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- Ad Astra is currently available for rent or buy through various retailers, but can also be seen on HBO Max as of Saturday, June 6. If you’re not a subscriber, and would like to watch/rewatch the film, you can check out the current 7-day free trial offer that’s available to get in on the action.
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Jun 7, 2020 · News. By Mike Reyes. published 7 June 2020. CinemaBlend participates in affiliate programs with various companies. We may earn a commission when you click on or make purchases via links. Warning:...
Published Jun 19, 2020. Brad Pitt's sad spaceman sci-fi saga, 'Ad Astra', is now available on HBO Max. "What happened to my dad? What did he find out there? Did it break him? Or was he always...
Sep 18, 2019 · Ad Astra (from the Latin tag “per ardua ad astra” or “through struggle to the stars”) is a spectacular, immersive picture, offering an intelligent and deeply considered variation on ...
Sep 19, 2019 · James Gray’s Ad Astra plays like a sombre, space set version of Apocalypse Now. The film is a brooding, atmospheric affair that features one of Brad Pitt’s finest and most restrained ...
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- Geoffrey Macnab
- The Isolation of Space
- Apocalypse Now: Voiceover Narration
- Journey Across The Universe
- Apocalypse Now: Mostly Non-Verbal Lead Performance
- Mind-Blowing Practical Effects
- Apocalypse Now: Warfare
- Surreal Visuals
- Apocalypse Now: Flawed Hero
- Breathing in Space
- Apocalypse Now: Heart of Darkness Arc
James Gray found himself reflecting on 2001 a lot during the production of Ad Astra, because he considers Kubrick’s spacefaring epic to be the crowning achievement of sci-fi cinema. In particular, Gray examined how Kubrick used the isolation of space to tell a unique kind of story and bring out purely instinctive performances from his actors.
In Ad Astra, Roy’s state of mind is tracked via extensive voiceover narration. Sometimes, these narrations are taken from messages sent between Roy and his father, but it’s the same cinematic device. Martin Sheen’s voiceover narration in Apocalypse Now is among the most iconic in film history (along with Goodfellas, Sunset Boulevard, and Diary of a...
Roy’s journey in Ad Astratakes him from Earth to the Moon to Mars and eventually to Neptune before he’s catapulted back to Earth by a nuclear shock wave. This echoes Dave Bowman’s journey across the universe in 2001 that culminates at Jupiter before he’s returned to Earth as a Star Childto usher in the next stage of human evolution.
While Brad Pitt got to do plenty of line readings in Ad Astrathanks to the voiceover narration, he didn’t get a lot of spoken dialogue because Roy is alone for most of the movie, so there’s no one around to talk to. RELATED: Apocalypse Now: Why Willard Is A Perfect Protagonist (& Kurtz Is A Perfect Villain) Pitt’s performance relied a lot on non-ve...
There’s a lot of CGI in Ad Astra, but not as much as the average blockbuster. James Gray used practical methods where possible, because tangible objects will always feel more real on the big screen than computer-generated ones. Kubrick broke a ton of new ground when he was shooting 2001. He filled the studio backlots with gigantic sets to shoot the...
The cerebral, semi-realistic tone of Ad Astra takes a backseat when Roy arrives on the Moon as his convoy is ambushed by pirates with laser guns. There’s a direct parallel between Roy traveling through a warzone in Ad Astra and Captain Willard taking a boat through the jungle amidst the chaos of the Vietnam War in Apocalypse Now. The true-to-life a...
Kubrick shot some of the most surreal visuals ever put on film for 2001. The Star Gate sequence is so trippy that it attracted enough hallucinogenic drug users to save the movie from tanking at the box office. RELATED: 2001: A Space Odyssey: 5 Ways It's Kubrick's Best Movie (& 5 Alternatives) The visuals in Ad Astraare equally surreal, from the lyr...
Both Ad Astra and Apocalypse Nowfollow a flawed hero. Roy McBride is estranged from his wife, hung up on his dad, and deemed to be mentally unstable by the NASA scientists overseeing him. Captain Willard is a cynical alcoholic following orders to kill a war hero who’s become a cult leader, observing endless death and destruction along the way.
During most of the space-bound scenes in Ad Astra, the only audible sound is the astronauts’ breathing. This echoes the space walk scenes in 2001, which are silent except for the astronauts’ breathing sounds. Interestingly, all the breathing that is heard in 2001was recorded by Stanley Kubrick himself. He’s such a perfectionist that he wouldn’t eve...
The main thing in Ad Astra that makes it feel like Apocalypse Now is its Heart of Darkness-adjacent storyline. Screenwriter John Milius adapted Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darknessinto the story of a U.S. Army captain who’s tasked with assassinating an American colonel who’s lost his mind and gone rogue in Cambodia. In Ad Astra, an astronaut is sent t...
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Sep 17, 2019 · Ad Astra sets aside Coppola’s political context and returns the story to the purity of Conrad’s conception. No enemy is trying to kill you the antagonist is the journey itself. One must be ...
