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Spaceman with daddy issues seeks out missing father (spoilers)


The setup!: Let's launch a decade long space mission to the edit of the solar system. Based on the journey of the son it takes under 125 days to get there. Let's not set up a shuttle system to rotate the crew and then wonder why they get a little strange.

The plot: We think we are under attack from the man crew of the spaceship we sent to the edit of the solar system that we just ignored for 20 years. Let's send the son to Mars to send a message to daddy!

Adventure: Let's pretend that there are multiple giant bases on the moon and people can afford to take flights there, but let's also pretend that there are pirates driving around in uncontrolled zone. Let's present that the military uses moon buggies instead of armored APCs to move high value personal around.

Let's have the biggest dumbass crew in space, man the long-range space ship that seems to be a giant dick rocket ship. Of course, the captain dies and the co-pilot is a dumbass.

Hey, the movie is really lagging, let's add in some space baboons. I guess the writer didn't know that they remove the arms, legs, and teeth from monkeys and apes when they take them into zero G.

The Mars base is one giant hallway and a recording studio. Wait, why didn't they just have the son record his message on earth and beam it to Mars to be relayed?

So here is the mission, you have 7 minutes to get from the underwater lake to the rocket, break-in and take it over. You need to do this because the crew has been ordered to destroy your father's spaceship. You want to stop them, because you want to blow up your father's spaceship.

So now you reach your father's ship. You have to pass through the rings to get him. Wait, what? You know space is 3D right? You can go around, you don't need to fly thought it.

Stupid talk, talk talk... Take dad home and nuke the ship. Turns out its not an attack, just a fucked up reactor that happens to be aimed at earth. Wow-what are the odds? Ok, so put the thruster suit on dad, its not he is a crazy murdering fuck right? Dad few away, your alone looking at the starts. OK, lets use the radar to fling yourself into space at your ship. You really are the Silver Surfer! You flew off in the right direction on the X,Y,Z axis.

Ok, your back on earth eating in a diner. Guess you are out on bail after being charge with murdering three people and stealing a ship and a nuke.

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Hard to read because of all the typos. What I gathered from the longer imdb reviews is the science is pretty bad. Did he really climb into a rocket (from the base) about to launch.

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Yes, he did. Apparently a rocket to Neptune has no engine and fuel tanks, but has a door underneath. Very advanced tech.

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