Christopher Nolan’s action-packed and cerebral sci-fi drama Interstellar comes out today, and true to Nolan form it’s got a lot of things going for it: an all-star cast of respected actors, an amazing black-hole sequence, Matthew McConaughey doing his whole McConaughey thing, a confusing plot incorporating crazy physics, and, of course, some heavy emotions. It is just the most recent film to incorporate one of my favorite science-fiction tropes: the sad white astronaut. White people have been crying in space for decades for a lot of reasons — loneliness, exhaustion, the fear of having an alien baby. Let’s take a look at some of the most emotional moments to take place in the great beyond.
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Matthew McConaughey gets all choked up when he realizes his children are aging faster than he is in 'Interstellar'.Photo: Paramount Pictures
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Anne Hathaway also has a lot of feelings in space in Christopher Nolan's sci-fi epic.Photo: Paramount Pictures
If you were stranded in space without contact left to drift around forever, you'd cry as much as Sandra Bullock did in 'Gravity'.Photo: Warner Bros.
Droids have feelings, too, or at least they do when they're played by someone like Michael Fassbender in 'Prometheus.'Photo: 20th Century Fox
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Hey, how would you feel if you had to give yourself a C-section to get an alien out of your body? Probably like Noomi Rapace in 'Prometheus'.Photo: 20th Century Fox
Some kind of crazy physics, as they are wont to do in any 'Star Trek' movie, and Chris Pine's Captain Kirk finds it all very emotionally exhausting.Photo: Paramount Pictures
Spock might be a Vulcan, but he's not completely made of wood. Photo: Paramount Pictures
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Space is lonely place, especially when you're stuck on the moon with nobody but a computer with Kevin Spacey's voice like Sam Rockwell was in 'Moon'.Photo: Sony Pictures Classics
If you're a practically non-verbal being of light and wonder and discover how awful and evil the human race can be through some late-'90s version of YouTube, you might also have a breakdown like Milla Jovovich had in 'The Fifth Element'.Photo: Columbia Pictures
In the final film of the 'Star Wars' trilogy, Hayden Christensen's Anakin Skywalker becomes evil and, naturally, has some feelings about it. Photo: 20th Century Fox
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He may have saved the world from apocalyptic destruction, but Bruce Willis still gets the feels when he thinks about his daughter living her life with out him in 'Armageddon'. Photo: Touchstone Pictures
What if your girlfriend's dad sacrificed himself to save the planet and so you can go back to Earth to bang his daughter? You'd weep just like Ben Affleck in 'Armageddon'.Photo: Touchstone Pictures
in 'Contact', Jodie Foster spends her life's work trying to talk to aliens, and then she goes all the way into space and the aliens appear as her dead dad. Photo: Warner Bros.
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Sigourney Weaver's RIpley has HAD IT by the third movie in the 'Alien' franchise, but she's not too exhausted to cry about it. Photo: 20th Century Fox
"What? My dad is evil AND he cut off my hand?" Things are super bleak for Luke Skywalker in 'The Empire Strikes Back'.Photo: 20th Century Fox
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