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CoolCly: This was a fun imaginative movie that captured the western feel despite all the sci fi trappings.
The dads greed and short sightedness really screwed them over. The ship was damaged and they had a limited window of time to get home - and he really brushes past those issues to chase fortune.

I wonder why bandit #2 was carrying around such a large gun.. Is there danger that would call for such a large weapon?

The daughter on the ship after her father dies feels less like someone grieving and more like kid who got to stay home alone from school cheetohs and watching TV

I thought the people they meet were going to be "natives", but it seems these are humans who've adapted to living on the planet, and gone a little crazy. It'd be neat if there was a more primitive society of humanoids living here.

I find this alien world to be beautiful - just familiar enough to feel normal enough for these humans to be walking around in, but strange enough to remind you that this isn't earth. I'm curious what's going on with the atmosphere that they need to wear the suits and filter, but they seem to be okay living in tents.

The growing relationship between the girl and Pedro Pascal is good. It's interesting that so much of their activity is driven by trying to treat his arm wound that was caused by her earlier when he entered her ship. I was glad Pedro Pascal might have made it in the end. Even though he killed her dad, I found myself hoping their uneasy partnership would last.

The pods they are prospecting for gold has me wondering what those are. They come out of little pods and have to cut an umbilical cord of some time. I kind of expected this to be a problem later, like thse are little baby aliens or something. Facehuggers are gonna come flying out, or maybe the Queen of the Queens Lair will emerge. I think they indicate the hole you pull them out of can tear your arm off, but we dont actually see it.

Anyways, I really enjoyed this movie, and I got really invested in the survival and partnership of Cee and and Pedro Pascal. It would have been nicer if there were a couple more characters though.

8.5/10

Karo: So a young orphan girl as thrown together with a rough-hewn ne're-do-well who was partially responsible for her father's death and she hates him at first but eventually she grows to trust him.
You may think this sounds a lot like Arya and the Hound, and well, yeah, it is basically Arya and the Hound. But now it's in space!
The world is well built considering how little we see of it (and I wanted to see more of it), even considering they quite clearly did not have the budget to construct a whole alien planet.
Nothing about the scenario is particularly original, and things go way off kilter when we reach the merc camp, but whenever it is just the two of them it is great.

Poke: Interesting film that grabbed my attention. Wasnt expecting the killer of the girls dad to form an unsteady alliance that snowballs into them trying to get a ticket off the planet. Very imaginative.

Johnbobb: I fell asleep the first time I watched it but once I could stay awake for it it was pretty decent.

KBM: Tough one to rank. On the one hand, its strong performances and chemistry from Sophie Thatcher and Pedro Pascal kept me really invested in the moment, and there's definitely some interesting world-building going on here. On the other hand, its ingenuity-by-limitations approach is maybe a bit TOO limited as a Washingtonian, I never could quite get past the fact that this was pretty clearly filmed right in my backyard. Beautiful use of color, though, and I've always felt more movies should be filmed around here. So yeah, it's an enjoyable flick that doesn't quite stand out above a crowded field of strong movies.

Inviso: This was a disappointing end to the list. The past couple lists have all ended strong, in my opinion; what with Far From Home, The Half of It, and Weathering with You all landing in my top three for their respective lists. But Prospect just felt like a good concept that spun its wheels for a long time, trying to make it work. On paper, a space western is interesting, as is the concept of a girl and her father being set upon by bandits, only for the father to die, one bandit to die, and both the girl and the remaining bandit forced to work together to survive. Having this set in space gives the movie an inherent danger element, as you have the ticking clock of lift-off being necessary to escape a dying planet. But the film itself often feels like its just having scenes to have scenes that youd expect to find in this kind of movie. They go to a camp with Native American allegories, and when money is offer to buy Cee, she runs off and escapes with ease. Nothing really comes of that, other than Ezra losing his arm, which was in the works regardless. And then they get to the Queens Lair and completely fail at every aspect of their task, only to kill a group of trained mercs and escape in an EXTREMELY unsatisfying ending. It just had its moments, but it was really dull, and the cinematography was pretty terrible too.
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