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iariaI did not expect the direction the movie went in (didn't watch a trailer so I was expecting something else based on the summary ie: horror) but I loved it.
+ Loved the concept, so much fun. The fountain of youth is real and causes the cave system it's in to be off set from the rest of time. The increasing reveals over it were great.
+ The characters were all pretty likeable so that was nice. No one was doing anything excessively dumb or annoying. (Beyond like not telling anyone where they were going.)
+ I love the 'happy ending for everyone' end. I mean as absolutely happy within the concept as it could be. Everyone lives! Even the people who died!
+ I wish we'd seen some cavemen/Spaniards hanging out on the ship too. I can't image they'd save only the modern humans (cowboy counts as modern). Also one poor future human who is literally the last of his specific people going by what we see of the end 'humans'. He's the one I feel worst for since everyone else - modern day, cavemen, Spaniards - all have other people like them to lean on. Poor alone explorer astronaut dude.
+ The end was so interesting in a completely different way from the rest of the film and I really wanted to see more! I get why it ended there but it was almost like 'it's finally getting interesting, don't stop there' except I was finding the stuff before it interesting too. Give me that sequel!
+ Poor poor Furby. The camera footage/'flashback' to his time on the surface was so sad. What a horrifying position to find yourself in at any age but even more so when young. I'm especially glad that he survived.
+ The movie doing the astronaut vs caveman debate was fucking hilarious and A+ use of the concept.
+ I loved the caveman figuring out the button to close the ladder. I love that pushing buttons is universal.
+ The future astronaut choosing to turn back to save Taylor instead of leaving was a lovely moment of humanity across time even if it did end up costing him his life/time period/people. I wanted to know more about him! I'm glad they at least considered putting him in the water before being chased off.
+ I liked the use of cameras/go-pros.
+ Poor poor Boss. Left alone in the middle of nowhere when his dumb human doesn't listen to him and goes into the bad cave. Never comes out. No humans come at least in a few weeks after. The coyotes going off during the night Furby spent alone had some bad implications. Kind of :( about it. Choosing to believe poor Boss joined up with the coyote pack and had a happy life. That's what happened I accept no other possibility.
Frankly they really needed to have Boss coming running out of a side cavern at some point and I'm very disappointed in the movie for not doing that. How can you have a happy ending without the dog??
+ Also I am giving Hopper a judgmental side-eye for taking his dog with him on a caving expedition. Caves are not dog friendly!
+ Hopper giving up and Taylor leaving him there made me sigh.
+ I was pretty annoyed when after Cara is pulled into the water by the 'alien' hands Jackie just stops on the ladder and it's Taylor who climbs past her to try and help.
+ There are little things that niggle at the mind like:
Why were there no animals in there? Or more evidence of them. Boss did seem afraid and refused to enter. Do most animals just know not to?
How are there not more people from various times in there?
How did no one ever find the vehicles. Okay, it's very remote but now there are three vehicles and at no point between them going missing and the Earth being abandoned were they found? I find that hard to believe.
Which leads to - how did no one find and enter the caves between them going missing and the Mars human astronaut/explorer showing up? That's got to be hundreds/probably thousands of years and it just doesn't make sense to me.
Was astronaut explorer all alone? He came from another planet! That's not really something I feel like you'd do alone, you know? What happened to his ship if he was alone and why did no one ever come for him if he wasn't? If he came to the cave because of the signal Cara sent how did he know about the water? Cause he went straight for it. He could have learned about it's properties when he tested it and that's how he knew it would save Taylor but how did he even know about it's existence? I was confused at first when he refused to put his helmet on and chose to die but I'm assuming it was because his people knew about the time properties of the cave and the countdown on his arm indicated too much time had passed and his family/the people he knew were already dead and thus he didn't want to live. But even with the passage of time why weren't any other expeditions sent down?
Is there something, to do with the time distortion/'fountain', that repels things from the cave and that's why so few people find it?
I want to know what the hell is up with the waterfall/Fountain of Youth! How does that even work? Healing okay super useful, but bringing people back from the dead?? How? Upon entering the time distortion multiple characters comment on how it feels damp/wet. I'm assuming that's from the waterfall/Fountain. Is that how it's healing properties work then - through manipulation of time?
+ Loved the concept, so much fun. The fountain of youth is real and causes the cave system it's in to be off set from the rest of time. The increasing reveals over it were great.
+ The characters were all pretty likeable so that was nice. No one was doing anything excessively dumb or annoying. (Beyond like not telling anyone where they were going.)
+ I love the 'happy ending for everyone' end. I mean as absolutely happy within the concept as it could be. Everyone lives! Even the people who died!
+ I wish we'd seen some cavemen/Spaniards hanging out on the ship too. I can't image they'd save only the modern humans (cowboy counts as modern). Also one poor future human who is literally the last of his specific people going by what we see of the end 'humans'. He's the one I feel worst for since everyone else - modern day, cavemen, Spaniards - all have other people like them to lean on. Poor alone explorer astronaut dude.
+ The end was so interesting in a completely different way from the rest of the film and I really wanted to see more! I get why it ended there but it was almost like 'it's finally getting interesting, don't stop there' except I was finding the stuff before it interesting too. Give me that sequel!
+ Poor poor Furby. The camera footage/'flashback' to his time on the surface was so sad. What a horrifying position to find yourself in at any age but even more so when young. I'm especially glad that he survived.
+ The movie doing the astronaut vs caveman debate was fucking hilarious and A+ use of the concept.
+ I loved the caveman figuring out the button to close the ladder. I love that pushing buttons is universal.
+ The future astronaut choosing to turn back to save Taylor instead of leaving was a lovely moment of humanity across time even if it did end up costing him his life/time period/people. I wanted to know more about him! I'm glad they at least considered putting him in the water before being chased off.
+ I liked the use of cameras/go-pros.
+ Poor poor Boss. Left alone in the middle of nowhere when his dumb human doesn't listen to him and goes into the bad cave. Never comes out. No humans come at least in a few weeks after. The coyotes going off during the night Furby spent alone had some bad implications. Kind of :( about it. Choosing to believe poor Boss joined up with the coyote pack and had a happy life. That's what happened I accept no other possibility.
Frankly they really needed to have Boss coming running out of a side cavern at some point and I'm very disappointed in the movie for not doing that. How can you have a happy ending without the dog??
+ Also I am giving Hopper a judgmental side-eye for taking his dog with him on a caving expedition. Caves are not dog friendly!
+ Hopper giving up and Taylor leaving him there made me sigh.
+ I was pretty annoyed when after Cara is pulled into the water by the 'alien' hands Jackie just stops on the ladder and it's Taylor who climbs past her to try and help.
+ There are little things that niggle at the mind like:
Why were there no animals in there? Or more evidence of them. Boss did seem afraid and refused to enter. Do most animals just know not to?
How are there not more people from various times in there?
How did no one ever find the vehicles. Okay, it's very remote but now there are three vehicles and at no point between them going missing and the Earth being abandoned were they found? I find that hard to believe.
Which leads to - how did no one find and enter the caves between them going missing and the Mars human astronaut/explorer showing up? That's got to be hundreds/probably thousands of years and it just doesn't make sense to me.
Was astronaut explorer all alone? He came from another planet! That's not really something I feel like you'd do alone, you know? What happened to his ship if he was alone and why did no one ever come for him if he wasn't? If he came to the cave because of the signal Cara sent how did he know about the water? Cause he went straight for it. He could have learned about it's properties when he tested it and that's how he knew it would save Taylor but how did he even know about it's existence? I was confused at first when he refused to put his helmet on and chose to die but I'm assuming it was because his people knew about the time properties of the cave and the countdown on his arm indicated too much time had passed and his family/the people he knew were already dead and thus he didn't want to live. But even with the passage of time why weren't any other expeditions sent down?
Is there something, to do with the time distortion/'fountain', that repels things from the cave and that's why so few people find it?
I want to know what the hell is up with the waterfall/Fountain of Youth! How does that even work? Healing okay super useful, but bringing people back from the dead?? How? Upon entering the time distortion multiple characters comment on how it feels damp/wet. I'm assuming that's from the waterfall/Fountain. Is that how it's healing properties work then - through manipulation of time?
