Spoilers - you've been warned.
As of writing this, I am 1 hr 40 minutes into it. The main character just 'made it back'.
Overall its ok so far, some of it is predictable and makes you roll your eyes, but whatever. It's a movie. However, there are a few (and maybe they resolve themselves in the last 35 minutes or something), but right now I had to pause it and just go WTF. Some of the dumb plot holes/mechanisms are beyond fucking dumb. Whoever wrote this has never watched the first Back to the Future and understands literally nothing about time travel theory at all, on any level.
So the premise is they have a time travel drive that can go from right now until basically today, 30 years in the future, thats it. No Delorean with a time travel date dashboard. Thats fine.
Main character goes to the future and meets his daughter who concocted some sort of toxic poison that will be able to kill the aliens wholesale. Ok, fair enough.
Then the whole 'plot' problem begins with, he has to go back to the current time (which he is going to regardless) and bring the toxin back so it can be mass produced and sent back. This is where my 'how fucking stupid are you' meter went off. Two glaring plot problems right off the bat:
1) If hes going back to current time, we can make the toxin now and prevent the aliens from every becoming more than a little inconvenience when they show themselves. We're also going to know the time/place/area that they do because, well, you guys in the fucking future already know, so you can just tell me where I'm dropping the toxic shit off at and when. War over. We win.
2) Somehow the mental gymnastics of 'if you take this back you'll kill your daughter in the future' comes into play. They actually say this in the lab scene and I had to replay it 5 times because it made literally no sense. If they send the toxin back, the entire course of history changes. Nothing in the future is the way it is right now. The only thing I can't figure out is in the time continuum, do we just at least need to build a time travel machine to be sure we appear back in 2021 to be like, oh, heres the toxin, aliens are coming on 4/3/2047 in Russia, here's how to kill them, etc. But regardless, NOTHING will be the way it is if you can send the toxin back to current time. Why is this so fucking hard to comprehend? How is 'get back to the future' the fucking plot line now? Who gives a shit about the future; its not the same fucking future anymore you dumb shits.
The absolute smartest thing to do would be to send it back as well as all data/intel/everything you know about the future and then let current times 'catch up' and be prepared for when the aliens show up and then just push their shit in within like 2 days and be done with it. Done. No big deal. We've been waiting for your ass for 30 years.
Yet somehow the premise they're trying to do in the movie as the plot twist is, he comes back to current times with the toxin formula, yet the time travel link blew up in the future and he can't get back. Who the fuck cares? The future is what you do RIGHT FUCKING NOW you fucking muppets. That isn't even the future anymore since you now have the toxin with you in the current time. Duh.
The ending should have been, we had to fight to ensure he made it back and then he makes it back and 'we won' because now the future changed in that we have what can kill them and we are preparing for them in the future. Roll credits.
Instead its, hes back...oh noes we cant get back to the futures! What?
Some other random observations:
- Apparently bullet design has not improved whatsoever in 30+ years. Thanks Obama.
- You're all from 30+ years into the future, and you're still using basically the exact same vehicles, weapons, ammo, body armor, etc from 2021. No wonder you're fucking losing in the future. Jesus people.
- Hey lets issue our 'troops' 5.56 SBR's against some sort of alien that you can mag dump 5.56 into from 3 feet away and it doesn't kill it. I mean, we've only had how much time fighting an enemy that this shit is completely ineffective against, but hey, lets just keep hoping for the best or something and all stand around looking at each other trying to figure out why the fuck we're losing.
- Let's build our secret research lab above ground in bombed out downtown Miami. No one will find us there!
-The 'aliens' have absolutely ZERO tech and are basically a furry version of The Zerg from Starcraft. Yet somehow, they landed on our planet. Even their 'lair' is a mud hole in the ground. How the fuck did any of them make an actual decision of A. lets go fly to that planet over there in our nonexistent spaceship B. Lets build a spaceship and then have less technology than people in the Congo have upon arrival. Seriously, get a mental image of the aliens in this movie, flying around in a Imperial Star Destroyer on the way to earth and tell me you didn't almost spit your drink out.
-So the aliens are here for food. In the future it was mentioned there were less than 500k people left on Earth. The aliens did nothing except apparently eat everything in site. Seeing as how billions have died/been eaten, with no replacements, whats the fucking long-term plan there? Coupled with the above 'tech' issue, your entire plan was to land on a planet, eat everything because wherever you came from had no food, and in the process, you have no food and no way to get off the planet? Good plan there aliens. Good plan.
- You know where their lairs are and that they are reproduced from females, which are uncommon and few in number; kind of like how a bee hive works. Finding the hot spots and locations via sat imaging would be easy and a simple fucking JDAM would just clear that shit out as the lairs are a 10 foot deep mud hole in the ground. Yet, somehow you're fucking losing. Is Joe Biden still in charge in 2052?
- Let's take the female that can signal to all of the males to our secret base and totally not have her under guard or keep her sedated like, past the first 5 minutes or something. Let's also totally keep her completely alive after getting all the scientific data we need from her so there's a chance she could break out and kill us, or summon like 790789908760980 males to come find us...oh, wait.
- Somehow DoD decided that sending 1k 'troops' per week into the future was something resembling a plan. This is the equivalent of playing CoD or Battlefield and being those tards that all spawn separately throughout the entire round so the entire enemy team constantly just has to shoot at 1 of you at a time. Tards.
- How the fuck do you manage to make Betty Gilpin look HOMELY. AS. FUCK. the entire movie? How?
As of writing this, I am 1 hr 40 minutes into it. The main character just 'made it back'.
Overall its ok so far, some of it is predictable and makes you roll your eyes, but whatever. It's a movie. However, there are a few (and maybe they resolve themselves in the last 35 minutes or something), but right now I had to pause it and just go WTF. Some of the dumb plot holes/mechanisms are beyond fucking dumb. Whoever wrote this has never watched the first Back to the Future and understands literally nothing about time travel theory at all, on any level.
So the premise is they have a time travel drive that can go from right now until basically today, 30 years in the future, thats it. No Delorean with a time travel date dashboard. Thats fine.
Main character goes to the future and meets his daughter who concocted some sort of toxic poison that will be able to kill the aliens wholesale. Ok, fair enough.
Then the whole 'plot' problem begins with, he has to go back to the current time (which he is going to regardless) and bring the toxin back so it can be mass produced and sent back. This is where my 'how fucking stupid are you' meter went off. Two glaring plot problems right off the bat:
1) If hes going back to current time, we can make the toxin now and prevent the aliens from every becoming more than a little inconvenience when they show themselves. We're also going to know the time/place/area that they do because, well, you guys in the fucking future already know, so you can just tell me where I'm dropping the toxic shit off at and when. War over. We win.
2) Somehow the mental gymnastics of 'if you take this back you'll kill your daughter in the future' comes into play. They actually say this in the lab scene and I had to replay it 5 times because it made literally no sense. If they send the toxin back, the entire course of history changes. Nothing in the future is the way it is right now. The only thing I can't figure out is in the time continuum, do we just at least need to build a time travel machine to be sure we appear back in 2021 to be like, oh, heres the toxin, aliens are coming on 4/3/2047 in Russia, here's how to kill them, etc. But regardless, NOTHING will be the way it is if you can send the toxin back to current time. Why is this so fucking hard to comprehend? How is 'get back to the future' the fucking plot line now? Who gives a shit about the future; its not the same fucking future anymore you dumb shits.
The absolute smartest thing to do would be to send it back as well as all data/intel/everything you know about the future and then let current times 'catch up' and be prepared for when the aliens show up and then just push their shit in within like 2 days and be done with it. Done. No big deal. We've been waiting for your ass for 30 years.
Yet somehow the premise they're trying to do in the movie as the plot twist is, he comes back to current times with the toxin formula, yet the time travel link blew up in the future and he can't get back. Who the fuck cares? The future is what you do RIGHT FUCKING NOW you fucking muppets. That isn't even the future anymore since you now have the toxin with you in the current time. Duh.
The ending should have been, we had to fight to ensure he made it back and then he makes it back and 'we won' because now the future changed in that we have what can kill them and we are preparing for them in the future. Roll credits.
Instead its, hes back...oh noes we cant get back to the futures! What?
Some other random observations:
- Apparently bullet design has not improved whatsoever in 30+ years. Thanks Obama.
- You're all from 30+ years into the future, and you're still using basically the exact same vehicles, weapons, ammo, body armor, etc from 2021. No wonder you're fucking losing in the future. Jesus people.
- Hey lets issue our 'troops' 5.56 SBR's against some sort of alien that you can mag dump 5.56 into from 3 feet away and it doesn't kill it. I mean, we've only had how much time fighting an enemy that this shit is completely ineffective against, but hey, lets just keep hoping for the best or something and all stand around looking at each other trying to figure out why the fuck we're losing.
- Let's build our secret research lab above ground in bombed out downtown Miami. No one will find us there!
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- You know where their lairs are and that they are reproduced from females, which are uncommon and few in number; kind of like how a bee hive works. Finding the hot spots and locations via sat imaging would be easy and a simple fucking JDAM would just clear that shit out as the lairs are a 10 foot deep mud hole in the ground. Yet, somehow you're fucking losing. Is Joe Biden still in charge in 2052?
- Let's take the female that can signal to all of the males to our secret base and totally not have her under guard or keep her sedated like, past the first 5 minutes or something. Let's also totally keep her completely alive after getting all the scientific data we need from her so there's a chance she could break out and kill us, or summon like 790789908760980 males to come find us...oh, wait.
- Somehow DoD decided that sending 1k 'troops' per week into the future was something resembling a plan. This is the equivalent of playing CoD or Battlefield and being those tards that all spawn separately throughout the entire round so the entire enemy team constantly just has to shoot at 1 of you at a time. Tards.
- How the fuck do you manage to make Betty Gilpin look HOMELY. AS. FUCK. the entire movie? How?
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