The Ending Of Ad Astra Explained
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First, it is a very slow movie and lots of ineffective attempts at emulating 2001 A Space Odyssey. There is also a lot of plot holes. I mean, they had an antimatter battery that causes surges that affect things a far as the Earth, accepting that, we were suppose to believe that blowing it up would stop it and not actually start that chain reaction that they feared.
Secondly, why wasn't Brad Pitt arrested for causing the death of the crew as well as disobeying orders.
We were suppose to believe that a nuclear explosion was going to propel his ship at the right direction and that somehow, this blast wave. in a vacuum. would push his craft rather than obliterate it.
Then, the panel drive through the ring. Well, we've seen Indiana Jones survive a nuclear blast in a refrigerator so I suppose everything is possible.
The most annoying plot hole is that the Lima project was able to establish that there is not intelligent life in the universe simply by making observations from Neptune. That is like walking over to your mailbox and upon seeing there's no mail conclude that all the mail boxes in the universe must be empty. I mean they may have examined a few extraterrestrial planets from there but just examining a few they were able to conclude that there is no life everywhere? It's more sophistry that philosophy.
Date: 2020-07-14
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PiCheZvara
The message is not complicated. The son longed to reconnect with his father and it occupied his mind, preventing him from leading an emotionally fulfilling life. His overt focus on work was no doubt motivated by feeling obligated somewhat to his father's memory and legacy. Upon meeting his father, he realized he idolized him too much and that his father didn't really care about him the same way. So the son decided to leave the father, close this chapter of his life and move on to more fullfilling tomorrows.
It's a very universal message. People who are on way or another abandoned by their parents feel something missing and want to reconnect or regain their initial relationship with their parents. They often don't realize the initial relationship was maybe just in their head all along, that they're chasing some idealized version of their parents that never existed.
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The message is not complicated. The son longed to reconnect with his father and it occupied his mind, preventing him from leading an emotionally fulfilling life. His overt focus on work was no doubt motivated by feeling obligated somewhat to his father's memory and legacy. Upon meeting his father, he realized he idolized him too much and that his father didn't really care about him the same way. So the son decided to leave the father, close this chapter of his life and move on to more fullfilling tomorrows.
It's a very universal message. People who are on way or another abandoned by their parents feel something missing and want to reconnect or regain their initial relationship with their parents. They often don't realize the initial relationship was maybe just in their head all along, that they're chasing some idealized version of their parents that never existed.
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ismahz
Did we miss a huge hint about alien life? It seems like they are hinting at the idea that not all the data has been inspected, therefore further hinting that there may be something in that data.
When Pitt is inside his father's ship, he sees that huge stack of papers with inspect all data! Written on it in red ink. His father tell him that the people inspecting the data gave up. Then Pitt takes the box of data from his father's ship and loads it on his own ship. He informs control that he has the data and that they should make an effort to find his ship if he does not make it.
Why so many hints to that data if there is nothing in there?
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Did we miss a huge hint about alien life? It seems like they are hinting at the idea that not all the data has been inspected, therefore further hinting that there may be something in that data.
When Pitt is inside his father's ship, he sees that huge stack of papers with inspect all data! Written on it in red ink. His father tell him that the people inspecting the data gave up. Then Pitt takes the box of data from his father's ship and loads it on his own ship. He informs control that he has the data and that they should make an effort to find his ship if he does not make it.
Why so many hints to that data if there is nothing in there?
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Tiromir
You mention First Man and Gravity. Although I enjoy both movies, I didn't understand this one. This is the second explanation i've watched, and I still feel i'm missing something. First Man, Gravity and The Martian have self-contained stories. I feel Ad Astra means more, but I can't grasp it. In a similar way, Interstellar manages do do both: a self-contained story and going beyond the media. I'm dissapointed in Ad Astra as I've understood it so far, because I feel there's something along those lines, which would make this one of my favourite movies given how beautiful sound and visuals are.
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You mention First Man and Gravity. Although I enjoy both movies, I didn't understand this one. This is the second explanation i've watched, and I still feel i'm missing something. First Man, Gravity and The Martian have self-contained stories. I feel Ad Astra means more, but I can't grasp it. In a similar way, Interstellar manages do do both: a self-contained story and going beyond the media. I'm dissapointed in Ad Astra as I've understood it so far, because I feel there's something along those lines, which would make this one of my favourite movies given how beautiful sound and visuals are.
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Truman
This movie was a 2 hour journey about how what we are all searching for is often what we leave behind. The movie delivers a thinly veiled message delivered through contrived story. Plot points in the movie are scattered sparingly like bread crumbs. The rest is just filler meant to get you to the next piece of information that will reveal another tiny bit about what youre actually watching. If you took these breadcrumbs and mashed them together, youd have. 01% of the heel (of the loaf) and 15 mins worth of movie. What a waste of time.
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This movie was a 2 hour journey about how what we are all searching for is often what we leave behind. The movie delivers a thinly veiled message delivered through contrived story. Plot points in the movie are scattered sparingly like bread crumbs. The rest is just filler meant to get you to the next piece of information that will reveal another tiny bit about what youre actually watching. If you took these breadcrumbs and mashed them together, youd have. 01% of the heel (of the loaf) and 15 mins worth of movie. What a waste of time.
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Rombout
The story en build up is so long we forget what it was about. At the point he meets his father, I already forget what it was about. THen he surfs through venus rings using a board to enter a second ship. WHAT the hell is this story, at the point of solution the hole movie collapsed, nothing was done said or what ever. That hole surge thing never reappeared again. Also why was there a second ship all of a sudden. perhaps I missed the part about the surge and so, but I didn't see his dad went with 2 ships
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The story en build up is so long we forget what it was about. At the point he meets his father, I already forget what it was about. THen he surfs through venus rings using a board to enter a second ship. WHAT the hell is this story, at the point of solution the hole movie collapsed, nothing was done said or what ever. That hole surge thing never reappeared again. Also why was there a second ship all of a sudden. perhaps I missed the part about the surge and so, but I didn't see his dad went with 2 ships
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Damien
This film was, unfortunately, too clever. The rabid monkeys were bizarre and the ending was almost as abstract as Nolan's Interstellar. But it was obviously a very human film about how your identity is constructed, following Joseph Campbell's archetypal Hero's journey. As Jordan Peterson would say: it's a story about a man who must save his father from the belly of the beast. But how would it change you if you realised the man you wanted to be was actually weak and pathetic?
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This film was, unfortunately, too clever. The rabid monkeys were bizarre and the ending was almost as abstract as Nolan's Interstellar. But it was obviously a very human film about how your identity is constructed, following Joseph Campbell's archetypal Hero's journey. As Jordan Peterson would say: it's a story about a man who must save his father from the belly of the beast. But how would it change you if you realised the man you wanted to be was actually weak and pathetic?
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Morales
Audiences: Why can't we ever get something original from Hollywood? All they ever do is make reboots and remakes! They lack anything creative
>Gets handed Ad Astra
> Ad Astra flops on a 80-100 million budget
So which one is it guys? Genuine question, is it truly that Hollywood makes only reboots and remakes or is it that you never support anything original Hollywood does?
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Audiences: Why can't we ever get something original from Hollywood? All they ever do is make reboots and remakes! They lack anything creative
>Gets handed Ad Astra
> Ad Astra flops on a 80-100 million budget
So which one is it guys? Genuine question, is it truly that Hollywood makes only reboots and remakes or is it that you never support anything original Hollywood does?
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KbagnellArtwork
Movie was worth watching for the Moon sequence but gawd was the movie boring, Director ego if you ask me. its intentionally drawn out and horrible pacing, voice overs are also almost always traditionally a bad idea. a different director could make almost the exact same movie and it would be way more enjoyable.
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Movie was worth watching for the Moon sequence but gawd was the movie boring, Director ego if you ask me. its intentionally drawn out and horrible pacing, voice overs are also almost always traditionally a bad idea. a different director could make almost the exact same movie and it would be way more enjoyable.
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Christian
I was just wondering I mean he kills indirectly the crew of the spacecraft that he infiltrates, and when he got back there's where not consequences, I assume the government classified that and just call him a hero? I just wonder I think that's what the movie wants me to do? /
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I was just wondering I mean he kills indirectly the crew of the spacecraft that he infiltrates, and when he got back there's where not consequences, I assume the government classified that and just call him a hero? I just wonder I think that's what the movie wants me to do? /
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