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Gattaca (1997) First Time Watching! Full Movie Reaction!! (Patreon)

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Gattaca (1997) First Time Watching! Full Movie Reaction!!

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Edgar Gonzalez

Now, this is a first for me too... What are we waiting for, let's check it out fam! 💪

Tyler Foster

Obscure trivia: comedy actors Ken Marino (Augie Farks' dad in Role Models) and "SNL" star Maya Rudolph both have bit parts in this movie, and in a bizarre coincidence, both can only be seen in reflections off of glass. Maya is a nurse near the beginning and Ken is a sequencing technician.

Shehab Dawoud

You haven't seen a lot of Ethan Hawke or Jude Law? Well, let me give you some recommendations. Ethan Hawke: Alive (1993). A survival movie. Haven't had a lot of those on the channel. The Before trilogy (Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, Before Midnight). Sinister and The Black Phone for horror. I'd put The Purge in there, but something tells me you've seen it. The Northman (2022). A Robert Eggers (The Witch) revenge viking epic. Leave The World Behind (2023) Apocalyptic thriller. Jude Law: The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999). Matt Damon, Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow, Phillip Seymour Hoffman. I think it would be one of your favorite movies you've done

Nixonsghost

Fun fact: the height-lengthening procedure they did to Vincent is an actual (six-figure $$$) cosmetic surgery. Only now, instead of using a metal cage to pull the leg apart, they use a motorized metal rod that gradually extends to lengthen the leg

Chris Bruneau

LOVE this film! I actually bought the CD of the soundtrack back when this came out--the music is so great!!! even today, still play in it sometimes in the background if reading or working on a project

Steve Mercier

"For future reference, right-handed men don't hold it with their left. Just one of those things."

Tyler Foster

Seconding the Before trilogy, The Northman, and The Talented Mr. Ripley. I would add: Ethan Hawke - • Reality Bites (1994) - Ben Stiller's feature directorial debut • Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007) - final film of 12 Angry Men and Dog Day Afternoon director Sidney Lumet Jude Law - • eXistenZ - sci-fi trip by David Cronenberg, director of The Fly • A.I. Artificial Intelligence - another sci-fi movie and a dream project of director Stanley Kubrick, who died before he could direct it...with Steven Spielberg stepping in after his passing • Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004) - completing the sci-fi hat trick, this pop retro throwback draws on the same sorts of adventure serials Lucas drew on to create Star Wars and Indiana Jones • I Heart Huckabees (2004) - the director of this is radioactive in his unpleasantness, but I love this bizarre comic head trip with an all-star ensemble cast • Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004) - visually stunning and funny adaptation of the first three books in the famous series (note: Law is only the shadowy narrator) • The Holiday (2006) - charming Nancy Meyers rom-com featuring Eli Wallach of The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly fame (he played Tuco, the Ugly) • Contagion (2011) - premonitions of the pandemic in this Steven Soderbergh thriller with an even bigger cast than Huckabees • Side Effects (2013) - Law reteams with Soderbergh for this wickedly entertaining thriller (in which his character, amusingly, is named Jonathan Banks) • Spy (2015) - very funny action-comedy from the director of Bridesmaids

Dan

Seconding Spy and Reality Bites. Ethan Hawke and Janeane Garofalo have great chemistry as twenth-somethings trying to figure out life (Ben Stiller plays a good love-to-hate-em part) Spy is some of the best comedy I've seen in many years, with the best joke involving a unicorn I've ever heard. My drinking buddy and I died for hours recalling that one-liner.

Dan

Yeah, I saw that, they lengthen the femurs over a period of time after surgical installation. As a 5'7" dude, it's been tempting me for years.

David Martin

Music is soo good. One of the very few soundtracks that I actually paid money for!

David Wilkins

Great watching this one again with you! There are many subtleties to appreciate as time passes. A couple of the cast were good but unusual choices. Director Josef was played by Gore Vidal, who was primarily an author (and a very good one). Caesar was played by Ernest Borgnine, who was a classic era actor known mostly for his work during the 50s and 60s.

Ellie Williams

Still one of the most stylish, innovative looks of the future. This kind of 60s retro future makes Gattaca timeless. Nothing screams 1997. The movie also has couple of core story pillars that we always love. First, watching a singular character and his/her perseverance against all odds. Second, I believe everyone has had nightmares about being chased and trying not to get caught. There's just so much to root for with Vincent. Andrew Niccol also wrote The Truman Show which was also very prescient.

Roy Wright

That was fun to watch again. Son and I just finished the watch along. His first time seeing it. Great movie. Enjoyed y’all’s reaction as usual

Michelle Hoffman

Couple Ethan Hawke forgotten movies Snow Falling on Cedars a bit of a slow burn murder mystery and I loved White Fang.

MacGuffinStuff

What's great is how this world seems so ordered and organized and clean but it's actually dystopian. It's basically Eugenics (Eugene haha), and that's a horrifying way to organize society and live life. Which is why this movie is not only interesting and clever, it's deeply humanist, and it's a great analogy for all kinds of toxic isms, technocratic racism, coldly logical, like a blind faith in statistical probability, totally ignoring the possibility that sheer will (and a few good friends too) can, sometimes, beat all the odds. What if Vincent refusing to give up and all the training he pushed himself through made the best of that 1% chance, if he'd just given up and accepted his "fate" he wouldn't have bothered even exercising and would for sure die young. I never get tired of this movie, it really is one of the most underrated, I guess these smaller, one-off kind of sci-fi movies get overshadowed by the franchises and the effects driven, big name movies. But I love little movies like this, a few off the top of my head: MOON, with Sam Rockwell who is always awesome. ROBOT AND FRANK, sort of a cute but really good little story, by not so distant future, this one we're just about catching up. A SCANNER DARKLY, is weird and fun, but also kind of an existential thinker, cast is small but wild. It's based on a Philip K Dick short story (he wrote the stories that became Blade Runner, Minority Report, Total Recall, Ender's Game,...). ENDER'S GAME, I've only seen it once but I thought it was great.

Donna Castellano

One of the aspects I really love about this movie, which you touched on, is that it doesn't present the world as perfect for the Valid people either. It's like they say, it's not as easy being number one because you have constant expectations on you. These, essentially, test tube babies have that pressure on them from day one. That one moment in Anton's life haunted him so much, it made him angry he could never understand. I love how Loren Dean and Hawke play their emotions - Dean is still so mad about it, he's shouting, demanding a rematch. While it's not that big of a deal in Hawke's life, it made the brother even angrier Hawke was so indifferent to it. Honestly, for Jerome's side, his life didn't "end" when he messed up his su*c*de attempt, it did when he won the silver medal. Inexplicably, to him (like with Anton), he did not meet the expectation. He's invalid. What is he, if not perfect as a competitive swimmer? And I'm too tired to even get into the possible symbolism of swimming being a big part of Law's, Hawke's and Dean's characters' narratives. And I love Irene's story, where even perfection isn't guaranteed because she ended up a Valid with a heart issue. They had her convinced she'd never accomplish anything outside of a desk job. I do believe Vincent ended up dying on the mission but his success in even going inspired Irene to not accept scientifically imposed "limitations". Wow, I didn't mean to meander that much but this movie has such great concepts for endless discussion. Andrew Niccol also directed another movie in 2002 that is EXTREMELY RELEVANT today - S1m0ne. It's about a washed uo director who secretly uses AI to create the PERFECT actress. It's such a good movie, overlooked and disregarded, because at the time, people never dreamed AI would get to the level it could fool them to that extent. I really hope you check it out or put it on a poll. Like I said, it's insane how relevant a movie made almost 25 years ago is to the entertainment industry today.

Donna Castellano

I recommended S1m0ne, which Niccol also wrote and directed. Really relevant given the stuff going on with AI and actors today.

Donna Castellano

It won't let me scroll up to edit but Niccol also WROTE S1m0ne as well.

TBR Schmitt

Yes! Excited to hear your thoughts! -Sam

TBR Schmitt

No way! So funny, we always pull up the cast when we're doing our outros and I thought I saw Maya Rudolph and I was like eh google must be messing up as usual LOL -Sam

TBR Schmitt

Ooh lots of recommendations here! I think the only movie I've seen between both of these comments is Spy! -Sam

TBR Schmitt

I've actually seen videos of the afters of those surgeries recently and it looks SO painful! Like years and years of painful healing! -Sam

TBR Schmitt

Agreed! I think this one is going to get better with each watch! -Sam

TBR Schmitt

Great points here! It definitely aged well with the "future" looks! -Sam

TBR Schmitt

Yay! I hope your son enjoyed his first watch too! -Sam

TBR Schmitt

LOL Eugene went right over my head until this comment! This is such a great comment on this film, thank you! We loved Moon, so thank you for the additional recommendations! -Sam

TBR Schmitt

Omg don't apologize, Donna! I love this comment so much! Thank you for sharing your thoughts! This is definitely one of those comments I'll be thinking about while rewatching this film too! Thank you for the recommendation! -Sam

MacGuffinStuff

Oh cool, hadn't realized you'd already seen Moon, I'll have to check out that reaction too, cool!

Abel Salas Jr

I always felt like this movie is about the fact that in spite of all the things you can measure about a person superior genes dont necessarily guarantee outcomes. What cant be measured is the heart and spirit of a person. The desire, drive and competitive spirit can raise a person.