Originally Posted by
Udaman
OlympicFan - I applaud your support for the movie. To me that's one of the great things about movies is that each person gets the opportunity to like or dislike each show. Some people hated The Thin Red Line (myself included), some feel it's fantastic.
As I said, I was actually surprised by Tomorrowland because I was expecting it to be worse given the negative reviews. But...I still found it disappointing. While I'll agree with your comments about what the movie was trying to do and say (and there's no doubt that it was deep, and that Brad Bird put a ton of thought into the message he was delivering), I still feel that it failed. And not just on its lack of being able to get across the point it was trying to make. Some of my problems: Note, these are spoilers...
1) The beginning with the little kid moving to Tomorrowland was whatever the opposite of anachronistic is. It's the early 1960's, and suddenly in Tomorrowland there's technology from the future (even though they admitted that it wasn't the future, it was just another dimension)?
2) The kid flying around was like a scene I've seen in dozens of movies - and because of that I never felt any concern that he wouldn't make it, or that at one point it would seem like he wasn't going to make it, only then he would.
3) The girl breaking into NASA to break down the cranes was entirely unrealistic.
4) As I said, I liked the middle part, but it never explained who was sending the robots, or where they were from, or why they were even in the other dimension - who cares about the other dimension. Was it to find and stop people from getting the pin? OK, maybe, but it had been decades since anyone got on. And that part, as good as it was, was way too violent for anyone under 8.
5) How did the device that teleported them to the Eifel Tower work?
6) The Eifel Tower as a rocket ship? Really? I mean really?
7) Why was Tomorrowland broken down when they went back? This it never explains. I think it would have been much better if Tomorrowland was thriving. That's why they wouldn't care about the other dimension, because theirs was so great.
8) And the idea that "we are causing our own destruction because we were sent a bunch of negative thoughts and we actually embraced them instead of running from them" well...to me it's simplistic to say the least. I guess it's getting to the Planet of the Apes idea that we are violent at our very nature...but I still couldn't understand why the Tomorrowland people would keep sending the signal - because they wanted earth to destroy itself? Who cares? The people of Earth couldn't get to Tomorrowland anyway.
9) And the very end with sending out more robots to bring back more people...just silly. And really just an advertisement for Disney. Bring your pin to our park, and you can be one of the chosen one who...do what exactly? Clean up Tomorrowland? Build more buildings? And what about the existing Earth? Why poach from that dimension to build a new better one?
I don't know...it just seemed to try and do too many different things....and as much as I liked the idea of the robot - human interaction, it was a little creepy seeing a grown Clooney looking longingly at a 12 year old little girl. Would have been better as a father / daughter kind of thing...or if they had kept it to the "I grew up, but you can't, and that's not fair."