February 18, 2025 • 24 mins
Henry blasts off with with Christopher Nolan's Interstellar IMAX 70mm 10th Anniversary Re-Release (original version currently on Netflix) then counts down his Top 10 astronaut movies.
0:00 - Intro
1:09 - Review: Interstellar IMAX 70mm Re-Release
12:55 - Interstellar Letterboxd Reviews
14:25 - Discussion: Top 10 Astronaut Movies
23:48 - Outro
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[Henry Faherty]People are obsessed with this movie, and there's
[Henry Faherty]nothing wrong with that, but it's rare these
[Henry Faherty]days that when talking about movies with other
[Henry Faherty]people, this one doesn't come up as a
[Henry Faherty]favorite. Hello, everybody. Welcome back to the Film
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[Henry Faherty]Buds podcast. This is episode number five hundred
[Henry Faherty]and sixty six, and my name is Henry.
[Henry Faherty]This time around, I'm going to be tackling
[Henry Faherty]the I know it's a little late. Sorry.
[Henry Faherty]But the tenth anniversary seventy millimeter IMAX re
[Henry Faherty]release of Interstellar, and then I will be
[Henry Faherty]doing some letterbox reviews as always and then
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[Henry Faherty]counting down my top ten astronaut movies of
[Henry Faherty]all time. So as always, thanks for joining
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[Henry Faherty]in the show notes. Follow us everywhere. Well,
[Henry Faherty]we got a lot to talk about, so
[Henry Faherty]let's go ahead and get into it. Let's
[Henry Faherty]get to Interstellar, and we do have a
[Henry Faherty]clip, so take a listen.
[Henry Faherty]It's not a ghost. It's gravity.
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[Henry Faherty]I'm dropping Tom then heading to town. You
[Henry Faherty]wanna clean that up when you finish praying
[Henry Faherty]to it? Alright. Interstellar came out originally in
[Henry Faherty]twenty fourteen. It's written and directed by Christopher
[Henry Faherty]Nolan, stars Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain,
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[Henry Faherty]Mackenzie Foy, Timothy Chalamet, John Lithgow, and the
[Henry Faherty]synopsis is, when Earth becomes uninhabitable in the
[Henry Faherty]future, a farmer and ex NASA pilot, Joseph
[Henry Faherty]Cooper, is asked to pilot a spacecraft along
[Henry Faherty]with a team of researchers
[Henry Faherty]to find a new planet for humans.
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[Henry Faherty]I think one thing quickly about Christopher Nolan's
[Henry Faherty]movies is I would love to see all
[Henry Faherty]of his films re released. I would love
[Henry Faherty]to see Dunkirk, The Dark Knight Trilogy, Inception,
[Henry Faherty]again in theaters. Even if it wasn't in
[Henry Faherty]IMAX or seventy millimeter, I think he has
[Henry Faherty]this almost unparalleled strength of you wanna see
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[Henry Faherty]his movies on the biggest screen possible, and
[Henry Faherty]I can't think of a lot of other
[Henry Faherty]filmmakers that have that pretty much across their
[Henry Faherty]whole career. So even though he's sure it's
[Henry Faherty]a cash grab at the end
[Henry Faherty]of the day, I kinda hope that they
[Henry Faherty]do that with some of his other films.
[Henry Faherty]But it
[Henry Faherty]had been a while since I had watched
[Henry Faherty]this all the way through. I've seen it
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[Henry Faherty]maybe a half a dozen times over the
[Henry Faherty]years, and I did see it originally in
[Henry Faherty]theaters. I know it's also now the highest
[Henry Faherty]grossing rereleased film, if I'm not mistaken. And
[Henry Faherty]for any Letterboxd users, this is, I think,
[Henry Faherty]the second or third most fan favorited movie
[Henry Faherty]ever on that site, which is insane. Not
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[Henry Faherty]to say it's not deserving, but there's something
[Henry Faherty]about this movie that connects it seems to
[Henry Faherty]connect with all different kinds of people. It
[Henry Faherty]was successful when it came out, but it's
[Henry Faherty]definitely had a shelf life that
[Henry Faherty]has only grown and grown and grown. And
[Henry Faherty]before
[Henry Faherty]I get into the movie itself, the IMAX
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[Henry Faherty]seventy millimeter presentation was awesome. Just a massive
[Henry Faherty]screen, amazing sound, and then the seventy millimeter
[Henry Faherty]gave it even more of a sense of
[Henry Faherty]scale as well as that filmic grain that
[Henry Faherty]I love. And so it was an amazing
[Henry Faherty]experience. So if it is re released again
[Henry Faherty]or if you get a chance to see
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[Henry Faherty]a film like this in theaters, I would
[Henry Faherty]highly recommend it. As for the movie itself,
[Henry Faherty]I would say it's maybe it's
[Henry Faherty]a hot take. It would be
[Henry Faherty]in my, I think, top five Christopher Nolan
[Henry Faherty]movies, but it's not my favorite. It wouldn't
[Henry Faherty]be
[Henry Faherty]in my top three. But at
[Henry Faherty]the same time, Christopher Nolan doesn't even have
[Henry Faherty]close to a bad movie, in my opinion,
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[Henry Faherty]so that's not really saying a whole lot.
[Henry Faherty]I mean, his fifth, sixth best movie is
[Henry Faherty]still fantastic, so that's not really a big
[Henry Faherty]criticism. It's just personal favorites, you know, we
[Henry Faherty]all have those. What does set it apart
[Henry Faherty]in a lot of ways in comparison to
[Henry Faherty]other sci fi space films is it is
[Henry Faherty]an original story. I don't know how in
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[Henry Faherty]a million years Christopher and Jonathan Nolan came
[Henry Faherty]up with this screenplay and were able to
[Henry Faherty]make any kind of sense of it, have
[Henry Faherty]things connect fairly rationally and realistically. There's nothing
[Henry Faherty]really that goofy in it, and I
[Henry Faherty]know that he did do as he always
[Henry Faherty]does, did a
[Henry Faherty]lot of research into the actual science of
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[Henry Faherty]space, of black holes, wormholes, everything. So I
[Henry Faherty]can't speak to what's true or what's not
[Henry Faherty]realistic, but it at least comes across as
[Henry Faherty]very well researched. And end of the day,
[Henry Faherty]I don't really care that much because he
[Henry Faherty]does things so confidently and so cinematically that
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[Henry Faherty]it could all be fiction
[Henry Faherty]and I wouldn't care and is one of
[Henry Faherty]the better showcases for Christopher Nolan's obsession with
[Henry Faherty]time and playing with time, not having enough
[Henry Faherty]time for certain characters or in a certain
[Henry Faherty]situation or for the world, you know, for
[Henry Faherty]our future. So it connects a lot of
[Henry Faherty]different dots, a lot of different timelines. Some
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[Henry Faherty]major standout scenes because there's a lot to
[Henry Faherty]talk about. The opening where it's very much
[Henry Faherty]resembling the dust bowl of the Great Depression
[Henry Faherty]that feels very true to life and realistic
[Henry Faherty]in how they show that. Matthew McConaughey's strained
[Henry Faherty]relationship with Murph once he does accept to
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[Henry Faherty]go on this mission and then the discussion
[Henry Faherty]of what are you willing to sacrifice more,
[Henry Faherty]are you okay with dying and then knowing
[Henry Faherty]that your daughter is living in a future
[Henry Faherty]that is going to crumble and she will
[Henry Faherty]probably die along with everybody else, or do
[Henry Faherty]you wanna
[Henry Faherty]sacrifice the life you could have around your
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[Henry Faherty]daughter but making her overall life that much
[Henry Faherty]better even if she's not gonna be able
[Henry Faherty]to be with you and that really tough
[Henry Faherty]decision that he has to make. One moment
[Henry Faherty]that got me this time that really is
[Henry Faherty]kinda scary to think about is the scene
[Henry Faherty]when he goes to the school and he's
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[Henry Faherty]talking with a teacher or a counselor, whoever,
[Henry Faherty]about them saying the moon landing was staged,
[Henry Faherty]that
[Henry Faherty]feels even more timely for lack of
[Henry Faherty]a better term now because in a world
[Henry Faherty]of AI and misinformation and so much overall
[Henry Faherty]distortion that I could easily see that becoming
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[Henry Faherty]a reality because there are already so many
[Henry Faherty]other things in the world that people deny,
[Henry Faherty]you know, the Holocaust, this, that, and the
[Henry Faherty]other, and I could see a generation where
[Henry Faherty]someone posts on social media, oh, hey, this
[Henry Faherty]was staged, and this is why, and then
[Henry Faherty]it just spreads like wildfire, and so many
[Henry Faherty]people believe it. So that was, like, almost
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[Henry Faherty]made me uncomfortable because I'm like, jeez, that
[Henry Faherty]is even more of a reality than it
[Henry Faherty]was when this movie came out first. The
[Henry Faherty]cornfield chase is iconic, and with Christopher Nolan's
[Henry Faherty]love of practical effects, he did actually have
[Henry Faherty]a whole cornfield planted for the movie, so
[Henry Faherty]that way he could have something practical to
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[Henry Faherty]drive through, which is just crazy to think
[Henry Faherty]about. And one note on that, the song
[Henry Faherty]that's used, for one it's one of Hans
[Henry Faherty]Zimmer's best scores of his whole career. But
[Henry Faherty]for whatever reason, that song, the Cornfield Chase
[Henry Faherty]song, has become so oversaturated and used in
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[Henry Faherty]TikTok videos and Instagram reels, Facebook. Like, I
[Henry Faherty]don't know what caught on about that, but
[Henry Faherty]whenever there's anything emotional, I feel like that
[Henry Faherty]song is used or another track from this
[Henry Faherty]movie. So that's just another way that this
[Henry Faherty]movie has invaded the cultural zeitgeist. The water
[Henry Faherty]planet is my favorite sequence when there's a
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[Henry Faherty]huge tidal wave and then there's the score
[Henry Faherty]where the ticks in the music represent the
[Henry Faherty]time on Earth. And so you realize like,
[Henry Faherty]oh, crap. They're just wasting time going from
[Henry Faherty]one spot to another, like, ten feet, you
[Henry Faherty]know, and think about how much time has
[Henry Faherty]been lost, and that makes the suspense build
[Henry Faherty]even more. The ice planet where they meet
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[Henry Faherty]Matt Damon randomly, and at first, he seems
[Henry Faherty]like he's on their side, and then he
[Henry Faherty]tries to betray them, and that all goes
[Henry Faherty]wrong. Honestly, one of the only things that
[Henry Faherty]brings it down some is the third act.
[Henry Faherty]I don't have an issue with the wormhole
[Henry Faherty]or the black hole or the tesseract, like,
[Henry Faherty]the alternate dimension. I like all that visually,
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[Henry Faherty]but it does feel like it goes on
[Henry Faherty]a long time for me, and I'm just
[Henry Faherty]kinda ready for it to be over. At
[Henry Faherty]a certain point, maybe it gets a little
[Henry Faherty]repetitive. I do like the sequences within that
[Henry Faherty]where Matthew McConaughey is banging on the wall
[Henry Faherty]trying to get his younger or other self
[Henry Faherty]to stay, and he realized that the ghost,
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[Henry Faherty]quote, unquote, at the beginning of the movie
[Henry Faherty]that was saying stay was him. And so
[Henry Faherty]there's a really cool twist there that still
[Henry Faherty]works and is effective emotionally on rewatch. But
[Henry Faherty]again, that runtime of that and just maybe
[Henry Faherty]how it's put together, I don't know, but
[Henry Faherty]I kinda start to phase out a little
[Henry Faherty]bit, and it gets so big. And there
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[Henry Faherty]are little things like Jessica Chastain saying Eureka
[Henry Faherty]and Anna. It's just a little, at times,
[Henry Faherty]doesn't totally work for me. However, the final
[Henry Faherty]few moments are very effective when McConaughey does
[Henry Faherty]meet his daughter again, and she's now elderly.
[Henry Faherty]But she's had a wonderful life, and he's
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[Henry Faherty]helped her to achieve that as well as
[Henry Faherty]many others. And then he realized that she
[Henry Faherty]was the one speaking on the little docudrama
[Henry Faherty]thing on the TV at the beginning, and
[Henry Faherty]then it ends with Anne Hathaway continuing on
[Henry Faherty]her exploration of space because McConaughey did what
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[Henry Faherty]he set out to do, but Anne Hathaway
[Henry Faherty]still has unfinished business. So there's that open
[Henry Faherty]ended of where and what is she gonna
[Henry Faherty]do next. One of the more referenced and
[Henry Faherty]celebrated scenes is the video, the home video
[Henry Faherty]of McConaughey watching his kids do these videos
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[Henry Faherty]as they grow up, and he's realizing that
[Henry Faherty]he's missed their whole childhood, and he's just
[Henry Faherty]sobbing uncontrollably. And I think that can hit
[Henry Faherty]anyone who's been away from their family, from
[Henry Faherty]their kids, whoever, for any extent of time,
[Henry Faherty]and you come
[Henry Faherty]back and they look different or, you know,
[Henry Faherty]you've missed some big event and it's heartbreaking.
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[Henry Faherty]One of
[Henry Faherty]the only other design elements that I don't
[Henry Faherty]love is the look and voice or writing
[Henry Faherty]for the robot. It's little I mean, maybe
[Henry Faherty]it's meant to be a little goofy, but
[Henry Faherty]I think it's a little too clunky. I
[Henry Faherty]don't like the constant humor percentage thing. I
[Henry Faherty]just feel like they need to have alright.
[Henry Faherty]This is a space, you know, sci fi
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[Henry Faherty]movie. We need to have a robot sidekick
[Henry Faherty]in there. I do appreciate, though, that Nolan
[Henry Faherty]I mean, he always talks about very resonating
[Henry Faherty]themes and ideas, but his passion for space
[Henry Faherty]exploration and other life possibly out there in
[Henry Faherty]the universe and that mystery and that drive
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[Henry Faherty]for people to find that and to find
[Henry Faherty]other places that could be our home. So
[Henry Faherty]yeah. I mean, it's a really good movie.
[Henry Faherty]I think it's gonna continue to have a
[Henry Faherty]massive fan base that will only grow more
[Henry Faherty]and more over time. It may very well
[Henry Faherty]appear on my top ten list that I'm
[Henry Faherty]about to get into, and I'm curious to
[Henry Faherty]see what you all think. So if
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[Henry Faherty]you have a way to comment, please do.
[Henry Faherty]That is a heavy four and a half
[Henry Faherty]out of five. Alright. Let's get to some
[Henry Faherty]letterbox reviews of Interstellar, and if you have
[Henry Faherty]any that you want read on the show,
[Henry Faherty]let me know. Or if you have any
[Henry Faherty]suggestions as to what you wanna see reviewed,
[Henry Faherty]please reach out in whatever way you can.
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[Henry Faherty]First one comes from Mike's Mike and gave
[Henry Faherty]it five out of five, says, seeing Anne
[Henry Faherty]Hathaway, queen out in space in IMAX, was
[Henry Faherty]a spiritual experience. Mitsy F gave it three
[Henry Faherty]out of five and says, every single conversation
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[Henry Faherty]is exposition of some kind, and it's just
[Henry Faherty]so exhausting. Nolan is at his peak visually
[Henry Faherty]here, but the man needs help on making
[Henry Faherty]characters that aren't just cogs in his plot
[Henry Faherty]machine. Parts of this are so brilliant, and
[Henry Faherty]the score is so beautiful
[Henry Faherty]that I can't say I dislike it. It's
[Henry Faherty]just so frustrating. Lucy
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[Henry Faherty]gave it four out
[Henry Faherty]of five and says, leave it to Nolan
[Henry Faherty]to turn love into a science. Last
[Henry Faherty]one comes from Keith, gave it two out
[Henry Faherty]of five stars, and says something about this
[Henry Faherty]didn't quite work for me the way it
[Henry Faherty]did for others. There are scenes and developments
[Henry Faherty]that are no doubt great and very interesting,
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[Henry Faherty]but overall this felt like a jumble of
[Henry Faherty]different ideas and didn't feel like its own
[Henry Faherty]singular unique creature. More often than not, the
[Henry Faherty]film grasps for poignancy and only really achieves
[Henry Faherty]eye rolling pretentiousness. In short, it's trying a
[Henry Faherty]little too hard. Let's end off with my
[Henry Faherty]top ten astronaut movies of all time, and
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[Henry Faherty]let me know your top ten, top five
[Henry Faherty]as well. Alright. Number ten. This might be
[Henry Faherty]a hot take, but I have a reason
[Henry Faherty]for it. Two thousand and one, A Space
[Henry Faherty]Odyssey. Yes. This movie is a landmark, one
[Henry Faherty]of the greatest, most influential movies of all
[Henry Faherty]time, and watching it is like a marvel,
[Henry Faherty]and you see how it's influenced every kind
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[Henry Faherty]of movie, especially anything in space or sci
[Henry Faherty]fi or action.
[Henry Faherty]It's forever gonna be a big part of
[Henry Faherty]film history. But while I appreciate all
[Henry Faherty]of those things, watching it, I don't enjoy
[Henry Faherty]it that much. Unless I'm wanting to watch
[Henry Faherty]something because of a film history class or
[Henry Faherty]watch it with someone who hasn't seen it,
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[Henry Faherty]I don't feel the need to watch it
[Henry Faherty]again even though I'm still fascinated by it
[Henry Faherty]and I love
[Henry Faherty]the discussion around the movie. Number nine, Highlife
[Henry Faherty]starring Robert Pattinson and Meg Gough. I saw
[Henry Faherty]this one for the first time back when
[Henry Faherty]it came out, didn't love it, but it
[Henry Faherty]has grown on me a lot over the
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[Henry Faherty]years. I think it's a grower, and I've
[Henry Faherty]seen it maybe three or four times. And
[Henry Faherty]even though it's not a masterpiece, it's very
[Henry Faherty]one of the only real, I'd say, horror
[Henry Faherty]space films or horror astronaut films, but it's
[Henry Faherty]still fairly low budget. It's an a twenty
[Henry Faherty]four film. It's character based. It's quiet. It's
[Henry Faherty]not super flashy or epic. It's mostly interior
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[Henry Faherty]shots, but there's still great atmosphere, a great
[Henry Faherty]score, great performances, and while it's not one
[Henry Faherty]for everybody, it's worth at least a look.
[Henry Faherty]Give it a chance. Number eight, Sunshine, the
[Henry Faherty]Danny Boyle film. I saw this for the
[Henry Faherty]first time maybe early twenty tens because I
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[Henry Faherty]heard all this crazy hype about it and
[Henry Faherty]so
[Henry Faherty]I was curious and I do really like
[Henry Faherty]it. There's a
[Henry Faherty]lot of interesting ideas, a great role for
[Henry Faherty]Cillian Murphy, and it's a good ensemble cast.
[Henry Faherty]There's a lot of great mystery and suspense,
[Henry Faherty]a lot of great visual splendor, if you
[Henry Faherty]will, and so it's worth a look if
[Henry Faherty]you like or you're trying to find more
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[Henry Faherty]independent or lesser known space films, this is
[Henry Faherty]a good one to start with. Number seven,
[Henry Faherty]Spaceman from twenty twenty four. I know that
[Henry Faherty]the reviews for this are a little all
[Henry Faherty]over the place. I found it to be
[Henry Faherty]personally really and it's also similar to High
[Henry Faherty]Life actually in that it's partly a horror
[Henry Faherty]film almost because there's this sudden discovery of
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[Henry Faherty]something else on the ship with Adam Sandler,
[Henry Faherty]and I knew nothing about the movie going
[Henry Faherty]into it. So that was even more of
[Henry Faherty]an unsettling shock. And just in case you
[Henry Faherty]haven't seen it, that's why I'm being a
[Henry Faherty]little bit more ambiguous with what it is,
[Henry Faherty]but I love Adam Sandler in it. It's
[Henry Faherty]directed by Johan Rinck, if that's how you
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[Henry Faherty]say it, who did Chernobyl. He also directed
[Henry Faherty]some episodes of The Last of Us, a
[Henry Faherty]really good director. Paul Dano's voice performance is
[Henry Faherty]top notch, a really low key space film
[Henry Faherty]that I think has already gotten lost in
[Henry Faherty]the world of Netflix originals, but there's a
[Henry Faherty]lot to enjoy. And if you like Interstellar,
[Henry Faherty]it has some of the same ideas as
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[Henry Faherty]that. It's a more small scale version, I
[Henry Faherty]think, of Interstellar. Number six, Apollo thirteen, the
[Henry Faherty]Ron Howard film about the real life event.
[Henry Faherty]And one of the strongest things about it
[Henry Faherty]is that despite if you know anything about
[Henry Faherty]the story, it shouldn't have a real suspense
[Henry Faherty]to it or drama to it because you
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[Henry Faherty]know what happens, but it manages to do
[Henry Faherty]that. Like, it says, okay. Are they gonna
[Henry Faherty]make it out alive? Are they not? Oh,
[Henry Faherty]this is going wrong. We need to figure
[Henry Faherty]this out, and you don't know exactly how
[Henry Faherty]things are gonna go. And it's a really
[Henry Faherty]good Tom Hanks movie, very plainly shot, not
[Henry Faherty]in a bad way, but it's not pretentious
[Henry Faherty]or trying to do anything crazy. It's just
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[Henry Faherty]trying to tell
[Henry Faherty]this true life, like, as much as it
[Henry Faherty]can story about these real astronauts. Number five,
[Henry Faherty]add Astra.
[Henry Faherty]Like Highlife, this one has grown on me
[Henry Faherty]a lot over time. When I first saw
[Henry Faherty]it, I did like it, but I didn't
[Henry Faherty]love it. It's so much more thoughtful and
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[Henry Faherty]it doesn't rely on big action, but it
[Henry Faherty]still has a huge sprawling story. Brad Pitt
[Henry Faherty]is really good in it, very toned down,
[Henry Faherty]but very good. It's shot incredibly well. The
[Henry Faherty]color palette, the locations, the look of the
[Henry Faherty]moon, the origin story, I guess, you can
[Henry Faherty]say of this character and his journey into
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[Henry Faherty]space and trying to find his father and
[Henry Faherty]these distant signals and, you know, just trying
[Henry Faherty]to figure out what all is out there
[Henry Faherty]and who's doing this. Honestly, we just need
[Henry Faherty]more like Interstellar, we just need more original
[Henry Faherty]space movies that whether they're super sci fi
[Henry Faherty]or not, but especially ones that try and
[Henry Faherty]keep at least some things in a way
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[Henry Faherty]that could happen or at least a character
[Henry Faherty]that feels real enough to follow them or
[Henry Faherty]want to follow them through this very otherworldly
[Henry Faherty]experience. Number four, The Martian, the Ridley Scott
[Henry Faherty]film.
[Henry Faherty]I know that this one was a huge
[Henry Faherty]success critically and financially when it came out.
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[Henry Faherty]It is a easy watch for the most
[Henry Faherty]part. It does do at least as much
[Henry Faherty]as it can to my knowledge of having
[Henry Faherty]Matt Damon's situation be realistic as to, okay,
[Henry Faherty]if you're stuck here, how are you gonna
[Henry Faherty]survive? How far can you go? What plants
[Henry Faherty]or crops can you grow within the system
[Henry Faherty]that you have? It's very much a problem
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[Henry Faherty]solving movie, which I love personally. That's my
[Henry Faherty]favorite kind or one of my favorite kinds
[Henry Faherty]of stories. Okay. This is wrong. How do
[Henry Faherty]we get out? And it's a great standalone
[Henry Faherty]performance for Matt Damon, who he carries it.
[Henry Faherty]I mean, he has to. And then the
[Henry Faherty]rest of the cast is good, but they
[Henry Faherty]don't have that much else to do, but
[Henry Faherty]it's a very strong cast. Ridley Scott's beautiful
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[Henry Faherty]sci fi aesthetic is on full display here,
[Henry Faherty]one of his best looking movies, I think,
[Henry Faherty]of all time. It's got good comedy. It's
[Henry Faherty]got good drama. The final rescue of Matt
[Henry Faherty]Damon is very well executed, even though I
[Henry Faherty]do find that the first half is a
[Henry Faherty]lot more interesting than the second half when
[Henry Faherty]he is just trying to figure things out
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[Henry Faherty]as opposed to, okay, now this is a
[Henry Faherty]conventional rescue of getting him from one place
[Henry Faherty]to another. It's good, but I think
[Henry Faherty]it does drag a little bit in that
[Henry Faherty]latter half. Number three,
[Henry Faherty]First Man, the Damien Chazelle film with Ryan
[Henry Faherty]Gosling about Neil Armstrong. Of all the movies
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[Henry Faherty]I'm talking about, I think this is probably
[Henry Faherty]the most underrated. It didn't do that well
[Henry Faherty]financially. You've know it did well critically, I
[Henry Faherty]think, and is a fascinating story and a
[Henry Faherty]very important story is the only Damien Chazelle
[Henry Faherty]film that doesn't deal with music or behind
[Henry Faherty]the scenes Hollywood stuff, like, all of his
[Henry Faherty]movies before and since deal with those ideas
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[Henry Faherty]in one way or the other. So this
[Henry Faherty]is
[Henry Faherty]a very big departure for him, I think,
[Henry Faherty]in a good way. The sound design is
[Henry Faherty]incredible, great character piece for Ryan Gosling. The
[Henry Faherty]actual moon landing
[Henry Faherty]at the end of the movie is so
[Henry Faherty]powerful and poignant, but you see the danger
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[Henry Faherty]that these pilots, these astronauts went through to
[Henry Faherty]get to the moon and how many lives
[Henry Faherty]were lost, how many resources were spent, the
[Henry Faherty]incredible uncertainty of achieving anything like this, and
[Henry Faherty]so you see the nuts and bolts, the
[Henry Faherty]not so pretty stuff as well as the
[Henry Faherty]glorious amazing stuff that this experience had on
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[Henry Faherty]Neil Armstrong. Number two,
[Henry Faherty]Interstellar, and I've already said what I needed
[Henry Faherty]to say so great movie all in all.
[Henry Faherty]And number one is Gravity
[Henry Faherty]by Alfonso Cuaron with George Clooney and Sandra
[Henry Faherty]Bullock. I remember this one vividly in theaters.
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[Henry Faherty]I saw it in IMAX, and to date,
[Henry Faherty]it remains one of the most intense, thrilling,
[Henry Faherty]wow experiences I've ever had in a theater.
[Henry Faherty]I didn't know what to expect. The cinematography
[Henry Faherty]and direction of Sandra Bullock being thrown around
[Henry Faherty]in space, going from one shuttle to another
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[Henry Faherty]or different stations to another, the debris flying.
[Henry Faherty]Sandra Bullock is amazing, one of her best
[Henry Faherty]roles ever, as well as George Clooney, although
[Henry Faherty]he's not in it for that much. It's
[Henry Faherty]only about ninety minutes, but it shows you
[Henry Faherty]the different kinds of stories if you're creative
[Henry Faherty]enough that you can tell within a certain
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[Henry Faherty]situation, in this case, space, and should be
[Henry Faherty]watched on the biggest screen possible with the
[Henry Faherty]best sound. It's one of those. And there
[Henry Faherty]you go. That is my top ten astronaut
[Henry Faherty]movies of all time. Again, let me know
[Henry Faherty]your favorites. Let me know what you think
[Henry Faherty]of my list, if it's good or if
[Henry Faherty]it sucks. Would be happy to hear your
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[Henry Faherty]and rating on your way out. Thank you
[Henry Faherty]very much for listening. And as always, hope
[Henry Faherty]you enjoyed it even half as much as
[Henry Faherty]People are obsessed with this movie, and there's
[Henry Faherty]nothing wrong with that, but it's rare these
[Henry Faherty]days that when talking about movies with other
[Henry Faherty]people, this one doesn't come up as a
[Henry Faherty]favorite. Hello, everybody. Welcome back to the Film
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[Henry Faherty]Buds podcast. This is episode number five hundred
[Henry Faherty]and sixty six, and my name is Henry.
[Henry Faherty]This time around, I'm going to be tackling
[Henry Faherty]the I know it's a little late. Sorry.
[Henry Faherty]But the tenth anniversary seventy millimeter IMAX re
[Henry Faherty]release of Interstellar, and then I will be
[Henry Faherty]doing some letterbox reviews as always and then
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[Henry Faherty]counting down my top ten astronaut movies of
[Henry Faherty]all time. So as always, thanks for joining
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[Henry Faherty]in the show notes. Follow us everywhere. Well,
[Henry Faherty]we got a lot to talk about, so
[Henry Faherty]let's go ahead and get into it. Let's
[Henry Faherty]get to Interstellar, and we do have a
[Henry Faherty]clip, so take a listen.
[Henry Faherty]It's not a ghost. It's gravity.
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[Henry Faherty]I'm dropping Tom then heading to town. You
[Henry Faherty]wanna clean that up when you finish praying
[Henry Faherty]to it? Alright. Interstellar came out originally in
[Henry Faherty]twenty fourteen. It's written and directed by Christopher
[Henry Faherty]Nolan, stars Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain,
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[Henry Faherty]Mackenzie Foy, Timothy Chalamet, John Lithgow, and the
[Henry Faherty]synopsis is, when Earth becomes uninhabitable in the
[Henry Faherty]future, a farmer and ex NASA pilot, Joseph
[Henry Faherty]Cooper, is asked to pilot a spacecraft along
[Henry Faherty]with a team of researchers
[Henry Faherty]to find a new planet for humans.
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[Henry Faherty]I think one thing quickly about Christopher Nolan's
[Henry Faherty]movies is I would love to see all
[Henry Faherty]of his films re released. I would love
[Henry Faherty]to see Dunkirk, The Dark Knight Trilogy, Inception,
[Henry Faherty]again in theaters. Even if it wasn't in
[Henry Faherty]IMAX or seventy millimeter, I think he has
[Henry Faherty]this almost unparalleled strength of you wanna see
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[Henry Faherty]his movies on the biggest screen possible, and
[Henry Faherty]I can't think of a lot of other
[Henry Faherty]filmmakers that have that pretty much across their
[Henry Faherty]whole career. So even though he's sure it's
[Henry Faherty]a cash grab at the end
[Henry Faherty]of the day, I kinda hope that they
[Henry Faherty]do that with some of his other films.
[Henry Faherty]But it
[Henry Faherty]had been a while since I had watched
[Henry Faherty]this all the way through. I've seen it
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[Henry Faherty]maybe a half a dozen times over the
[Henry Faherty]years, and I did see it originally in
[Henry Faherty]theaters. I know it's also now the highest
[Henry Faherty]grossing rereleased film, if I'm not mistaken. And
[Henry Faherty]for any Letterboxd users, this is, I think,
[Henry Faherty]the second or third most fan favorited movie
[Henry Faherty]ever on that site, which is insane. Not
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[Henry Faherty]to say it's not deserving, but there's something
[Henry Faherty]about this movie that connects it seems to
[Henry Faherty]connect with all different kinds of people. It
[Henry Faherty]was successful when it came out, but it's
[Henry Faherty]definitely had a shelf life that
[Henry Faherty]has only grown and grown and grown. And
[Henry Faherty]before
[Henry Faherty]I get into the movie itself, the IMAX
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[Henry Faherty]seventy millimeter presentation was awesome. Just a massive
[Henry Faherty]screen, amazing sound, and then the seventy millimeter
[Henry Faherty]gave it even more of a sense of
[Henry Faherty]scale as well as that filmic grain that
[Henry Faherty]I love. And so it was an amazing
[Henry Faherty]experience. So if it is re released again
[Henry Faherty]or if you get a chance to see
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[Henry Faherty]a film like this in theaters, I would
[Henry Faherty]highly recommend it. As for the movie itself,
[Henry Faherty]I would say it's maybe it's
[Henry Faherty]a hot take. It would be
[Henry Faherty]in my, I think, top five Christopher Nolan
[Henry Faherty]movies, but it's not my favorite. It wouldn't
[Henry Faherty]be
[Henry Faherty]in my top three. But at
[Henry Faherty]the same time, Christopher Nolan doesn't even have
[Henry Faherty]close to a bad movie, in my opinion,
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[Henry Faherty]so that's not really saying a whole lot.
[Henry Faherty]I mean, his fifth, sixth best movie is
[Henry Faherty]still fantastic, so that's not really a big
[Henry Faherty]criticism. It's just personal favorites, you know, we
[Henry Faherty]all have those. What does set it apart
[Henry Faherty]in a lot of ways in comparison to
[Henry Faherty]other sci fi space films is it is
[Henry Faherty]an original story. I don't know how in
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[Henry Faherty]a million years Christopher and Jonathan Nolan came
[Henry Faherty]up with this screenplay and were able to
[Henry Faherty]make any kind of sense of it, have
[Henry Faherty]things connect fairly rationally and realistically. There's nothing
[Henry Faherty]really that goofy in it, and I
[Henry Faherty]know that he did do as he always
[Henry Faherty]does, did a
[Henry Faherty]lot of research into the actual science of
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[Henry Faherty]space, of black holes, wormholes, everything. So I
[Henry Faherty]can't speak to what's true or what's not
[Henry Faherty]realistic, but it at least comes across as
[Henry Faherty]very well researched. And end of the day,
[Henry Faherty]I don't really care that much because he
[Henry Faherty]does things so confidently and so cinematically that
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[Henry Faherty]it could all be fiction
[Henry Faherty]and I wouldn't care and is one of
[Henry Faherty]the better showcases for Christopher Nolan's obsession with
[Henry Faherty]time and playing with time, not having enough
[Henry Faherty]time for certain characters or in a certain
[Henry Faherty]situation or for the world, you know, for
[Henry Faherty]our future. So it connects a lot of
[Henry Faherty]different dots, a lot of different timelines. Some
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[Henry Faherty]major standout scenes because there's a lot to
[Henry Faherty]talk about. The opening where it's very much
[Henry Faherty]resembling the dust bowl of the Great Depression
[Henry Faherty]that feels very true to life and realistic
[Henry Faherty]in how they show that. Matthew McConaughey's strained
[Henry Faherty]relationship with Murph once he does accept to
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[Henry Faherty]go on this mission and then the discussion
[Henry Faherty]of what are you willing to sacrifice more,
[Henry Faherty]are you okay with dying and then knowing
[Henry Faherty]that your daughter is living in a future
[Henry Faherty]that is going to crumble and she will
[Henry Faherty]probably die along with everybody else, or do
[Henry Faherty]you wanna
[Henry Faherty]sacrifice the life you could have around your
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[Henry Faherty]daughter but making her overall life that much
[Henry Faherty]better even if she's not gonna be able
[Henry Faherty]to be with you and that really tough
[Henry Faherty]decision that he has to make. One moment
[Henry Faherty]that got me this time that really is
[Henry Faherty]kinda scary to think about is the scene
[Henry Faherty]when he goes to the school and he's
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[Henry Faherty]talking with a teacher or a counselor, whoever,
[Henry Faherty]about them saying the moon landing was staged,
[Henry Faherty]that
[Henry Faherty]feels even more timely for lack of
[Henry Faherty]a better term now because in a world
[Henry Faherty]of AI and misinformation and so much overall
[Henry Faherty]distortion that I could easily see that becoming
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[Henry Faherty]a reality because there are already so many
[Henry Faherty]other things in the world that people deny,
[Henry Faherty]you know, the Holocaust, this, that, and the
[Henry Faherty]other, and I could see a generation where
[Henry Faherty]someone posts on social media, oh, hey, this
[Henry Faherty]was staged, and this is why, and then
[Henry Faherty]it just spreads like wildfire, and so many
[Henry Faherty]people believe it. So that was, like, almost
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[Henry Faherty]made me uncomfortable because I'm like, jeez, that
[Henry Faherty]is even more of a reality than it
[Henry Faherty]was when this movie came out first. The
[Henry Faherty]cornfield chase is iconic, and with Christopher Nolan's
[Henry Faherty]love of practical effects, he did actually have
[Henry Faherty]a whole cornfield planted for the movie, so
[Henry Faherty]that way he could have something practical to
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[Henry Faherty]drive through, which is just crazy to think
[Henry Faherty]about. And one note on that, the song
[Henry Faherty]that's used, for one it's one of Hans
[Henry Faherty]Zimmer's best scores of his whole career. But
[Henry Faherty]for whatever reason, that song, the Cornfield Chase
[Henry Faherty]song, has become so oversaturated and used in
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[Henry Faherty]TikTok videos and Instagram reels, Facebook. Like, I
[Henry Faherty]don't know what caught on about that, but
[Henry Faherty]whenever there's anything emotional, I feel like that
[Henry Faherty]song is used or another track from this
[Henry Faherty]movie. So that's just another way that this
[Henry Faherty]movie has invaded the cultural zeitgeist. The water
[Henry Faherty]planet is my favorite sequence when there's a
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[Henry Faherty]huge tidal wave and then there's the score
[Henry Faherty]where the ticks in the music represent the
[Henry Faherty]time on Earth. And so you realize like,
[Henry Faherty]oh, crap. They're just wasting time going from
[Henry Faherty]one spot to another, like, ten feet, you
[Henry Faherty]know, and think about how much time has
[Henry Faherty]been lost, and that makes the suspense build
[Henry Faherty]even more. The ice planet where they meet
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[Henry Faherty]Matt Damon randomly, and at first, he seems
[Henry Faherty]like he's on their side, and then he
[Henry Faherty]tries to betray them, and that all goes
[Henry Faherty]wrong. Honestly, one of the only things that
[Henry Faherty]brings it down some is the third act.
[Henry Faherty]I don't have an issue with the wormhole
[Henry Faherty]or the black hole or the tesseract, like,
[Henry Faherty]the alternate dimension. I like all that visually,
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[Henry Faherty]but it does feel like it goes on
[Henry Faherty]a long time for me, and I'm just
[Henry Faherty]kinda ready for it to be over. At
[Henry Faherty]a certain point, maybe it gets a little
[Henry Faherty]repetitive. I do like the sequences within that
[Henry Faherty]where Matthew McConaughey is banging on the wall
[Henry Faherty]trying to get his younger or other self
[Henry Faherty]to stay, and he realized that the ghost,
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[Henry Faherty]quote, unquote, at the beginning of the movie
[Henry Faherty]that was saying stay was him. And so
[Henry Faherty]there's a really cool twist there that still
[Henry Faherty]works and is effective emotionally on rewatch. But
[Henry Faherty]again, that runtime of that and just maybe
[Henry Faherty]how it's put together, I don't know, but
[Henry Faherty]I kinda start to phase out a little
[Henry Faherty]bit, and it gets so big. And there
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[Henry Faherty]are little things like Jessica Chastain saying Eureka
[Henry Faherty]and Anna. It's just a little, at times,
[Henry Faherty]doesn't totally work for me. However, the final
[Henry Faherty]few moments are very effective when McConaughey does
[Henry Faherty]meet his daughter again, and she's now elderly.
[Henry Faherty]But she's had a wonderful life, and he's
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[Henry Faherty]helped her to achieve that as well as
[Henry Faherty]many others. And then he realized that she
[Henry Faherty]was the one speaking on the little docudrama
[Henry Faherty]thing on the TV at the beginning, and
[Henry Faherty]then it ends with Anne Hathaway continuing on
[Henry Faherty]her exploration of space because McConaughey did what
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[Henry Faherty]he set out to do, but Anne Hathaway
[Henry Faherty]still has unfinished business. So there's that open
[Henry Faherty]ended of where and what is she gonna
[Henry Faherty]do next. One of the more referenced and
[Henry Faherty]celebrated scenes is the video, the home video
[Henry Faherty]of McConaughey watching his kids do these videos
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[Henry Faherty]as they grow up, and he's realizing that
[Henry Faherty]he's missed their whole childhood, and he's just
[Henry Faherty]sobbing uncontrollably. And I think that can hit
[Henry Faherty]anyone who's been away from their family, from
[Henry Faherty]their kids, whoever, for any extent of time,
[Henry Faherty]and you come
[Henry Faherty]back and they look different or, you know,
[Henry Faherty]you've missed some big event and it's heartbreaking.
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[Henry Faherty]One of
[Henry Faherty]the only other design elements that I don't
[Henry Faherty]love is the look and voice or writing
[Henry Faherty]for the robot. It's little I mean, maybe
[Henry Faherty]it's meant to be a little goofy, but
[Henry Faherty]I think it's a little too clunky. I
[Henry Faherty]don't like the constant humor percentage thing. I
[Henry Faherty]just feel like they need to have alright.
[Henry Faherty]This is a space, you know, sci fi
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[Henry Faherty]movie. We need to have a robot sidekick
[Henry Faherty]in there. I do appreciate, though, that Nolan
[Henry Faherty]I mean, he always talks about very resonating
[Henry Faherty]themes and ideas, but his passion for space
[Henry Faherty]exploration and other life possibly out there in
[Henry Faherty]the universe and that mystery and that drive
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[Henry Faherty]for people to find that and to find
[Henry Faherty]other places that could be our home. So
[Henry Faherty]yeah. I mean, it's a really good movie.
[Henry Faherty]I think it's gonna continue to have a
[Henry Faherty]massive fan base that will only grow more
[Henry Faherty]and more over time. It may very well
[Henry Faherty]appear on my top ten list that I'm
[Henry Faherty]about to get into, and I'm curious to
[Henry Faherty]see what you all think. So if
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[Henry Faherty]you have a way to comment, please do.
[Henry Faherty]That is a heavy four and a half
[Henry Faherty]out of five. Alright. Let's get to some
[Henry Faherty]letterbox reviews of Interstellar, and if you have
[Henry Faherty]any that you want read on the show,
[Henry Faherty]let me know. Or if you have any
[Henry Faherty]suggestions as to what you wanna see reviewed,
[Henry Faherty]please reach out in whatever way you can.
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[Henry Faherty]First one comes from Mike's Mike and gave
[Henry Faherty]it five out of five, says, seeing Anne
[Henry Faherty]Hathaway, queen out in space in IMAX, was
[Henry Faherty]a spiritual experience. Mitsy F gave it three
[Henry Faherty]out of five and says, every single conversation
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[Henry Faherty]is exposition of some kind, and it's just
[Henry Faherty]so exhausting. Nolan is at his peak visually
[Henry Faherty]here, but the man needs help on making
[Henry Faherty]characters that aren't just cogs in his plot
[Henry Faherty]machine. Parts of this are so brilliant, and
[Henry Faherty]the score is so beautiful
[Henry Faherty]that I can't say I dislike it. It's
[Henry Faherty]just so frustrating. Lucy
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[Henry Faherty]gave it four out
[Henry Faherty]of five and says, leave it to Nolan
[Henry Faherty]to turn love into a science. Last
[Henry Faherty]one comes from Keith, gave it two out
[Henry Faherty]of five stars, and says something about this
[Henry Faherty]didn't quite work for me the way it
[Henry Faherty]did for others. There are scenes and developments
[Henry Faherty]that are no doubt great and very interesting,
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[Henry Faherty]but overall this felt like a jumble of
[Henry Faherty]different ideas and didn't feel like its own
[Henry Faherty]singular unique creature. More often than not, the
[Henry Faherty]film grasps for poignancy and only really achieves
[Henry Faherty]eye rolling pretentiousness. In short, it's trying a
[Henry Faherty]little too hard. Let's end off with my
[Henry Faherty]top ten astronaut movies of all time, and
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[Henry Faherty]let me know your top ten, top five
[Henry Faherty]as well. Alright. Number ten. This might be
[Henry Faherty]a hot take, but I have a reason
[Henry Faherty]for it. Two thousand and one, A Space
[Henry Faherty]Odyssey. Yes. This movie is a landmark, one
[Henry Faherty]of the greatest, most influential movies of all
[Henry Faherty]time, and watching it is like a marvel,
[Henry Faherty]and you see how it's influenced every kind
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[Henry Faherty]of movie, especially anything in space or sci
[Henry Faherty]fi or action.
[Henry Faherty]It's forever gonna be a big part of
[Henry Faherty]film history. But while I appreciate all
[Henry Faherty]of those things, watching it, I don't enjoy
[Henry Faherty]it that much. Unless I'm wanting to watch
[Henry Faherty]something because of a film history class or
[Henry Faherty]watch it with someone who hasn't seen it,
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[Henry Faherty]I don't feel the need to watch it
[Henry Faherty]again even though I'm still fascinated by it
[Henry Faherty]and I love
[Henry Faherty]the discussion around the movie. Number nine, Highlife
[Henry Faherty]starring Robert Pattinson and Meg Gough. I saw
[Henry Faherty]this one for the first time back when
[Henry Faherty]it came out, didn't love it, but it
[Henry Faherty]has grown on me a lot over the
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[Henry Faherty]years. I think it's a grower, and I've
[Henry Faherty]seen it maybe three or four times. And
[Henry Faherty]even though it's not a masterpiece, it's very
[Henry Faherty]one of the only real, I'd say, horror
[Henry Faherty]space films or horror astronaut films, but it's
[Henry Faherty]still fairly low budget. It's an a twenty
[Henry Faherty]four film. It's character based. It's quiet. It's
[Henry Faherty]not super flashy or epic. It's mostly interior
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[Henry Faherty]shots, but there's still great atmosphere, a great
[Henry Faherty]score, great performances, and while it's not one
[Henry Faherty]for everybody, it's worth at least a look.
[Henry Faherty]Give it a chance. Number eight, Sunshine, the
[Henry Faherty]Danny Boyle film. I saw this for the
[Henry Faherty]first time maybe early twenty tens because I
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[Henry Faherty]heard all this crazy hype about it and
[Henry Faherty]so
[Henry Faherty]I was curious and I do really like
[Henry Faherty]it. There's a
[Henry Faherty]lot of interesting ideas, a great role for
[Henry Faherty]Cillian Murphy, and it's a good ensemble cast.
[Henry Faherty]There's a lot of great mystery and suspense,
[Henry Faherty]a lot of great visual splendor, if you
[Henry Faherty]will, and so it's worth a look if
[Henry Faherty]you like or you're trying to find more
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[Henry Faherty]independent or lesser known space films, this is
[Henry Faherty]a good one to start with. Number seven,
[Henry Faherty]Spaceman from twenty twenty four. I know that
[Henry Faherty]the reviews for this are a little all
[Henry Faherty]over the place. I found it to be
[Henry Faherty]personally really and it's also similar to High
[Henry Faherty]Life actually in that it's partly a horror
[Henry Faherty]film almost because there's this sudden discovery of
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[Henry Faherty]something else on the ship with Adam Sandler,
[Henry Faherty]and I knew nothing about the movie going
[Henry Faherty]into it. So that was even more of
[Henry Faherty]an unsettling shock. And just in case you
[Henry Faherty]haven't seen it, that's why I'm being a
[Henry Faherty]little bit more ambiguous with what it is,
[Henry Faherty]but I love Adam Sandler in it. It's
[Henry Faherty]directed by Johan Rinck, if that's how you
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[Henry Faherty]say it, who did Chernobyl. He also directed
[Henry Faherty]some episodes of The Last of Us, a
[Henry Faherty]really good director. Paul Dano's voice performance is
[Henry Faherty]top notch, a really low key space film
[Henry Faherty]that I think has already gotten lost in
[Henry Faherty]the world of Netflix originals, but there's a
[Henry Faherty]lot to enjoy. And if you like Interstellar,
[Henry Faherty]it has some of the same ideas as
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[Henry Faherty]that. It's a more small scale version, I
[Henry Faherty]think, of Interstellar. Number six, Apollo thirteen, the
[Henry Faherty]Ron Howard film about the real life event.
[Henry Faherty]And one of the strongest things about it
[Henry Faherty]is that despite if you know anything about
[Henry Faherty]the story, it shouldn't have a real suspense
[Henry Faherty]to it or drama to it because you
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[Henry Faherty]know what happens, but it manages to do
[Henry Faherty]that. Like, it says, okay. Are they gonna
[Henry Faherty]make it out alive? Are they not? Oh,
[Henry Faherty]this is going wrong. We need to figure
[Henry Faherty]this out, and you don't know exactly how
[Henry Faherty]things are gonna go. And it's a really
[Henry Faherty]good Tom Hanks movie, very plainly shot, not
[Henry Faherty]in a bad way, but it's not pretentious
[Henry Faherty]or trying to do anything crazy. It's just
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[Henry Faherty]trying to tell
[Henry Faherty]this true life, like, as much as it
[Henry Faherty]can story about these real astronauts. Number five,
[Henry Faherty]add Astra.
[Henry Faherty]Like Highlife, this one has grown on me
[Henry Faherty]a lot over time. When I first saw
[Henry Faherty]it, I did like it, but I didn't
[Henry Faherty]love it. It's so much more thoughtful and
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[Henry Faherty]it doesn't rely on big action, but it
[Henry Faherty]still has a huge sprawling story. Brad Pitt
[Henry Faherty]is really good in it, very toned down,
[Henry Faherty]but very good. It's shot incredibly well. The
[Henry Faherty]color palette, the locations, the look of the
[Henry Faherty]moon, the origin story, I guess, you can
[Henry Faherty]say of this character and his journey into
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[Henry Faherty]space and trying to find his father and
[Henry Faherty]these distant signals and, you know, just trying
[Henry Faherty]to figure out what all is out there
[Henry Faherty]and who's doing this. Honestly, we just need
[Henry Faherty]more like Interstellar, we just need more original
[Henry Faherty]space movies that whether they're super sci fi
[Henry Faherty]or not, but especially ones that try and
[Henry Faherty]keep at least some things in a way
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[Henry Faherty]that could happen or at least a character
[Henry Faherty]that feels real enough to follow them or
[Henry Faherty]want to follow them through this very otherworldly
[Henry Faherty]experience. Number four, The Martian, the Ridley Scott
[Henry Faherty]film.
[Henry Faherty]I know that this one was a huge
[Henry Faherty]success critically and financially when it came out.
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[Henry Faherty]It is a easy watch for the most
[Henry Faherty]part. It does do at least as much
[Henry Faherty]as it can to my knowledge of having
[Henry Faherty]Matt Damon's situation be realistic as to, okay,
[Henry Faherty]if you're stuck here, how are you gonna
[Henry Faherty]survive? How far can you go? What plants
[Henry Faherty]or crops can you grow within the system
[Henry Faherty]that you have? It's very much a problem
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[Henry Faherty]solving movie, which I love personally. That's my
[Henry Faherty]favorite kind or one of my favorite kinds
[Henry Faherty]of stories. Okay. This is wrong. How do
[Henry Faherty]we get out? And it's a great standalone
[Henry Faherty]performance for Matt Damon, who he carries it.
[Henry Faherty]I mean, he has to. And then the
[Henry Faherty]rest of the cast is good, but they
[Henry Faherty]don't have that much else to do, but
[Henry Faherty]it's a very strong cast. Ridley Scott's beautiful
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[Henry Faherty]sci fi aesthetic is on full display here,
[Henry Faherty]one of his best looking movies, I think,
[Henry Faherty]of all time. It's got good comedy. It's
[Henry Faherty]got good drama. The final rescue of Matt
[Henry Faherty]Damon is very well executed, even though I
[Henry Faherty]do find that the first half is a
[Henry Faherty]lot more interesting than the second half when
[Henry Faherty]he is just trying to figure things out
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[Henry Faherty]as opposed to, okay, now this is a
[Henry Faherty]conventional rescue of getting him from one place
[Henry Faherty]to another. It's good, but I think
[Henry Faherty]it does drag a little bit in that
[Henry Faherty]latter half. Number three,
[Henry Faherty]First Man, the Damien Chazelle film with Ryan
[Henry Faherty]Gosling about Neil Armstrong. Of all the movies
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[Henry Faherty]I'm talking about, I think this is probably
[Henry Faherty]the most underrated. It didn't do that well
[Henry Faherty]financially. You've know it did well critically, I
[Henry Faherty]think, and is a fascinating story and a
[Henry Faherty]very important story is the only Damien Chazelle
[Henry Faherty]film that doesn't deal with music or behind
[Henry Faherty]the scenes Hollywood stuff, like, all of his
[Henry Faherty]movies before and since deal with those ideas
(21:39):
[Henry Faherty]in one way or the other. So this
[Henry Faherty]is
[Henry Faherty]a very big departure for him, I think,
[Henry Faherty]in a good way. The sound design is
[Henry Faherty]incredible, great character piece for Ryan Gosling. The
[Henry Faherty]actual moon landing
[Henry Faherty]at the end of the movie is so
[Henry Faherty]powerful and poignant, but you see the danger
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[Henry Faherty]that these pilots, these astronauts went through to
[Henry Faherty]get to the moon and how many lives
[Henry Faherty]were lost, how many resources were spent, the
[Henry Faherty]incredible uncertainty of achieving anything like this, and
[Henry Faherty]so you see the nuts and bolts, the
[Henry Faherty]not so pretty stuff as well as the
[Henry Faherty]glorious amazing stuff that this experience had on
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[Henry Faherty]Neil Armstrong. Number two,
[Henry Faherty]Interstellar, and I've already said what I needed
[Henry Faherty]to say so great movie all in all.
[Henry Faherty]And number one is Gravity
[Henry Faherty]by Alfonso Cuaron with George Clooney and Sandra
[Henry Faherty]Bullock. I remember this one vividly in theaters.
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[Henry Faherty]I saw it in IMAX, and to date,
[Henry Faherty]it remains one of the most intense, thrilling,
[Henry Faherty]wow experiences I've ever had in a theater.
[Henry Faherty]I didn't know what to expect. The cinematography
[Henry Faherty]and direction of Sandra Bullock being thrown around
[Henry Faherty]in space, going from one shuttle to another
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[Henry Faherty]or different stations to another, the debris flying.
[Henry Faherty]Sandra Bullock is amazing, one of her best
[Henry Faherty]roles ever, as well as George Clooney, although
[Henry Faherty]he's not in it for that much. It's
[Henry Faherty]only about ninety minutes, but it shows you
[Henry Faherty]the different kinds of stories if you're creative
[Henry Faherty]enough that you can tell within a certain
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[Henry Faherty]situation, in this case, space, and should be
[Henry Faherty]watched on the biggest screen possible with the
[Henry Faherty]best sound. It's one of those. And there
[Henry Faherty]you go. That is my top ten astronaut
[Henry Faherty]movies of all time. Again, let me know
[Henry Faherty]your favorites. Let me know what you think
[Henry Faherty]of my list, if it's good or if
[Henry Faherty]it sucks. Would be happy to hear your
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[Henry Faherty]thoughts. Make sure to hit that subscribe button
[Henry Faherty]and rating on your way out. Thank you
[Henry Faherty]very much for listening. And as always, hope
[Henry Faherty]you enjoyed it even half as much as
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