October Sky

Is it a farmer movie? That's the one with Billy Bob Thornton where he's a farmer who builds a spaceship and becomes an astronaut.

Oh, wasn't that October Sky?

No, that's a different movie, October Sky.

What

about Fire in the Sky?

Now, that's not an astronaut movie.

That's an alien abduction movie.

Is October Sky, does he become an astronaut in that, or is he just an astro-astronaut? I don't even know what that

...

Young Indiana Jones, Jumanji, October Sky.

Yeah.

Uh, Ju- Jurassic Park III of all movies.

Then he went Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, Sue's Later, Rocketeer.

It took him four years, but did Jumanji and October Sky.

And I know Jurassic Park 3 was kind of a paycheck movie.

But at the same time, Spielberg gave it to him because he's like, somebody has to do this.

There is a book that I'm fascinated by, in part because the hero of the story came from a similar part of the country that I came from called Rocket Boys.

And Rocket Boys was later turned into an amazing movie called October Sky.

If you have kids, it's an incredible family movie because it's got something for the adults and it's got something for the little ones as well.

But fundamentally, the story is that you take a kid in rural West Virginia A kid who did not have a lot of obvious prospects.

Yeah.

Then he got another win with Jumanji, and then he directed October Sky, starring Jake Gyllenhaal.

Jake Gyllenhaal, yeah.

I know

October Sky.

Weird.

Then he got another win when he directed Jurassic Park 3.

Yeah

... that in October Sky.

Um, but you know, anything where there's a, this is a, a story about a true subject, for some reason, like, if you don't give me that at the end, I get very mad.

It's like, okay, come on.

Uh, that's likely not most people's experience.

Uh, you're like one of those people, well, when, when you meet people who say that, that they've never seen Star Wars, and you're like, "Oh, you don't know what Skywalker is."

No, like, my mother has never seen Star Wars, but she knows who Luke Skywalker is.

She has never seen Star Wars? She's been to Disney, like, 50 times.

Yeah, I-

So, uh, where, where do we stand on...

I, I think we, we are divided on the Star Wars thing too, right? So like I am the minority in The Last Jedi camp.

I'm guessing that you're the Force Awakens camp, and we both hate the last one, right? What was the last one called? Rise of Skywalker?

man.

The guy that plays Jesse is also in October Sky.

Anyway, so we went and saw that.

Fantastic.