QAA Podcast - Premium Episode 136: The Tomorrow War (Movie Night) Sample

Episode Date: August 11, 2021

Time travel. Science. A worldwide military draft. The disbanding of NATO. Chris Pratt. Aliens. Guns. We examined the latest Amazon dropping. ↓↓↓↓ SUBSCRIBE FOR $5 A MONTH SO YOU DON'T MISS THE FULL SECOND WEEKLY EPISODE ↓↓↓↓ www.patreon.com/QAnonAnonymous Merch / Join the Discord Community / Find the Lost Episodes / Etc: http://qanonanonymous.com

What's up QAA listeners? The fun games have begun. I found a way to connect to the internet. I'm sorry, boy. Welcome listener to Premium Chapter 136 of the Q&ONANANANANANANIS podcast, the QAA movie night, the Tomorrow War episode. As always, we are your host, Jake Rakatansky, Julian Field, and Travis Vue. This week, we are covered.

a new movie. This is something of a novelty for us, something that has come out in the same year that we're recording. I don't think we've ever done that in the past. But we had to take a look. It's come out in the same month, actually. The same month. There we go. We are really trying to be topical. We're really trying to get the listens by covering a Chris Pratt vehicle that in about two hours and 20 minutes or something like that attempts to tell the story of time travel, war and militarism, and of course, pretty cool. aliens. So, you know, I bet we're going to have all kinds of different opinions of this. It was very much an Amazon Studios production in every sense of the word, a kind of pastiche of genres, workshopped into oblivion. But nonetheless, in my opinion, fascinating for what it can reveal about how we see ourselves today. It feels like it tells on the zeitgeist accidentally, which I liked. The Tomorrow War was released on July 2nd of this year. on Amazon Prime Video. Oh, yeah, the silver screen, baby.

The movie was directed by Chris McKay, known for the Lego Batman movie, episodes of robot chicken, and moral oral. This is his sort of first big-budget sci-fi movie, even though he was an editor on previous Lego movies, which are, you know, huge, huge budgets as well. So he's no stranger to working with heaps upon heaps of CGI. The Tomorrow War's budget is estimated at around $150 million.

I would call the color palette of this movie bisexual club vomit. So the movie was produced by Skydance, which is David Ellison's production company. For those who do not know, he is the son of Larry Ellison, who is the co-founder and chairman of Oracle. The film is also produced by David S. Goyer, who wrote Dark City, Blade, Batman Begins, he did the story for Dark Night. I mean, a shit ton of major movies. The film was penned by Zach Dean, who has a surprisingly small amount of, of credits. So let that be a lesson to all you screenwriters out there. You can

be a relatively nobody. And if you write a hot script, you can land Chris Pratt, J.K. Simmons, and Yvonne Strachovsky. You can get a perfectly good piece of writing chopped up and reconstituted so the heart no longer

beats, and it just kind of drags itself mangled across over two hours. Yeah, if you, you know, if you take a quiet place and edge of tomorrow, and you get them to fuck. And the resulting child, you just spoon-feed it lead

instead of anything nutritious. You can create this monstrosity and get it released by Amazon exclusively. Oh, well, you know, for once, I'm going to defend a movie. You know, again, like, this is the kind of movie. This is surprising.

I didn't like this one so much. I like the movie because I think it's a movie that you could actually study in school. You could look at it and you would understand our era in so many fucking ways. It wouldn't be a good. experience or you wouldn't say this is a good movie by a good director. But nonetheless, it's not

useless. Disagree. If I was forced to watch this in high school or middle school, I would be like that was the best day of school of the year. Yeah, it's fun, right? And I'm saying like the story actually has some legs. There were some really good plot twists. I think like really if you look at the text behind this, I bet there was originally a piece of coherent cinema potentially. And then of course, just every part of the aesthetic and the kind of more or less all of the acting, obviously because J.K. Simmons is in here

saving us all from... And I also loved Yvonne Strachovsky in it, I have to say. And I loved Sam Richardson who played Charlie, who's like the dorky black guy who's like the biologist. I thought that he was like really natural and funny. So the release for The Tomorrow War set somewhat of a precedent in the entertainment industry.

The film was originally made by Paramount and was set to premiere in theaters on July 23rd of this year. But the COVID-19 pandemic forced them to push their release date. After a couple more pushed release dates because of the worsening pandemic, Paramount just straight up sold the movie to Amazon for somewhere around $200 million. Now, this is an insane deal because the studio essentially said, fuck it, we're not going to gamble on a new IP in the theaters. We can unload this, put zero money into advertising. and make a cool 33% profit. It's a game changer in terms of how Blockbuster films are released. And I personally believe that this is a good thing

because it will allow new, somewhat original ideas to see the light of day. Oh, yeah, if this is what the system is yielding, then yes. But I'm saying that as an accelerationist that wants all culture to collapse on itself. All right, so without further ado, The Tomorrow War. The film opens in the present day

with Dan Forrester, played by Chris Prey. a veteran who has long ago traded in his green beret for a house on a quiet street somewhere in the suburbs of America. We see right away that Dan is totally put upon. As he walks up to his front door, he's juggling a case of beer and other groceries for a rockin' Christmas party taking place at his house. He's the ultimate millennial, with his earbuds in, pitching ideas to a potential employer that could not give two fucks about him. Yes, that's what defines his role in this is anxiety. He is always either crying or anxious or trying to make sure that the group is happy. It is really the ultimate millennial protagonist.

So right off the bat, we get some background on Dan's situation. He's a high school biology teacher. He's got a fairly chill wife, played by Betty Gilpin, and he feels completely abandoned by his father. On the TV in the living room, a soccer game is ongoing. And the soccer you see is so clearly acted. I had to rewind several times to check that they weren't just using renderings from like the snow engine for FIFA

Hey Forester We are out of Christmas napkins I'm just here for the booze Or happy 70th birthday Oh happy 70 Babe, I'm on hold right now They're trying to track down Arthur Right now

This is happening right now I'm gonna punch you And you're unfortunately very handsome face This is the call, though. I'm in the final round. This is real work and actual lack. It's my dream. Well, Mary's dream was like you watch.

I thought you watched the game with her. Oh, hi. Hi-hi. Hi-ha. E-ha. I promise I'll be back for the end of the game. Okay? What's this?

Um, that's your... Your dad sent Mary a Christmas card. Can we talk about it tomorrow? Hmm. Babe, we'll talk about it. Yo. What? Baron Hap's talk.

He's just trying to be a grandpa. Well, I think he forfeited the right to meet his granddaughter when he abandoned your husband. Hey, no one's eating my tuna Santa. When I come back, I'm going to have a new job, and I'm going to eat all of your tuna Santa. Hi. Hi, man. What have you called? It's a very competitive position.

Yes, sir. It experiences everything. Well, I had leadership. I ran combat missions in Iraq. Does that translate though? Sure comes in handy teaching high school. Listen, you're a great candidate. The only thing you're missing is private sector experience.

Which we have to say, it's an important part of what we're looking for. Guys, guys. Why we had to make a tough choice. We found someone else. His background and education is just a better fit for us. And then he proceeds to smash his folder up against the trash can, have just an absolute bitch fit, which again, was a weird, strange behavior for someone who is a green beret. No, because he's the millennial CIA, the millennial Green Beret, the millennial army.

Everyone has generalized anxiety and wears flannels and cries all the time. Only a millennial would make a tuna fish dip. shaped like Santa Claus and then complain that nobody's eating the tuna Santa. So anyways, absolute loser. This is your classic 2020s flawed hero who is incredibly charming and handsome but also doesn't really have time for his family. But people do need to start talking about the spec ops to science teacher pipelines. Right.

This is also, I mean, you can tell that they're such a big thing. They're kind of sort of laying in some exposition here setting up Chris Pratt's background as a Marine, which will, of course, come in handy later when the tomorrow war kicks off. So after this moment, Dan collapses on the couch with his adorable daughter, who's reading a science encyclopedia. She relays to her dad that she's been reading about the scientists who discovered... She's reading the Wikipedia entry for science. And she's reading about the scientists who discover the tuberculosis vaccine. So you already know, QAnon folks are going to hate this film. We will get into that later.

I hate to use the term virtue signaling, but it is such clear virtue signaling, all the stuff around the vaccine. Oh, yeah. So then we get to our inciting incident. As one of the soccer players has broken away and is headed towards the goal, he's frozen in his tracks as a giant portal opens up in front of him. And dozens of armed military personnel fly out of it. The crowd screams in horror and begins to flood out of the stadium. The soccer players, however, don't seem too bothered and they all kind of linger on the field. as the troops move past them, securing the stadium.

The last person out of the portal is Lieutenant Hart, played by Jasmine Matthews. She tries to calm the crowd down by telling them they're from the future. We are you. 30 years in the future. We are fighting a war. Our enemy is not human. And we are losing. In 11 months time, all human beings in the future will be wiped from the face of the earth.

Unless you help us. We need you. Our fathers, mothers, and grandparents, we need you to fight beside us if we stand a chance at winning this war. This is a joke. you are our last hope so right then at the end of her speech the title card of the film flies in and i'm a big fan of late title cards and movies i don't know it makes it feel kind of more like a video game i guess or it makes you feel like oh man all that set up to the title like this is gonna be epic i don't know what do you guys think about that no i think it i think it was well-timed

But what I really took away from this is that this is such a, I don't know, kind of a Q boomer fantasy. We have this fresh-faced kid come out and then look at the old people saying our fathers, our grandfathers, we need you old people to come and save us, children, to be operators in the future. I've been waiting for this my entire life. You have been listening to a sample of a premium episode of QAnon Anonymous. We don't run any advertising on the show and we'd like to keep it that way. For five bucks a month, you'll get access to this episode, a new one each week, and our entire library of premium episodes. So head on over to patreon.com slash QAnonanonymous and subscribe. Thank you.

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