Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Hello again. You were probably wondering if I was really coming back this Monday, which is, wow, it's so early in the morning. But you know, it's just one of those nights I got some sleep and then I got up and then I couldn't get back to sleep. And you know, when I'm done with this I'm going to lay back down and take another nap just because that's just life. And sometimes life happens. And when you've been sick for as long as I have been, my, your sleep pattern gets so thrown out of whack and just so out of just leaves me kind of going do that too much. I'm going to make myself cough, which is not the plan at all. Now, I hope you thoroughly enjoyed the movie that we talked about on Saturday and I hope that this one will at least maybe be beneficial to you. Hi, Stormy. One of my other kitties came in, decided to be all snuggly and cuddly, which I just love. They were running all night long on their wheel which if you didn't catch Saturday's episode, I am so thankful to one fast cat for their amazing products. If you are curious, feel free to head over and check those out after of course you've listened to the program but I can't thank them enough for their amazing products because if not, my babies would be bouncing off the walls all night long on a fairly normal basis. And instead of that, it's all nice and confined to a wheel that just makes this sound picture like an indoor bicycle type thing. It's very similar type sound with the doors closed and stuff with the bedrooms that don't even really notice.
[00:01:44] Definitely. Hi, storms. You gonna come here? You gonna come say hi, Mommy? No, let's not rub against the microphone. Sorry, guys. Come here storm.
[00:01:55] I got you, Mommy. Not gonna drop you.
[00:01:58] She didn't grab him in a way he felt the most supported so he scared him for a second.
[00:02:04] Yep. Stormy's three years old and he is just super sweet. He's just the sweetest baby. Yes, he is.
[00:02:12] I can't tell I'm addicted to my babies at all. But you're not here to talk about kitty cats. But I'm sorry, that's part of my life. So you're going to get that too. But you are here to hear about a movie. Now what movie are we talking about today? Today we are going to be talking about the new International Space Station movie that just came out in January. It's called ISS. That's literally the entire title of the movie. And if you've seen the previews and if you're at all into space exploration or the history of space exploration or stuff with the ISS or any of that, this one looks so promising from what you see in the trailers. And I was so excited to see this and then I went to go see it. I don't know if the people stormy that made this movie have ever really researched anything with space travel or anything of the sorts or like what happens at the International Space Station or any of that stuff. Stormy, we cannot do not. We are not knocking Mommy's computer over. No. Sorry, guys. Stormy, get down.
[00:03:21] Didn't mean to knock him off the desk. Sorry. He's fine. I just was going to give him a gentle shove to get him away from my computer. I've got a dell all in one. Again, cannot say enough good things. It's like one of the monitors that's got the computer built into it. And Stormy likes to rub up against it to the point where he's almost tipping it over and giving Mommy a little bit of a heart attack.
[00:03:43] So it's never boring around here, not with six of these guys. But with ISS, like I said, I had so much promise. It's got up on the International Space Station. You've got the three Russians that are on the space station and you've got the three Americans that are traveling to the space station to spend amount of time. And one's there to do some experiments with mice and the other ones are there just to kind of do their other things. So they come on board and there's this whole thing that the Russians do that they knock three times and it becomes kind of a thing with the movie because you're like, okay, why does that matter? Well, if you watch the movie, it'll make sense. If you don't watch the movie, it's kind of hard to describe without giving spoilers, which you know me, that's never going to happen.
[00:04:28] But with this one, they get up there and then something is going on and they notice weird stuff happening on earth and they start seeing all these explosions. And then the Russians get orders from their home base and the Americans get orders from Houston and they are each tasked with a similar task against the others. And how that plays out is very much why this movie gets a guilty rating on the movie deputy rating system thing. It's definitely not safe for younger audiences. There's a lot of violence.
[00:05:07] There's some blood. There's some definite topics that are addressed here that are just not for younger audiences. That much. I mean, if you decide you want to watch this with your kids and stuff, and that's fine, you do you. But in general, it's not safe for youth.
[00:05:23] And in this one, like I said, you've got this war breaking out on earth, and so you've got the Russians against the Americans in the International Space Station. And there's a bunch of things that are going wrong really quickly. And so they're trying to figure out how to not only save themselves, but they're trying to figure out what's going on down below. Is there even a home to go back to? There's so many different things happening. And then amidst all of this, they've got some of the stuff that they're playing up. It's like, okay, this is the way it's going to be in space, but there's so much of it that isn't. If you've ever watched NASA TV, if you have a satellite subscription that includes a thing where you can see things going on in Houston and Cape Canaveral and up on the iss and kind of all of that, you're familiar with kind of how things are done and just, there are so many errors as to how they're doing stuff. I mean, in the space station, you're not just going to be able to pull out products and literally make yourself a sandwich. You got the tree, you got the bread, you got the knives, you got the mayonnaise, you got the mustard. And, okay, maybe you might have some of those things up there, but they're not going to be in jars and you're not going to have knives, and you're not going to have, like a cooking table to just open up all of this stuff like you would on your kitchen counter and just randomly start making stuff. And that's not even the only error in the movie. That's just one of the ones that just kind of catches my attention is going, what? You're in space, you're not in your kitchen. You can't do that.
[00:07:02] But like I said, that's not the only error that they do. There's stuff with spacesuits, there's stuff with other things. So if you care about historical accuracy at all in movies or those type of errors just drive you nuts. I don't recommend this one. If you like stories like, oh, I'm trying to think what that one was. Oh, my brain just had it at the tip of my tongue that Sandra Bullock won gravity. If you like movies like that, you might enjoy iss.
[00:07:31] If you are not a big fan of ones like those. And you like something more that has a lot more to it, then, I don't know. You might be in the middle on this one. You may be wondering what I gave this on the deputy scale, and I did give iss a 3.75 out of ten on the deputy scale, just because there was just so much that was just either so over the top or just so. Did they even try at different points of this movie? Now, I don't expect stories to be completely historically accurate. It's Hollywood. I mean, I'm not that delusional. I mean, Hollywood is pretty delusional, but I'm not that delusional. And so I expect there to be some stuff, but there was just so many things just piling from one on top, another on top, another on top, another that it just made this hard to even focus on what was was. The theater is about half full when I went to go see this one, but by the time it was in about the end, third of the movie, there were a lot more people on their phones just, like, randomly scrolling through stuff, like where you can see the light lit up and they're staring at their phones rather than looking up at the movie screen, if that kind of gives you any idea. I didn't notice a bunch of people, like, getting up and walking out, but there were a lot of people on their own personal handheld devices about two thirds through this movie. So basically they were just, like, waiting out at that point. And I talked to a few of them on the way out of the theater, and I had a hard time really getting much feedback off of it. People are like, it was okay, or just a lot of that type of reaction. It wasn't like, oh, it was awful, or it was garbage. Not nothing like that. But I don't think I had a single person say it was good. And so, like I said, I didn't let that influence my score, but I went more on what I was observing by myself with this. And so I hope that this at least helps you out a little bit. If not, I hope you at come back for the next episode to see what's going to happen again. Our new schedule is Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday. So be sure to check back Wednesday for our next new episode. Talk to you soon. Bye.
