The President Likes The Space Comedy That NASA Worked On
POTUS and FLOTUS’ Favorite Songs, Movies and Moments of 2015, People
“The movie Barack most enjoyed this year was The Martian, starring Matt Damon …”
The Golden Globes think ‘The Martian’ is a comedy, New York Post
“… Thursday’s nods for Matt Damon as best actor and “The Martian” as best picture in its comedy/musical categories are hilarious. After 2015’s Globes “comedy” nominee “Birdman” went on to a Best Picture victory at the Oscars (beating the Globes’ dramatic best picture winner “Boyhood”), the studios have doubled down on their efforts to gerrymander films into the less competitive comedy categories for best picture and acting awards.”
NASA and “The Martian”, NASA
“NASA has collaborated on this film with 20th Century Fox Entertainment, providing guidance on production design and technical consultants…”
The Golden Globes are voted on by about 90 people, the “Hollywood Foreign Press Association”. The awards have been suspected of various kinds of manipulation by the studios and others in the past. It’s not clear if there are any rules on what the members can accept from studios that are angling for votes – there are for the Oscars,They used to be kind of a joke, but the studios saw free publicity in the broadcast and a way to gin up votes in advance of the Oscars.
The one thing that they did right was honoring comedy, which gets short shrift from the Oscar voters. And boy was “The Martian” a laff riot.
The GG award says far more about the GG voters than it does about The Martian, Mars exploration, manned spaceflight, NASA, astronautics, etc., etc., etc.
And I find it completely predictable that foreign film-critics would find American “can-do” attitudes to be laughable. (Those Yurpeans, they’re so much more sophisticated compared to us! We have so much to learn from them!)
If they aren’t laughing at those rubes in America, they’re getting up on their hind legs and yapping about something we did.
Scroom, sez I.
Wow you are thin skinned. They nominate the movie for an award and you still whine and imagine conspiracies and insults against you.
The Flight Dynamics people at Goddard consider the movie “Gravity” to be a comedy, given the numerous violations of orbital mechanics committed by Sandra Bullock. Not wanting to spoil:”The Martian” if you haven’t seen it yet, but the flight dynamics at the end of that movie are only a little bit less corny than that of “Gravity”. I have no problem listing it as a comedy…
I considered Gravity to be more of a farce.
Gravity. It’s not just a good idea. It’s the law. Actually, I am impressed that Mr. Obama preferred an optimistic SF movie to an apocalyptic one.
Sandra Bullock is subject to whatever rules of gravity she prefers. May it ever be so.
“The President Likes The Space Comedy That NASA Worked On”
Clearly, he does — for the past seven years.