Season 20, Episode 1
Season 20 is off and running, to the stars, as we we're discussing the 2019 sci-fi film, Ad Astra, starring Brad Pitt and Tommy Lee Jones. This movie is a slight variation of Joseph Conrad's novel, Heart of Darkness, which you may be more familiar as the Francis Ford Coppola's movie, Apocalypse Now. Are you still shaking your head? Come on, now!
From Our YouTube description:
Butler finds the movie slow, emotionless, with unexplained story beats, dumb character decisions, and one of the worst voiceovers of all time. Field agrees, but thinks Butler is wrong anyway; because it wouldn't be Forgotten Cinema if he didn't.
The movie is not slow. It's deliberate in its pace and the point is made on the episode that director, James Gray, didn't have final cut of the movie. When you watch the trailer for the movie (see below), you will see scenes that are not in the movie, so Pitt's performance is shaped by the decisions made in the editing room by someone other than the director of the film.
Take a listen or watch the episode for yourself and decide it Field is displaying a full grasp of storytelling or if Butler is being a contrarian because the movie didn't have the U.S.S. Enterprise in it.
Ad Astra
Written by James Gray & Ethan Gross
Directed by James Gray
Starring Brad Pitt, Tommy Lee Jones, Ruth Negga, Donald Sutherland, Kimberly Elise
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