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... I was pretty happy to have a Tom Cruise science-fiction movie on hand to kill off a weeknight. The movie was passable entertainment for a while, but once the big reveal came nearly every single aspect of the movie's plot fell apart.
I was so bothered by this complete logic fail -- maybe it's the implication that we would be too stupid too notice -- that I was going to detail my frustrations. Then I found the following and they did my work for me.
Follow Ups:
They're going to bomb the mother tree out of existence.
So what's the logical thing to do first?
Why send in the ground troops of course.
#$%#$@$## stupidest thing I'd ever seen in a movie.
Check your brain at the door I suppose.
Nobody wants to watch a 20 hour movie that explains every little detail.
Imagine how boring the internet would be if folks were as civil here as they are in person.
Oblivion stands out among recent sci-fi IMHO by its inclusion of real human interest, dealing with questions of identity and loss, amid all the explosions and CGI.
If some viewers want to consume themselves as to why Morgan Freeman was wearing sunglasses throughout, I'll leave them to their obsessions. More power to them! In any case, those types of questions hardly constitute a complete logic fail.
Who cares. Maybe he had problems with his eyes. There's always something you can nit-pick about a movie. Me; I tend to go, shut out reality as much as possible, and just enjoy a couple hours of relief from the daily grind.
I thought Oblivion quite enjoyable, regardless of shortcomings.
To escape reality is one of the main reasons why we go to the movies.
If a thing's worth doing, it's worth doing well
(Proverb)
I could pick at it even more than Oblivion if nit-picking was a hobby. We all do it, and I will say I was dis-appointed with of all people; Jodie Foster (thought she was over the top). Otherwise it was a fun escape from reality.
I'd have to say the end was wide open; he might be dead... until they can get him to a med-pod (whatever it was called) in Elysium II. :)
...of Oblivion.
With all of the advertising, District 9 and the actor's credentials I have to say I was disappointed in the film.
...you have to suspend your disbelief and just sit back and enjoy them.
In this one you have to suspend it more than most.
But Tom Cruise keeps you interested and nearly pulls it off.
Reviewers had pretty much already trashed the film. But I decided to watch it "on demand" for $5.99 over my FIOS connection.
The big reveal pretty much worked for me. Although I find the idea of multiple clones of the same person rather ..... unsatisfactory. But maybe that's just me.
Nonetheless I thought it plausible that invading aliens would clone certain key humans. That they might think to wipe the clones memories and then brainwash them into thinking that the real human survivors out there are really the remnant aliens from the great war, which earth won. all of it a fiction.
So it kind of worked for me. Kind of.
There was some very very good cgi in this flick. I'm a fan of "good" cgi. I don't think it got in the way of the story telling. Perhaps it helped to sell a rather simple plot line.
Considering the way this movie ends, there would seem to be room for a "what comes after" kind of sequel.
re: Tom Cruise.
For me, he's the least charismatic "A-list" actor of this time. imo. But he did not spoil it for me.
re: Kurylenco:
Her on-screen presence and super-babe hotness (like we saw in the film Hitman) seems to be evolving over the past few films. I wonder if Centurion wasn't a turning point for her. In this film, Oblivion, she is very lean and athletic in appearance. In fact she appears like she could run a mile no problem. Whomever did her make-up kept it sparse for this character. Even so, I suspect this actress may enjoy a decade or two of A-list participation. Always fun to watch, except for, perhaps, in Centurion.
-Steve
I liked it.
validate how bad it actually is. This movie watching business can get strange at times.
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