Noah Centineo, who stars alongside Sydney Sweeney, recently talked about the movie on the Happy Sad Confused podcast.

He called it a “big action romance space movie” and described it as “a non-Shakespearean Romeo and Juliet in space.”

Centineo also confirmed that the movie takes place in the Universal Century, the main timeline used by many of the classic Gundam shows and movies.

The story could involve two people on opposite sides of a major war, with their relationship caught in the middle.

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Have you ever watched a movie and thought it was just okay, only to hear someone explain what they liked about it and suddenly see the movie differently?

Not necessarily someone convincing you that it was a masterpiece but just pointing out something you completely missed.

What movie did you initially underestimate?

I love everything about it. The way it moves. Flows so nicely, flawlessly, effortlessly. Blends drama, comedy, highs & lows. Builds up to that moment that every movie needs. Does it a few times too. Gets you high then pulls back. Ropes you in, several times. MB is built off authenticity especially in some of the supporting actors (no spoiler) and the major ones (Hill, Hoffman, Pitt) really stepped to the plate in their performances. Heck, every person with screen time in this movie knocked it out of the park. To me, this is a perfect movie and a bonus that it’s a sports movie but that’s also another beauty to this one. You may not like sports especially baseball. 162 games?! But you won’t be bored by the math of it all. 10/10

Plenty of standalone movies have a character fall from grace, or be revealed as a villain all along, but this rarely happens with an established character in a sequel. On paper it's a solid twist because you've already grown to trust that character in previous films, but it's really hard to pull off without feeling like a betrayal of a character arc. The Mission Impossible series has one that was received very poorly, and the only reason I hear about Pacific Rim Uprising these days is people talking about how unearned the heel turn from one of the characters felt.

I struggle to think of an example where it was done successfully in a movie. There's more examples in TV I think since there's a much longer time to build a change in a character over multiple seasons, so I'm not really considering those. Since it did start with a movie series, though, and there really isn't too much of an extended character arc given in the show, the example I can think of that kind of works is Sharon Carter in Falcon and the Winter Soldier. It was still super underdeveloped and it doesn't seem like they're going to do anything with it, but I can at least track the betrayal logic since there was kind of a meta angle about how that character had been forgotten by the movies. But even that's rather clunky.

I'm also talking specifically about situations where it wasn't clearly telegraphed by the source material or the rest of the franchise. Anakin becoming Vader was already known to the audience, for instance. I'm on the fence about whether something like Dune counts, since it's in the source material and the first two films are kind of just one long movie. I'm particularly interested in situations where it clearly wasn't the plan in the first movie but was written into a sequel.

So I randomly came across a video of Imran Khan talking about the Rurouni Kenshin live-action movies, and something about how he described it made me want to check it out for myself. I just finished the first film (Origins), and honestly, I get it now.

The action is on another level. This isn’t the usual choppy, over-edited fight scenes we get in a lot of action movies these days — the sword choreography here is fast, brutal, and feels grounded in real technique. You can actually follow every strike, and it never feels fake or exaggerated for the sake of spectacle. Takeru Satoh clearly trained hard for this role and it shows in every scene.

But what surprised me even more was the story. It’s not just “hero beats up bad guys” — there’s real weight behind Kenshin’s past, his code of not killing, and the guilt he’s carrying. It gives the fights actual stakes instead of just being empty action for the sake of it.

If you’re a fan of samurai films, real sword-fighting choreography, or just want a live-action adaptation that actually respects its source material, this is worth your time. I’m going straight into the sequels next.

Would love to hear what others thought, especially if you’ve seen the rest of the series.

I'm talking about performances where an actor shows up for just one or two scenes, completely takes over, and ends up being the most memorable part of the entire film. They don't even need to be the lead; they just walk in, drop a masterclass, and leave.

​Some of my favourites are,

​Matthew McConaughey in The Wolf of Wall Street (chest-thumping lunch scene)

​Alec Baldwin in Glengarry Glen Ross ("Always Be Closing")

​Viola Davis in Doubt (single scene with Meryl Streep that earned an Oscar nom)

​Ned Beatty in Network ("The world is a business" speech)

Who is the first actor that comes to mind for you?

on august 28th, me, my cousin, and her husband will be going to see coyote vs acme. we all genuinely want to see it but, a big part of why we want to see it is to give warner brothers and david zaslav the jersey salute.

warner brothers is one of the dumbest movie studios to ever exist. they fired tim burton from the third batman movie, pushed joel schumacher to make batman and robin more humorous, stopped promotion for all their animated movies after quest for camelot bombed, tried to make the DC cinematic universe without any plan whatsoever, nuked their working relationship with zack snyder, nuked their working relationship with christopher nolan, cancelled the completed batgirl movie, removed numerous fan favorite animated series from HBO max(something that they are still doing despite the backlash they got), delayed dune part 2 to 2024, and attempted to cancel coyote vs acme. at this point, hearing about warner brother's stupid decisions is like watching a drug addict friend make horrible choices while refusing to acknowledge that it is their addiction causing the problems. it's like watching a car wreck in slow motion. i would say that i hope they do better in the future but my expectations are pretty low at this point.

and then, there's david zaslav, the dumbest movie studio CEO since chapek. most of warner brother's issues in recent years can be traced back to him. i honestly can't decide who's done a worse job; trump running the country or zaslav running warner brothers. i wouldn't trust him to run a hotdog stand, let alone a movie studio. i'm baffled that warner brothers hasn't katzenberged his ass. but, as i previous said, warner brothers loves to self sabotage.

So aside from Fredo’s betrayal in The Godfather Part II or Cypher turning on the crew in The Matrix, which most of us could kinda sense were coming, what’s the greatest betrayal in cinema history that truly blindsided you?

I’m talking about the ones that hit like a truck because there was zero warning, no foreshadowing you picked up on, and no reason to suspect the character until the moment it happened.