>"With the time machine, future people go back into the past not to prevent the war, but to provide more cannon fodder for the enemy" >a film made by Amazon Yup, checks out.
The white spikes had a pre set kill over. So they sent wave after wave of humans, until they killed enough and died off from hitting the white spike mark.
I'm surprised nobody is talking about how hilarious the shot of Chris Pratt jumping on the female alien looks. I had to pause the movie cause I couldn't stop laughing.
Are you talking about that scene in the end where Chris and JK fight the alien? If so, yeah the VFX were awful there. Bad composition. This is a $200M budgeted film.
My brother and I were cracking up at how Chris Pratt's character basically said fuck the world and tried jumping after his daughter just for a trailer shot lol
@@dereksbooks Standard cashgrab. For the studio, actors, director, sfx artists... Safe to say that, when there's NOTHING redeemable about it, no one cared
@@AndresGomez-ct7qb it's a fun movie and I enjoyed it. every single one of these criticisms could be levied at any action movie or any time travel movie
Can't believe you didn't mention the scene in the classroom where a child figures out the aliens's location. They tried to recreate the scene from the Martian where Donald Glover knows science
One of my old high school theater teachers was actually a prominent extra in this movie and every time he came in he would never stop talking about how he’s in a movie with Chris Pratt. Wasn’t a very nice guy so I’m glad to hear this movie isn’t very good
This movie was so ridiculous that I was genuinely thinking that the "humans" that came through the time machine were in fact the aliens sending humanity to be killed off in a Running Man game of death type twist, or just as food for their invading pets as they take over the planet. But nope, it was just good ol' dumb humans being good ol' dumb asses. 👍👌So Sad!!!👌👍
Okay, future people-just plain dumb…but people in that past/present being, like, “Sure, have all our troops and amateur volunteers”? Yeahhh, y’all deserve to die! No wonder why the aliens are winning in the future!
This movie gives me the same vibes like all those silly teen movies like hunger games, maze runner, twilight etc but with grown ups instead of kids. Also Chris pratts face looks weird here as if it was added by a deep fake algorithm on another person.
In The Hunger Games they actually trained for the thing knowing what it was and what they would need to do. Hell, even in fucking Twilight the Cullens already know all about vampire society (being vampires and all). Here it’s like, “You’ll be fighting a scary something of which we'll give you virtually no information. Shoot at this wildly inaccurate, stationary target to practice.”
I feel a lot of this movie is a result of multiple text books on how movies work say something along the lines that the best way to sell tickets is to have a big named actor in it.
They should do a sequel, "The day after the tomorrow war" where Pratt and Gyllenhaal have to team up and go to the past to fight more aliens in really bad weather.
you forgot to mention the part where they go to a HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT in Chris Pratt's own class to find out where the aliens are frozen, cause apparently only a SINGLE high school student who happens to be in his class could help with this search and not ya know any actual scientists or literally ANYONE else they could've gone to about volcanoes. Like Chris is so lucky he happens to have a volcano-obsessed prodigy in his class i guess
As soon as the credits started rolling I thought to myself "This movie could make a really good YMS". This movie felt like it was designed to be a YMS review. I'm actually surprised the review is only 13 minutes, I am guessing it's because Adum is busy.
It seems like the best thing you could say about this movie is that it makes _Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom_ no longer Chris Pratt's dumbest movie. Such progress. I've begun to wonder if he and Judi Dench share the same agent.
I love that their excuse for immediately destroying the aliens was that if they told the world governments about it, they would take too long to make any sort of decision. But that logic doesn't work because they already knew that they had a deadline and they knew exactly what it was. Therefore, they could have easily taken the fact that these aliens existed to the UN and said, hey, we have to come to a decision on what we're going to do before x date otherwise we are all going to die. I have to imagine it would have been at least a few more years before the aliens thawed and woke up. For all we know, there was something within the aliens themselves that could have cured all known diseases, but just because JK Simmons doesn't like bureaucracy, we have to blow them up. It was a really stupid fucking decision.
Thing one was stop trying to build Chris Pratt as an action star, he doesn't fit the role at all. Anytime he tries to put on a serious face he just looks confused, probably because he's not really suited for those roles. Just let the guy be a goofball for fuck sake
And in reality the future people had a deal with the aliens to feed them or something, would also explain the poor training, they were never meant to survive the encounters, and Chris Pratt´s character cracks down on them, convinces them to actually put up a fight using today´s resources and they defeat the future aliens
Hell, play the global warming theme to the quick. There are no time paradoxes. The past duesnt affect the future. The future people could easily save the past's world with technology and information, but that wouldn't help them. So they lie and say this is the only way, feeding the past's people into a meat grinder in a desperate attempt to slow the inevitable. Chris Pratt's daughter is a member of a small faction that's realized this, and is actively trying to help the past. There, majes the time travel thematically relevant, and justifies the stupidity and incompetence of the future people.
“I just want to save my daughter. If that means saving the world to I’ll do it.” Lol if my dad had to choose between saving me or the world he’ll let me die 100% because of course he would. What are we going to do after? Thanks for saving me dad, it’s too bad the world is over and we’re the last remnants of our entire species but hey at least we’re alive and I totally wont hate you for ruining our entire species and letting the other members of our family die and it’s not like you’ll be riddled with guilt wondering if it was the right choice to let everything but me die out.
Unless I'm misunderstanding something, that line isn't implying that he's choosing between saving his daughter and saving the world. It's implying that, if he wants to save his daughter, he ALSO has to save the world. It's just them playing up the whole "I care SO much about my family" trope as much as they can.
It’s not supposed to be morally correct, just like Joel in the last of us saving ellie instead of letting her die and possibly getting a cure from it. But I understand what you’re saying
thats kinda misunderstanding the quote. its basically boiled down to "i love my daughter, so i will protect her by saving the world", not "i love my daughter more than saving the world"
It feels like a cut-corner, exclusively made for a streaming platform movie with as cheap a big name as they could get, but the budget doesn't follow with that at all
I think it's an issue of quantity. A lot of cheap straight-to-streaming sci-fi movies have the same quality of effects and sets, but The Tomorrow War (which I keep accidentally calling Future War) has SO MANY bad special effects and mediocre sets that the budget just spirals off into crazy town.
"so they go back in time not to prevent the future from occurring but to throw more bodies at the problem." if i know anything about the usa military industrial complex, this is exactly what they would do in such a situation. a+ for realism
3:24 to 3:50 You hit the nail on the head. This might be my new favorite clip from any of your videos because it perfectly explains why the “Stop caring about the human characters in a Godzilla movie” defense is so unbearably stupid.
That drove me nuts. Even if you like the part with Godzilla, Kong and the other titans, 90% of the movie was the girl from Stranger Things and her parents speaking a bunch of bullshit. How am I supposed to ignore them when they're the majority of what's happening?
I really dislike those types of defenses. Not because they liked the movie, but because they believe people criticizing and thinking otherwise about said movie is ludicrous and unacceptable.
Honestly I felt bad for the female alien at the end. She just trying to do her thing, her friends and family got blown up, then she gets stabbed and shot a whole bunch. Like they really dragged the scene out. Poor thing.
Also when they came back to the present day, I can't believe that the military knew the (probably badly injured) veterans returning from their tour were going to arrive several feet of the ground. And yet they still gave them concrete to land on instead of tramplines and pillows. Brutal lol
They literally could have just spent all that time they got from the early warning preparing for the war, if you're telling me that 20 years preparing for a known enemy is less effective than dropping random civilians onto the enemy with a process that ends up killing the majority of them just by traveling forward in time. Also the whole thing about them not having any idea where the outbreak started is just so stupid. There's no area on earth where people don't have communication. You're telling me they had time to invent time travel but not the time or resources to figure out what place got attacked first
"I'm just trying to save my daughter. If I gotta save the world to save her then I'm damn sure gonna do it." I'm no parent, and I get wanting to stop at nothing to save your child, but this line makes you sound like a psychopath. So if the aliens offered you a deal where they don't harm your daughter but still take over the world, you would take it?
Yeah this is the first time I’ve seen a movie make a political statement in favor of China. Someone in the sub I frequent pointed out they use the Chinese name for mount Baekdu on the Korean Chinese border.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't one of the Transformer movies do something similar? I think it was the third one where part of it takes place in China and that part of the movie is a little more pro-China that you'd expect.
No one is talking about of how bad the exposition is on the news reel at the beginning is, it sounds like he is describing the plot rather than sounding like an actual news report
I had tones of fun tearing this movie apart. I love how they try to explain the time travel because I was able to laugh at how stupid they were. Also, take people from the past to fight...rather then actually using the ability to time travel to your advantage, ha. The future people had the worst plans. Also nice short barrel ARs with long range scope set-ups. Those darn things must weight 20lb with all that stuff strapped to them. No wonder the war is going badly. One thing I have to disagree with you on though. Saying the UN will just talk about it till they are all dead is the most believable part of the movie by far.
The first couple of times I watched the trailer for this shit show I thought it was going to be something clever like, "Oh, there aren't really any aliens, we lied to you or something". For some reason, I was CONVINCED this was going to be the plot twist. Nope. Just a boring alien movie.
You don't get it, Adum. They made the time machine, looked at it and thought "eh, good enough" then they burned the blueprints in a bonfire to celebrate like any scientist and engineer would do
I'm going to be completely honest, I thought that the twist was going to be that the future people were aliens. With how bad they trained people, and the complete incompetency of their plan I thought that the only logical conclusion was that they were lying. It is so much worse
The video game enemies which where clearly made with no direction from the writers really turned me off. An example would be how they have no protective carapace or armor that protects them but are somehow immune from bullets and their weakpoints or anatomy are never explained (which really made the original tremors movie stand out). Like why can they only be injured in their abdomen and throat? WhO KnOwS? The idea of killing them with a poison/toxin was so lame and boring and they spent so much time on it only for it to be used like 2 times in the movie in the least effective way possible. Like can you imagine if they just packed the alien ship full of C4 at the end and blew them all up instead of using the stupid toxin. That whole fight was totally optional.
I am legit floored at some of the bullshit sci-fi writing hollywood has been producing lately. I've seen more creative ideas in low-budget comics and fan-fiction. Pisses me off that people actually get paid to write shit this bad.
The movie sets up its own rules, but still continually ignores all the obvious solutions throughout because, you know, the plot is super awesome. The serum option is still risky business. Just because they found the ship doesn’t mean they made or brought enough toxin for ALL of the existing aliens, since they didn’t even know how many of them there were to begin with. Blow that hive ship to kingdom come, man! Should’ve have good ol’ Michael Bay direct the movie, he would’ve made it happen.
How to make a alien-monster in modern-movies: -take a dog -make it bigger -put somes tentacles on it -spiky teeths -change head-shape There you have it folks!
Eschew the paradoxes, and you still get the stupid concept that we lost to monsters. They never feel intelligent and then we find out that they're basically hunting dogs. They can glide through the air, yet have enough mass to flip a military hummer, plus they can swim across the ocean. I'm just ranting because I watched this yesterday and they paid writers for this script
11:58 - Since when is it a GOOD strategy to plunge your hand into the mouth of something that has that many teeth? And if you stab something or make it swallow, the mouth will close by reflex already... Chris Pratt should have no hands now.
The script started with an early draft of Edge of Tomorrow and the studio gave it to a writing room full of chimpanzees and said rewrite it and make it worse.
Also, they are 30 years in the future, and yet their primary weapons are still the M4, the M249, and the Benelli semi auto shotgun? Absolutely no advancement in gun technology? At all?
Man I love Chris Pratt, but the dude needs to fire his agent or something. The guy has chosen to star in some horrible movies and I still have hope for him yet.
Oh my god I was high and mistook this for the other time travel killing alien time loop movie that's actually good and was about to be confused as to how someone could hate that movie.
Wait a minute, this is an extremely dumb degrading version of Earthbound with the whole aliens taking over in the future and beating them in the past, this actually makes a kids RPG look like the Mona Lisa in comparison.
One part of this movie bugs me more than the rest: When Chris and his merry men were going to the alien spaceship in the ice, a female soldier from the future came along with them on what was effectively a suicide mission. I wanted her to explain that she had to die within a year because she was going to be conceived within that time and she would rather "die fighting than be euthanised" or whatever line this movie would find super cool. This wouldn't have bugged me if 50% of the movie wasn't exposition but no no we can't waste time on a female characters' motives!! Also the title sounds dumb as fuck lmao
6:25 how about: "the time machine uses an energy core recovered from a smaller alien craft which lands shortly before the alien invasion begins. We cant reproduce it and no energy source on earth could feed a time machine." Pretty contrived but i think itd explain it
I'd also take stars off for the stupid faces Chris Pratt makes throughout this movie (if you've seen Wanted, remember when James McAvoy hits CP with a keyboard? Like that). And for the alien design -- this intelligent species is a mix of octopus and wolfman and of course dinosaur so they can go mano-a-mano with Mr. Jurassic World. If the mother alien had just run in the opposite direction, she would have been safe.
