It’s been a while since I watched a movie or did a review. It’s mostly cos of two things:
I don’t like single movies cos they’re too short for my liking. The stories are too short and so are rushed, leaving a lot of portholes.
And I find it really difficult to start a new Tv series after the one I spent weeks obsessing about ends. Like it takes a lot of energy and motivation to give a show you haven’t been recommended a chance. Having to force yourself to sit through the more than likely boring first few episodes. It’s a serious hassle.
Anyways, last night I was bored enough to force myself to watch a movie I’d been recommended by my friends a while back but I never got around to trying.
If you read the title of the post, then you already know the movie I’m talking about. But for the benefit of the dumb(lol), I’m talking about The Adam Project. This review is not going to have any particular format because I’m writing it to dissect some disappointments (and confusions) I had during and after the movie. Also if you haven’t already watched The Adam Project yet, this post is useless to you because you won’t understand half the things I’m saying. Unless you want to read this post out of sheer curiosity(and because you have a lot of time on your hands. Lol)
Generally, I’m pumped about anything that has time travel in it. But recently I’ve seen a couple of shows with some pretty lame time travel concepts. Not sure where to place The Adam project because to be honest, they did allow a lot of bizarre things slide with no consequences when Adam just up and goes back in time.
If you’ve seen a number of time travel movies, you know this much: you don’t fuck with history when you travel back or bad things happen. Lol to be honest, how loose the Movie treats the issue of changing things in the past makes me wonder if the producers actually read comics or watch time travel movies at all.
I could even cut them some slack on the talking to your past self and feeding it information slide because I think quite a number of movies and even series on time travel have broken that rule too many times with no consequences or have found a way to avert them. CW’s The Flash is on top of the list. Barry wins the fucking champ at it. Lol
See, that’s the problem with The Adams project. At least CW shows us that traveling back and changing stuff fucks with the timeline before they slap us with a story about how he was able to fix the damage with the help of his "family". The crew behind the Adams project just allowed Adams fly his way through the time quantum changing what he liked with no consequences. Like a chess player pushing pieces around the board.
The only consequence they manage to show us is how Sorian actually disappears from the Timeline when her past self caught that last bullet. How about the bullies Middle-aged Adam scared off 2018 Adam’s back? How does that affect him in the future? Because I recall older Adam saying that a fight needed to happen and that he wasn’t supposed to interfere. Like if you’re going to sell us time travel, you better sell it well. Maybe I can't really blame them because I can't expect them to cover something as complex as time travel in just an under 2-hour movie. Or maybe I can because if it wasn't possible, they should've just let it be.
Another thing you’ll also know is NEVER to go meet your old self or even worse, give it information about the future. Middle-aged Adam just decided to hand out 2018 Adam fucking handouts to the rest of his life. Like how does he even live his present then when he already knows what he’s supposed to be? It’s just like taking a test when you already know what score you’ll have, you’ll either be reckless af about it cos you already know the results, or obsess about messing something up and not getting the mark you’re promised to get.
Also what kind of time-travel movie doesn't have a cool AI speaking in the background? Let me just leave this here.
I feel like this is turning into some kind of disappointment rant now. Lol, maybe it is. In general, though I loved the movie(of course I did. How couldn't I? Ryan Raynolds stars in it) It’s just flawed in some minor details in my opinion when we’re talking about time travel.
