it such a bad movie.

[–] ILJtheFirst (1925) 3 years ago

The colony ship never launched. If they manage to survive on the imaginary moon, they are the last humans. The baby daughter will live longer than the 2 parents. She will live a lonely and solitary life until she finally passes and humans are offically extinct.

[–] FilmBoy (1080) 3 years ago

The Dad and Daughter must also make more children. And so on...
until you get to a reasonable facsimile of England - LOL

[–] bounce (62) 3 years ago

Facsimile of England?

Lol Norfolk anyway...

:)

[–] brux (14666) 3 years ago

Yes ... not to mention they have to landing pods for a reason. It silly to think that two humans could re-populate a planet anyway ... but that would have made a better movie. Their one and only goal would be to have as many children as possible ... and then what? What if the women dies in childbirth. No doctors, no medicine, no knowledge, no way to get back to Earth ... and speaking of Earth, what even happened to kill everyone?

[–] Padeen (6459) 3 years ago

By looking at the radiation map, the only plausible explanation I can think of is a tit for tat exchange of nuclear weapons that got out of hand and was probably initially a mistake or misunderstanding. The book doesn't say what "the event" was either and leaves it up to the readers imagination.

Also, it's possible maybe 10% of the human population could survive in underground bunkers. It would be a completely different world, but I don't think it would mean the extinction of the human race.

[–] Iffy762 (1331) 3 years ago

This movie is basically the background story to The 100, as far as I'm concerned.

[–] Missemd (274) 3 years ago

I agree Padeen.
The wife of Kyle Chandler’s character specifically says they are heading to an underground bunker so I took that to mean that there was definitely hope that a small percentage of humanity would survive.

[–] Padeen (6459) 3 years ago

I also noticed in a short scene that Kyle Chandlers character was watching the movie "On the Beach" which has a very similar plot line about impending doom caused by a nuclear war.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053137/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

[–] ILJtheFirst (1925) 3 years ago

That sounds awesome. I need to watch On the Beach, right after The Lighthouse.

[–] [deleted] 3 years ago

They said living underground is only temporary.

[–] Iffy762 (1331) 3 years ago

Totally agree. I was thinking, you're worried because communication from Earth has stopped, you don't know what's going on, but you send both women out to do spacewalks including the pregnant one? Uuuuuuhhhhh....

[–] diagoro (483) 3 years ago

Not to mention how sick one of the women was.

[–] bounce (62) 3 years ago

Sick one = pregnant one .

But agree.. odd choice etc

[–] sarahleigh81 (94) 2 years ago

No, Maya was the sick one, vomiting before putting her helmet on. Sully was the one who was pregnant.

[–] Hans-Wilhelm (1320) 3 years ago

They do not wish to live without their family.

[–] johnmiller (3340) 3 years ago

The whole movie has A LOT of potential! But, yes, there are a LOT of odd issues with it. And, what you mention is one of them. Yeah, if the future of humanity is at stake, these two guys NEEDED to stay on the ship and make sure that it got back to that wonderland planet thing.

And, what WAS that wonderland planet thing? Is it some terraformed moon? And, if it is, that would have taken a MASSIVE number of workers, technology and resources to make it happen. But, they made it seem like this handful of people made it happen.

This is one of those science-fiction projects where, while there is obvious knowledge of science in it, there is also stuff where it seems no one thought of how things could realistically happen.

[–] mobocracy (845) 3 years ago

My takeaway was that it was a "hidden" moon of Jupiter somehow that somehow managed to be habitable. It was too near future to be terraformed.

I think this is one of those science fiction projects where there wasn't enough science involved. Jupiter has a huge radiation field that makes its moons bad choices for surface habitation, it's not at all clear how the hell the surface is shirt-sleeve weather that far from the sun, and so on.

Too often anymore I find myself watching "science fiction" films where the "science fiction" part is just a gimmick draped over a mundane drama, and the science fiction backstory isn't given even a cursory explanation. Sometimes the showrunner or director claims it's even *irrelevant* because it's a story about love, life, struggle or other muddy dramatic ideas. I think these days the "science fiction" facade is used cynically to draw in viewers who wouldn't otherwise waste time on "old dying man struggles with one last struggle while helping some child".

[–] ILJtheFirst (1925) 3 years ago

Ad Astra is the perfect example of a space movie that explains nothing and you're supposed to swallow it, no questions asked.

[–] mobocracy (845) 3 years ago

I guess it made more sense to me as a science fiction movie than Midnight Sky.

[–] [deleted] 3 years ago

Why are you assuming they committed suicide? Maybe the reunited with their families. The movie is unclear on that.

It's not their responsibility to rebuild the human race. Why should it be? If the human race is dead, they aren't going to care.

[–] AnubisRaydeen (7897) 3 years ago

I had the same problem. They were stupid and the captain should have forbidden it. They needed all the parts on that shuttle for their future. The grim reality is that Felicity Jones would have to have babies from each of the three of those guys and then her children would have to have babies from each other AND those same three guys in order to create the maximum possible genetic mix for the survival of the human race. It ain't pretty but these are scientists and they'd know that.

Some other problems too like him being in that freezing water for 10 seconds and lived. etc

I did like they way they handled Clooney's relationship with the girl. Said and done, I enjoyed it. Probably because movies have been super lame this year and this is gold by comparison.

[–] mcboat (17) 3 years ago

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