Here's the deal: there's a level of actorial success in Hollywood that allows stars to develop their own projects. It's a level that always ends up serving as a test of taste. Tom Cruise's longetivity is almost entirely indebted to his immaculate taste in material & talent; the guy's made, what, three bad movies since the 80's? The problem for Pratt: he doesn't have good taste, and he lacks any self-awareness about why people like him as a star or what he excels at. He doesn't pick challenging material; stuff like The Terminal List or The Tomorrow War mostly serve as ways for him to flatter his self-image as an American Action Man. The problem is precisely that he doesn't know what makes him a compelling leading man, which is turbocharged by having very basic taste. Cruise's ability to get with people like Robert Towne & Chris McQuarrie is key. Pratt's a talented guy, but to maintain a career as a movie star you can't just be charismatic; you have to have an eye for material. He just doesn't have that. Answer from Deleted User on reddit.com
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Chris Pratt picks military veterans for ‘The Terminal List’
August 19, 2022 - NEW YORK (AP) — Chris Pratt portrays a Navy SEAL in his new Amazon series " The Terminal List, " and is surrounded on camera and behind-the-scenes by former members of the U.S. military.
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The Terminal List - Wikipedia
1 week ago - Chris Pratt as Lieutenant Commander James Reece, a US Navy SEAL with eight combat deployments, and the Troop Commander of Alpha Platoon, SEAL Team 7, and Task Force Odin's Sword.
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Chris Pratt fights a war at home in new The Terminal List trailer
May 19, 2022 - In Amazon Prime Video's new conspiracy-thriller show The Terminal List, Chris Pratt plays a Navy SEAL named James Reece whose platoon is wiped out when a mission goes disastrously awry.
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r/blankies on Reddit: Terminal List, or what the hell is Chris Pratt doing with his career?
July 1, 2022 -
Woof. What a dog.
When did Pratt lose it? Jurassic World seems to make the most sense. It’s like he’s worked out exactly what makes him a compelling leading man and decided to only make things that don’t play to that. My question is why? Did he really want to be a tier one operator that badly?
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Here's the deal: there's a level of actorial success in Hollywood that allows stars to develop their own projects. It's a level that always ends up serving as a test of taste. Tom Cruise's longetivity is almost entirely indebted to his immaculate taste in material & talent; the guy's made, what, three bad movies since the 80's? The problem for Pratt: he doesn't have good taste, and he lacks any self-awareness about why people like him as a star or what he excels at. He doesn't pick challenging material; stuff like The Terminal List or The Tomorrow War mostly serve as ways for him to flatter his self-image as an American Action Man. The problem is precisely that he doesn't know what makes him a compelling leading man, which is turbocharged by having very basic taste. Cruise's ability to get with people like Robert Towne & Chris McQuarrie is key. Pratt's a talented guy, but to maintain a career as a movie star you can't just be charismatic; you have to have an eye for material. He just doesn't have that.
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I’d argue that he doesn’t even work in the Jurassic World movies because his character is entirely humorless. He works best doing the Kurt Russell thing in Guardians. His humor made him pop on Parks and Rec so much that they decided to make him a member of the main cast after intending his arc to end after S1. He either has no sense of his appeal, has the worst agent in the world, or both. Judging from that recent interview where he said his name is not Chris but instead he only answers to “CP,” maybe he’s just an idiot. But yeah, the Jurassic World movies and every choice since then outside of his role in the MCU have zapped him of his appeal. He’s the opposite of Ryan Reynolds, where I want Pratt to just do the one thing that works and I’d love to see Reynolds do literally anything else. The Deadpool energy in everything is just too much.
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Chris Pratt-produced film on heroic military chaplains hits theaters
November 18, 2024 - Chris Pratt. (Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP) The film also has support from the military, with Col.
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After Navy SEAL Commander James Reece loses his entire platoon on a covert mission overseas, he returns home to his family with conflicting memories of the e...
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The Tomorrow War - Wikipedia
November 18, 2025 - The Tomorrow War is a 2021 American military science-fiction action film directed by Chris McKay, written by Zach Dean, and starring Chris Pratt. It was produced by David Ellison, Dana Goldberg, Don Granger, David S. Goyer, Jules Daly, and Adam ...
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Jocko Willink breaks down Chris Pratt's combat scenes and evaluates how realistic Hollywood is compared to real world combat. BLACK FRIDAY DEALS ARE LIVE - 4...
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'The Terminal List' Trailer Reveals That Chris Pratt Is on a Mission | Military.com
June 9, 2022 - Here's the outline: Chrs Pratt plays Reece, a SEAL whose entire team is wiped out on an ill-fated mission. Was it just bad luck in combat, or were there darker forces at work?
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r/CharacterRant on Reddit: Chris Pratt in the tomorrow war movie
November 30, 2021 -
The movie is decent but I'm annoyed at some of the main character's choices. First off, he didn't need to try and save his adult future daughter, as her timeline is different to his. Second, there must be some implications from making her come back to his timeline, like a paradox.
I get the whole I'm going to be a saviour dad but God that part was annoying. Also, the way the team administered the toxin into the alien sacks is a whole other issue entirely. The scream and dying alerted the other aliens to wake up. What a stupid move. Of course they will be alerted. Why couldn't they just get out of there and nuke the ship? Instead of wasting your time and costing two people their lives. In that way, the end fight wouldn't have happened with the mother alien. Take more bombs than poison.
Furthermore, trying to save his kids life would have resulted in her death anyway if he was killed before the time jump. Who would have saved the world then? Your damn ghost?
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Given the character was an average guy before all of it, him putting his daughter first regardless of timelines and the world feels like a pretty reasonable flaw to expect.
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Oh boy, the Tomorrow War. That movie was such a disappointment... It had such an interesting start. I thought it was going to pull something interesting with the whole "environmentalism, sending humans through a portal to die en masse" thing they were building. All the mysteriousness to build up the reveal, the clicking, the near radio silence on actually actionable intelligence.. All to build up to a shitty action movie guns pew pew booom HELICOPTERS WOO HOORAH I SURE LOVE THE MILITARY AAAAAAAAAA ... I'm tired of my nothing movies of generic white guy #34. Yknoe, the working man, who loves his wife and children TM , but is just going through a bit of a rough patch TM . They dont even use the thing Pratt is best at. We get , like, one joke the entire movie. And the joke is "haha we're sending a bunch of incredibly vital military manpower through a portal but we havent even taught them what a safety is!!!" I'm not asking for your average Marvel quip-a-thon, but like... he's a really fun actor! Make use of him! It's like making a movie staring Nicholas Cage, and then having him not speak once the entire movie....... Dont make one of the most basic alien invasion movies in modern history, slap a thin veneer of seriousness and sci-fi*, get a few awesome shots, for just any other movie everyone will forget in favor of things that are actually enjoyable to watch. *jesus christ please dont get me started on the time travel. This vaguely related rant is incoherent enough without me trying to explain why their explanation on time travel is worthless E: Like a migraine, this movie just started growing and growing in my thoughts until it consumed me. My brain is mush. Talk about the stupidest, worst, dumbest use of time travel I've ever seen in a movie. How do you fuck up so bad, that you have na actual, working time machine, and are capable of building and maintaining another in the past, and yet you are incapable of making anymore? Is everyone in, not just the future, but the now an absolute mong? Outside of some twisted stroke of cosmic benevolence, this is one of the most contrived excuses to put a time limit on time travel. HFauf FUkc and I'm sorry, but HOW EXACTLY does sending waves upon waves of people to die en masse not fuck up the timeline more... than those people finding out how they died? or meeting their future selves or FUCKING WHATEVER??? "Oh you can't find out how you die in the future, because in the MINISCULE chance you ACTUALLY DO RETURN ALIVE.... you CAN'T DO ANYTHING TO CHANGE THE TIMELINE"""??? Am I stupid?? Is this simpler than I thought???? I mean, I am stupid, but still! .. I love you Cris, please get a better agent.
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Chris Pratt's Upcoming Sci-Fi Movie Is His Shot At Redemption After Multiple Genre Disappointments
June 28, 2025 - The film is directed by Timur Bekmambetov, and Pratt's co-stars include Rebecca Ferguson, Annabelle Wallis, Noah Fearnley, and Chris Sullivan. Mercy is classified within the sci-fi genre. As such, it will give Pratt another chance at his oft-acted but frequently dismissed genre performance. In an interview with Collider last year, Pratt hyped up Mercy, saying that the movie was "inventive" and "absolutely original."
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Chris Pratt Honors U.S. Veterans at THE TERMINAL LIST Release
June 29, 2022 - Actor Chris Pratt recently honored World War II veterans at a Los Angeles premiere of his upcoming movie, THE TERMINAL LIST, where he stars as a U.S. Navy Seal. “Well, this is a wonderful group of extraordinary men of the greatest generation,” ...
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Fighting Spirit: A Combat Chaplain's Journey
Unlike the crowded market for sports and true-crime stories, inspirational military fare with mainstream hooks fills a white space in the film landscape that audiences are begging for. ... Chris Pratt Boards Documentary ‘Fighting Spirit: A Combat ...
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May 26, 2021 - He goes off and on his own figures out where the aliens might be (which apparently no other person in the world has considered doing in a full year), then goes and finds the aliens when he can't convince his military contact to let him lead a team to Russia, and then decides to kill them all himself instead of calling for experts because he and his friends believe that the combined governments of the world won't do anything that a team of vigilantes can't do better. In doing this, Chris once again gets nearly his entire team killed, almost unleashes the aliens on the world thirty years early, blows up an incredible source of technology that could help billions of people, and ends up punching an alien to death in the snow like the big damn hero he's convinced that he is.
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July 2, 2021 - Chris Pratt plays an army veteran, who is still in shape. By right, if the world's militaries had used up their most of their active military forces fighting the aliens, the next in line to go, would be the military reservists and veterans. So techinically Chris Pratt's character should have...
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Chris Pratt, Constance Wu, Taylor Kitsch, Riley Keough, Arlo Mertz, Jeanne Tripplehorn
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Chris Pratt | Actor, Producer, Additional Crew
2 weeks ago - Chris Pratt. Actor: Guardians of the Galaxy. Christopher Michael "Chris" Pratt was born on June 21, 1979 in Virginia, Minnesota and raised in Lake Stevens, Washington, to Kathleen Louise (Indahl), who worked at a supermarket, and Daniel Clifton ...
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The Terminal List (TV Series 2022– ) - IMDb
July 1, 2022 - Reviewers say 'The Terminal List' is lauded for its intense action, Chris Pratt's compelling performance as a Navy SEAL, and its gripping narrative. Key themes include revenge, conspiracy, and trauma's psychological effects.
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June 15, 2021 - The "White Spikes" are arguably the movie's biggest, and best, triumph. They successfully avoided generic alien tropes to become a terrifying, memorable monster. In my opinion, theu are the best monster design I've seen yet.