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Awful. Simply Awful.

posted 9 years ago by zigfried-2
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I knew I was in for a mess when the film started with George Clooney talking into the camera and participating in "funny" banter with a young girl. First place, having a "narrator" to tell the story to the audience is lazy storytelling.
Then we go back to Frank as a little boy and he somehow enters this Tomorrowland world which makes absolutely no sense. It is just 15 minutes of Disney SFX. Nothing more.
Then we jump to 2003 and meet the girl Casey. And then she somehow is transported to Tomorrowland where we get another 15 minute "tour" of the future with all of these SFX but really no story telling.
Then we return to 2003 where the movie becomes a "and now this happens, oh and now let's have THIS happen" but nothing that happens is related to anything that happened before and most of the things that happen make no sense. Casey has here little brother tell her dad that she is going camping for a few days? REALLY? No parent would EVER be ok with that. But the writers had to answer the question, "Why don't her parents look for her?" The robot girl (Athena?) drops Casey off at Frank's house where she stays for a day and they get chased around by evil terminator type robots. Then Athena comes by in the truck and picks them up. Why didn't she just pick up Frank when she brought Casey there? Nothing in this movie makes any sense it just jumps from this setup to this setup to this setup to...and it goes on and on and on.
The only reason Clooney did this movie was because its preachy message appealed to him.

[–] Line-of-Flight 9 years ago

Cool story Bro

[–] NewCliches 9 years ago

To be fair, I do think the film has many interesting ideas, good scenes and other cool elements. (As is pointed out here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7et8Fe99n0)

But they don't fit together AT ALL. The whole is far less than the sum of the parts.

[–] leybell 8 years ago

I do not disagree. I wish this film worked just because anytime I go to Disneyworld, I usually end the day in Tomorrowland. I also remember the 1967 version from when I lived in SoCal. I wish Disney would hand over the deleted scenes to a gifted writer who could rescramble and throw out some crap, and add a little of his own genius to make a decent movie. I thought this is what real filmmaking was in the first place, but something horrible has happened to the industry. Or do as they did with Beowulf and Gilgamesh and edit out the garbage leaving some of its best moments. A lot of good stories have lacunae. They could fill 'em with ads.

[–] aispero 8 years ago

While I agree there are some design and writing flaws, I don't think people should be so quick as to write it off completely. To me this movie serves as a form of sentimentality. I was raised on Disney ideals and the history of Disney World. The ideas Walt Disney had, was created his world, was amazing and ahead of its time. He was just a silly man making silly cartoons. This movie tried to explain it, in a way, but I think it missed it's mark because people forget that.