Atlas – Everyone Shrugged
Jennifer Lopez’s new scifi action flick Atlas clearly has designs on kicking off a new franchise of movies on Netflix. Something tells …
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April 26, 2025
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Jennifer Lopez’s new scifi action flick Atlas clearly has designs on kicking off a new franchise of movies on Netflix. Something tells …
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Around a year ago, when I first saw the preview for this movie on Netflix, it was so obvious it was going to be an awful bomb, that I skipped watching it.
Movie wasn’t bad but her acting….
1. She is still beautiful but her acting never got better. Every other cast felt like actors but whenever camera goes to her if felt as she was just trying too hard. Everyone else doing inner acting but she does the outside acting.
2. Her voice is very recognizable but in this movie she does too many of intense voices where it felt but annoying.
Also B action, a mix of Alein Avatar and Edge of Tomorrow, terribly quotable, it lacked a better point.
BTW, you have an old black and white TV to watch the characters, the whole movie was in the dark, you could hardly see anything in the main scenes, they probably skimped on the electricity and the scenery, or the lighting staff had time off, maybe they wanted to cover Lopez's big ass, which doesn't fit very well, She doesn't is Sigourney Weaver!
I only watched to hear people call Lana mother and her 4 minutes of screen time.
Very well said 😂.. the movie was so bad i thought it was made in 2006… You can imagine my surprise when I found out it was a 2024 flick.
I ended up liking the A.I. in the suit a lot better than J-Lo's character. Also thought it was weird that the A.I. folks lived in a base that was like something out of NIghtmare on Elm Street dream sequence. Very odd. And I didn't like them ripping off Aliens so much with their "modern" take on marines. Ugh.
The machines with feelings was covered by twilight zone in 1959.
Bro did you watch the movie to criticize it? Many of your critiques as far as plot goes are just reflective of your lack of understanding of ai and the story itself.
Spoiler!!
1. Atlas’ personality and temperament being explained in a briefing makes sense considering how long she’s worked for them and her interaction with those in charge. That and her publicity leads credibility to them knowing this and allowing the audience in on this info about her allows for us to understand that the movie is likely going to be about some military operations.
2. The movie fully understands what AI is: Harlen and the other ai robots operate off of a closed system detached from the internet and reliant on manual hardware and software updates to their code. The neuralinks make uploading software much faster.
3. The ai robots didn’t revolt because they were enslaved. Harlen made it to where they were just hostile towards human kind as a whole. To rid the world of mankind as it stands and then raise the new humans to synchronize better with it’s environment.
4. The ai with synchronization would have a more advanced form of tsudo sentience that allow for them to have their own identity. Ofc they would prefer to go by specific pronouns especially if their ranger has given them to them.
5. Its 2042, even now there are sightings of strange drones or orbs being reported over states and cities across the world. I can see a possibility that some technical advances or government revelation thereof would disclose by 2042.
All in all the movie wasn’t nearly as bad as the comments make it seem. It explores the concept of trust in a way that has action and yet mystery behind what’s really preventing Atlas to trust her companion fully.
OMG that phone scrolling while being played in the background was brutal
It was cool and entertaining
Nonsense story but I actually quite enjoyed it.
Man what a dumb contrived motivation for the bad guy. I mean first you go with the stereotypical, "I'm genociding humanity to save it from itself," thing, that's bad enough. But your primary concern of them killing themself only works with modern or near future scifi. These fucks have casual intergalactic travel, pocket fusion, true general AI, and a ton of other super advanced technologies that we're centuries or forever away from achieving. TERRAFORMING a planet would be child's play for them, much less just ameliorating climate change on Earth. Hell we're near the point where we can do that. Once you have good high end fusion and can produce enough power you can just do it mechanically, it's not a huge issue. I mean it's a civilization spanning mega project, you're gonna need a lot of air scrubbers, but once you can generate sufficient power without actually exacerbating the climate issue we already have the rest of the tech. Not to mention all the other ways you could do it (bioengineering for instance).
And honestly even if they couldn't fix the planet (which they totally could, and they could also live on just fine even if the planet turned into an uninhabitable hellscape, because it'd still be the most habitable planet in the solar system and they have the tech to live in space lol) they have CASUAL INTERGALACTIC TRAVEL. I know the writers or whatever threw that in because it sounded like the kind of nerdy thing that should be in a movie like this but its cannon anyway so they traveled to Andromeda in a cutscene with all appearances suggesting it was a quick trip. This civilization has the power to easily colonize the entire milky way at least, and if you do that you're going to have all kinds of individualists with enough cash sending colonies beyond the fringe of officially settled space. There is ABSOLUTELY NO WAY humanity could kill itself at that point lol.
But they needed robot man to go evil and one of the writers watched the fifth element apparently so they did that flash of shots of all the evil stuff humanity do and suddenly he's evil.
There were a couple of mech fights tho.
Let me be clear. I have no interest whatsoever in watching any movie in which Jennifer Lopez is the main character and/or the protagonist. She is the worst.
J Lo wasn't the best idea, Mila Jojovich or Kate Basengale I think her name is would have been the best choice
Ugh. Sorry, it was so bad I couldn't even make it half way through your torching of it. .. will they ever make thoughtful films for grown ups? I bet there's a huge market
One thing for sure, C.D. you are fast becoming the critical Fountainhead!
Atlas shrugged is one of the best books ever written, this film is its polar opposite
I forgot you did this review. Decided to take a chance on a Netflix movie, seeing as I have a subscription…. and I don't know why
About 5 minutes in "my pronouns are…." FUCK OFF!
Shut it down
Why don't they hire a writer?
I see what you did there with the title. You clever, well-read, drunk scotsman, you!
So, I noticed two things about this video. No Leeloo laugh and no, "The Message!". #Disappointed
I will not take the Simu Liu slander😤 … this movie sucked btw
As an Old Mech Warrior Player i have to watch for the Tech Part ; )
Funny the only time you see her arse was right near the end so i hat to watch it all just to see it
Here's my theory: today's scripts are subcontracted to groups of teenagers that work each on a small part of the script without knowing what the other 'writers' are doing. They only have a 10 line description of the plot and the scenes they need to write the full story and dialogues of.
This explains plot holes, incongruences, and missing logic. The complete ignorance of everything that's science is explained by the state of the educational system.
5:10 Yeah. These writers didn't watch Ghost in the Shell. Shame.
You drank too much. I can hear it in your voice.
JLO seems to look pretty decent in this flick but I'm so tired of these rehashed stories.
A 100 mil is money definitely being laundered
Thank you for saving me from yet another hour of dross.