Movie: Ad Astra

OMG what a disaster.

Apparently... Brad Pitt's salary soaked up so much of the budget that they couldn't afford a script writer. Couldn't afford a continuity person. And DEFINITELY couldn't afford a science advisor.

Whereas "Gravity" had some really believable deep space scenes.... And "The Martian" was meticulously researched so everything they did was scientifically possible... For "Ad Astra" none of this was true.
The good things:

• The scenes on the surface of the moon looked really good and believable
  
• The scenes on the surface of Mars looked pretty good; the terrain was believable but there was some kind of atmospheric red haze which does not exist
  
• The lunar and Martian rover vehicles looked and moved really good
  
• The scenes of weightlessness inside the spacecraft were some of the best I've ever seen, rivaling real footage from the ISS
  
• The liftoff of a rocket from the far side of the moon looked enough different from an Earth launch to be believable

The Bad things:
Good lord, where to begin? This list is very incomplete. In rough order of egregiousness:

1. Explosions on the moon's surface made noise
   
2. Matt Damon, wait Brad Pitt was able to fly everything (even to Neptune!) and arm a nuclear bomb, all without training
   
3. Brad's fellow astronauts were Tommy Lee Jones and Donald Sutherland. I believe they may be a little past their expiration date as astronauts
   
4. Brad probably is too
   
5. Brad goes to Neptune and returns with a 2-day beard growth
   
6. When going to Neptune, the spacecraft is shown going past Saturn and Jupiter first. All the planets are in a row, I guess?
   
7. When Brad goes from the Earth to the moon, the craft is aimed straight for the moon. Apparently it no longer orbits?
   
8. Brad lands on Mars and at the craft orbiting Neptune and back on Earth, all by dead reckoning
   
9. Nobody poops or eats in space
   
10. Killer monkeys. 'Nuff said!
    
11. Brad returns to Earth from Neptune with the aid of a nuclear explosion. It makes noise. There is a fireball.
    
12. He not only hits Earth, on his first try, he lands in the United States
    
13. After his journey to Neptune and back, he gets out of his craft on Earth and walks away