The Tylers carried this movie. If not for Liv and her dad weaving their respective magics, this movie would have gone the way if Deep Impact; the other “rock from space killing us” film that came out the same year.
Ben Affleck is hilarious. There’s an episode of Dinner for Five on YouTube, with him, Colin Farrell, Jennifer Garner and a couple others. Look it up for a good laugh
I was a teenage apprentice in construction when this came out and I remember thinking , “fucking right we need to send them boys, them nerds can’t drill for shit”.
I’ve said it before. I WISH they would make a sequel out of this where a giant asteroid was really headed to earth and NASA decided that they didn’t have enough time to train astronauts or drillers… and went with the next best thing they had available…. the actors from the first movie who were trained in both drilling and being astronauts. Everyone plays themselves…
Ben, now do Argo. Explain how the movie makes a mockery of the whole situation and ignores the true hero, Canadian ambassador Ken Taylor and his staff.
A quote from Jimmy Carter, who was president during the hostage crisis, in response to the film:
>90% of the contributions to the ideas and the consummation of the plan was Canadian. And the movie gives almost full credit to the American CIA. And with that exception, the movie is very good. But Ben Affleck’s character in the film was… only in Tehran a day and a half. And the main hero, in my opinion, was Ken Taylor, who was the Canadian ambassador who orchestrated the entire process.
The question about training astronauts to drill vs drillers to become astronauts isn’t really an issue.
NASA trains motherfuckers who’ve never been to space to operate in space all the time. The agency has decades of training material, policies and processes for this very thing. Second, the drillers weren’t being trained to be full astronauts. They weren’t required to operate the full complement of equipment available to them.
They were trained to operate on a base level of functionality in a space environment (basically walk upright) and use equipment they’re already familiar with and *helped design*. That’s not unbelievable. That’s, again, what NASA does. Third, they were partnered with *existing and actual astronauts* to get them from point A to drilling. So we had the actual astronauts doing the astronaut shit. And we had drillers doing the drilling shit. Just half of the astronauts happened to die and then movie hero-intuition magic occurred afterwards. But all that other shit isn’t really unbelievable.
It was a fun movie to watch at the time. I wish I could be a teenager again and suspend my belief for just a couple hours and enjoy corny movies like this again.
You could probably boil the last 25 years of western decline into this commentary video.
We let populist content (news like fox, films from michael Bay etc) tell the average person that they *aren’t* average they are special, and they shouldn’t respect the people who might have most knowledge.
The reality is scientists’ viewpoints on how we should do things/achieve progress **is** probably more valuable than that of a blue collar working driller- but mainstream content makes money from pretending that’s not the case, and wont give that honest message to them, instead saying ‘your viewpoint matters, trust your GUT!’.
This isnt to be disrespectful to the blue collar worker, more just a respect of the people who have put time in to being best placed to answer such things.
Do this for long enough- and you erode the respect for the opinion of the academic- and you’ll find a populist leader spreading the same message. And that brings us to now.
Dear god, I’ve been needing to hear for decade now.
This is so necessary.
This is great, is there more of this?
But that’s How NASA operates they train scientist or engineers to become astronauts not the other way around.
Wait… I *like* Ben Affleck??
The Tylers carried this movie. If not for Liv and her dad weaving their respective magics, this movie would have gone the way if Deep Impact; the other “rock from space killing us” film that came out the same year.
Okay I’m going to go buy a cheap used copy of Armageddon (so Bay doesn’t get the money) so I can hear Affleck’s whole commentary.
“You know, this is a real plan, alright?”
You know who else only works with the best? Donald Trump. How did that work out?
It’s actually not that simple, those guys get paid a lot. Every job has its set of skill requirements.
Why didn’t they send both? Or equal amounts, at least.
I like this movie, I started watching Salvation recently, which was cancelled after 2 seasons. Same concept I guess.
We forget that he was in Saving private Ryan, and believe he die early, or actually, survive the whole movie.
Affleck is the perfect about of bitter. He some how walks that tight line of benefitting from the industry and actively hating it.
Nice to see the Reddit affect In motion. See a video posted as a comment, repost it as a post instead. Get karma.
I just realised that DVD commentaries are the reaction videos of the physical media era.
Ben Affleck is hilarious. There’s an episode of Dinner for Five on YouTube, with him, Colin Farrell, Jennifer Garner and a couple others. Look it up for a good laugh
I was a teenage apprentice in construction when this came out and I remember thinking , “fucking right we need to send them boys, them nerds can’t drill for shit”.
In hindsight, the most unrealistic thing about this movie is the people from the oil industry making big sacrifices to save the planet.
It’s a horrendously stupid movie that’s really funny an a lot of fun to watch.
I’ve said it before. I WISH they would make a sequel out of this where a giant asteroid was really headed to earth and NASA decided that they didn’t have enough time to train astronauts or drillers… and went with the next best thing they had available…. the actors from the first movie who were trained in both drilling and being astronauts. Everyone plays themselves…
“They can build rocket ships but not drills”
I wouldn’t expect rocket engineers to build good drills just like I wouldn’t expect drill engineers to build good rockets.
I never get tired of this.
how do I get to hear more? this is pure gold!!!!
Guys, what happened to Eddie Griffin? I saw him in this with his lil’ buddy Reggie, in Undercover Brother and some stand up and then poof!
> Didn’t you see *Apollo 13*, booiiiiii?
Ben, now do Argo. Explain how the movie makes a mockery of the whole situation and ignores the true hero, Canadian ambassador Ken Taylor and his staff.
A quote from Jimmy Carter, who was president during the hostage crisis, in response to the film:
>90% of the contributions to the ideas and the consummation of the plan was Canadian. And the movie gives almost full credit to the American CIA. And with that exception, the movie is very good. But Ben Affleck’s character in the film was… only in Tehran a day and a half. And the main hero, in my opinion, was Ken Taylor, who was the Canadian ambassador who orchestrated the entire process.
The question about training astronauts to drill vs drillers to become astronauts isn’t really an issue.
NASA trains motherfuckers who’ve never been to space to operate in space all the time. The agency has decades of training material, policies and processes for this very thing. Second, the drillers weren’t being trained to be full astronauts. They weren’t required to operate the full complement of equipment available to them.
They were trained to operate on a base level of functionality in a space environment (basically walk upright) and use equipment they’re already familiar with and *helped design*. That’s not unbelievable. That’s, again, what NASA does. Third, they were partnered with *existing and actual astronauts* to get them from point A to drilling. So we had the actual astronauts doing the astronaut shit. And we had drillers doing the drilling shit. Just half of the astronauts happened to die and then movie hero-intuition magic occurred afterwards. But all that other shit isn’t really unbelievable.
It’s a movie that deserves mocking.
It was a fun movie to watch at the time. I wish I could be a teenager again and suspend my belief for just a couple hours and enjoy corny movies like this again.
For more stuff like this see the Pitch Meeting channel: https://www.youtube.com/@PitchMeetings Its super fun and addictive 😀
You could probably boil the last 25 years of western decline into this commentary video.
We let populist content (news like fox, films from michael Bay etc) tell the average person that they *aren’t* average they are special, and they shouldn’t respect the people who might have most knowledge.
The reality is scientists’ viewpoints on how we should do things/achieve progress **is** probably more valuable than that of a blue collar working driller- but mainstream content makes money from pretending that’s not the case, and wont give that honest message to them, instead saying ‘your viewpoint matters, trust your GUT!’.
This isnt to be disrespectful to the blue collar worker, more just a respect of the people who have put time in to being best placed to answer such things.
Do this for long enough- and you erode the respect for the opinion of the academic- and you’ll find a populist leader spreading the same message. And that brings us to now.
Is this a thing nowdays?
The movie with commentator tracks?
It should be, we all love that reactor content now days. Whats better then the actors of the movie reacts to the movie they are in?
I now want a Ben Affleck commentary reel for every movie