Have you watched The Tomorrow War?

Watched it.

I like Pratt but I couldn't get past the dumbass choice to send people to the future to fight rather than use the future information to prepare. Like, that would absolutely never happen.

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Lots of logic gaps, but if you try to ignore all of that the movie is quite entertaining IMO

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They're hard to ignore though.

I mean midway through the movie they successfully take the toxin back in time. Now humanity has a superweapon that can easily destroy all the aliens 30 years before the war even started.

Boom its over, the aliens have no chance at that point.

All they have to do is broadcast that to the world and everyone is ecstatic.

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Lots of logic gaps, but if you try to ignore all of that the movie is quite entertaining IMO

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It’s definitely an action movie first and a sci-fi movie second.

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There’s a reason Stephen Hawking said to leave them alone.

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That reason was made clear when it was discovered that the alien ship had crashed in the Russian Arctic. The whitespikes weren’t operating the ship. They were cargo.

It wasn’t known whether the aliens meant to use the whitespikes as biological weapons against earth’s inhabitants but that seems like a logical conclusion. Why else would they be anywhere near our solar system?

Using creatures such as whitespikes would be a very efficient way of quickly clearing a planet of its fauna. They were eating everything that moved. They could also swim, so no island was safe. You have to think that the aliens had a way of neutralizing the whitespikes after they did their annihilation of the planet. Probably had a toxin.

Stephen Hawking thought that alien civilizations probably evolved the same way we did, violently, and would likely be warring species. I agree with him that violence is necessary for intelligence to evolve but I don’t think any biological species could ever become spacefaring. Amino acids, proteins and RNA/DNA are just too delicate for the rigors of space. A machine intelligence would be the ideal species for traveling the Universe.

I thought it had its dumb parts but it was watchable. Chris Pratt and his side kick come to the realization that only people who are dead in the future are being drafted so not everyone can be drafted but they say that there are only 500 thousand people left in the future so pretty much everyone is dead and therefore can be drafted. I thought that was silly. Then they are only sending like a couple thousand people into the future at a time. What is that gonna do? How about we send millions at a time and outfit them with some tanks and other military hardware. At the end they decide to try and eliminate the white spikes in the alien ship with like 5-6 people. That was pretty frickin dumb. They could have easily escaped and started their genocide 28 years sooner. They cited government tie ups. it was all around kind of silly imo. Could have been better,

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Chris Pratt and his side kick come to the realization that only people who are dead in the future are being drafted so not everyone can be drafted but they say that there are only 500 thousand people left in the future so pretty much everyone is dead and therefore can be drafted

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Dan deduces with fellow draftee Charlie that to prevent a paradox, those drafted have already died before the war starts.

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Then they are only sending like a couple thousand people into the future at a time. What is that gonna do? How about we send millions at a time and outfit them with some tanks and other military hardware.

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When Dan arrives in the future, humanity is in a final stand against the Whitespikes. His daughter Muri is working on a toxin that will kill them and already works against the males. All efforts by the military are to protect the toxin project.

They are in a defensive mode. 9.5 billion people have already been eaten by the Whitespikes. There’s no need for more victims. Just enough to hold the fort while the toxin is being developed.

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At the end they decide to try and eliminate the white spikes in the alien ship with like 5-6 people. That was pretty frickin dumb. They could have easily escaped and started their genocide 28 years sooner. They cited government tie ups.

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Yes, even in the face of species extinction, government officials can be depended upon to frick things up. So Dan and his father led a secret expedition to the alien spacecraft with the intention of poisoning the Whitespikes while they were still dormant. While things didn’t go exactly as planned, they did accomplish their mission.

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So watch it the next time you visit them. Or visit them just to watch the movie.

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7 hours away but I’ll be visiting in September so I’ll probably watch it then lol

Have not seen it but have seen/read the premise.

My ignorant take-away:

Is that really the best way to use a time machine??

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s that really the best way to use a time machine??

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I need to watch it again to know exactly why but, IIRC, there was a reason for the use of the period 30 years before 2051. Seems like the machine was limited in its range or something. Someone else may remember more.

A lot of the subtleties of the story are greatly over-shadowed by the excellent fast action. It’s hard to focus on the details when you’re expecting a monster like a Whitespike to bite someone in two at any time.