Review of The Midnight Sky (2020) by Redbeard25 — 24 Dec 2020

Does anyone else feel like this one got killed by direction and editing? - There is a balance between implied and spoken exposition. This movie failed on both counts. The doomsday world scenario and flashbacks needed more spoken explanation. The Arctic/Spaceship needed less. Do we have to have the “lead character walks though and introduces the quirks of the supporting cast” scenes? - Even in 2049, I highly doubt every computer screen looks like a videogame. - Why do you have to perform one function at one computer terminal, and then a different function at a different one? In fact, with super-Alexa, why do you have to use a screen at all?

- How have we solved faster-than-light communications? I know it makes for difficult movie making but just make it a plot point instead of OMG SUNSPOT INTERFERNCE or REBOOT TEH COMMMMZZZ. - No way a crew that large just “notices” that they’re off course, especially when they’re out of communication. It would be all hands on deck 24/7.

- No way a crew that trained would not know where they were. There are stars out there, for Pete’s sake. - The young Iris plot line seemed super-contrived, and the initial scene with the mother looking for her not-Iris daughter with the pronoun game really felt in retrospect like something they tacked on due to audience response. It was vaguely sixth sense, but in that case, both the protagonist and supporting character are in the same state, so it makes more sense. In this world, his level of interaction with Iris was too physical. Like the peas. The peas. Don’t tell me to give peas a chance. - I’m sure in 2049, nano-carbon technology makes it so you can have swooping gorgeous honeycomb structures with no purpose in a short-haul spaceship. - Also in 2049, you can receive a fatal injury in your spacesuit and not feel pain? I guess?

I want to see a re-edited version of this film. I want to like it.