I'm Todd Hewitt, I'm Todd Hewitt, I'm Todd Hewitt.
This is something you're going to hear more in this movie than good reviews it'll get in total. After my last movie review of Love and Monsters some of you readers may be surprised to hear that this one won't be as positive as I was being super nice to the last one. Unfortunately it's going to be difficult here.
To start off, after hearing what the movie was about I absolutely loved the concept, not only am I a big sci-fi fan but finding out it's on a planet where thoughts are emitted out in the form of clouds so others can both hear and see images of what you're thinking - it would leave unlimited possibilities of what could happen. I instantly thought of the anime TV Series "The Disastrous Life of Saiki K." where viewers can hear every thought of the main person and he himself can hear all the thoughts of others and they turn it into comedy gold but in this movie those jabs at comedy happened way too little and brought forth a chuckle max one time. They had such amazing opportunities to give this movie some more interesting events with the whole "noise" thing as they called it but failed very badly. It wasn't just thoughts, it was wishful thinking, dreams and at some point you could even use noise to trick others and give them an illusion of the surroundings, all of it wasted. The main way they made use of it was by people trying to hide their noise to not give away secrets, which our main character Todd here attempted to do by repeating his name over and over.
The plot is about an explorer ship landing on the planet to check what happened to a colony they dropped off here years ago, very little backstory is given of what happened to earth, why they didn't check on them for so many years, why there hasn't been any communication in the meantime, etc. This planet is now male only and when they find the lone survivor girl who crashlanded they try to take her hostage and she escapes with the help of the main character Todd Hewitt played by Tom Holland.
The connection between the two is very weird, not just because she can hear his every thought and that in and of itself may be a bit too much to throw at someone who just crashlanded onto an alien planet, but she also doesn't talk for the first half of the movie for some reason, so little that even Todd thinks out loud "she talks!" when she eventually does. While they're being chased by the leader of the town you're also introduced to there being natives on the planet as well and blame them for having killed all the "human" women that landed there along with the rest many years ago.
It's a really weird story, I realize it's from a book but they did a really bad job of getting viewers invested in the movie. Only thing I know about Todd is that he's a farmer who has a dog and happens to see the girl first, only thing I know about the town's people is that they have a sheriff who for some reason can control his noise better than literally everyone else, did that make him the sheriff? At no point do they make it obvious why he wants to hunt the girl down, not let her get in contact with the mothership I guess but why? Does he not want to let go of his power? Being the sole leader of a town full of men that won't see the next generation? It's all kind of weird, some of it is made clear in the very end but I really had a hard time following the movie even though I really, really, wanted to like it.
Aside from the noise animations there really wasn't much to showcase today's CGI and what it's capable well. Much of the landscape looked just like back on earth, it felt like they hadn't even tried make the planet look alien even though it looked really different in the beginning as they were landing on it. I was expecting there to be a lot of different changes, evolution having gone a very different way leading to tons of exotic animals, plants, trees, etc being showcased. Not like we have a lack of artists and illustrators to transform a world without limits into whatever they'd want, but instead they barely focused on that and that also killed part of the sci-fi of the movie for me. The amount of interaction with the natives was as short as me smoking the first cigarette of the day - I don't smoke anymore but couldn't come up with a better example without turning it nsfw.
Just hugely disappointed in general from the outcome of this movie with two very good main actors in it and plenty of others. I'd almost be interested in reading the books now just to find out if they're the ones that sucked or if its the movie production, maybe some of you reading this have read them and can let me know. Even better if you watch the movie first too.
My previous Movie Review: Love and Monsters
That's a shame. I like Daisy Ridley, despite The Last Jedi, and this one had some promise.
Your review reminds me of In time with Justin Timberlake. An incredible premise completely squandered. Unforgiveable.
Oh snap, completely forgot about that one. Exactly, I still liked it but could've been so much better. :(
I found out about the book after the movie trailer. I'm also a big fan of science fiction and sci-fi movies, and I thought it would be nice to read the book first and then watch the movie. I will say briefly: imho the book sucks. It's not science fiction at all, it's more of a teen fantasy book. I did not read the following books, and I have no desire to watch the movie despite the fact that Tom Holland is growing up as an actor.
Thank you for this review.
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Oh wow, did not expect that from the books, thanks for saving me some time!
I checked out this movie just yesterday and was quite fascinated with all the men could do with their "noises". Although hearing " I'm Todd Hewitt" like a thousand times was quite disturbing but was understandable why he'd say that. I liked that Todd was a pervert too.😄 Kinda surprised how he knew he was supposed to kiss a girl when he had never met one..lol. Awesome movie by the way. Tom Holland has been doing really great lately. You should check out "Cherry". You'll love it.
It could've been such a more awesome movie, though. :(
I really like Tom Holland, The Devil All The Time was really cool and unique, so guess I was expecting more from this one, maybe also cause I've watched a lot of sci-fi and the last one was a third rewatch of Interstellar that I was expecting more from this. I'll look into Cherry, thanks for the recommendation!
Yeah, "Devil All The Time" was dope. I loved how it ended,was hard to predict how the movie was gonna go. Well, I agree this was a bit different. Definitely isn't his best movie but i loved the creativity. "The Noise". A new word in the Sci-fi world.
The Devil All Time is a great movie. Very dark but great.
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Oh lol, I've watched Cherry I just realized. :D
and yeah, the mix of war ptsd + hard drugs is not a good one, especially when it affects both partners and they then enable each other with the drugs. Was a great movie!
Yeah, pretty tragic story there. But i loved it theacting anyways. Cheers to Tom.🍾🍾
If you're interested in my opinion. 😊
I watched the Cherry movie with some pleasure (Tom Holland!), but it seemed a bit long to me. I don't really like the breaking of the fourth wall director's decision in movies like this; after all, it's not a comedy. Also, I didn't like the happy ending.
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Yeah I get that it's not a comedy (assume you're talking about this one as Cherry wasn't that funny) but they added some of it so they could've done it a bit more times, or at least become a bit more creative with the usage of noise, it felt really wasted on it and repetitive quick. There were many other things that felt weird, the scene changes, people you barely cared about dying and making it tragic and spending too much focus on it. No backstory to them, or why they were his caretakers, etc. Dunno. Could've been way better, it's not often I feel I could've made a movie better myself and this was one of those times.
This. 👆
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I was wondering the same about kissing part lol
I’ll bet that this is the only film review (that isn’t x rated) which adds a “smoke” in the middle of it. Lollll
Argh I used the word cloud when I meant smoke! That's so much better
It's been a long time since I've seen a movie or even a TV show that has been worth it. Reading your reviews such as this one reminds me why I stopped lol I've found a lot of things to do during that time and new hobbies. I feel like the movie and TV series are just bland and not really creative anymore. Seemingly just throwing together a bunch of things and seeing what sticks and not putting much effort to a creative and in depth story that keeps you wanting to come back for more. Movies and shows have a record of doing a bad job of trying to replicate a book and I much rather read the book over the movie or show any day.
I enjoyed this movie a lot, it was the first one I’ve went to the theater to see in a long time.
There was quite a bit of funny parts thanks to the way guys’ minds work and their thoughts being broadcasted. I’m glad this isn’t the reality of things for us 😅
Who knows, neuralink might make it a reality soon. :D
I watched it and it could be better as you said.
Didnt expect this to be super good, but this was more disappointing than i imagined
Hoping Holland can find more successs outside of just Spider-Man, he was great in Devil All The Time
I love sci-fi so I'm obliged to watch it even if you gave it a 5.4 banana rating.
!PIZZA
Let me know if you agree with my rating!
nah, "a few seconds ago" and 17$ in autovotes? XD amazing
Welcome to feeless transactions.
Surprised to see that how you manage your schedule that you even get time to watch movies. Although I haven't watched but may be there could be one post to share better time management skills. Many will find it useful. Thanks
Trying to take some more time for myself, as you can see there were many weeks I didn't post anything at all and even now I try to give beneficiaries to hbdstabilizer to help with the peg on low effort/short posts due to my autovotes.
This is so good. Self time is very important and like a way to get relaxed and get some creative thoughts.
I have heard of this movie but have not had the chance to see it, but I feel that from the reviews I have read, that tom holland was totally wasted in this movie, I think that after the avengers he ran out of fame and now he has to make bad movies.
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It also happens to me that one expects great things in the movie and at the end you get a huge disappointment !!!!
I think most of the time you get carried away by the names of the actors and it turns out that the director is the one who carries the weight, it happened to me with a movie of Jean-Claude Van Damme that despite being a fan of him, for his fight movies, I never thought he would fall so low with this kind of movie called 'Welcome to the Jungle'.
I'm copying the name and will make sure to watch it. Your review made me curious about the casting, production, plot. As soon as I finish my freelancing projects this week, I'll look for it and watch it.
Thank you so much for this recommendation.
Movies are my rewards after long periods of working with almost no break.
Have a wonderful new week!
a great review very true with the movie I really like your opinion about the events and how they treat the plot in general, very good post I love it.
Sorry to be late to read this review and thanks for being honest. I'll skip the movie.
When I first saw the trailer I thought that this would be a nice one to watch. Now ... I see that trailer was the best part of the movie.