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I love space movies, especially those that darkly ponder the human experience.
But lately, they have started to gently warp my brain.
2019 alone has blessed us with not one but two Sad Dad Space Movies.
Chris Pine has done two Sad Dad Space Movies!
What is it that draws the cinematically inclined back to this depressing well again and again?
Is it about male-centric legacies and fatherly approval and the inevitable void these things create?
Are all of the wormholes the sad dads have to travel through metaphors for the birth canal?
Is it about dicks, somehow?
He is thusly incapable ofloving Liv Tyleror of having even a little bit of fun looking like Brad Pitt.
At another, Brad wrestles with a psychotic space ape, i.e., his own reckless human nature.
His dad is not happy to see him and refuses to leave space.
I never cared about you or your mother or any of your small ideas, he says.
I never once thought about home.
His own children are forced to pick him up with the help of Oprah!
Can you think of a worse waste of Oprahs time than picking up somebody elses dad from space?
His name should make it readily apparent, but yeah, Ego sucks.
He gives the mother of his child a brain tumor so that he can continue conquering the cosmos.
First thing I remember is flickering.
Adrift in the cosmos utterly and entirely alone.
Ultimately, he sucks so badly that his own son needs to kill him.
(This is its own subgenre, really, similarly played out inStar Wars.)
Good Dad Dies (in Space, or Not in Space!
Space is the void is death, etcetera, etcetera.
Which brings us to … Everyone, including you, the viewer, cries uncontrollably.
When Ellie returns to Earth, nobody believes her, because she doesnt have any Instagram videos of it.
Dad is supposed to come back, but we all know how that sort of promise unfolds.
You love to see it.
But our girl takes it in stride!
I always thought of you as a son.
And Id be damn proud to have you marry her.
I loveInterstellar,but it is essentially a study in sad-dad cliches.
Or maybe its when a 50-something McConaughey has to watch his 90-something daughter die?
I dont know; this movie is sad as hell!!
Those are the only times you see Armstrongs fear.
He sticks with the papers.
Sad dads in space: They love papers.
This never ends well.
Robert does his best to give his daughter a normal life he has plants!
First of all, as I have mentioned, he is extremely sad.
Secondly, theres a weird undercurrent of Are they gonna fuck?
The implication is that they both die, because its better to die than fuck each other.
Im really glad Claire Denis decided that they were gonna die instead of fuck.
Naturally, he and his daughter are both murdered.
The movie concludes with the proliferation of an alien race hellbent on destroying humanity.
