Stowaway, starring Anna Kendrick

[mrmaczaps]

An alright flick, filmed in July 2019, during a pandemic. Odd how Hollyweird still made movies & shows during this entire situation, yet most of America (& supposedly, most of the world) was shutdown. The stars don't wear any masks or anything & I never heard Anna got hovid or whatnot, don't know the others... Just seems a bit sketch, right?

Basic movie plot is this 3 man, two year mission to visit Mars. Shuttle takes off & everything is a bit off. Something happens and it alerts them to a technician or something stuck in the wall of the ship. As they pull his unconscious body out, he falls & breaks the Captains left forearm (or something) & then they realize, they're fubar'd cuz the ship & supplies were meant for 3 and that was already pushing it. Its kinda slow paced & super low energy with a very little bit of barely there action near the end. Seems like it could have been more well written for a better end, but all things considered they went with a more real world (for visiting Mars) ending. Pretty sure there are literally only 4 cast members too. Really feels like 1/4 of a movie despite being 2 hours long.

[Andrew NDB]

Saw it a couple days ago. Was totally on board until they yanked the rug out from it and it was over.

LAME! They don't even come close to getting to Mars or anything. It's just a 2 hour singular moral dilemma, not even sci-fi.

[mrmaczaps]

Yeah. It was a huge letdown of a film. Spend a couple hours interacting with the 4 of them just to never find out how it really ends... lol.

[Andrew NDB]

And while I knew they'd kill off who they did, they should've killed off the algae guy. His whole job was to tend to the algae... then when it was all dead he would just sit there and stare at it. Wonderful.

[Roseangelo]

I watched it last night and had basically the same thoughts.

It seems like these recent Mars mission stories (TV or movie) struggle in defining the scope of their story. With the TV series, they tend to focus on drama leading up to launch or landing on Mars. And then when they accomplish those things, the series is canceled and we basically never get to the "good part."

In this movie we don't get any outcome at all. For all we know, the three others still die en route. Who knows. But I guess I never got invested in that anyways.

[IMJ]

Originally Posted by mrmaczaps

Yeah. It was a huge letdown of a film. Spend a couple hours interacting with the 4 of them just to never find out how it really ends... lol.

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

Saw it a couple days ago. Was totally on board until they yanked the rug out from it and it was over.

LAME! They don't even come close to getting to Mars or anything. It's just a 2 hour singular moral dilemma, not even sci-fi.

I'm always in for "smart' sci-fi - Moon, Ad Astra, Interstellar. I was going to check this out, but you guys saved me the trouble and the time.

So the hell with smart sci-fi - bring on the Zombies, man! When does the new "...of the Dead" flick drop?

[Andrew NDB]

Originally Posted by Roseangelo

It seems like these recent Mars mission stories (TV or movie) struggle in defining the scope of their story. With the TV series, they tend to focus on drama leading up to launch or landing on Mars. And then when they accomplish those things, the series is canceled and we basically never get to the "good part."

I take it you're talking about that Hilary Swank Netflix Mars show! I dug the trailers but before I watched even a frame of it... I fast-forwarded to the end of the first season. Nope, no Mars = you're not fooling me! And then sure enough, it was cancelled. Guess I dodged a bullet!

[IMJ]

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

I take it you're talking about that Hilary Swank Netflix Mars show! I dug the trailers but before I watched even a frame of it... I fast-forwarded to the end of the first season. Nope, no Mars = you're not fooling me! And then sure enough, it was cancelled. Guess I dodged a bullet!

Yeah we couldn't get past episode two or three of that one here in the house.
I'll probably be watching "Arrival" again soon though, in preparation of "Dune".

[Roseangelo]

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

I take it you're talking about that Hilary Swank Netflix Mars show! I dug the trailers but before I watched even a frame of it... I fast-forwarded to the end of the first season. Nope, no Mars = you're not fooling me! And then sure enough, it was cancelled. Guess I dodged a bullet!

That one and "The First" with Sean Penn. In that one all the drama only gets you to the launch. And then cancelled.

I think I'm down for a random detective show or buddy comedy set on a colonized Mars at this point.

[mrmaczaps]

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

I take it you're talking about that Hilary Swank Netflix Mars show! I dug the trailers but before I watched even a frame of it... I fast-forwarded to the end of the first season. Nope, no Mars = you're not fooling me! And then sure enough, it was cancelled. Guess I dodged a bullet!

Dang, the Swank Mars show got canned?? I didn't think that one was too terrible... being a series, I didn't expect it to totally get to Mars before seasons end.