If exposition were a contact sport, The Dog Stars would be banned for life.

“Two thumbs down from hell.”
The Dog Stars
Masterfully crafted. Un-roastable.
An absolute cinematic disaster.
After the world's population has been ravaged by a pandemic, a man lives a lonesome existence in a Colorado airplane hangar with his dog and a dour gunman he has befriended. When a mysterious transmission comes through on the radio while he’s flying his old Cessna, it sparks a hunt for the provenance of the sound.
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After the world's population has been ravaged by a pandemic, a man lives a lonesome existence in a Colorado airplane hangar with his dog and a dour gunman he has befriended. When a mysterious transmission comes through on the radio while he’s flying his old Cessna, it sparks a hunt for the provenance of the sound.
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The Dog Stars treats "worldbuilding" the way a toddler treats a fruit bowl — enthusiastically, briefly, then forgotten.
Counted four explosions before the studio logo finished. The Dog Stars knows its audience.
The Dog Stars: where physics filed for emotional distress and lost.
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Unpopular opinion: The Dog Stars is the most overrated film of the decade
Everyone praising the The Dog Stars performances must have watched a different cut. The lead is sleepwalking through this and the supporting cast can't save it.
Why does no one talk about how mid the writing in The Dog Stars actually is?
Look, I wanted to love The Dog Stars. The trailer had me hyped. But sitting through the second hour felt like a homework assignment. The dialogue is exposition stacked on exposition and the score keeps telling me how to feel.
The cinematography in The Dog Stars is doing all the heavy lifting and it shows
Just got out of The Dog Stars and I'm convinced critics are being paid in residuals. Two genuinely good scenes do not make a film. Convince me otherwise.
[Spoilers] Can we discuss that absolutely baffling ending in The Dog Stars?
Rewatched The Dog Stars last night and noticed even more plot holes than the first time. The motivations don't track at all once you stop and think about act two.
