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The Tomorrow War (Chris Pratt, Yvonne Strahovski, J.K. Simmons) on Prime Video

Saul said:
It could also be argued that the timeline just changed along with these jumps. The historical records of the draftees are what they are before anyone jumps to the future. The point the film was trying to make was that the children of the future need help from their families of the past. If's it's just another timeline I doubt anyone would be motivated to fight for a world that is not theirs.
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No it can't be argued that the future is changing.

One of the draftees went back to the future 3 times.

There were training officers from the future, stationed in the past and talking to the future.

Besides, if that was so, every time they took resources from the past and sent it to the future, if the future was matching change with the past, the future would lose historical resources and be screwed over to the point that they would need more resources.

Besides, besides...

They killed the aliens at the end of the movie in 2021, after 2053 got to the point that all human life was about almost dead. If there are no aliens in 2021, then there are no aliens in 2053. And no one was ever sent back, and they never used future knowledge to destroy the aliens, so...

Paradox. [/spoilers]

They are dumb.

The 2021 people did not understand what an alternate timeline was, and acted as if they were in danger, when they were not. Or at least when their own aliens emerged in 2048, none of them were going to appear to defend their own earth.

Dumb.

Of course.

The governments of 2021 were given time bridge technology, and they were building a bridge to 1989. And all they had to give the first lot of soldiers from a doomed earth of 2053 was warm bodies.

It was a trick.

Frankly, the 2021 people should take 1989's ozone layer, and give them Garbage island whether then want it or not.

Which is a shitty thing to do.

Not as shitty as releasing 1989's white spikes, waiting for them to clear 1989, and then take all of 1989's oil.

Its the only rational thing to do.

And it might have been what happened to 2053.
 
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Well, big budget action shooter with personal drama elements - seen it a thousand times, often enough better. It was ok to see it basically for free via streaming but nothing really stood out.

One amusing thing though was Chris Pratt's magical rifle that apparently only needs reloading once every few hours. He sprays on full auto for what seems like minutes and we barely see him reload ( at least he switched to handgun a few times). I thought we had left guns with unlimited ammo back in the 80s and 90s, i guess i'm wrong.
 
The guns might have been from the future or altered by future science to hold more rounds.
 
valkyrie013 said:
Well, they had 12 months to Dan the Man got beamed up, the arms manufactures would have probably went overtime making weapons, and hell, Some of 300 million guns in the USof A would have been donated to the cause.
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The smart move would have been to just stockpile them instead of sending them to the future. Weapons generally don't have expiration dates. Being forewarned that an invasion will happen and knowing exactly when it does, you can build and store an awful lot of weapons in 27 years, not to mention train a lot of soldiers. You don't pour all your personnel and resources into a battle that's nearly lost when you can use them to prepare before the battle has even begun.

For that matter, they just invented time travel but don't have to time and resources to get it right. Well, why didn't they tell the 2022 world what they know and let us play with the technology? They can just barely make it work in the future, but we've got 27 years before the aliens emerge and a hell of a lot more scientists and facilities to advance it, maybe even perfect it, all while not being under continuous threat from enemies. It's the Borg strategy from First Contact.

Saul said:
From the description in the movie it sounded like it was just one timeline and the time travel was just going forward and going back between two points.
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If that were the case, then they could just send everybody they have future records of because obviously anybody who lived beyond 2022 would have survived their deployment.
 
11Alive said:
If that were the case, then they could just send everybody they have future records of because obviously anybody who lived beyond 2022 would have survived their deployment.
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So what's the point of only sending people who died if it's a different timeline? Why would a paradox matter?
 
Jayson1 said:
The guns might have been from the future or altered by future science to hold more rounds.
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Nope, they are sent to the future with 2021 era weapons and we see the magazines, which are regular rifle ammunition.
 
Enjoyable popcorn fare, though a bit on the predictable side. Nothing particularly memorable, but not really bad either. The revelation about the monsters that comes in the film's climax made this feel somewhat like a reboot of the Alien films.
 
Didn't love it... Didn't hate it. It existed, & I was willing to sit there while it did. Doubt I'd have been willing to see it in a theater, so a wise move to not put it there. Whole lot of lower tier talent in it let's you know where it ranks.
 
A better twist would have been if the knowledge they gained about the aliens in the future and then took back to the past to stop the aliens was as in fact the very catalyst that started the war 30 years in the future, so then they would then have to travel Back to the future to stop themselves from gaining that knowledge, but a lightning strike sends the Deloren back to 1885 and that's were the fun starts. Lol
 
Well they got enough potential still left for a sequel. In the sequel we see the aliens who had the spaceship because no way do those monsters know how to operate advanced tech.
 
I was thinking that those aliens can’t be natural with the way they act, which reminded me of the Xenomorphs from Alien. When we got to the end with the spaceship I was like, “yep. This is just Alien.” :)
 
thribs said:
I was thinking that those aliens can’t be natural with the way they act, which reminded me of the Xenomorphs from Alien. When we got to the end with the spaceship I was like, “yep. This is just Alien.” :)
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Yep. These aliens can obliterate an ecosystem in two/three years.
 
Chris Pratt plays an army veteran, who is still in shape. By right, if the world's militaries had used up their most of their active military forces fighting the aliens, the next in line to go, would be the military reservists and veterans. So techinically Chris Pratt's character should have gone in even before the world wide draft started.
 
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