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Tuesday, September 07 2010 @ 12:41 GMT-6

"The Astronaut Farmer"

FilmI refuse to watch this on general principle. Yahoo describes the movie thusly:

An astronaut is forced to leave NASA to save his family farm, but he continues to dream of space travel and sets out to build a rocket inside his barn. Though his neighbors consider him an oddity, the media considers him a story, and the government considers him a threat, nothing can deter him from his dream to break through the atmosphere and orbit the earth.

What they don't tell you is that Billy-Bob's character is named "Farmer" in the hokiest Hollywood tradition of naming lead characters after their profession, or at least in relation to it, so the title can be a cute double-entendre. I can imagine the pitch meeting now -" See, J.B., he's an astronaut, who becomes a farmer, and his name is, get this, J.B. - Charles Farmer. Get it? Get it?"

Sorry, Hollywood, but that's not clever, and I refuse to take the bait. I don't care how damn good this movie is, I will never, ever see it. If it's showing on a flight, I'll gouge my eyes out and puncture my eardrums first.