Tomorrow War

by on July 17, 2021 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

Tomorrow War is a movie about a war in the future where nearly no future tech is seen. Something many people wonder about. Where is the future tech? As a world builder, I think the explanation is simple. We originally heard from a world with 500k people and 11 months left before extinction. Their armies and such are destroyed. The movie than advances 12 months and tells us the horrific casualties inflicted on those sent into the future. And an emergency sends the main character’s wave of reinforcements there ahead of schedule into a fallen Miami Beach. Not falling. Fallen. The defenses have been destroyed, the defenders killed, and the people evacuated. We do not see an active defense of Miami Beach, with whatever the future still has to fight with. The scene is a fallen and evacuated city where nothing but aliens still live.

 Comment 

Tomorrow War

by on July 16, 2021 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

Tomorrow War is a movie people deride for many reasons. Some good. Others not. But there does appear to be more world building in the movie than made it to the screen. Probably because of the market the studio wanted. One thing people say about the movie is “Why don’t the world powers just nuke the aliens, or bombard them from the air?” Or other things. My first assumption as a writer is that they DID do that in 2048. The nations of the future mobilized their militaries. They threw everything they had at the aliens. And when they were overrun by the ultimate zergling rush, they nuked the aliens as a last resort. I’m sure they nailed a lot of the aliens, but not enough. The future we hear from in 2051 has 500k humans left. Every organized army has been shattered, and all we see when the wormhole opens are the last few desperate survivors, hoping a miracle can save them.

 Comment 

Tomorrow War

by on July 15, 2021 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

Tomorrow War is a movie. Many people are picking it apart over brain-dead decisions. Some deserved. Others… I think… not. Basically, looking at the film, I think there were rules somebody made that did not make it to the screen. Rule number one appears to be that no person can exist twice in the same timeline. The soldiers who come back from 30 years in the future are less than 30 years old. They have not been born yet. And when the main character is scanned for suitability to go forward, he is confirmed to be dead in the future. Many people say that the surviving 500k people should just use the wormhole to retreat into the past and leave their dying future behind. But assuming a time paradox rule in effect, the leaders of the future cannot retreat to the past. They are stuck in a dying future, and help coming from the past is their only hope.

 Comment 

Cancer

by on July 14, 2021 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

My mom has been doing the cancer fight again for the first time in years. It is usually a slow acting blood cancer that usually is not found until it is more advanced than mom’s was. Mom had a bad back last year, and could not lay down in bed to sleep. Not related to it, but Mayo Clinic ran a battery of tests on her, trying to figure out what was wrong. They figure she pulled a tendon, because it has healed. And they found the blood cancer. They have now wiped it out, and the long term treatment is designed to keep it from coming back. Now an interesting bit. One of the effects of this cancer is messing with your sense of taste. Mom started complaining last year that nothing tasted good to her, even food she has always liked. This week, food is tasting good to her again. It’s the little things in life that can be amazing…

 Comment 

The Tomorrow War

by on July 13, 2021 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

Chris Pratt (Jurassic World) and Yvonne Strahovski (Chuck) did a thing recently, and it just came out. An interesting movie about an Earth invaded by aliens in the future. And when they realize they are losing, they go to the past in search of reinforcements. It’s not what you might call a massively scientific movie. More a monster slasher feature with sci-fi time travel tailorings. And they seriously needed to let some gun nuts go crazy and come up with some good elephant guns for taking on these aliens. The rifles they had looked cool and spat annoying confetti at the bad guys. No wonder the future was losing. All that said, it is an enjoyable romp, and the Rotten Tomatoes score bears that out. The critics don’t like it and the audience does. It’s full of good actors, playing good characters, in a story that hits the right beats, doing their best to save the world. I enjoyed it. There’s not much more I ask for from a movie these days, and Tomorrow War sticks the landing good enough for me.

 Comment