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Surprised to not see this here.
Watched last night, kind of a mash between WWZ and war of worlds. Wasn't terrible, but not something I'd be happy if paying full ticket for. Nice to see organic aliens have shooty options as well as being beasts in assault.
Worth a watch while painting.

Yeah, decent, not great, not terrible. First couple hours make for a nice action flick, then it just keeps going and the last act is quite hokey and cliche. Definitely should have cut that last half hour.

saw the title and for a moment my brain interpreted it as a movie based on the forever war, which had me interested....then i saw the trailer
I think this one will be a skip for me unless i find myself really hard up for something to paint to

Wow watched it. It was...bad!

Is that the 9ne with Chris Pratt?

 Flinty wrote:
Is that the 9ne with Chris Pratt?

Yes.

It wasn't terrible. But it certainly got dumber and dumber from the moment they caught the hive tyrant.

It doesn't hold up to any reasonable thinking process. Like World War Z holds together better. But I didn't mind watching it. Wouldn't have paid for it or been pissed if I had but it was distinctly meh.

 greenskin lynn wrote:
saw the title and for a moment my brain interpreted it as a movie based on the forever war, which had me interested....then i saw the trailer
I think this one will be a skip for me unless i find myself really hard up for something to paint to

Ohhhh! A movie based on The Forever War comic could be astounding, and also pretty different to the usual tropes!

Watched it today.

It’s alright. Nothing terribly brilliant about it, but nothing dire.

If nothing else, it’s an attempt at telling a familiar SciFi trope in a new way.

Watched it today as well. Aside from the tyranid CGI, which looked quite impressive tbh, it was utter rubbish. Plot 0/5. And what's with everyone using small caliber submachine guns? Surely larger cal weapons and flamers etc would have been a much better choice for the humans. There was so many holes in the story I could have used it to drain my cooked pasta.

I did get me thinking though.. are we going to be seeing that Handmaiden's Tale chick in more action movies? My intuition tells me she might get asked to do more, because of her gymnastics background. She wasnt totally terrible in the action sequences either, which was surprising.

 Albertorius wrote:

 greenskin lynn wrote:
saw the title and for a moment my brain interpreted it as a movie based on the forever war, which had me interested....then i saw the trailer
I think this one will be a skip for me unless i find myself really hard up for something to paint to

Ohhhh! A movie based on The Forever War comic could be astounding, and also pretty different to the usual tropes!

I feel like Forever War - a book about how war in real life is pointless, random, emasculating, horrific and generally the opposite of how it's portrayed in media, would not translate particularly well to a media portrayal.

 the_scotsman wrote:

 Albertorius wrote:

 greenskin lynn wrote:
saw the title and for a moment my brain interpreted it as a movie based on the forever war, which had me interested....then i saw the trailer
I think this one will be a skip for me unless i find myself really hard up for something to paint to

Ohhhh! A movie based on The Forever War comic could be astounding, and also pretty different to the usual tropes!

I feel like Forever War - a book about how war in real life is pointless, random, emasculating, horrific and generally the opposite of how it's portrayed in media, would not translate particularly well to a media portrayal.

I mean, that would be the point..

I thought it was fun, the monsters looked great. good action flick to have on while hobbying.

I actually thought it was a fun action flick. The really stupid part was the beginning in 2050, because they should have left that scene be a surprise, rather than have you spend the first chunk of the movie waiting for it to happen again, and then the spectacle is worn off.

It wasn't the best, and had some really predictable moments, but it was enjoyable. The alien creatures were actually really well imagined, with some good CGI. It's better than that damn Bruce Willis movie that just came out, with the alien zombie-type plot, where the guns actually had horrible grey CGI muzzle flashes, and it was just a bunch of hallways.

The name Tomorrow war makes me think of a book series I remember reading probably 25 years ago, where aliens arrive and their entire purpose is to enlist us to fight for them. Their entire Federation has moved past war, and they are being attacked by some sort of raiders, and Earthlings are still
"unevolved" enough to happily fight them with the tech the arriving aliens furnish us with.

 AegisGrimm wrote:

The name Tomorrow war makes me think of a book series I remember reading probably 25 years ago, where aliens arrive and their entire purpose is to enlist us to fight for them. Their entire Federation has moved past war, and they are being attacked by some sort of raiders, and Earthlings are still
"unevolved" enough to happily fight them with the tech the arriving aliens furnish us with.

John Ringo has a series in a similar vein that probably 20 years old now you might be thinking of

 AegisGrimm wrote:
I actually thought it was a fun action flick. The really stupid part was the beginning in 2050, because they should have left that scene be a surprise, rather than have you spend the first chunk of the movie waiting for it to happen again, and then the spectacle is worn off.

It wasn't the best, and had some really predictable moments, but it was enjoyable. The alien creatures were actually really well imagined, with some good CGI. It's better than that damn Bruce Willis movie that just came out, with the alien zombie-type plot, where the guns actually had horrible grey CGI muzzle flashes, and it was just a bunch of hallways.

The name Tomorrow war makes me think of a book series I remember reading probably 25 years ago, where aliens arrive and their entire purpose is to enlist us to fight for them. Their entire Federation has moved past war, and they are being attacked by some sort of raiders, and Earthlings are still
"unevolved" enough to happily fight them with the tech the arriving aliens furnish us with.

Bruce Willis has been doing really bad movies lately. I’m actually at a point where seeing his name on the cast list is a red flag.

2 out of 5 stars.

The plot was terrible, with holes you could drive a battleship through. The future they come from already couldn't happen as they had changed their past by pulling people forward who would have caused events to occur as they understood them. This is a problem for all time travel movies, but it was especially bad in this one. Also, all of the draftees seem to just go along with it knowing they will die a horrible death in the future rather than fighting now for a chance at survival.

Overall the special effects were good, but again inconsistent in terms of early on the monsters are bullet proof on limbs/tentacles (you can watch rounds strike these parts) only to later see these get blown off. It's also extremely long for how shallow the plot is. The overrun-survive-overrun cycle is played to death, and starts to blur together (lets do it in a city, no a lab, no an island, no a wall, no an oil platform, no a spaceship, no in the snow).

My simple theory is that it was only a locked-in future while the wormhole link was established, keeping both the present and the future travelling forward together. Once that went kaput, it falls under the same theory as the new Marvel movies. The moment he was sent back to the current time and the link was broke, everything after created a new, branching alternate future were the infestation doesn't happen. So sadly there is areality out there where most likely everyone continues to die horribly, unless tiny bits of humanity are hidden well enough that the White Spines somehow kill each other off in hunger before finding them.

At least this movie immediately explained away the easy plot hole of travelling back to just before everything happened to try again. That was novel and refreshing.

The rafts in the river explanation of the time travel was one of the best parts of it actually.

Chris Pratt surprised me by being even worse an actor than normally from that one. The whole concept was so poorly conceived and the setting gave me absolutely nothing in the way of suspense. But it was if any better than his previous work in Marvel, which is maybe not a good sign for me at least.

Plot made me think of Our Children's Children by Clifford Simak, but someone lobotomized the screenwriter.

Just watched it today with my dad (he has an Amazon Prime sub), and we both thought it was fun, if a bit...weak on the plot side. I was wondering the whole time why they were using those obviously ineffective popguns instead of some kind of explosive and/or armor piercing rounds when the aliens were that big and armored. Also I was afraid that they were going to say they came in some kind of meteor or something, but thankfully they didn't go there. That would have ruined it for me.

Yvonne Strahovski has continued to be a goddess at least. She was a fantasy crush of mine back when she was on the show Chuck some years back now, and is still a beautiful badass!

 AduroT wrote:
The rafts in the river explanation of the time travel was one of the best parts of it actually.

Why didn’t they drop their entire research facility back to the earlier time… the future bods are already pretty fatalistic about their survival. Surely better to not risk losing all your work?

I agree with the general sentiment here. Good action sequences and the monsters were nicely monstrous. Just have to ignore the linky bits

While back in time would be safer from attacks, I can understand not wanting to put monsters/alien bits there. Lab accidents are bad enough without potential paradox events.

I liked the not Tyranids but the movie is bad. Athough it is still better than Wonder Woman 1984.