A man out of time must summon the courage to save the life of a young child while battling humankind’s most ancient of enemies: the dinosaur. Also, gross bugs that crawl into bodily orifices while you’re sleeping. Though a box office flop, the movie 65 serves as a cinematic curiosity: a sci-fi genre film with a bizzare premise that tackles its subject matter with absolute seriousness. For all of its nonsensical plot points and, frankly, bewildering world- and character-building, 65 remains steadfast and laser-focused on its mission. Though what that mission might have been has likely been forever lost to the cutting room floor. Still, if you’re looking for a good time where a space-man fights dinosaurs with his lasergun, then you may have just stumbled upon the masterpiece to end all masterpieces. So listen along as we explore 65, the viability of using paprika as a communication medium, the relative effectiveness of small, blinking lights as a security system, and the potential qualifications for being a long-haul space trucker.
65 (2023)
directed by: Scott Beck, Bryan Woods
starring: Adam Driver – Ariana Greenblatt
Science Fiction – Adventure – Action
92 min
Transcript
Nathan
Hi there, welcome back to the Real Film Chronicles podcast. As always, I’m Nathan.
Brian
And I’m Brian.
Nathan
…and in this very special episode we’re going to be taking a look at a little film called 65.
Brian
Yeah, so I guess you checked this movie out recently. I mean, we’re a little behind on this film because I think it came out in March of 2023 and you got an opportunity to check it out.
I watched it… oh my goodness, months ago. So I’m going to be relying on your recent viewing to pick up a lot of details on this movie. But, I saw this in your diary, it was rated pretty low, and I think I gave it a decently like average score.
So, like, what happened to this film? Like, what was so awful about this movie? And we’re playing a little fast and loose here, but spoilers for the movie, of course, throughout, just in case. But yeah, hit me with it. What was your opinion on this film?
Nathan
Yeah, so it looks like Adam Driver’s back in space. So this time not as an evil Sith Lord. He’s just a regular working class dude with a sick daughter he’s got to make some money for. So that’s the whole, the whole premise of the movie. I don’t know what happened in the production of this thing, but it’s just such a bizarre premise for a movie where you have this alien civilization of humans. They’re obviously human.
Brian
Yeah, they’re not trying to hide it by any means like it’s just. Yeah, he doesn’t have pointy ears or anything, he’s just nothing at all.
Nathan
Yeah, it could have been the Vulcans or something, or not, Vulcans, Saturn, saturn-urns or something, I don’t know,
…but it’s like 65 million years ago. So he crash lands on this planet, turned out to be Earth. He has to fight his way to the escape ship, but he has to fight his way through, of course, dinosaurs and he’s to save a little girl. But it’s just, it’s so… It’s so weird. The whole concept of the movie is based essentially, like, on the American healthcare system, where his daughter is sick.
They don’t have socialized healthcare in this utopian space society. It seems like a weirdly, weirdly anachronistic American centered plot device which is like okay, it’s an American made movie, but it’s like, really the only conflict you can think of is your own terrible healthcare system and that’s going to be…
Brian
Very relevant for a lot of people in America. I mean, obviously it’s an American film,
Nathan
I guess so. If you look at, you know sci-fi is meant to reflect and examine, you know current day issues and a different setting. And just… I don’t know if, the more I thought about this movie was one of those movies where, like, I was watching it and I actually was going to rate it higher. But the more I thought about the movie, the more is like it just seems so…It just got stupider and stupider.
Brian
It’s a dangerous road to go down sometimes in thinking about a movie.
Nathan
The problem is you think too much!
Nathan
But no, like the whole, I enjoyed the whole setup. I was enjoying it. I was like you know what? Okay, their ancient alien theory, like George Sack of Luck, blue Dupless, whatever his name is from the ancient alien show…
Brian
What?!
Nathan
Ancient Aliens! You ever see that show: George Zach Duponti…?
Brian
I don’t know his name. I don’t know. I thought you were just trying to like spitball, a random name or something. I don’t know, I can’t remember.
Nathan
I think it’s a Greek last name, but it’s very long. I guess we should look it up. I don’t know, it doesn’t matter.
Brian
Keep going, we don’t have time
Nathan
We don’t have time to this…We don’t have time to bleed. I was like you know what it’s like: Okay, there’s a certain pathos there. His daughter’s sick. He’s got to take on this job that’s going to take him away for two years, but he has triple pay so he can pay for the medical bills. I was like, okay, I get it, he’s a human, something human you can relate to. And then he’s on the ship transporting people in cryosleep. But he’s not in cryosleep, which I don’t understand. Is it so far away that they have to be in cryosleep? So he’s going to be really old or just like. People just are so fucking bored in this future. They don’t have TV or anything to watch, they’re just like just put me to sleep for the journey.
Brian
See, maybe I’m misremembering it, but I thought like he was like the only employee of the ship and it would be his job to pilot it the entire time, meanwhile his passengers might just be like a bunch of rich people trying to get from point A to point B. I mean, why waste two years of their life in the trip when they can just go to cryosleep and be the same age coming out? That’s kind of the impression I had. Maybe, these are gaps that I may be filling in myself.
Nathan
But just for two years, I mean, if it was like a 10 year shift, like when you start talking in decades like sure, cryosleep, perfect you age slower, I guess.
Brian
But if they perfected cryosleep, I wouldn’t want to sit there for two years traveling through the emptiness of space when I have the option of just like going to sleep for two years right?
Nathan
I guess…So it’s never really explained, but I was like I can buy that, that’s fine, whatever. It doesn’t make a whole lot of sense, but it’s still, it’s not… It doesn’t take me out of the movie. One of the first things that did take me out of the movie was this ship is on autopilot and it senses this giant asteroid belt and they’re not…they’re not near it yet or they’re just on the periphery. But it’s like why program the ship just to warn you? Why not program the ship like, if you’re coming up on that, plot a course around it automatically or just stop the ship until the pilot comes up? Why keep going forward through? You know the ship obviously knows it’s super dangerous. It’s getting hit by these rocks! Who programmed this stupid ship? I don’t know.
Brian
Did Adam Driver have the choice in this to like purge a bunch of the passengers, to like save the ship, or am I thinking of Pitch Black?
Nathan
Yeah, I think you’re thinking of Pitch Black. So this one, it was just like he’s the pilot. He’s like, no, he runs up there and he’s like I’m going to pilot this thing and get people safe, but they get hit by bigger asteroids and then they crash land on this planet which is turns out to be Earth, which they reveal in a title card, which was like it felt really, really weird. It’s like 15 minutes in, I think, with a title card of the movie comes up and it’s like “65 million years ago…Adam Driver lands on Earth” Not Adam Driver, but yeah, whatever.
Brian
His character…whatever year…
Nathan
No: millions of years ago, Adam Driver, actually went back in time to film this movie.
- Brian
He’s playing himself as an alien sixty five million years ago.
Nathan
…this is just just what Adam Driver does. Adam Driver is a sixty five million year old alien.
Brian
You can’t help but think that reveal was supposed to come later in the movie and it’s just like they went all in on the marketing and be like sixty five million years ago on Earth. A human came to earth and shot up a bunch of dinosaurs. It was like give away the whole thing in the previews.
Nathan
…yeah, and I was reading online apparently some people in some forums were were just a part of some of the test audiences and they’re saying, oh yeah, that reveal didn’t happen till later on. It’s like oh, then early on in the movie you’re seeing just hints of creatures and you can’t tell that they are dinosaurs yet.
Brian
Oh, OK
Nathan
So,I think it was meant to be a reveal later on in the movie. It was like oh the dinosaurs and then, also the meteorite that killed all the dinosaurs, they happened to crash, landed like a day before this all ends. I was like this is just of all the times…
Brian
Brian
Well, you know there’s coincidences and then there’s stuff you have to have to move your plot forward…
Nathan
…yeah, but he crash lands, although all the cryogenic pods get ripped out and yeah apparently, according to the censors, everybody’s dead. But then he finds one of the pods and there’s a little girl alive in there and she doesn’t speak English. Universal translators busted and to communicate with her in a ship that’s surrounded by all this futuristic technology, he pours some fucking paprika on the table and starts trying to draw these random symbols to try to communicate with her. Take out your fucking iPad, bro! You can use the drawing app on there, can’t you? If you need to draw. Are you telling me like, the Universal communicator is a separate, complete device. You don’t have fucking Google translate on your, future phones…
Brian
Like it’s true, it’s like we get kind of spoiled by like our technology, where it’s like our little Google translate in our phones that everyone has would be able to function without like the mothership being available..
Nathan
Right, it’s just like yeah, but that’s the thing. 65 wasn’t made back in the sixties, before this technology existed, like if it was a Star Trek thing. It’s like, yeah, in the sixties they were just taking, it was a crap shoot where they were just taking wild guesses about what might be possible. But you’re kind of limited to your own line of sight. But like 65 was made in the this year of our Lord twenty twenty three.
It was like we know, like everyone’s walking around with a smart device. It’s like it was just a contrived way to kind of breed conflicts. And it’s like, oh, they don’t speak the same language. It’s like, oh, this hard boiled, tough guy, has to take care of the young child and escort them on a mission. It’s like, oh, my God, is it like you can’t think of any other way to have some conflict in there? You got to have a stupid language thing. And then the paprika on the tables. Like I see your fucking power, like the power is still on the fucking ship. You got all your fucking computer screens. You can fucking do something to communicate with this girl better than paprika on the fucking table. And it’s like he’s just trying to triangle…
Brian
But here’s the thing: Adam Driver… all he does… I mean in the, in this – I was going to say in the future,
Nathan
the future past, yeah
Brian
…the future past, in this society, This is just like a job for him to like the baby sit the super computer flying through space like he may not have any actual skills, like pilots have skills, right but in this reality, like this society here, he may not have any. It’s just like it might just be a babysit. So it’s just like normally you just push a few buttons and that’s your job.
So you just literally have to sit there for two years to make sure that, like, nobody accidentally wakes up, and if they do, you got to make them some oatmeal in the morning, or something, right, that’s like this guy might be dumb as rocks in this society.
Nathan
He might be the equivalent of like a stewardess – not to say that these people are dumb but like, maybe more like a long maybe like a long haul truck driver right, it was like you don’t have to be super skilled, you get your license, but you don’t have to be as skilled as a pilot, right? Long haul truck driver, or maybe like a steward or flight attendants. You know, maybe he’s the equivalent of a flight attendant. We don’t have to be like, you don’t have to have a license to fly, just like: “Oh yeah, I’m just there to like make some oatmeal for these guys, rich people, when they wake up.”
Brian
You can utilize everything in the ship, but he doesn’t know how to like fix things in the ship. Yeah, I mean there’s different… Yeah, I mean I don’t want to go down that road too much because it’s like this is a crazy movie, and he does shoot a lot of dinosaurs. He does have a pretty sweet laser rifle.
Nathan
Yeah, and like there’s some really cool ideas in here, but like there’s some really strange choices. Like when he first crash lands, there’s a couple of weird red herrings that never pay off. Like he’s got this injury in his side that he kind of fixes up, which, like they keep showing. Like oh, it’s getting infected later on, but like nothing ever comes of it and he gets off the planet. Okay, it never hinders him. Really, it’s just like this oh, I thought it was gonna play, come into play, was like oh, it keeps getting more and more infected and he’s gonna sacrifice himself cause he’s already dying. He’s just gonna sacrifice to save the girl. Like no, he gets off the planet, is he fine? And another one he gets off the ship to explore when he first crashed lands and he’s in a bit of a swamp and you keep seeing the hands of like oh, there’s this creature that’s like in the water.
He doesn’t see it Think, oh, there’s gonna be a big showdown and this thing’s gonna pop out. It’s like, no, nothing happens. There’s this giant creatures hunting around. He’s like, no, no, he’s fine. Okay, then why show that to me, like the whole idea of the checkhov’s gun right, or set up and pay off. Just basic storytelling, foundational elements that just I don’t know whether it was like maybe lost in the edits or something was cut out of this. It felt really kind of choppy, especially early on, where it’s like, oh yeah, the injury and this creature…I don’t know. And then when he finds a girl and they’re kind of running through the woods and they hear the – they don’t see it at the time, but it’s a dinosaur coming to eat them they just stand there and stare for like two minutes. Like what the fuck man?! It’s like they think it’s basic I don’t fight or flight, or fight, fight, flight or freeze. I guess maybe they were frozen in terror for two goddamn minutes
Brian
Like two minutes must be an exaggeration. This movie’s not long. It’s only 92 minutes long to begin with.
Nathan
Half of it is them standing around looking stoopified into the fucking bush as these obviously large creatures are coming to kill them. I don’t know. And then it’s like weird. I don’t know what the message was for this, but at one point they rescue like a little baby dinosaur out of this little tar pit and it’s like this kind of Disney looking little dinosaur.
It’s like: oh, you think, they’re gonna befriend this dinosaur, it’s gonna help them out later. No, he walks on the path and he gets attacked by a bunch of other dinosaurs. He’s killed immediately. Yeah, I was like
Brian
Nature. It’s gnarly man.
Nathan
What was the point of that? Why give that dinosaur so much personality? Why spend that much time?
It’s like a good like five, ten minute sequence on saving the dinosaur and then hiding from the smaller dinosaurs. But why? It was like they were trying to pad the runtime. It was like the land their escape vessel was only they could have had at any distance. So it was only 15 kilometers away,
Brian
…yeah…
Nathan
…which also interesting that the ancient civilization also developed kilometers and used the same word for it. But that’s, you know. That’s one of those coincidence, I guess. But like it’s, only this movie is about a 15 kilometer hike. You can do that in a day! That’s not even that far.
Brian
Yeah, but not in prehistoric – like whatever continent they’re on, like the jungle’s dense…
Nathan
…it’s Pangea there’s only one continent..
Brian
…then right, Pangea. There you go.
Nathan
Were the continents separated by that point?
Brian
I don’t know… the movie, I don’t know science, geez!
Nathan
What planet are we on now? Jupiter.
Brian
It’s not like the… so I don’t know anything about anything. The movie didn’t tell me what the continent was, it didn’t matter. They were just 15 kilometers away. Was it another piece of their ship that they were going to, or was it like a different crash ship from before?
Nathan
No, no, because the ship had broken up as they were crash landing. And so, like the escape pod was in the other half of the ship, the back half of the ship, it was in the tail section with the other lost survivors, with the others, I guess. It was on the second island, I guess I don’t know. And then, oh yeah, what happened? The T-Rex comes in. It was a scene directly from Jurassic Park 2, where they’re in a cave with water pouring down and then the T-Rex comes in , it’s like okay, yeah I get it.
Brian
Why reinvent the wheel? Just take from the greats.
Nathan
It’s true, but they fall down that cave and then it’s like, okay, and they go through the cave…
Brian
That…that scene I had an issue with because it’s like they’re in the cave right and he has this technology to like dig out of the cave. So they start trying to find ways to just like dig through the rock, but there’s an entrance on the other side. If you just spend the night in this thing, that T-Rex is probably gone, like he’s not camping out.
Nathan
Yeah, especially when you shot him in the face with your laser gun and then like he’s not coming, he’s angry, he’s not coming back here, you camp out there.
Brian
These T-Rexes are pretty vindictive. Like I think that same one, does that same one come back and like gets them at the end there?
Nathan
That wasn’t the T-Rex, that was the four legged fake dinosaur that never existed. There’s two T-Rexes that attack them at the end and there’s that four legged dude who comes back. It was the four legged guy who attacked them first, cause I remember reading online is like oh yeah, that four legged one that was just like that was pure fantasy, That wasn’t based on like the iguana don or anything, that was just a random dinosaur they made up.
Brian
So they didn’t even have fully real dinosaurs in this movie.
Nathan
No.
Brian
..at least I mean not that we’ve discovered yet.
Nathan
Yeah, they didn’t call John Hammond for this one.
Brian
I didn’t realize they were going to, pull a card from, like, the Noah book movie where, like, the world’s going to get flooded and that gives us an excuse to put in like a bunch of make believe creatures who didn’t make the arc right. It’s like…
Nathan
so that’s why there’s no more Cyclopses.
Brian
Yeah, exactly, it’s just like they all got washed away.
Nathan
But no, it was weird. Like they went and exploring the caves and then the girl crawled through and then the cave collapsed and then he just walked out and found another fucking exit somewhere. You just sent the girl through there for no reason. You could use your little map thingy there could have found you the way out together.
Brian
At what point did he discover that his daughter had already died on his trip?
Nathan
Yeah, he already knew by the time he’d rescued the other little girl because she was going through the memory tapes, which again seemed super antiquated compared with technology we have now. But he was going through as like, oh, she missed her dad and she was happy. And then she’s like, oh, I hate you for leaving. And then it’s like one that’s in the hospital. And then there’s one where she’s kind of sick in bed and you don’t quite see it but you’re like, oh, she died. And then later on you see the one where it’s like the mother is like, yeah, she passed away in her sleep. So you kind of see… because there’s a scene early on where he goes to commit suicide and like, it didn’t make sense for the character at the time, from what we knew about the character at the time.
Yeah, it was like oh yeah, he sends that message like, oh, we crash landed. You know, all the cryopods are destroyed. I’m the only survivor: send help. But then he deletes that one and says like we crashed, don’t send any help at all. And then he goes out to shoot himself and decides not to, obviously, or the movie wouldn’t happen. But it’s like, okay, then it makes…but it just it was weird again the way they were telling that story. There’s… there’s a way to do that to keep that ambiguity. But just I was confused more than anything at that, when you went to commit suicide and like you just set up this whole thing about how much you love your daughter and your family and you’re doing this for your family and you’re just going to kill yourself right away? Like what the heck is going on?
Brian
It’s grim. It’s a grim film.
Nathan
I don’t know.
Brian
It gets really grim because they got the asteroid coming down and that basically becomes the plot device to like hurry the heck up and get off this planet right?
Nathan
Yeah, it does…
Brian
That’s where all the tension comes from. You’ve got these basically dinosaurs attacking them and they got to get into the ship and it’s just like are they going to make it or not? And at that point you don’t really care if they make it or not. Um, you’re not really emotionally invested in these, these two characters, but yeah.
Nathan
They walk a bit, get attacked by some dinosaurs, walk a bit, get attacked by some dinosaurs, go down on some easily escapeable caves that they separate for some reason when they climb up this mountain, which apparently all it takes is like she’s a stand at one point, like the hardest part is, like she stands on his shoulders and is able to climb up this cliff, and it’s like that was the hardest part of the climb?
It looked like a Sunday hike to get up this mountain! But anyway, they get up there, they get to the pod and she realizes that, oh, her family was dead. He’d, through his paprika, um, hieroglyphics, he had somehow communicated that, oh, your parents are at this site on the mountain, and so she thought she was going to see your family. But she sees a bunch of cryo pods up back and she realizes, oh, her family is not there, they’re dead. And then they have a little moment where they talk to each other and they can’t understand each other. So their confessions are basically meaningless. Um, although Adam, to give credit, Adam Driver is still like he must have had to go see a chiropractor of this movie because he was carrying this whole movie on his back.
I was just like he was due. He was given it his all. Like I gotta say, Adam Driver, I love watching him. He’s great in everything he does. It’s like the material was just not there to work with. Like the emotion you felt, the emotion of like, oh, he lost his daughter and like this was a new surrogate daughter which was like a little bit too perfect. It’s like, wouldn’t it be awkward: it’s like, oh, they got there. Oh, the parents are still alive. It was like, oh yeah, “but we kind of have this bond now, so I’m like kind of her new father, so, yeah, we’re gonna have to leave you behind or something” – I don’t know.
I don’t know these perfect pieces like, oh, I lost my daughter, but I got a new daughter, it all worked out well. It’s like come on, guys, this is so hackneyed and cliche.
Brian
The new daughter is played by Ariana Greenblatt, who actually has quite a filmography.
Nathan
I’ve seen her before and stuff!
Brian
She was in the new Barbie movie. She was in Infinity War.
Nathan
As who?
Brian
She was in Infinity War as young Gamora.
Nathan
Okay, she had green makeup on, I wouldn’t have recognized her.
Brian
Love and Monsters. I’m not sure if you checked that movie out?
Scoob, one of the animated movies. Bad Moms Christmas…probably done a couple of voices: Boss Baby. But she’s got a big lineup of movies under her. I mean it’s just like she’s gonna go places and hopefully 65 isn’t too much of a stumble to like secure future roles.
Nathan
Yeah, I think she was absolutely fine in the movie. She did great. Again, like she did really great, considering they just gave her…I don’t think it was a real language either. They just gave her a bunch of like it was the standard kind of alien nonsense language where they just gave her a bunch of random syllables to say
Brian
Yeah
Nathan
…and she was just like babbling stuff. But she still got across the emotion that the scene needed. The actors were great, that’s not the issue.
Brian
Now I’m just looking it up here and the budget of this movie. What do you think the budget of 65 was?
Nathan
100 million?
Brian
$45 million
Nathan
45 million, okay.
Brian
which I thought the movie looked pretty good, especially considering the budget.
Nathan
Movie looked good too, I’ll give it that too.
Brian
…the dinosaurs looked good. Everything looked good. I mean, I think it was shot well enough for the most part. I think it’s ultimately like the story that – you know – all the plot is just kind of uninspired right. It’s pretty run of the mill for the most part. It definitely does not overstay it’s welcome: it’s 92 minutes long. It’s like this could have been a two and a half hour movie that really really gets under your skin, but it comes and goes pretty quick.
Nathan
Yeah, they were smart to keep it as short as possible. And then when they get off the planet, the escape pod just goes up, they hold hands and the movie just kind of cuts. There’s no, there’s no ennui, there’s no falling action, there’s no kind of emotional resolution.
Brian
Do we get to see the asteroid hitting Earth though?
Nathan
Yeah yeah, there’s a big, great explosion. Big explosions for all people…
Brian
As you can see this movie was very memorable, like four or five months later. I’m just remembering all these details about it.
Nathan
Remember all the details?! You’re just remembering Earth’s history! There were dinosaurs and then meteorite crashed into them
Brian
Oh yeah, yeah, okay, I see, I see, I see.
Nathan
The beauty of the movie, I guess I don’t know – I was gonna give it…Initially I had it pegged at like two stars, but the more I thought about it I dropped it down to one and a half stars out of five. .
Brian
One and a half stars for 65…
Nathan
What did you give it?
Brian
It looks like I gave it three stars, which I understand is too high, because I’ve just watched some movies recently and I was like these are our three star movies and they’re gonna be more memorable than 65. But here’s the thing: you watch a movie like this on, like, just like a weekend afternoon or something.
It’s like 90 minutes comes and goes pretty quickly. I did not see this in theaters. I’m glad I didn’t see this in theaters. It would be like way too short and I think the initial buzz around it, like reviews, were not generous, so it was like this is a theater skip. But seeing this at home, yeah, it was just like all right, that was a movie and it’s fine. It was like I like seeing dinosaurs on screen for the most part, which really appeals my inner child, in some way, and I like the sci-fi and I kinda like the idea of just like people have regular jobs and they have regular issues like healthcare…
…probably like funding issues in space and it’s like it has that very slight echo of like okay: this guy is barely a pilot of this craft that goes through space, but it’s like it reminds me of Alien, where it’s just like these guys are like space truckers, right? like they’re skilled people doing a job that like just take away the wheels and put on giant rockets and it’s like they’re in space now, right. But yeah, this movie…If I watch it again, it would probably drop down. I don’t think I’m going to watch this again, so it might just be immortalized at three star rating for myself.
Nathan
Yeah, one of the only things that got me through this movie…Oh! can I mention one other stupid thing that happened?
Brian
Yes
Nathan
there were a lot of stupid things that happened, but when they went to camp for the night on their 15 kilometer trek, he put up these like…he put up these like warning beacons. I thought it was supposed to like protect them, I guess.
I think it’s just to warn them that something was coming in close. But those warning beacons didn’t do a gosh darn thing. Because Adam Driver wakes up, looks over at the girl and she’s like…looks like she’s foaming at the mouth, she’s having a seizure or something. But he look, turns her over and looks in her mouth. It’s like there’s like a centipede in there or some like ancient bug in her mouth. It’s like those beacons didn’t do shit man and it’s like there’s as a warning device that didn’t help…
Brian
Yeah.
Nathan
…or as, like I thought it was going to be like a force field came up around them.
Brian
I like I initially thought it was going to be a force field, like you were going to see like a bug go up against it and it’d be like a laser shoots down…
Nathan
Exactly, yeah!
Brian
…just like a visible laser.
Nathan
No, they just, they were just there for like it was just like Christmas lights apparently.
Brian
Think about how cool the scene would have been like a big T-Rex wanders in and it’s just like we got these two perfectly wonderful pieces of meat sitting there sleeping and there’s a bunch of lights around, but who cares about those lights? He goes in for the kill, like he’s going to reach in with his mouth, and the lasers like come into effectively the visible force field, just start eating away his teeth as he’s crunching down, or just like disintegrates a teeth, just like his lower jaw falls off because it’s being lasered off. And be like that would be pretty cool.
Nathan
Yeah
Brian
But no, we didn’t get the idea of that
Nathan
But anyway, one of the only things that kind of kept me focused during this movie was every once in a while when Adam Driver was alone in this world or when he was standing on a wreck piece of wreckage with this kind of space gear and a space gun. I was like I was looking at him. I was like, oh my God, he could play Commander Shepard in a Mass Effect movie.
I was like look at it there’s certain shots: like oh this is Commander Shepard when he finds the wreckage of the original Normandy. Or like this is Commander Shepard when he’s exploring this planet. It’s like, oh, I was imagining my own movie over top of this movie, with Adam Driver playing Commander Shepard in my own version of Mass Effect movie. I was like, but if you’re out there Bioware, if you wanna make a Mass Effect movie, Adam Driver is your Commander Shepard. You heard it from me first. This is it.
Brian
Man, you know you’re in trouble when you start thinking about Mass Effect, the space movie, and it was just like, yeah, everything’s gonna fall by the wayside in that movie.
Nathan
I was like I was literally I’ve never made a fan edit trailer or anything. It was like there’s a lot of scenes in this movie. I could take this and probably some stuff from Star Wars with Adam Driver. I was like I could cut together like a fake Mass Effect movie trailer out of everything that exists…
That was what I was thinking while watching 65 for a large part of it. It’s like that’s how I just zoned out after a while. It was just ah.
Brian
Sounds like someone’s gotta go play Mass Effect after this.
Nathan
Yeah, it’s a given.
Brian
And just for the record, before we say goodbye, this does have a Letterboxd rating average amongst its users of 2.2.
Nathan
2.2.
Brian
So it’s skewing pretty low. Yeah, but that is 65. See it or not, it doesn’t really matter. You’re not missing anything if you don’t watch it.
Nathan
Yeah.
Brian
Yeah, it’s continuing on with better sci-fi. Got anything else to add before we go?
Nathan
Swing and a miss. Give Adam Driver more movies. Make a Mass Effect movie, somebody. And if you got literally nothing better to do, sure, check out 65, put it on a Sunday, rainy Sunday afternoon when you’re lying down to have a nap. It’ll put you to sleep.
Brian
Live long and prosper.
Nathan
May the force be with you.
Outro
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