#The Astronaut's Wife (1999)

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Charlize Theron in “The Astronaut’s Wife”, 1999 ✨

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The Astronaut’s Wife (1999)

While I didn't enjoy this film, that doesn't mean you won't. No matter what I say, the people involved in this project did it: they actually made a movie. That's something to be applauded. With that established...

Rosemary’s Baby is given a fresh coat of paint in The Astronaut’s Wife. Well, theoretically anyway. Neither sexy nor scary, it’s the kind of movie that might’ve had potential but didn’t even try. Talk about a letdown.

After a communications blackout while orbiting the earth, NASA astronaut Spencer Armacost (Johnny Depp) returns home to his wife, Jillian (Charlize Theron), and vows never to fly again. When his co-pilot Streck (Nick Cassavetes) suddenly dies and Spencer begins exhibiting strange behavior, Jillian wonders if he's still human, and what sort of baby is growing inside her.

If you’ve seen Rosemary’s Baby there’s no reason to see this film. If you haven’t you may not be able to foresee the story’s beats… but I doubt it. Everything it does you’ve seen better elsewhere. We’re supposed to wonder whether Jillian is imagining the strange noises she hears coming from the radio, if Spencer’s radical personality shift is nothing to be alarmed about and if Dr. Sherman Reese (Joe Morton)/his theories are pure hogwash. You never do. There is simply too much evidence siding towards the theory of Spencer having been replaced or somehow possessed by some kind of extraterrestrial being. You would only believe him human if a) we received concrete proof that Marzoids don’t exist b) someone proved they do exist but have better things to do than spawn human-alien babies or c) Jillian was just a straight jacket away from the loony bin or otherwise untrustworthy. You might’ve been able to get away with it if the character of Sherman Reese wasn’t there. As a matter of fact, why is he in this movie?

The Astronaut’s Wife would’ve been better if it were worse. You’ve got Johnny Depp. You’ve got Charlize Theron. It’s about a woman who thinks she’s been impregnated by a little green man but there’s no nudity and no tantalizing sex scenes. Talk about lame. I was bored waiting for the film to catch up to what I already knew. I know you’d be bored too. The only thing that could have saved this movie was a brilliant conclusion.

The ending is a double whammy of lame horror-wannabe twists which will have you rolling your eyes. No satisfying answers are given, and nothing cool is shown. It really is a generic “is my baby the devil?” movie where someone did a find-replace to switch “Satan” with “Spaceman”.

I guarantee after it’s done, no one who saw The Astronaut’s Wife will give it a second thought, even if they do manage to stay awake during the whole thing. When you leave the audience fondly looking back at Species 3, you’ve got problems. (On VHS, March 15, 2019)

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Johnny Depp Horror Icon

01. A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)

02. Edward Scissorhands (1990)

03. Ed Wood (1994)

04. Sleepy Hollow (1999)

05. The Astronaut's Wife (1999)

06. The Ninth Gate (1999)

07. Corpse Bride (2005)

08. Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare (1991)

09. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)

10. From Hell (2001)

11. Secret Window (2004)

12. Dark Shadows (2012)

13. Murder on the Orient Express (2017)

14. Transcendence (2014)

15. Marilyn Manson: Kill4Me (2017)

16. London Fields (2018))

17. Tusk (2014)

18. Yoga Hosers (2016)

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Gonna go on a Johnny Depp movie watch marathon during October, either rewatching or watching for the first time, but here's my order if you wanna watch along with me! <3 You ofc don't need to watch all of these, but these are my goals, you can also skip ahead if you finish all the movies from a week. Bonuses also included (which are basically my rewatches, with the exception of A Nightmare On Elm Street, since I've already watched it but it's not a bonus)

Week 1 (1980s):

A Nightmare On Elm Street (1984)

Private Resort (1985)

Slow Burn (1986)

Bonus: 21 Jump Street (1987-1990)

Week 2 (1990s):

Arizona Dream (1993)

Benny & Joon (1993)

What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993)

Ed Wood (1994)

Don Juan DeMarco (1994)

Nick Of Time (1995)

The Astronaut's Wife (1999)

Bonuses: Edward Scissorhands (1990), Crybaby (1990), Sleepy Hollow (1999)

Week 3 (2000s):

The Man Who Cried (2000)

From Hell (2001)

Once Upon A Time In Mexico (2003)

Secret Window (2004)

Finding Neverland (2004)

Bonuses: POTC: Curse Of The Black Pearl (2003), Charlie And The Chocolate Factory (2005), Corpse Bride (2005), Sweeney Todd (2007)

Week 4 (2010s):

Alice In Wonderland (2010)

The Tourist (2010)

Dark Shadows (2012)

Transcendence (2014)

Alice Through The Looking Glass (2016)

Murder On The Orient Express (2017)

The Professor (2018)

Bonus: Into The Woods (2014)

Week 5 (2020s):

Jeanne Du Barry (2023)

Bonuses: Catch up on any movies you missed from the previous weeks, or watch some on your own watchlist <3

[edgydadster]

1 and 16 for Cassie! Hehe I’m challenging you with that second one >:3

My first impression of them

God it's so hard to remember... When I first played Pico's School I think I was pretty neutral about her. Because, like, then I didn't really care about the game's lore or the characters at all. It was just some 1999 flash game and that was all I saw it as. Just, "Oh. Alien chick with a penis, ok. Cool." HOWEVER, reading more into it I started liking her a bit more. Not as much as I do now but I thought her to be a decent character. NOWADAYS THAT WOMAN IS EVERYTHING. Blame my wife for me liking her as much as I do. Side rant but just the dumb little roleplays we used to do all the time and him always being Cassandra... Just seeing Cassy makes me smile and sometimes just makes me think of them lol. Really influenced me to like Cassy even more

16. A childhood headcanon

Ksjdksjdkajdjd okay. So, I really don't have any? My wife's usually the one who deals with Penilian lore and Cassandra and Damien's whole backstory things and I don't want to just say something she thought of. Not to say that I don't agree with those because I do and it's with our whole AU thing, but I feel like I should put in something I personally thought of. SO, I hope this is okay but I'll put a personal headcanon I've had when Cassandra was in mid-teens? I think that's when we agreed she went to Earth at like 15 something? I dunno. But I mean, it counts because not legal adult age??? Whatever I'm going with it fuck you.

AND SIDENOTE I HAVEN'T REALLY TOLD ANYONE THIS ONE YET AND IT MAY...PROBABLY WILL CHANGE- IT WAS JUST SMTH PERSONAL AND THE CLOSEST I HAD TO THIS PROMPT SO ROLL WITH IT FOR NOW- Anywho. I've had this one for awhile. Cassy gets to Earth, has never seen a human in her life. Only heard of them through word of mouth and if she DID see one before it'd be an astronaut. With that, she'd believe them to be small white/orange creatures with one huge black eye. She arrived at an unpopulated area of Philadelphia and the first human she sees is a girl. 5'10, on the chubbier side, fair skin, short hair, etc. (Haven't decided if she was goth or that was Cassandra's own choice after figuring out what the fuck clothes were) So, alright, cool, she's got her reference and can shapeshift into that to fit in. She takes on her body and most likely killed the woman afterward. No witnesses.

Cass prolly was a little weirded out at first taking on the female body but... I mean. She's there to eradicate the human race. The last thing she should be worrying about is having pair of tits and a pussy. Eventually she gets used to it and realizes hey I actually like being a girl! Transgender swag at its finest I'd say✨

Sorry for the long post!!! It's hard to shut me up when you get me ranting about something :')

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Episode 137: The Apollo 1 Conspiracy Photodump

Image 01: CBS Special News Report of the Apollo 1 disaster. At first, NASA tried to say the astronauts died quickly and quietly. Spoiler alert: they did not. Image 02: TRIGGER WARNING - Final words of Apollo 1 crew. Image 03: Gus Grissom, Edward White, and Roger B. Chaffee pose for a photo at Cape Kennedy, 10 days before their deaths. Image 04: CBS interview footage of all 3 astronauts just days before their deaths. Image 05: CBS Footage of the Liberty Bell 7 incident. Image 06: More Liberty Bell 7 footage Image 07: Discovery’s mission to retrieve the Liberty Bell 7 from the bottom of the ocean floor in 1999. Image 08: The Liberty Bell 7, now on display in the Cosmosphere in Hutchinson, Kansas. Image 09: Gus Grissom’s son and wife speak out about what they believe happened to him. Image 10: Newspaper article about Thomas Baron’s mysterious death. Baron is the whistleblower employee who was working on a 500 page document to present to Congress about the Apollo 1 fire.

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Astronaut's Wife (1999) Official Trailer - Johnny Depp, Charlize Theron ...

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Events 7.16 (after 1960)

1965 – The Mont Blanc Tunnel linking France and Italy opens. 1965 – South Vietnamese Colonel Phạm Ngọc Thảo, a formerly undetected communist spy and double agent, is hunted down and killed by unknown individuals after being sentenced to death in absentia for a February 1965 coup attempt against Nguyễn Khánh. 1969 – Apollo program: Apollo 11, the first mission to land astronauts on the Moon, is launched from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Kennedy, Florida. 1979 – Iraqi President Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr resigns and is replaced by Saddam Hussein. 1983 – Sikorsky S-61 disaster: A helicopter crashes off the Isles of Scilly, causing 20 fatalities. 1990 – The Luzon earthquake strikes the Philippines with an intensity of 7.7, affecting Benguet, Pangasinan, Nueva Ecija, La Union, Aurora, Bataan, Zambales and Tarlac. 1990 – The Parliament of the Ukrainian SSR declares state sovereignty over the territory of the Ukrainian SSR. 1994 – The comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 is destroyed in a head-on collision with Jupiter. 1999 – John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife, Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, and her sister, Lauren Bessette, die when the aircraft he is piloting crashes into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Martha's Vineyard. 2004 – Millennium Park, considered Chicago's first and most ambitious early 21st-century architectural project, is opened to the public by Mayor Richard M. Daley. 2005 – An Antonov An-24 crashes near Baney in Bioko Norte, Equatorial Guinea, killing 60 people. 2007 – An earthquake of magnitude 6.8 and 6.6 aftershock occurs off the Niigata coast of Japan killing eight people, injuring at least 800 and damaging a nuclear power plant. 2009 – Teoh Beng Hock, an aide to a politician in Malaysia is found dead on the rooftop of a building adjacent to the offices of the Anti-Corruption Commission, sparking an inquest that gains nationwide attention. 2013 – As many as 27 children die and 25 others are hospitalized after eating lunch served at their school in eastern India. 2013 – Syrian civil war: The Battle of Ras al-Ayn resumes between the People's Protection Units (YPG) and Islamist forces, beginning the Rojava–Islamist conflict. 2015 – Four U.S. Marines and one gunman die in a shooting spree targeting military installations in Chattanooga, Tennessee. 2019 – A 100-year-old building in Mumbai, India, collapses, killing at least 10 people and leaving many others trapped.

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The novel "Gravity" by Tess Gerritsen was published for the first time in 1999.

When a scientific experiment involving a species of archaea conducted on the International Space Station seems to fail, the directive given is to incinerate everything. That seems like the end of it, also because the Station doctor is rushed back to Earth when his wife is the victim of an accident.

Emma Watson is training within the Station's regular crew rotation and being sent there ahead of schedule seems like a dream come true despite the tragic circumstances. However, when Japanese astronaut Kenichi Hirai starts feeling ill showing symptoms that are difficult to diagnose, the dream begins to turn into a nightmare.

[b0ringasfuck]

nanorecensioni sci-fi: Astronaut's wife 1999

La voce di Depp va bene solo per capitan Sparrow, in questo film, soprattutto dopo le vicende venute alla luce nel processo con Amber Heard, risulta ancora più fastidiosa.

Ecco... uno si aspetta, nonostante il pregiudizio nei confronti di Depp, che alla fine gli alieni siano buoni e invece si spippola tutto il film che è un thriller, per poi scoprire che è una cagata dal punto di vista della sci-fi.

Come thriller non sarebbe male, ma è l'aspettativa sci-fi che viene ampiamente delusa sia dal punto di vista della parte "sci" priva di fondamento e illogica, sia dal punto di vista della parte speculativa.

[onedayonemovie]

Day 1- The Astronauts Wife

‘After an explosion in space and subsequent two-minute radio-out period, two astronauts return home to their wives. Slightly it's revealed that they're not the same as they were’

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70 Rad Horror Movies Absolutely Worth Your Time 😈 Let’s Go! 🖤

1. Freaks (1932)

2. Rosemary’s Baby (1968)

3. The Exorcist (1973)

4. Carrie (1976)

5. An American Werewolf in London (1981)

6. The Howling (1981)

7. The Funhouse (1981)

8. Poltergeist (1982)

9. Basket Case (1982)

10. The Thing (1982)

11. The Return of the Living Dead (1985)

12. The Fly (1986)

13. Little Shop of Horrors (1986)

14. The Lost Boys (1987)

15. Hellraiser (1987)

16. Beetlejuice (1988)

17. Pumpkinhead (1988)

18. Puppet Master (1989)

19. Pet Sematary (1989)

20. Nightbreed (1990)

21. Misery (1990)

22. Night of the Living Dead (1990)

23. Tremors (1990)

24. Arachnophobia (1990)

25. Flatliners (1990)

26. The People Under The Stairs (1991)

27. Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992)

28. Death Becomes Her (1992)

29. Sleepwalkers (1992)

30. Candyman (1992)

31. Fire in the Sky (1993)

32. My Boyfriend's Back (1993)

33. Interview with the Vampire (1994)

34. Species (1995)

35. Se7en (1995)

36. The Craft (1996)

37. The Frighteners (1996)

38. Fear (1996)

39. Mars Attacks (1996)

40. An American Werewolf in Paris (1997)

41. The Devil's Advocate (1997)

42. Event Horizon (1997)

43. The Faculty (1998)

44. Disturbing Behavior (1998)

45. Phantoms (1998)

46. Hush (1998)

47. Sphere (1998)

48. The Astronaut's Wife (1999)

49. The Blair Witch Project (1999)

50. The Sixth Sense (1999)

51. Deep Blue Sea (1999)

52. The Haunting (1999)

53. House on Haunted Hill (1999)

54. The Cell (2000)

55. Ginger Snaps (2000)

56. The Ring (2002)

57. The Grudge (2004)

58. Constantine (2005)

59. Slither (2006)

60. Pan's Labyrinth (2006)

61. Let the Right One In (2008)

62. Dylan Dog: Dead of Night (2010)

63. The Cabin in the Woods (2011)

64. The Lazarus Effect (2015)

65. Annihilation (2018)

66. Color Out Of Space (2019)

67. The Invisible Man (2020)

68. Old (2021)

69. Morbius (2022)

70. There's Something Wrong with the Children (2023)

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𝒢𝑜𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓉𝑜 𝓌𝒾𝓈𝒽 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝓂𝒶𝓃 𝒶 𝒽𝒶𝓅𝓅𝓎 𝒷𝒾𝓇𝓉𝒽𝒹𝒶𝓎. 𝒞𝑜𝓃𝑔𝓇𝒶𝓉𝑒𝓈 𝓙𝓸𝓱𝓷𝓷𝔂 𝓓𝓮𝓹𝓹...

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Charlize Theron en “La cara del terror” (The Astronaut's Wife), 1999

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JOHNNY DEPP as Commander Spencer Armacost The Astronaut’s Wife (1999), Dir. Rand Ravich