What a mess…
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NZer — 6 years ago(January 26, 2020 08:40 PM)
I already knew the father/son relationship was the main theme, but I was so let down when the scientific reason for all the cosmic surges was never properly explained.
I thought that the father's explanation and reasoning for the Universe threatening pulses was lame and unbelievable.
The rest of the movie was fine. Brad was brilliant. -
Jared Kushner — 6 years ago(January 27, 2020 02:45 AM)
It was explained.
It was Tommy Lee Dickhead's malfunctioning ship, and he was such a colossal jerk that he didn't let Earth know he was still operating but needed help, because they would have shut him down. -
NZer — 6 years ago(January 27, 2020 02:58 AM)
Yes, I understood that, but the cause of the disasters on Earth and elsewhere?
It was poorly explained imo. He warbled on to Brad about the anti-matter machine being started because of the crew mutinying, and the ensuing fight causing 'something' to occur. The 'something' was never explained, it just 'was'.
He was still looking for extraterrestrial life and the others had given up on it, so he killed them all and went on his lunatic search for something that wasn't there.
Then he wanted his son to join him in his madness. -
Jared Kushner — 6 years ago(January 27, 2020 03:07 AM)
I agree it may not have been superclear, but it was in the brief Brad got with the military types in the first third of the film. They suspected that it was Dad's malfunctioning reactor causing the surges.
All of that made the dad more of a jerk, and Brad more of a hero, in the context of the end of the movie.
What a polarizing film! I thought it was decent, though the Mars section really dragged. Some people really disliked it. -
— 6 years ago(January 26, 2020 05:38 PM)
Schrodinger's Cat walks into a bar, and doesn't. 