The Midnight Sky - Netflix

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I was looking forward to this, a decent Sci-Fi yarn with a good cast. For me, it is best described as a mess.

The story wandered, the editing was awkward and there were the usual predictable events. I felt sorry for the cast in this mess.
I get the feeling the editing was under strict instructions or perhaps he had no other material to play with.

Disappointing
 
^ I'm with you Mitch. It has stuck with me - for all the wrong reasons...
I felt like I needed to have read the book - or some kind of backstory - to learn more about all the characters & perhaps even more about the plot. The story meandered - and felt like we suddenly just lost Clooney's character and the girl to suddenly follow the astronauts about midway thru...and I just never got a real sense I wanted to know more about them or him either. Also, {spoiler alert}, I was concerned early on about certain things with the child not seeming to be plausible or believable... and so the pay-off wasn't as big of a pay off.
I'm usually a Clooney fan... this one disappointed.
 
I had no expectations for this, but I actually enjoyed it for what it was. I just thought that the mission commander allowed his crew to take too many risks once it was clear that the Earth was dying, such as returning to Earth in one of the 2 remaining shuttles, but then there wasn't anybody to hold them accountable at that point. It just seemed that with the bad luck they had experienced so far on the return mission, there didn't seem to be much chance for the 2 remaining crew members and their baby on the return trip to Jupiter.

I mean it's not a great or even really a good movie, but it's certainly not a complete mess. It's a basic 2.5 out of 5 star movie, which still qualifies as watchable in my opinion depending on the subject matter / cast, which I enjoyed in this case. I certainly enjoyed it more than the recent "Ad Astra", which felt a lot more unrealistic and lifeless to me than "Midnight Sky".
 
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I thought it was so so. It was done with enough craft that I can't call it awful, and I can watch just about anything with spaceships in it and not be totally bored, but it was a bit mopey and drawn out. They should have added a scene after the credits where they tell their kids on Jupiter that repopulating the species is going to get a little weird.
 
Worst piece of crap I've suffered through in a long time, and I am a big Clooney fan. It would take too much time to point out all the flaws in the story, suffice it to say it was just plain stupid and caters to the dumbest viewers who just want eye candy. I happened to re-watch The Descendants over the weekend and if you want to see a fantastic film that will restore your faith in Clooney, watch it again for the first time.
 
I probably won't watch Midnight Sky but it entertained me in one way - this amusing thread of put-downs
 
Not only were there epic plot holes and great leaps of logic into true stupidity, but the boring slow pace was only outdone by the incredibly predictable and hackneyed story developments. My teenager kept predicting everything that would happen in each scene and I kept replying, "No, they can't be THAT obvious," only to have him nail it Every. Damn. Time. There must have been a dozen of them, including the ending.

I did enjoy how Clooney was able to establish contact at exactly the same time some asteroids then knocked out the communications again. And how the radar system was completely unable to detect the stuff right in front of them. Or the... ah, forget it. There's just so much stupidity.
 
"We have mysteriously drifted off course and we don't know where we are".....Well if you look out of the large front cockpit window on your spacecraft the big shiny hot ball is called the sun there's a clue maybe you could use it as a point of reference.

Voyager 1 had a transmit power of 22 watts roughly the power of a fridge bulb and could send pictures back from the same region of space yet this high tech craft set in the future can't communicate due to the distance.
 
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