Marisa Tomei made the whole movie. I half-joked “I hope she won an Oscar for this” (bc they don’t usually give it to comedies) AND SHE FUCKING DID! Marisa Tomei, the 1993 Oscar winner for Best Supporting Actress as Mona Lisa Vito.
(Also I couldn’t stop staring at Joe Pesci’s face tape)
The sound was great. Loved the moments of silence, the creepy monotone HAL voice “I’m afraid, Dave”, and the instrumentals. Also really fun to discover where those famous scores came from. Visually really cool. It was fun to see the futuristic gadgets they thought we’d have like in the Jetsons. I appreciated the design too, again very retro futuristic. And I kept trying to figure out how they filmed the rotating ship with the people moving around.
Plot wise: ok…
Notes:
1. Matt Damon’s bitch asssssss
2. I hard sobbed 7 times
3. Matthew McConaughey is flawless
4. Weird that Matt Damon played a stranded astronaut twice?
5. AND the actress who plays elderly-Murph is the same old lady who played Blake Lively’s elderly daughter in ‘Age of Adaline’. I bursted out laughing mid-sob realizing she’s played someone’s old daughter while they haven’t aged, twice. #typecast
This movie was beautifully shot. Olivia Cooke and Jack O’Connell had beautiful soft chemistry. If you loved Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, you’ll enjoy this too. It’s a heartbreaking romance about a virus that causes memory loss. There’s a full circle moment that gutted me.
“I was sad the day I met you. I can’t remember why.” There was a lot of beautiful lines in there.
It’s a funny coincidence that it came out in 2020, obviously not knowing we’d have our own pandemic.
