Reviews

Pros: Good cast. Very good actually. Maine coon cat(s). Nice visual effects. Neutral: changing the child dying from Cage to Ellie didn't give anything extra to the story. If anything it felt like practical way to cut short Ellie's side of the story. Cons: This movie totally lacks the weird dreamish nightmareish feeling that makes the book so good. Movie wanted so bad to be a horror film it cut out the center point: the father's inner battle with grief and temptation. There was nothing much about the magical world behind the pet sematary, nothing about the mental state of a man who enters that place.

This movie could have been so good! But it was too shallow and empty to hurt or scare anyone. such a pity!

I don't want to even talk about the stupid ending.

Away was entertaining, thrilling and heart warming. There were few flaws that irritated me, but at the end I chose to ignore them because I love scifi and compared to few other Netflix scifi series this was excellent. I didn't hate any of the characters and that was refreshing. Actors did their job and I liked them all! I like the way some of them showed growth and depth along the season. Visual effects were great, the whole season was one big eye candy! I also liked that there were little bit politics but not too much.

okay so to the spoiler part...

The most unrealistic thing to me was the team work problems at the beginning. There is absolutely no way NASA would send in the most important journey of human kind this kind of group that has authority issues and what not. I believe that they would be training team work and crisis management YEARS before the launch so everyone would know their place and just obey no matter what. It just makes no sense! It would have been much more believable to have such team work issues later on. Same goes with the homesickness and the surprise element that something can happen to love ones while they are far away. It was unrealistic how their LEADER didn't know what she wanted to do with the mission at the second something happened back home.

There were a lot of issues with gravity. In one episode they all floated around, but then one of them cried and tears went down to character's cheeks. Also why was the death of plants so big deal, I assume they had seeds and plan b, C and d. Plants die, that's what they do! No reason to almost die because of it, just plant new ones when you have water again. Sometimes plot things like this seemed so empty. I felt like they just had to make up something.

And then the romantic issues. You really don't need them that much. Come on. I counted at least four romantic story lines. Edit half of them. We want to see more space stuff and less lovey dovey stuff.

Also how in earth the father didn't let his daughter drive motocross but then took her horseback riding without the helmet?

Anyway. Liked this with flaws and all. More please.