Gattaca (feat. Nicole Hemmer)

Um, on this week's episode of the podcast, we are covering a movie that we kinda skipped, we didn't do, but is totally relevant to the podcast, and I'm surprised I didn't add it to the list.

The funny thing about doing this is that years ago I made this massive list of every movie that we could possibly cover, and yet I still, like, there's still stuff that I missed.

Um, and this is one of those films.

We're covering Gattaca, 1997 film directed by Andrew Niccol, um, a New Zealand direct- New Zealand-based director, he's a Kiwi, and has made a bunch of movies, uh, some of them good, most of them not-

[laughs]

... to be frank.

Uh, he wrote and co-produced The Truman Show, which I did not know.

Uh, but his other films, Gattaca was his first feature, and he, uh, also did, uh, Simone, which is a mo- Do I...

What is this movie? Sim-

I think-

Oh, I remember this.

This is the movie about the, uh, virtual actress starring Al Pacino-

Oh

... and Catherine Keener.

Well, awesome timely.

This movie's terrible.

Uh, [laughs]

[laughs]

So he directed Simone, Lord of War with Nicolas Cage, which is actually fine, um, In Time, which is a movie I like, but is bad.

Uh, it's, it's another future, another science fiction movie that takes place in the future, stars Amanda Seyfried and Justin Timberlake.

And I think was inspired by this, by Gattaca.

Um-

This kind of riffed in a way.

Yeah, it-

I was reading about this earlier.