Okay. Okay. Just got back from the cinema and my brain is doing that thing where it's like... buzzing? That buzzing where everything feels slightly unreal and the popcorn smell is still stuck in my hair and I can't stop thinking about SCARLETT JOHANSSON IN THAT YELLOW DRESS.
Holy shit.
Like, I went in expecting some fun 1960s space race romcom and I got... I don't even know what I got. My brain is scrambled eggs right now. The theater was mostly empty except for this couple who kept whispering and this old guy who laughed at everything even when it wasn't funny and I was trying to focus but then THAT SCENE happened.
You know the one. Where she's on the launchpad and the countdown starts and her face just... does that thing it does where she's simultaneously terrified and determined and my heart was literally pounding so hard I could feel it in my throat. I actually leaned forward so far I almost spilled my soda. The guy next to me definitely thought I was having some kind of medical emergency.
And Channing Tatum! I've never been like, a huge Channing Tatum person? But there's this moment where he's watching the launch footage and his hand just trembles for like half a second and it's so subtle but I saw it and it completely broke me. It's like all this bravado and NASA heroism just melts away and he's just... a guy. A guy who might die. Or who might send other people to die.
God, that reminds me of when my grandpa told me about watching the moon landing when he was a kid. He was in some bar in Ohio and everyone went dead silent when the hatch opened and he said it was the quietest he'd ever heard a room full of drunk people. He's gone now. But I keep thinking about him while writing this. He would've loved this movie. Or maybe he would've hated it? He was weird about historical accuracy in films. He walked out of "Pearl Harbor" because of the planes. He would've had opinions about this one for sure.
I don't know though. Was that whole fake moon landing subplot kind of... dumb? Actually, typing that out, maybe it was brilliant? I can't decide. One minute I was like "this is genius social commentary" and the next I was like "this is insulting to everyone who actually worked on the Apollo missions." My brain keeps flip-flopping. The ending especially. I thought I loved it but now that I'm thinking about it... was it too neat? Too Hollywood? I don't know.
The sound in the theater was cranked up to 11 which made the launch sequences absolutely insane. Like, my seat was vibrating and I could feel the rumble in my chest and it was honestly overwhelming in the best way. But then during the quiet scenes, I could hear the guy behind me unwrapping candy SO SLOWLY. Like, crinkle... pause... crinkle... pause... I almost turned around and said something but then I remembered I'm not my dad.
The costumes though. THE COSTUMES. Every single outfit was perfect. That yellow dress Scarlett wears? I'm still thinking about it. It's burned into my retinas. And the way the camera follows her through the NASA hallways like she's this alien creature in their sterile world? And then the contrast with Channing in his boring astronaut suits? It's all so deliberate and I was eating it up.
Honestly, I'm still processing. The movie wants to be so many things at once - a romance, a comedy, a political statement, a historical drama, a conspiracy thriller. It shouldn't work. It really shouldn't. But somehow it does? Or did it? Now I'm second-guessing everything.
I think I need to watch it again. Not at the cinema though. My back is killing me from those seats and I swear the guy next to me was breathing through his mouth the entire time. Maybe when it comes out on streaming so I can pause and rewind and really think about the moon landing conspiracy stuff without feeling like the entire theater can hear me breathing weirdly.
Okay, my brain is starting to shut down. Need to sleep. But yeah. Watch it. Or don't. I don't know. My thoughts are still orbiting somewhere in the upper atmosphere.
7/10
-Alex
Trailer English - https://youtu.be/lW7enw6mFxs?si=x9UKoSw_FlGRgcGY
Review English - https://youtu.be/oXokGBKJiQc?si=SRVsusg5Pzryj9WN
EXPLANATION english - https://youtu.be/WDHA6Rh_Wx4?si=t01Tbb3MhNsx4DI7
