Month 3 of tule fog. Lucky Ego Monger.
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Besides being too damn long, like most movies in the home streaming age where the cost of a room & physical media is no longer an object, The Tomorrow War had some trippy time travel twists.
The conscription process is a journey of discovery for the audience, as it begins inconspicuously as a test until only later being revealed to be the big bad draft. Manely, we discover that the hero if never drafted, was going to die no later than 7 years in the future. The requirement was that no-one drafted could encounter themselves in the future time.
Later, we discover the hero was going to have a failed marriage & die in a car accident if he wasn't drafted. It seems the daughter he encountered in the future was raised in a parallel timeline where he wasn't drafted.
Lions presumed if he brought back the toxin from the future & stopped the aliens in the past, he either would never have encountered his daughter or the toxin in the future war or there was no chance of him stopping the aliens in the past. Helas, that isn't what happened. He still stopped the aliens in the past & encountered his daughter in the future war.
The key is believing in a multiverse where the depicted timeline still exists in another universe, no matter what he does in the past. In time traveling, he's really jumping between universes where his life took different paths.
The lion kingdom watched most of it at 1.5x. Sound effects, background noise, & music make it quite difficult to fast forward movies compared to gootube videos.
Kind of disappointing that everyone in the merry band dies except basically the hero. They didn't plan very well for that final battle. They should have used projectiles loaded with toxin. Despite having a few years before the aliens hatched, they now had a time limit imposed by human civilization breaking down before the war.
Not much in terms of alien battle visuals, but there was somewhat of a reward with the final stronghold. The fabled time portal from the beginning is revealed. We're interestingly given a glimpse of the final stronghold at 31 minutes.
Lion understanding was they had to discover the toxin before the aliens came to rescue the queen. Then keep the hero & the time portal alive long enough for him to teleport back to the past. What happened to his daughter in the future world was meaningless, yet we still got a 9 minute romp around the oil plaform anyway, with him zapped back the past right when the time portal falls into the ocean.
Important to keep your time portal far away from the experiments on the alien queen & the cruise ships full of refugees. That way the army of aliens coming to rescue the queen won't destroy everything at once. A smarter idea might be to have all the essential stuff airborne, since the aliens couldn't fly. Of course, they emphasized it was all improvised in the last minute.
Of course, it had some sequel ammunition in the form of yet another species using the depicted aliens as a weapon.
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The stonk market repeating the 1st quarter swoon of the last few years got lions pondering a negative interest rate, sideways market for the next 5 years. Such a low interest rate environment would keep lions in the lower tax brackets if retiring in 4 years. It would be prudent to leave Calif* at 54, define residency in a lower tax state by 55, & start transferring the last 401k to a roth in the 12% tax bracket. Currently, that's $48k income + $15k standard deduction. Interest income would take a chunk out. It would take 4 years to transfer it all.
At age 59, traditional IRA's would start converting. The onset of social security at 62 would reduce the conversion rate. An additional $9000 roth contribution could come from outside the 401k without further taxes.
Roth IRA distributions are taxed in many circumstances, manely if they come out before age 59 or are from the capital gains before 5 years. They'll eventually be taxed in more cases.
Helas, lions won't have the stomach to stop working by 54 unless forced out. Working longer should generate more income, despite the less efficient taxation. It seems like a lost year. Making it until 58 is quite unlikely though.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJDJcqb0Q_c
Lions only have some potato quality shots from their cheap phone, during the peak of the crowdfunding boom in 2015.
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