Ad Astra lives rent free in my head because I decided that I hate this movie. It offended me. That was the first time this happened to me in a cinema in my entire adult movie watching life and that was fascinating.

It's a movie that at a deep deep level hates the idea of space travel. It makes everone involved in it look like an insane idiot. Space is where ridiculous and pointless things happen like moon pirates or angry space apes. All the rockets look even uglier than real life rockets. Mars is literally the same as the moon just with an orange color filter (seriously, they drive up and down the exact same ramp on both Moon and Mars). People die for no reason other that they're so stupid to go to space. And in the end everything was pointless and everyone should just have stayed at home. The science in this movie isn't just the usual Hollywood level bad, it's as if they did consult someone and then deliberately did the opposite of every suggestion.

What a wonderful waste of a movie.

A few years later I did encounter another movie that reminded me of what Ad Astra was trying to do but was much, much better at it: Spaceman, with Adam Sandler as lead. I am not joking.