What the movie gets right

45:59I I were very cool in that even Rocky slept, this is something that we talked about in our episode about why jellyfish sleep, right? Jellyfish have a decentralized brain. They don't have a central nervous system. They don't have like, you know, the reasons to to sleep like we do, but yet they still sleep because it's a part of a DNA repair mechanism fundamentally at the end of the day and a cellular repair mechanism. And so the fact that even Rocky had a sleep-wake cycle because he's got some form of neurons, right? He's got some form of information capacity and information churning ability. And so to have even someone like Rocky sleep, I

46:40thought that was a really good touch. I think that is something that I would expect if we ever see aliens, intelligent aliens at least, that they would also sleep. Um his use of so, you know, he uses echolocation to sense his environment. Um so, he doesn't have any eyes, any doesn't have any way to feel electromagnetic radiation because I think their species is evolved in a high-pressure, very dark environment. Um so he used, I don't know if you saw, but he had like a little iPad that would make texture out of whatever Ryan Gosling was

47:21seeing. And he had a little crystal that would take in electromagnetic rays and then transfer that into this like tactile iPad thing. I thought that was pretty cool actually. >> was quite that was quite cool. Um because then he can see the iPad by bouncing sound waves >> Yes. off of it. >> Yes. I also that was clever. >> Yeah, I I I I thought that was clever. I also like the fact that Rocky had emotions. I think there's a lot of like alien movies out there where like these aliens are like super emotionless and like don't you know, that they're they're just super logical and things like that. I like the fact that Rocky had like emotions of sadness, happiness, like missing his partner, things like that. Because if we look around in the animal

48:03kingdom, emotions are everywhere, right? In in not just I would say mammals, but there there's evidence for emotion in birds, in reptiles, things like that. And so it's kind of a evolutionary trick where, you know, there's some hormones or pheromones or chemicals in our brain that perhaps give us the illusion of emotion and it's like an evolutionary trick to get us to be attached to something or to an outcome or to an individual. But I think that same kind of evolutionary trick would be there for an evolved system somewhere else. So I like that. Now, of course, these are like just soft soft opinions. >> And I want to add two things I think to

48:43the what I think the film did good. Mhm. Um the sound design was out of this world. I went to see it in IMAX. Oh, nice. The the sound design is so good. >> Yeah. It is cuz it's it's space using silence well. Like the actual like a lot of times you hear sounds in space movies and it's like, oh, that's the sound from Jurassic Park mapped with a little this or whatever, right? It was very unique. They clearly did a lot of work there. The sound design was exceptional. And I just want to double click on how visually stunning it was. Mhm. It was a beautiful It was beautiful to watch and look at. >> Yeah. Um

49:23and and just and I think from an original screenplay design uh screenplay perspective for a space movie, Yeah. um I think they did a good job of not just repeating the the same space movie again. Yes, I I I do I do agree with that. The Probably I'm probably going to watch it again, but um I really want to skip through like the part where Rocky like has to get out of his atmosphere and be in pain cuz like that sound design was really well done because I was like feeling it because I had already attached like emotional weight to Rocky and then I'm like like this guy's dying. Like so I was I was like going through it and I'm probably going to fast forward that part because I really did

50:04not enjoy watching that. But the the part before where they're like doing the fishing um in the atmosphere, the the score was absolutely incredible. Like dude, everyone in the theater was locked in during that part. Like everyone you know you know that meme where they're like you you like you're like you're like this and then you grab the controller and you everyone in the theater like was like I was because I really did not enjoy watching that. But the the part before where they're like doing the fishing um in the atmosphere, the the the um in the atmosphere, the the score was absolutely incredible. Like dude, everyone in the theater was locked in

50:48during that part. Like everyone you know the author of the book is like really nitty-gritty about the science, right?