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The Astronaut Farmer

Um, I don’t get it. I get that some wackadoo wants to build a spacecraft and launch it off his farm. So we’re looking at another unfeasibly inspirational tale that’s meant to let its audience know that the only limitations we face are the ones we impose on ourselves. For as much as I truly no longer care and would gladly choose defecating in my pants instead of watching this trailer let alone the entirety of The Astronaut Farmer, I’ve still got to ask---is this a drama or a comedy?

So we’ve got the decent-when-he-wants-to-be Billy Bob Thornton as a stark-raving dumpfutz with some kind of aeronautic know-how and Virginia Madsen (whom you still can’t bring yourself to give a shit about) as his impossibly supportive wife and their hopelessly well-adjusted children who all live on a Texas farm. (And no Mexicans anywhere!) The Man is closing in because Thornton represents competition. In the trailer it kind of plays out like E.T. except with Thornton, who kind oflooks like an alien.

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