billy bob thornton is 'the astronaut farmer'

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actually the title has a double meaning you see, because not only is his character a farmer, but his name is charles farmer.

http://www.indiewire.com/ots/AstronautFarmer3.jpg

― bohren un der club of gear (bohren un der club of gear), Thursday, 15 February 2007 18:50 (seventeen years ago) link

this looks great!

― Tyrone Slothrop (Tyrone Slothrop), Thursday, 15 February 2007 18:53 (seventeen years ago) link

link?

― jw (ex machina), Thursday, 15 February 2007 18:59 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.catalinasmbay.org/names/kidding.jpg

― Tyrone Slothrop (Tyrone Slothrop), Thursday, 15 February 2007 19:09 (seventeen years ago) link

cockfarmer, more like

― ^@^ (map), Thursday, 15 February 2007 19:09 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm almost tempted to see this, just out of sheer curiosity about how they evade or brush over the, umm, ridiculous implausibility of it.

― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 15 February 2007 20:00 (seventeen years ago) link

i'm seeing this tonight. i don't really understand--is it supposed to be a comedy??

― a mediocre black-and-white cookie in a cellophane wrapper (hanks1ockli), Thursday, 15 February 2007 20:06 (seventeen years ago) link

I believe it's supposed to be Field of Dreams ... IN SPACE.

― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 15 February 2007 21:02 (seventeen years ago) link

it looks awesome A++

― Mr. Que (Party with me Punker), Thursday, 15 February 2007 21:04 (seventeen years ago) link

rememeber when everybody on ile said cockfarmer all the time

― and what (ooo), Thursday, 15 February 2007 21:05 (seventeen years ago) link

eveytime i see this add its like wait no really srsly

― jhoshea (jhoshea), Thursday, 15 February 2007 21:08 (seventeen years ago) link

I like the bit of the ad where he's being questioned by some sort of congressional subcomittee (?) and they're like "how do we know you're not making some kind of WMD?" and he says "because if I were making a WMD, you wouldn't be able to find it," which I'm pretty sure is meant to be funny and endearing, how he's zinging the man like that.

But so that suggests that this movie actually does try to explain away the ridiculousness of a lone private citizen successfully engineering a safe manned rocket, and doesn't (for instance) try to pretend that farmers can buy immense qualities of high-grade rocket fuel without some extraordinary rendition on the horizon. The best I can guess is that, you know, he captures the public's hearts and imaginations so thoroughly that no one can risk stopping him, kind of like NORAD's long-running truce with Santa Claus.

― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 15 February 2007 21:15 (seventeen years ago) link

maybe he's just growing astronauts on his farm

― a mediocre black-and-white cookie in a cellophane wrapper (hanks1ockli), Thursday, 15 February 2007 21:16 (seventeen years ago) link

Bad Astronaut

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 15 February 2007 21:18 (seventeen years ago) link

that is a movie i would like to see.

― a mediocre black-and-white cookie in a cellophane wrapper (hanks1ockli), Thursday, 15 February 2007 21:20 (seventeen years ago) link

This is by those weird brothers who did Twin Falls Idaho and Northfork, neither of which I ever saw. did those movies make money or somthin?

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 15 February 2007 21:25 (seventeen years ago) link

twin falls idaho is terrible

― a.b. (abanana), Thursday, 15 February 2007 21:29 (seventeen years ago) link

this movie doesn't look anything like those movies

― a mediocre black-and-white cookie in a cellophane wrapper (hanks1ockli), Thursday, 15 February 2007 21:31 (seventeen years ago) link

well, BUDGET

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 15 February 2007 21:32 (seventeen years ago) link

how do they get the rocket fuel in 'explorers'?

― and what (ooo), Thursday, 15 February 2007 21:33 (seventeen years ago) link

They don't have a rocket in Explorers, they have MAGIC COMPUTER PROGRAM.

My school had a little shindig where they showed it and afterwards the Polish Brothers, Billy Bob, and Virginia Madsen did a little Q&A. The movie itself is yawn-enducing boilerplate "follow your dreams" stuff, but it's beautifully shot.

The Q&A was terrible. Bunch of starfuckers giving the film and each person on stage a standing ovation (all in all, seven). In a room full of film students, someone actually asked "What was the significance of the wedding ring?" To Madsen's credit, she looked at the questioner dumbly and said "...we were married."

― en i see kay (EstrangedNative), Thursday, 15 February 2007 21:58 (seventeen years ago) link

so you actually saw this? how do they deal with the rocket fuel thing?

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 15 February 2007 21:59 (seventeen years ago) link

That's actually one of the main stumbling blocks for Billy. There's a scene with a shady dude going "you need how much?

SPOILER, IF FOR SOME REASON YOU CARE

His father in law ends up dying, and he uses the inheritance to buy the fuel from said shady dude and launches while his illegal immigrant farmhand distracts the FAA agents.

― en i see kay (EstrangedNative), Thursday, 15 February 2007 22:04 (seventeen years ago) link

MPAA Rating: PG - for thematic material, peril and language

― they be stealin' kingfish's bucket (kingfish), Thursday, 15 February 2007 22:04 (seventeen years ago) link

PERIL

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 15 February 2007 22:06 (seventeen years ago) link

Is this based on a true story or is my dad a jerk/fucking with me?

― nklshs (nklshs), Thursday, 15 February 2007 22:08 (seventeen years ago) link

i.e. illegal immigration, lots of rocket flames, and 'damn!'

― bohren un der club of gear (bohren un der club of gear), Thursday, 15 February 2007 22:09 (seventeen years ago) link

immense qualities of high-grade rocket fuel without some extraordinary rendition on the horizon.

UH http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Rocket_fuels

― jw (ex machina), Thursday, 15 February 2007 22:09 (seventeen years ago) link

omg, TF Idaho was 8 YEARS AGO

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 15 February 2007 22:10 (seventeen years ago) link

haha, field of SPACE DREAMS is exactly what i thought when i saw this preview. except i kind of like billy bob thornton. but prob b/c i wld also see Bad Astronaut.

― impermanent rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Thursday, 15 February 2007 22:14 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.apple.com/trailers/wb/theastronautfarmer/trailer1/

― jw (ex machina), Thursday, 15 February 2007 22:17 (seventeen years ago) link

http://msnbcmedia1.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photos/070206/070206_nowak2_hmed_5p.hmedium.jpg

― BADASSTRONAUT (nklshs), Thursday, 15 February 2007 22:18 (seventeen years ago) link

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