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  1. The Space Between Us (2017)@andreseloy5811103d
    [Image](https://music.apple.com/ar/album/the-space-between-us-original-motion-picture-score/1198275055)

     

    This is a film that mixes romance with science fiction directed by Peter Chelsom, a former actor who became a director, and among his productions is "Hanna Montana, the movie", while the script is by Allan Loeb, Peter Chelsom and Tinker Lindsay, the first of them had written the script for the movie Collateral Beauty starring Will Smith the previous year.

    The plot of The Space Between Us revolves around the first mission sent to Mars, commanded by Sarah Elliot, played by Janet Montgomery, who is unknowingly pregnant and ends up having the child on the red planet, dying in childbirth.

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    Nathaniel Shepard, played by Gary Oldman who is the CEO of the project called Genesis keeps the fact secret to avoid bad publicity for his company.

    Sixteen years later the boy named Gardner Elliot and played by Asa Butterfield, who in 2011 had won the Las Vegas Film Critics Society Award for best young actor for the film "Hugo" and the Saturn Award for the same film, begins to maintain a relationship via chat with a young woman named Tulsa, played by Britt Robertson, awarded in 2014 with several prizes for her roles in "White Rabbit" and "Ask Me Anything", who lives on earth.

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    She likewise begins to find out about her mother and recovers items of hers, including a wedding ring and a USB drive where there is a video of her with a man on a beach.

    After undergoing surgery to increase his bone density and resist gravity on Earth, the boy goes to Earth and there with Tulsa begin the adventure of locating his father, doing this against the will of Gary who begins a search and chase to send him back to Mars, as the atmosphere of the Earth will end up killing him.

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    There are good scenes and the acting of the two young protagonists is acceptable, but the theme did not seem to catch on with people's taste since it grossed only about 15 million dollars and the budget to make it was twice as much.

    It was released in February 2017 and the criticism towards it was not positive, highlighting plot flaws and unnecessary scenes without much credibility.

    [Image](https://www.scmp.com/culture/film-tv/article/2072607/film-review-space-between-us-young-adult-sci-fi-romance-beggars)

     

    Personally, I agree with the critics, although it fulfills the mission to entertain and it is an unconventional subject.

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  2. The Space Between Us: I got duped by the film description@netflixr1588d

    I'm gonna keep this one brief but just want to say that I find it a bit amusing and also feel a bit like the film-makers are assholes for tricking me into watching this. It is marketed and presented as if it was going to be a momentous Sci-Fi thriller but what actually happens is you get roped into watching a teenage love story drama that just happens to involve Mars.

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    Had Netflix featured the above poster I would have known right away that this film was just going to make me angry but instead, they show some action sequences and convince the audience that we are in for a real sci-fi adventure about the colonization of Mars. Ever since Leon or The Professional I have had a great amount of respect for Gary Oldman and I prefer that my sci-fi is rooted in something that is at least somewhat possible given current technology and that is exactly what this film looked like it would be.

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    Without giving away too much of the story which I really shouldn't bother trying to protect because I don't recommend that anyone watch this crap, is this: A group of racially-diverse scientists head to Mars for colonization efforts and one of them doesn't reveal that she is pregnant. She gives birth on Mars and her son ends up being the first person that has ever grown up entirely on Mars. Because of the difference in gravity between the two planets he grows up with a different anatomical makeup than every other human.

    In his 15 or 16 years of growing up on Mars he is somehow able to catfish some chick in Colorado without her ever knowing that he is on Mars and he never tells her until he finally gets to come back to Earth. I don't remember why or how he was able to come back to Earth because I wasn't really paying attention anymore at that point.

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    What happens next is so cringe that I can't believe I made it through the entire film: The girl of course is a rebel who isn't understood in social situations and they are of course perfect for each other. The boy manages to get away from his NASA handlers who can't locate him which is absurd seeing as how they can go to Mars but at one point find themselves incapable of catching a very slow moving single-engine prop plane that of course his Earthling girlfriend knows how to fly.

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    In the end the film has a twist that if people had just been honest, and there is no reason why they couldn't have been, a great deal of the situations that the young loving couple find themselves in could have been completely avoided. When the big reveal happens it isn't surprising at all, it is just dumb.

    Should I watch it?

    Don't let that emotionally driven trailer give you the wrong impression. They do a good job with this in order to loop you into watching it but this was not the trailer I watched. The one I saw gave me the impression that they were going to focus on the trials and tribulations of attempting to colonize Mars but that actually isn't much of the story at all. This is a coming of age teenage drama with absurd scenarios that don't even make sense in a science fiction type way.

    It isn't the worst film I have sat through in the past few months because there are some pretty great visuals that I am impressed they were able to pull off with their paltry $30 million budget. It bombed at the box office and was universally panned by critics. One person wrote " "notable only for some horrendously bad science and a career-low performance from Gary Oldman."

    If you want to watch a sci-fi film don't let this one fool you. That is not what this is.

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