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Is The Tomorrow War A Film Or A 200 Million Dollar Amazon Test?
The frightening thing isn’t the film’s absence of quality but what it signals for the future streaming wars
When someone asks you if a film was good, you can usually sum it up in a few tidy sentences. The Tomorrow War is no exception. Handily, Ross from Friends has the perfect quote which, in all honesty, I’ve paraphrased slightly: “You know at the end of the day when you come home and relax with a movie. Yeah, well instead of a movie, there’s a pile of garbage. And instead of a story, there’s a pile of garbage. And instead of the end of the day, it’s the end of time and this garbage movie is ALL that has survived.”
I haven’t made it a challenge to discern my opinion from these flighty words. It’s certainly a lot less of a challenge than watching the actual movie. An experience I had to stop twice. The first time after only twenty minutes because I was so disengaged by the sheer number of ridiculous questions forced into my mind I felt like I was taking a logic exam. The second time I stopped because the movie had successfully strangled so much energy out of me I’d rather lie awake trying to sleep than carry on.
When I finally finished the film I did so out of either a morbid or misplaced sense of duty; as though…
