The Adam Project: every time travel rule in the books broken
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.
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I know no one is going to be surprised with what I'm about to say, but I loved Ryan Reynolds' performance in this movie, plus I really like the whole time travel thing.
Ryan Reynolds is just that dude. Despite all the flaws of the movie, I still love it because of him. And yeah, time travel makes it even cooler.
If you'd like a show of time travel, you should see 12 monkey, timeless, and the umbrella academy. I don't watch time travel series without action, these ones are the best in the game. I've been wanting to watch this one too, but it seems you've really enjoyed the project blue book, so I'll just see it.
I also hate movies, it's difficult for the writers to develop a compelling story within 2 hours, it's just impossible.
the best time travel show I've ever seen
I remember seeing adding the 12 Monkeys to my to-watch list about a year ago. It seems I lost that particular list or whatever happened to it. Anyways, I added it to the list myself after seeing a trailer of it. I'll look for it again now. The other two are pretty new to me but I'll check them out. Thanks, man.
Believe me, the remaining two will blow your mind, it's all action, sci-fi, thriller and adventure.
Haha I love the sound of that
Unbelievable how this movie breaks everything that makes sense but how Ryan Reynolds makes it and the movie very good because the plot is excellent and has action drama is great I liked it a lot 🤣😂 it's more I wish they would release a sequel.
Mmm if they were to release a sequel, I don't know what that one would be about. The story itself looks complete. But, if there's one thing you can believe, it's that these film makers can always try to cook new stories to prolong films. CW did that with the flash and not only the story line has gotten wack, but the CGI too.
I watched this some months ago. Although it didn't meet my expectations 😕 but the random funny scenes made me watch it to the end.
I rather enjoy single movies cos I lack the patience of dedicating to a whole series apart from some random animes. I do watch movies almost everyday nowadays. The last series I watched was, I think Squid Game in 2021.
Yeah if Ryan Reynolds is there, you can expect it to be top-tier funny. He just has that thing. lol
This reminds me a lot of Mukadas. Bro could use an entire semester to finish just one single movie. He was an anime geek though so he could watch anime all day.
Ryan Reynolds is once again very successful. 😍
Yes, this movie didn't really interest me as a subject, but I can still say that I actually watched this movie because I trusted Ryan Reynold' s acting.
This is a movie I saw a while ago and liked, but I don't remember much about it.
But you are right from traveling to the future we are told not to deal with our current self because it can change everything. Maybe that's how it was meant to be and Adam had to change his future. I don't really remember much.