The Tomorrow War Review - YMS

[@Proserpira]

i want an action hero who hates his wife and kids and actively tries to leave them behind but they keep showing up crying

[@manthe3711]

Now that's a hero I can relate to.

[@Proserpira]

@@manthe3711 I was going to say "that's not a good thing" but i did ask for it!

[@GabFrrost]

Sounds like Randy Quaid in Independence day

[@potatopatato1565]

Kinda like bruce willis in 90s

[@VexX6]

The main dude from the Mist doesnt really care for his kid (wife's son)

[@blueberry5822]

This movie’s script was chewing gum and chicken wire

[@c.nelson3747]

ayyyyyy

[@M0oranshi]

And I'm all out of both

[@maxhill9254]

+1

[@lawvos1]

Is that a Bill & Ted reference? How very dare they.

[@blueberry5822]

@@lawvos1 its a direct quote in the tomorrow war.

[@goreycinema]

This feels like a stereotype of an American action movie that you'd see in the background of some comedy series like The Simpsons or something.

[@dd-iy7jw]

when I first saw the trailer for this I couldn't help but think the same. "I need to save my daughter but also there's aliens and time travel!"

[@AH-vm8yo]

Rob Schneider is your typical family man but now he fights a war in the future?!?! He's about to learn that the future isn't so bright. Rob Schneider is a time warrior rated pg13.

[@WreckingWood]

"In this department we go by the book!" *BANG* "Bye book."

[@dannykopp1992]

Its a movie ben stiller's character from tropic thunder would of been in.

[@quitepipe]

Even "Get Mendoza" had an inciting incident and convincing special FX.

[@visualmess]

>"With the time machine, future people go back into the past not to prevent the war, but to provide more cannon fodder for the enemy" >a film made by Amazon Yup, checks out.

[@El-Burrito]

LMAO

[@turdferguson7105]

The white spikes had a pre set kill over. So they sent wave after wave of humans, until they killed enough and died off from hitting the white spike mark.

[@barackahilt8595]

@@turdferguson7105 they should have travelled back to Soviet times or any period in time when the Chine broke into pieces

[@makeitthrough_]

@@turdferguson7105 I got that Futurama reference, nice

[@ArJayPtV]

finding dumb and illogical ways to put soldiers in more harm than necessary is the most realistic thing about the movie

[@saintouija6403]

Merica'

[@unfortunateonejohnson8114]

Can you explain more? Like an example or something?

[@El-Burrito]

@@unfortunateonejohnson8114 how about Vietnam?

[@unfortunateonejohnson8114]

@@El-Burrito Oh yeah there's that.

[@unfortunateonejohnson8114]

@@El-Burrito Oh yeah there's that.

[@MichaelB-jw5po]

I'm just glad J.K. Simmons got a paycheck out of this movie.

[@sotwoodz2714]

Tuppence middleton

[@henryglennon3864]

He also gets paychecks from Farmers Insurance. That's no excuse.

[@dereksbooks]

Also Gail the Snail.

[@nms7872]

JK seems like an actor who will do anything.

[@Chris-ci8vs]

@@dereksbooks Really!? Hahahaha that's hilarious that she is in this, I would be so distracted running over Sunny in Philly lines in my head :P

[@rafaelfonseca1542]

I'm surprised nobody is talking about how hilarious the shot of Chris Pratt jumping on the female alien looks. I had to pause the movie cause I couldn't stop laughing.

[@israelhermosillo5582]

Facts

[@Zealolicious]

Holy shit it looks so bad

[@rafaelfonseca1542]

@@Zealolicious wdym it's the best shot of the movie

[@franklinbadge1215]

Holy shit it looks like they dragged a jpeg of Chris Pratt onto the back of the monster

[@nms7872]

Are you talking about that scene in the end where Chris and JK fight the alien? If so, yeah the VFX were awful there. Bad composition. This is a $200M budgeted film.

[@ayrahn7893]

I’m getting so fucking sick of action heroes who’s entire personality boils down to “I love my wife/kids/family.”

[@Hedgpig]

Yeah I want heroes that hate children, relatable people y'know?

[@rileyosteen6470]

Honestly though

[@justinsinger2505]

@@Hedgpig spike spiegal?

[@Panther-kid]

You're forgetting that a huge demographic of hollywood is a bunch of incels in the midwest who have shit all else to do in their town but go to the movies. This is the target audience.

[@justchilling7712]

It’s just world war Z all over again

[@venomz8888]

Can’t wait for the sequel “The Day After Tomorrow War”

[@higherquality]

That won't hold a lot of water

[@higherquality]

And that title leaves me cold

[@winstonvkoot]

I'll just watch the day after tomorrow instead..

[@alex_n215]

Can’t wait for the prequel, the day before yesterday.

[@Nygaard2]

...and the follow up Day after Tomorrow War of the Worlds End”

[@HYLOBRO]

I love how much money is spent on things that will be legitimately forgotten by the entirety of humanity in 18 months.

[@sinnsage]

Right? Like 200 million could build a house fir every homeless person in America but nah, let’s make this stupid movie and give Chris Pratt more money to give to his homophobic church

[@HYLOBRO]

@@sinnsage or to be a space billionaire

[@ElectricBarrier]

Movie producers love to gamble on movies, and many of them are the equivalent of the kind of guy who always hits at 17+.

[@ohnoitschris]

there's a big problem with the film industry when a nine-figure budget can't make nearly as quality of a film as a lone creative guy quarantined in his house

[@HYLOBRO]

@@ohnoitschris yep I agree. The more money involved, the less any individual voice can shine through. That’s why the best directed films are usually films with near limitless creative control, like Denis Villineuve, or A Gonzales Innuritu

[@marcusmcclain3251]

I couldn't stop thinking about how these people were using a time machine in the dumbest way possible...

[@trazyntheinfinite9895]

No, the movie just explained their time travel poorly. The future guys did not tunnel into their past, its the same past slightly offset.. changes there wont propagate to your future. Prattguys future can be changed, and was thx to prattguy. But the future guys basically can only grab aid from that other past and help change that other pasts future. So the timetravel is not the issue. The issue is why are there no tanks, drones, bigger guns etc mass produced in that past and transferred over to the future guys? Yknow instead of randos with guns that are ineffective?

[@scamwars4421]

@@trazyntheinfinite9895 Sorry, dude, you might have to watch this mess of a movie again to get the dirty details on the whole time travel shtick.. You’re definitely right about the bigger guns thing, however, about a half hour into the movie, during the R-Force mission briefing, the movie tries to answer away questions it thinks the audience might be asking by having the future guys explain it with the analogy of the “two rafts in a river”, and how the time travel jump links work. I believe the jumps are strictly 28 years apart, and “time only flows in one direction” (which doesn't indicate an alternate timeline). Okay, so the rules are presented to us, but the response to future crisis from both the people of the past and the future is just a TRAVESTY!

[@WhiteKnuckleRide512]

@@scamwars4421 I feel like no one understands that the premise is a play on all of the movies where the main character “goes back in time to change the future” and either leaves the entire population of a timeline to die or destroys it entirely. Of course in real life you would try to save both timelines, even if they don’t actually succeed in it.

[@scamwars4421]

@@WhiteKnuckleRide512 Yeah, I get it. Kudos if you enjoyed it. While I stink at "turning off my brain" for mindless entertainment, I do have the ability to suspend my disbelief, or at least take a thing for what it was meant to be, and be okay with the rules of the world that a movie establishes (I'm learning), everything else is kind of subjective. For example (and forgive me if I'm beating an old, dead horse here), the spinning totem that refuses to fall at the end of the movie Inception. It's a simple, genius cliffhanger by Nolan, to say the least, but it has everyone in an uproar, little do they know that their opinion doesn't matter. No matter what version of the story they wanted, they got what the screenwriter gave them. That being said, I don't care if viewers think that Cobb ended up in the dream world or not, it only matters what the director/writer meant for it to be. Anyways, if the Tomorrow War was meant to be a nonsensical, alien, time travel horror movie, then yay...whatever. It's still sad that TTW could've have been so much more than what we ended up getting: an intriguing premise, with a faulty execution.

[@WhiteKnuckleRide512]

@@scamwars4421 The execution was exactly what it had to be: an absolutely functional story with kickass action. It pains me so much that the average movie watcher had so little appreciation for good choreography that this movie is being ridiculed and not praised.

[@ghostmutton]

What would have been slightly more interesting is if the future people gave all of these lame excuses about misusing the time machine because they had a deal with the aliens to feed them a bunch of chumps from the past in exchange for not getting eaten themselves. It still wouldn't have been great. But it would have been something.

[@born2hula325]

The whole film seems designed around a twist ending that just never comes.

[@ivanlagrossemoule]

@@born2hula325 Maybe that's the twist.

[@ovahlord1451]

That sounds like a Futurama episode lol

[@7ens3nButt0n]

yeah i also had that feeling that maybe it really tried to do something different. like the future people setting up a big trap for humanity and his own daughter is the leader and he has to stop his daughter or die to save her, something like that. i came up with better twists and storylines and just got dissapointed that absolutely nothing mattered and its the same shit as always.

[@scamwars4421]

Honestly, that would have been way more intriguing, and what a twist that would be, too! TTW movie was simply trying to be a horror/sci-if/action/drama movie with some meaningful crap thrown in here and there, but it should’ve just leaned into the whole horror aspect entirely…and that’s coming from someone that doesn’t really like horror movies.

[@tonys6620]

"Why couldn't you build the time machine 30 years in the past?" "We did, it took 30 years to finish it" fixed.

[@ThomasThePanzerTank]

My brother and I were cracking up at how Chris Pratt's character basically said fuck the world and tried jumping after his daughter just for a trailer shot lol

[@janberkemeier7406]

I want to see an action movie in which the protagonist is five times divorced, hates children and is allergic to dogs

[@jimhaverlock9784]

If we can cut the divorces by two, you could just use my life.😂

[@arenasification]

Die hard?

[@arenasification]

and nicolas cage movies

[@R3GARnator]

Steven Spielberg's War of the Worlds?

[@turdferguson7105]

@@R3GARnator 🤢

[@felixmaldonado8091]

I can’t wait for your review on Old from M Knight

[@Absenteeee]

God same

[@Zathren]

I keep seeing people online saying that Old was good because it was "original". What does that even mean? Ever turd out of a living being is technically original, ya know?

[@toast522]

It's gunna be so good bro

[@saltinecracker4081]

TheUnholyOne The fucking funniest part about people saying Old being original makes it good is that the movie is based off a graphic novel

[@namelessentity5851]

This must transpire! But how to ensorcell and compel YMS to do it?

[@DrErikNefarious]

The monsters in this movie looked like the exact same monster that hollywood has used for like the last 10-20 years. Stick some tentacles on the cloverfield monster and you have the aliens here.

[@LangstonDev]

Yeah. It takes way too much effort for Hollywood and videogame designers to come up with a monster with character so now they're all just weird amorphous pennis-headed dog creatures with exposed teeth.

[@EncryptedLiberty]

"Just use a displacer beast, that'll be fine."

[@1997residente]

It also has the CGI backround of Endgame, Justice League and other blockbusters: Grey/Brown Sky and Orange fire

[@Shermpressive]

I stumbled on the artists work done for the “whitespikes”. In prior concepts surprise surprise they had more tentacle appendages on them so they could maneuver quickly through land and water as well as more of an overgrown tick like body shape which you can kinda see in the front appendages. Very Cloverfield. There was a scene in Miami that was to be more water oriented that was cut and the design changed with it.

[@TheRealJillSandwich]

Was about to say they looked like those things from a Quiet Place, or the URSA from After Earth...

[@AndresGomez-ct7qb]

I love it when Adum tears apart a bad film I never had any intention of watching

[@dereksbooks]

This has to be the worst looking $200m movie ever. At least the creatures look pretty good, but for $200m?!!!

[@AndresGomez-ct7qb]

@@dereksbooks Standard cashgrab. For the studio, actors, director, sfx artists... Safe to say that, when there's NOTHING redeemable about it, no one cared

[@stonetemplepilot420]

@@AndresGomez-ct7qb it's a fun movie and I enjoyed it. every single one of these criticisms could be levied at any action movie or any time travel movie

[@sinnsage]

Saaame

[@lumbacon2133]

@@stonetemplepilot420 You are easily amused then

[@DendyJungle]

Can't believe you didn't mention the scene in the classroom where a child figures out the aliens's location. They tried to recreate the scene from the Martian where Donald Glover knows science

[@I_am_a_cat_]

Holy fuck, 200 million? This was definitely some kinda scheme to pocket at least 175m of that 200m.

[@ryanscottnix]

I never thought of that, but you're 100% right. I wonder how much money laundering occurs through Hollywood productions.

[@tigerburn81]

Tax write offs?

[@scamwars4421]

Yup, 200 million and over 2 hours long, so… surely something out of all that hard work will make them money, right? (Face palm)

[@dreamer097]

@@ryanscottnix An Empire of Their Own by Neal Gabler

[@ryanscottnix]

@@dreamer097 Looked it up. Interesting!

[@SimpleSlave]

This movie was so ridiculous that I was genuinely thinking that the "humans" that came through the time machine were in fact the aliens sending humanity to be killed off in a Running Man game of death type twist, or just as food for their invading pets as they take over the planet. But nope, it was just good ol' dumb humans being good ol' dumb asses. 👍👌So Sad!!!👌👍

[@scamwars4421]

Okay, future people-just plain dumb…but people in that past/present being, like, “Sure, have all our troops and amateur volunteers”? Yeahhh, y’all deserve to die! No wonder why the aliens are winning in the future!

[@PALACIO254]

That would be a fun movie

[@andyk939]

I lasted about 17 minutes before I turned it off and started knitting.

[@ThreadBomb]

Knitting a noose?

[@mrprotoman154]

what a power move

[@Palmieres]

I bet it was super exciting. The knitting, I mean. At least compared to this movie.

[@bozotheclown1142]

That's what she said

[@ShroudedWolf51]

@@bozotheclown1142 "Andy" is generally a male name. Also, yes. That is literally what he said.

[@HaohmaruHL]

This movie gives me the same vibes like all those silly teen movies like hunger games, maze runner, twilight etc but with grown ups instead of kids. Also Chris pratts face looks weird here as if it was added by a deep fake algorithm on another person.

[@blaisetelfer8499]

I kept thinking he looked like Sean William Scott

[@AlcoholicBoredom]

In The Hunger Games they actually trained for the thing knowing what it was and what they would need to do. Hell, even in fucking Twilight the Cullens already know all about vampire society (being vampires and all). Here it’s like, “You’ll be fighting a scary something of which we'll give you virtually no information. Shoot at this wildly inaccurate, stationary target to practice.”

[@PalitoSelvatico]

Most action movies look like this one lets be honest. They never make sense they always look cheap.

[@Soulfly415]

It's not his face, it's his terrible acting! Pratt is one of the most overrated movie celebrities, i can't stand him!

[@toko099o]

I feel a lot of this movie is a result of multiple text books on how movies work say something along the lines that the best way to sell tickets is to have a big named actor in it.

[@dunngyllite7883]

"We managed to build a time machine, but couldn't figure out improved weapons, sorry guys."

[@jeebuschristos8423]

Telling ya... this and Army of the Dead... "You guys can have ANY weapon you choose... remember, you are going up against super-powered unstoppable killing machines... I can get you miniguns, exploding ordinance... anything..." "Yea... we'll just have off-the-rack M-16s... maybe a nice 9mm with a standard clip as backup... that should do it!"

[@turdferguson7105]

Oh....were not gonna talk about that movie.

[@0100-d8m]

They figured out worse weapons, those guns are 7" barrel 556 caliber or something similarly ridiculous. "We don't have enough penetration, so let's use the weakest mainstream rifle caliber with a barrel half the usual carbine length." (M4 is around 14.5", IIRC).

[@Axl4325]

Not even improve weapons, a .50 cal machinegun from the 40s kills them real good as seen in the scene where they are being chased in the Humvee. Give all the soldiers .50 cal rifles, 2 shots are enough. Or give everyone the same decked out shotguns the red shirt guy was wearing that seemed to work

[@Elevenouttaten]

idk why but at 8:42 the “YOU’RE JUST GIVING THEM FOOD!” line killed me

[@MegaRay220]

One of my old high school theater teachers was actually a prominent extra in this movie and every time he came in he would never stop talking about how he’s in a movie with Chris Pratt. Wasn’t a very nice guy so I’m glad to hear this movie isn’t very good

[@tincano-beans2114]

Yea but he was in a movie with Chris Pratt and you weren't. He's now officially better than you on a base level.

[@HeirLethal]

He sounds cool

[@shawklan27]

@@johne9898 very cool.

[@apolloforabetterfuture4814]

If I was in a movie with Chris Pratt I would be incredibly embarrassed

[@Youtube.Commen-tater]

@@aweigh1010 cuz he sux lol

[@saint4435]

I saw this and immediately was like, "Yes, destroy this movie, please."

[@nevermindgaming6848]

Yes daddy destroy the movie

[@krikeydial3430]

$200,000,000 folks.. 200 million dollars wasted just like that.

[@McRonald2010]

@@spenser9908 Let me guess, this movie is a masterpiece because Chris Pratt doesnt deserve to be pseudo cancelled and I sopport all of his movies. You know, nobody cared about that twitter cry baby bitching against him?

[@LegiyonEhellout]

As soon as the credits started rolling I thought to myself "This movie could make a really good YMS". This movie felt like it was designed to be a YMS review. I'm actually surprised the review is only 13 minutes, I am guessing it's because Adum is busy.

[@LateNightTableCo]

He’s also been recovering from tendinitis because he’s been working on the Lion King review pretty hard.

[@VNKNOWN_TX]

I can’t believe you skipped over the fact one of the kids he teaches JUUUSSST so happens to be a VOLCANO expert and the ENORMOUS leaps in logic they figure out where the aliens are. 🙄 fuck this movie was dumb.

[@terrathaw]

I told this to my friend and she thought the movie was cool so she left me on read 😂😂😂

[@turdferguson7105]

Awesome how that kid and Chris Pratt happen to be in the same place.

[@MusicoftheDamned]

It seems like the best thing you could say about this movie is that it makes _Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom_ no longer Chris Pratt's dumbest movie. Such progress. I've begun to wonder if he and Judi Dench share the same agent.

[@cadaverous4766]

the name alone makes me laugh everytime i see it

[@Chris-ci8vs]

Same, it's so dumb.

[@hanklestank]

They’re trying to riff on The Forever War by Joe Haldeman, a pretty awesome sci fi staple written in the 1970s. That also kind of, sort of, maybe has time travel if you squint - massive relativistic effects from travelling near light speed and what that does to you as you lose any connection you might’ve had to the people you’re fighting for. Pretty neat.

[@cadaverous4766]

@@hanklestank I would love to see a source on that information. "The Tomorrow War" is just as easily a really dumb name to decide on for a movie about war and the future

[@ThreadBomb]

@@cadaverous4766 If the movie was good, the name would seem good too.

[@cadaverous4766]

@@ThreadBomb It's embarassing to even suggest that

[@certifiedschizophrenic8598]

I think the most unrealistic part of the movie was Americans watching soccer

[@haydengray8844]

Football *

[@ThreadBomb]

Fussball*

[@alaksandutheexorkizein7634]

On Christmas as well

[@certifiedschizophrenic8598]

@@haydengray8844 Soccer **

[@jeebuschristos8423]

@@alaksandutheexorkizein7634 FIFA World Cup is going to be played the week before Christmas in 2022, when this movie takes place... apparently Pratt enjoys premature celebrations...

[@onnixcarmichele3911]

Also, I don’t think I’ve ever heard a more generic title for a movie than “The Tomorrow War”.

[@chrisward9218]

It's far too similar to the Australian novel "Tomorrow When The War Began"

[@bjd4]

when "future war" is already taken

[@ThreadBomb]

Edge of Tomorrow

[@bigguspiggus6041]

They should do a sequel, "The day after the tomorrow war" where Pratt and Gyllenhaal have to team up and go to the past to fight more aliens in really bad weather.

[@El-Burrito]

Ehhh I can't be bothered with war today, I'll do it tomorrow. *THE PROCRASTINATION WAR* (subtitle: Tomorrow Never Comes, unlike ya mum)

[@courtneygerman8610]

The 2 years and 18 years part has me dead lol the way you said it and the “got em” is just great

[@KittyMeow1984]

I swear there were some scenes in which Chris Pratt looked like he couldn't make it to the set, so they just brought a body double and deepfaked/CGI-ed Pratt's face over his'.

[@hillhouseproductions]

I’m predicting a 3/10.

[@w4rlock348]

Close but wrong

[@ramigilneas9274]

Close enough. But I also rated it 3/10.😂

[@LeOssiTrollterrible]

@@w4rlock348 with hint i say 4/10

[@hillhouseproductions]

@@ramigilneas9274 I gave it 3/5.

[@LeOssiTrollterrible]

Woops 😂😂😂😂

[@iciajay6891]

As soon as I saw Adums badly photoshoped face, I got hyped.

[@LangstonDev]

BAD?!? It's a Masterpiece.

[@LaineMann]

Yeah. Badly photoshopped Adam=he hated this movie and will rip it to pieces.

[@iciajay6891]

@@LangstonDev the worse it is, the better 👌

[@StormRulerKazunagi]

you forgot to mention the part where they go to a HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT in Chris Pratt's own class to find out where the aliens are frozen, cause apparently only a SINGLE high school student who happens to be in his class could help with this search and not ya know any actual scientists or literally ANYONE else they could've gone to about volcanoes. Like Chris is so lucky he happens to have a volcano-obsessed prodigy in his class i guess

[@pangkoulee7648]

🤣

[@connorcorbett497]

"you're just giving them food" is so good. And so true

[@vaun4723]

Why is nobody talking about the fact that they could've just transported the female to the past and developed the toxin there? That way they could've done it in peace and not had to worry about their base getting destroyed. I only scanned the movie for context, so I very easily could've missed an explanation, but that seems like by far the most idiotic thing about the plot.

[@mathewkloepfer664]

Your idea is sound, but they did give explanation as to why it wouldn't work. The guy says that both times are just a single, albeit different, point on the same linear timeline. While, yes, they are going back to the past all the points in the timeline are still moving forward. It's not like time will pause in the past when they jump back. It's also why there is pressure to finish everything quickly - because the future point is also still moving forward. That said, the idea that you can continuously jump backwards in time to a moving target in time is just silly. It's like they snapshotted a particular time in history and that's all that matters.

[@scamwars4421]

The whole thing is quite idiotic. Should’ve just stuck with the horror movie angle and called it good, but it tried to be more than that and ended up not making sense, despite establishing its own rules. And yet, even with the rules of the world, everyone human acted dumb and irrational. The only smart choices were at the end with Chris Pratt’s character, his dad, and their team of alien exterminator: make the alien toxin, wipe them out before they wake up and attack the world in the PRESENT.

[@scamwars4421]

@@mathewkloepfer664 Nah, the “two rafts on a river” explanation really doesn’t excuse why they couldn’t send an ALIEN back in time, it only explained why the future people couldn’t go back in time BEFORE the aliens attacked and then stopped them dead in their tracks. The time travel jumps are strickly 28 years apart (I think) on the same flow of time, but the future people were (or will be LOL) too busy dying to be able to capture a queen and develop the toxin. The aliens are tough to kill, sure, but those same aliens seemingly hibernate every 6 or 7 days for whatever reason. The movie makes excuses for characters to not be able to do certain things, and then it still manages to overlook obvious solutions just so the silly plot can happen-lazy horror movie vibes all over it! It’s kind of like a zombie movie jump scare. Zombies exist within the presented world of a zombie movie, fine, but what if that same world established that its zombies (like what I would imagine most zombies to be) have very little ability to ever be quiet even if they tried-and yet! Suspension of disbelief has its limits. They want you to turn your brain off and not think about it though. Boy, I WISH I could do that.

[@nathanglover8938]

@@scamwars4421 I've just realised that the "sabbath" thing of the aliens hibernating for 1 day in 7 made NO DIFFERENCE to the plot! Lol, I mean it, take out every time that a character says it and what has changed about the movie!?

[@scamwars4421]

@@nathanglover8938 Right? Would it not have been better just to leave out that part about the monsters? It seems like someone wrote a first draft of the screenplay and then they chose to just run with it. (Face palm). To be fair, if the aliens didn’t ever hibernate, the human race would’ve been wiped out super dang fast. But in light of the alien sabbath, all they had to do was launch some drones, follow them back to their lair, and blow them all up in their sleep. Do that a couple of times and then, boom, done! I get that humans can be silly and irrational, but was there not at least one person with a decent IQ alive during the invasion?

[@trouty606]

Gotta love a scifi movie where "We need the macguffin toxin to kill the aliens" that's the whole plot for 3/4ths of the movie becomes immediately pointless and unnecessary at the conclusion because explosives and guns do the job just fine.

[@shikniwho7215]

and don't forget the alien/monster thing always only have one hive mind or one queen so the moment you kill that, you basically won the fight.

[@trouty606]

@@shikniwho7215 Also the movie never establishes that one female will doom humanity. We don't know if it can even reproduce, since having males and females implies sexual reproduction so if the female is the only one left alive after the alien ship blows up, is there even a threat? We don't know because the movie can't be fucked to tell us.

[@Harv72b]

@@trouty606 Also also the female controls all of them and we need her blood to make the super-mega-Raid that will work on the female but the female is literally doped up in restrains right next to us.

[@dodojesus4529]

@@Harv72b also a female even if able to reproduce wouldnt be able to muster significant forces vefore another raid comes in. Not that this matters since entrenched positions would create mountains of dead aliens with relative ease

[@unknownflickz1289]

not exactly, it kills most of them and they end up sacrificing a lot of them to kill them, it still makes it a bit pointless I will admit but not that bad

[@zvonomirzuboronovic8662]

It was hilarious at the end when Chris Pratt jumped from out of shot to tackle the queen alien.

[@yaketysaks]

Wait, isn’t this just like the exact same plot as Live Die Repeat? Except worse?

[@ramigilneas9274]

Yes, it’s Edge of Tomorrow but bad.

[@blaisetelfer8499]

Who do people keep calling Edge of Tomorrow Live Die Repeat?

[@ramigilneas9274]

@@blaisetelfer8499 It was the original title… which would have made a lot more sense.😂

[@animefreak4evr13]

@@blaisetelfer8499 i think live die repeat was the tag line of the movie. I always thought it was because the tag line was so big, even in bigger font than the actual title, on the films poster that everyone seems to remember that instead of the real title

[@mimiru69]

@@ramigilneas9274 Live. Die. Repeat. was a way WORSE title... It sounds like a caveman trying to name a movie. Edge of Tomorrow is rather elegant in my opinion. Cruise's character was always just at the edge of getting to the next day, so Edge of Tomorrow is a pretty good name imo.

[@thegrimcritic5494]

I like that early in the movie they said “Oh, we sent our best soldiers through, but they died immediately.” Clearly you didn’t if all it takes to beat them is sending in some random dude.

[@Axl4325]

I also love the fact that every trained soldier failed, that means people like SAS, Deltas, SEALs, Spetznaz, DEVGRU and all the special force operators got munched, so they are instead sending the facebook mom squad to do the most important task in the entire war and giving them a time limit of 4 minutes or they get bombed. This is just an elaborate Saw movie

[@hay7501]

The line in the movie “you’re going to save the world” made me burst out laughing lmfao

[@matterbach6200]

Not to mention the toxin was pointless if they just blowed up the alien spaceship anyway...

[@Manigeitora]

I love that their excuse for immediately destroying the aliens was that if they told the world governments about it, they would take too long to make any sort of decision. But that logic doesn't work because they already knew that they had a deadline and they knew exactly what it was. Therefore, they could have easily taken the fact that these aliens existed to the UN and said, hey, we have to come to a decision on what we're going to do before x date otherwise we are all going to die. I have to imagine it would have been at least a few more years before the aliens thawed and woke up. For all we know, there was something within the aliens themselves that could have cured all known diseases, but just because JK Simmons doesn't like bureaucracy, we have to blow them up. It was a really stupid fucking decision.

[@gigiduru125]

they did not know where they came from

[@DrawinskyMoon]

It did help when Chris got attacked by the queen at the end.

[@UnCreativeDeconstructionism]

*This movie is the equivalent of a yee yee ass haircut*

[@Manigeitora]

I give this comment a 6/10

[@pingunooty]

Ayyy 69 likes

[@JFKHaircut]

Niggaaaaa

[@lintwizardly5654]

So they hide what the aliens look like for the sake of suspense, to the point where the *characters who are going to fight them* don't know what they look like, then the actual reveal of what the aliens look like is the same generic cgi monsters we've had since the 2000's *what was the point*

[@justastudent1423]

Not to mention we saw them in the trailers already

[@drifter402]

Effects are hard

[@WhiteKnuckleRide512]

Fuck off the monsters looked awesome

[@lintwizardly5654]

@@WhiteKnuckleRide512 You've got to be kidding me.

[@WhiteKnuckleRide512]

@@lintwizardly5654 As someone who pays even a little attention to animation, the work they put into making them look and move like these actually terrifying animals was incredible

[@Super8806]

BASH 'EM WITH YOUR CANE SCROOGE! I'm the ghost of christmas way future! We need you in the future to help destroy skeletrex's bone brigades!

[@trshxgod8040]

I honestly can’t tell is the MetLife thing at the end was real or not. I could totally believe if it was

[@merchantmahogany]

i've seen the movie but i forgot so much about it that had me fooled for a sec (it isn't real lol)

[@Liquid_Mike]

So humans could travel back to the past, but not one of them took the opportunity to play the shitty games that suck ass?

[@the42project_II]

“So today, we’re gonna play Knack 3 on the PS5”

[@katherineb5872]

I guess they'd rather have a buffalo take a diarrhea dump In their ears

[@cameronroy2129]

What am I missing here?

[@Aspi3Gam3r]

Or to warn James Rolfe not to partner with a crappy content creation management group called Screenwave who's currently running AVGN into the ground whilst enabling Rolfe to not even try anymore with his KZbin channel these days.

[@the42project_II]

@@Aspi3Gam3r he’s still trying, what are you going on about? He’s still making high effort videos, including AVGN.

[@YMS]

first

[@coolcatstudios3665]

FIRST

[@OneSlickCricket]

pee pee

[@dogerogue6621]

You beat me

[@MochaRacc]

Last

[@JellyFishGell]

Second FUCK

[@somanytakennames]

The bit when they get teleported into the sky and 95% of the army get wiped out made me laugh so damn hard. The intended effect I’m sure.

[@LemonSte]

Almost like every revenge/saviour themed American action movie is like "I need to save my daughter!" And I'm just like ... Is that really the only way to appeal to male empathy? Girlfriends are too disposable, mothers are too domineering, friends aren't a thing, sons are bros - only a daughter that you have the illusion of ownership over and responsibility toward can trigger real emotion in men and sell them tickets according to Hollywood lmao. Not giving guys much credit

[@R0B1NG5]

It feels like a cut-corner, exclusively made for a streaming platform movie with as cheap a big name as they could get, but the budget doesn't follow with that at all

[@Lifesizemortal]

4 really decent movies could've been made with that budget :/

[@plfish77]

Money laundering

[@BeyMediaVids]

I think it was originally made by paramount or something but because of the pandemic Amazon acquired the film? I could be very wrong

[@hurgenflerg2133]

I think it's an issue of quantity. A lot of cheap straight-to-streaming sci-fi movies have the same quality of effects and sets, but The Tomorrow War (which I keep accidentally calling Future War) has SO MANY bad special effects and mediocre sets that the budget just spirals off into crazy town.

[@sparklepawz1185]

“I just want to save my daughter. If that means saving the world to I’ll do it.” Lol if my dad had to choose between saving me or the world he’ll let me die 100% because of course he would. What are we going to do after? Thanks for saving me dad, it’s too bad the world is over and we’re the last remnants of our entire species but hey at least we’re alive and I totally wont hate you for ruining our entire species and letting the other members of our family die and it’s not like you’ll be riddled with guilt wondering if it was the right choice to let everything but me die out.

[@TrueCarthaginian]

You're just selfish and don't want to help your father repopulate the planet.

[@omegaxtrigun]

Unless I'm misunderstanding something, that line isn't implying that he's choosing between saving his daughter and saving the world. It's implying that, if he wants to save his daughter, he ALSO has to save the world. It's just them playing up the whole "I care SO much about my family" trope as much as they can.

[@AH-vm8yo]

@@TrueCarthaginian 😮

[@mister-pinkman]

It’s not supposed to be morally correct, just like Joel in the last of us saving ellie instead of letting her die and possibly getting a cure from it. But I understand what you’re saying

[@suziebelle3738]

thats kinda misunderstanding the quote. its basically boiled down to "i love my daughter, so i will protect her by saving the world", not "i love my daughter more than saving the world"

[@gardnmi]

If they had been just sending people to the future to be food that would have been a lot more interesting.

[@Axl4325]

And in reality the future people had a deal with the aliens to feed them or something, would also explain the poor training, they were never meant to survive the encounters, and Chris Pratt´s character cracks down on them, convinces them to actually put up a fight using today´s resources and they defeat the future aliens

[@moldman5694]

@@Axl4325 instantly better

[@Thumbdumpandthebumpchump]

Hell, play the global warming theme to the quick. There are no time paradoxes. The past duesnt affect the future. The future people could easily save the past's world with technology and information, but that wouldn't help them. So they lie and say this is the only way, feeding the past's people into a meat grinder in a desperate attempt to slow the inevitable. Chris Pratt's daughter is a member of a small faction that's realized this, and is actively trying to help the past. There, majes the time travel thematically relevant, and justifies the stupidity and incompetence of the future people.

[@cjamesmcgregor]

Soylent's Run

[@MostlyCloudy]

If them getting tossed down to the monsters in a feeding frenzy at that first jump was intentional this movie would have been so dark.

[@YouCantDeleteDenzelL]

I laughed way too fucking hard at the word "ended" on the TV.

[@ghastlyguts]

This was literally a parody action movie presenting itself as a serious movie. Wow

[@turdferguson7105]

So true. It didn't know if it wanted to be a serious movie, or a joke.

[@Dan-yy6tt]

There’s like eleven things they could have done to make this movie watchable, and they did none of those things

[@Manigeitora]

Thing one was stop trying to build Chris Pratt as an action star, he doesn't fit the role at all. Anytime he tries to put on a serious face he just looks confused, probably because he's not really suited for those roles. Just let the guy be a goofball for fuck sake

[@mytime991]

Hope this movie made you appreciate Edge of Tomorrow morw than before. Yea, it has flaws, but Edge of Tomorrow it super fun and cool.

[@Anacronian]

Edge of Tomorrow have Tom Cruise die multiple times, That alone makes it an ok movie :)

[@Alex-cw3rz]

For movies with believable time travel, look at About Time and weirdly enough Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban which the time travel element in of itself is flawless, it's existence brings up questions but that's a different issue.

[@KhaaahM]

The way that time travel is handled in Primer is perfect too

[@simonriley4131]

And Primer

[@bucklakelukie]

@@stijnvandrongelen5625 twelve monkeys has consistent rules but there’s one plot point involving “oh we just decoded a message we always had” that felt like a contrived way of writing around a plot hole

[@fnordiumendures138]

And Timecrimes.

[@Palmieres]

Primer is a proper time travel movie, written by someone who really understand physics. Twelve Monkeys, Tennet and Predestination do a cool job with inevitability, consequence and loop effect, but writing time travel stories is a complex endeavour that needs the writer to know exactly what they're going to do by the end before they even start. You need someone on the level of Robert A. Heinlein to write the good stuff (which he did, several times). This type of "time travel movie" is just laughably bad.

[@Duamerthrax]

This would have been better if it decided to just go nuts and instead of grabbing randos, grab various "lost" legions from human history. The Lost Roman Legion and sunk Mongol fleet from 1281 come to mind, but there would be ones grabbed from everywhere and when. How would you convince everyone to work together? The organizers just Groundhog's Day reset themselves until each person said yes.

[@samrobotsin]

This is the most anti-military military propaganda I've seen since captain Marvel

[@JarfTaco]

3:24 to 3:50 You hit the nail on the head. This might be my new favorite clip from any of your videos because it perfectly explains why the “Stop caring about the human characters in a Godzilla movie” defense is so unbearably stupid.

[@blaisetelfer8499]

That drove me nuts. Even if you like the part with Godzilla, Kong and the other titans, 90% of the movie was the girl from Stranger Things and her parents speaking a bunch of bullshit. How am I supposed to ignore them when they're the majority of what's happening?

[@Alec11_43]

I really dislike those types of defenses. Not because they liked the movie, but because they believe people criticizing and thinking otherwise about said movie is ludicrous and unacceptable.

[@johnnysins6330]

The moment they talked about time travel in the trailer I knew YMS was gonna have a field day with this one

[@JohnDoe-uf3lj]

So it’s like Terminator, but without anything fun? So, like the newer Terminators…

[@KenLinx]

How are the Terminator films from 3 decades ago more "fun" than the newer Terminator films? I think you mean they do less unique things now. In today's standards, the classic Terminator films are about as cookie-cutter as they get.

[@lukaszspychaj9210]

@@KenLinx consoomer detected

[@Chickenbowser]

@@KenLinx They were incredibly original when they were released, did a lot with limited budgets, and have a ton of charm and character to them. The new ones are fucking boring CGI, grrrrrrl-boss, borefests.

[@KenLinx]

@@Chickenbowser Nostalgia bias. If you compare all the Terminator films without taking into account the time they were released (because that isn't what makes a film good), the classics are definitely a step down. Also, wtf is "grrrrrrl-boss"??

[@ivosamuelgiosadominguez6649]

@@KenLinx I dunno man, I watched the first two terminators, like, a year ago (so no nostalgia), and I thought they were great. T2 is now one of my favourite action films of all time. To each their own, I guess.

[@BigBossMan538]

The editing and visual gags in these videos are on point as expected. I always howl with laughter at the editing and Adum's wit.

[@android19willpwn]

the only time travel story I've seen with absolutely zero paradoxes was one where it turns out there is actually zero time travel taking place.

[@vfxninja5503]

So this is just Edge Of Tomorrow written by somebody who got kicked in the head by a horse as a kid, right?

[@Chris-ci8vs]

Yes

[@BirdsElopeWithTheSun09]

When I first saw the poster for this movie, I legit though it was a sequel to Edge Of Tomorrow.

[@janberkemeier7406]

Adum was recruited from the past to kick the producer in the head

[@Iffy350]

Man, is there a printer that creates generic cloverfield alien monsters for Hollywood? It looks like something out of After Earth.

[@dilliee]

Yes but you have to put in at least 150 million dollars to turn it on.

[@repletereplete8002]

This whole movie felt like a cheap AI ran an algorithm of every past sci-fi monster movie actioner and mashed into a mediocre digital paste and then spread it unevenly onto the screen.

[@1997residente]

@@repletereplete8002 Al. G. RHYTHM

[@jackcrew6607]

I'd argue the creatures in the movie looked rather unique in my opinion. Compared to other Hollywood monster designs.

[@dabestofdabest697]

How can you dislike a Chris Adam? Don’t you like to enjoy and consume the product, that blockbusters gives you?

[@blaisetelfer8499]

Chris Pine is legit though

[@dannykopp1992]

We have been blessed with product. consume and be one with industry.

[@sorryifoldcomment8596]

The editing in this is incredible, thank you HeyoDamo!

[@Badnik96]

"so they go back in time not to prevent the future from occurring but to throw more bodies at the problem." if i know anything about the usa military industrial complex, this is exactly what they would do in such a situation. a+ for realism

[@jdrahonovsky]

Adum talking about paradoxes makes me wish even harder he would review Dark.

[@lauralaura4362]

the german show?

[@jdrahonovsky]

@@lauralaura4362 Yessum

[@Arkantos117]

Instead of time travel they should've just came from an alternate universe.

[@ThreadBomb]

I think the basic idea of recruiting soldiers from the past could work, they just absolutely fucked it up.

[@toolongforyoutoread6]

$200 million? We could end world hunger if we just stop making terrible movies.

[@MarillSweatshirt]

🤣🤣🤣 that's cute we've already suggested that decades ago.

[@googleuser561]

love the watchmen pfp

[@KenLinx]

but would ending world hunger give the investor's money back?

[@Palmieres]

If you think about it, the end result would be very similar: people who have been fed produce tons of shit. The makers of these movies produce tons of shit. Kind of levels out, in the end.

[@amberbaum4079]

Most of that budget probably went into marketing.

[@kolonarulez5222]

"You're just giving them food!" got me lol 🤣

[@sebastiandiaz3388]

I’m glad YMS tells us his standpoint of the movie in the first 6 seconds

[@marianav6213]

"I'm never going to leave her, im never going to leave this family" yikes given what he actually did, this is a rough line

[@jsvideos2261]

Please interview Neil Breen's "Twisted Pair" costar Sara Merritt.

[@robotrix]

He's letting people who worked on his films be interviewed now?

[@ayubnor0]

This movie reminded me about a McDonald's cheeseburger

[@savannahlevy97]

Pretty accurate

[@2dheethbar]

I agree. It's hit or miss with "it looks good in the pic". Almost to the point where it depends on the location( i.e. the film production company and team behind it. Lol) Because I do like me some McD's when they're nice n warm n have melty cheese.

[@Manigeitora]

I have no idea what you mean, but at the same time, I know exactly what you mean.

[@leonardotavaresdardenne9955]

Hey MickeyDee's burgers are OK, this isn't

[@utopua4all]

Why does this remind me of a Robin Williams bit about getting a colonoscopy? "Look over there, a burger I had in '85."

[@davidmeyer4506]

Studio: "shush, just dont think about it" YMS: questions everything

[@madaggar9765]

Wait, so let me get this straight, ground infantry is what they want to send to the future and not future tech/weapons/tanks/planes made in the past? Time travel stories really need to have a high level of thought put into them, and this doesn't look like it had any.

[@demian5631]

Honestly them sending Infantry with pretty useless weapons against the aliens in the future almost seems like a plot point straight out of Starship Troopers. Except Starship Troopers is satire and this allegedly isn't.

[@Khenfu_Cake]

​​​​@@demian5631 And that was just the film. In the novel they wear power armor which basically turns each soldier into a humanoid flying tank. The need for actually having ground troops was also more justified by the bug-like aliens actually being an equally technologically advanced space faring species with their own space ships, artillery etc. I guess Paul Verhoeven felt he needed to hammer the point with the satire more home by depicting the Federation not giving a shit about using woefully under equipped brainwashed cannon fodder against a foe they could mostly just nuke from orbit... Also budget constraints I can imagine.

[@demian5631]

@@Khenfu_Cake Verhoeven has gone on record saying that he disliked the book and decided to make fun of it. The book is unironically pretty facist, the film is making fun of facism.

[@Khenfu_Cake]

@@demian5631 Oh, I'm fully aware of that. It's strange though how Verhoeven kinda downplayed the outright insane shit which is played completely straight (and unchallenged by the overall tone of the book) in the novel, like the main characters committing literal war crimes such as deliberately blowing up civilians. The training for the mobile infantry also involved way more death and torture. But I suppose Verhoeven perhaps found that was way too on the nose and it wouldn't fit his more satirical approach and instead replaced the evil shit the characters did with them just being brainwashed cannon fodder.

[@demian5631]

@@Khenfu_Cake You also gotta remember that Verhoeven grew up under Nazi occupation, so he probably saw that sort of shit for real so he might not wanna recreate it for his movie.

[@jeffwren7815]

Question: is the tomorrow war a better Sonic movie than the recent Sonic movie?

[@cinnamonsparrowdesigns]

I will say that Sonic was better than this and I didn't even like that movie at all either haha

[@Manigeitora]

@@cinnamonsparrowdesigns Sonic compared to this is a Van Gogh compared to a napkin scribble.

[@Jesses001]

I had tones of fun tearing this movie apart. I love how they try to explain the time travel because I was able to laugh at how stupid they were. Also, take people from the past to fight...rather then actually using the ability to time travel to your advantage, ha. The future people had the worst plans. Also nice short barrel ARs with long range scope set-ups. Those darn things must weight 20lb with all that stuff strapped to them. No wonder the war is going badly. One thing I have to disagree with you on though. Saying the UN will just talk about it till they are all dead is the most believable part of the movie by far.

[@imaginaryfanboy]

Shout out to the AdumPlaze stream

[@HaruDoneYet]

Honestly I felt bad for the female alien at the end. She just trying to do her thing, her friends and family got blown up, then she gets stabbed and shot a whole bunch. Like they really dragged the scene out. Poor thing.

[@ThreadBomb]

Just a single mom trying to make her way in a man's world.

[@lauralaura4362]

@@ThreadBomb we really do live in a patriarchy

[@DrawinskyMoon]

Sad they can’t just chill with their diets. Who eats that many calories anyway. 125,822 calories. That’s enough to feed at least 30 creatures.

[@lindinle]

the way i thought this movie would be bad was way better than the actual movie.

[@DrawtoonzStudio]

Hollywood movies are just feeling more and more hollow as times go on. …yes, this _is_ a very original and insightful take.

[@HinDoongEe]

Yeah this is the first time I’ve seen a movie make a political statement in favor of China. Someone in the sub I frequent pointed out they use the Chinese name for mount Baekdu on the Korean Chinese border.

[@utopua4all]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't one of the Transformer movies do something similar? I think it was the third one where part of it takes place in China and that part of the movie is a little more pro-China that you'd expect.

[@ThreadBomb]

Is there some sort of dispute over mount Baekdu?

[@miacasual1263]

I only got somewhat invested in the movie during the third act. This movie was just ungodly boring

[@joupsmoviesoup]

This is 100% a movie where they thought up the title or concept first and thought it was cool enough to build a movie around.

[@averynelson1186]

Honestly this matches up pretty well with Pratt's character arc in real life

[@antimatter4733]

They literally could have just spent all that time they got from the early warning preparing for the war, if you're telling me that 20 years preparing for a known enemy is less effective than dropping random civilians onto the enemy with a process that ends up killing the majority of them just by traveling forward in time. Also the whole thing about them not having any idea where the outbreak started is just so stupid. There's no area on earth where people don't have communication. You're telling me they had time to invent time travel but not the time or resources to figure out what place got attacked first

[@adrenalinevan]

Exactly that was my first thought or maybe spend 20 years improving the time machine or whatever

[@leonardotavaresdardenne9955]

For some reason the movie thinks the most effective way to deal with brute alien monsters is hundreds of infantry with assault rifles

[@sphereware2115]

Easily the worst part about this movie was when he was so upset about his future daughter dying WHEN IT DOESNT MATTER IF SHE DIES AS LONG AS HE LIVES

[@SourFrog42]

This is like a bad version of starship troopers. I started rooting for the alien female halfway through, that was way more fun.

[@c.8565]

Same. I wanted her to win.

[@aidencampbell9120]

@@cookieface80 Its was also more enjoyable but yeah interesting to see them piss off the bugs only to regret it

[@sjbrooksy45]

The star of the movie should have been Betty Gilpin. Make her a physicist or something who's experiment goes wrong and gets sucked into the future where the fight is already being lost. She is trying to find her family who she fears is already dead, and along the way runs into resistance fighters who try to help her and also show her how to fight the aliens. She finds her now grown daughter who had thought her mom had died years ago. Ultimately the mom sacrifices her life to save her future daughter, but also to help finally turn the tide against the aliens. Nothing happens in the past, there is no paradox stuff, but the war is still "Tomorrow". Or if you absolutely need to make one of the themes about a father's love, or his impact on his family, the main character should be the child who meets the dad in the future and now has their own family and must learn to reconcile the feelings of abandonment they felt to repair their relationship and break the cycle. Dad from the past sacrifices himself in the end after telling son in the future that a dad's greatest gift to a child is his time, and he is giving all his remaining years so his son may live. Or something like that.

[@raine6813]

the videogame "jak 2" is actually a pretty good example of time travel done properly. at the beginning of the game jak travels into the far future where he meets the younger versions of samos and himself, and at the end of the game younger samos and younger jak travel back in time so that he can complete his destiny as present jak did. younger samos already knows that jak did everything right so he doesnt do anything differently, and younger jak loses his memory in the time travelling process. so now the time loop is complete and nothing will change, and the timeline alwas stays the same

[@Anthony755]

Ever since 2008, every alien in every action movie looks like an iteration of the Cloverfield monster.

[@ayrahn7893]

This. Who needs creativity when you can just make a multimillion dollar equivalent of a Deviant Art “ORIGINAL CHARACTER DO NOT STEAL!!!”

[@blaisetelfer8499]

Pretty weird considering Cloverfield wasn't even good