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Bob Balaban is also cast, but I can't find a source.-- Megustalastrufas ( talk) 07:51, 14 October 2021 (UTC)
I've done an extensive edit to shorten the summary's length, per the warning tag that it was excessively long. If other editors feel the revised length is adequate, please remove the tag. PNW Raven ( talk) 03:06, 29 June 2023 (UTC)
Is there any reason to believe that the play we see is meant to be a recorded performance? If anything, it seems like there are indications that it is a live performance, like Schupert saying, “are you on,” implying that time is an urgent matter. Unless I missed an interview of some kind, this assumption that the play is a recording and not live in the plot section seems like a significant leap in logic. Additionally, the plot section is currently rife with speculation. Am I out of line here? 2600:1702:1B20:CB20:4517:95D1:800C:CEA3 ( talk) 23:47, 13 July 2023 (UTC)
What makes the present of the story a "retro-futuristic version of the 1950s"? Mind you, that statement in the synopsis refers to the present where the television program is filmed, not the play itself (which is mostly fantastical and purposely scientifically incorrect, I wouldn't even say that's retro-futuristic, it just imagines kids being able to invent crazy stuff, not that it's stuff that's already ingrained in an alternate version of society. The technology seems for the rest 1950s-appropriate). I don't think there's anything in the black and white scenes that makes us think their reality differs from normal. I'm not even sure they're in the 1950s, to be honest. The playwright says "The action of the play takes place in September of 1955", but from where do we infer that's also the time period of the black and white scenes? Kumagoro-42 ( talk) 03:30, 17 July 2023 (UTC)
All of the marketing for the film encloses Asteroid City in quotation marks. This appears to be a deliberate and meaningful choice by Anderson. Shouldn’t the film be referred to as “Asteroid City”? ScottMainwaring ( talk) 17:41, 30 July 2023 (UTC)
I don't know why you erased my commentary again. This is a TALK page. Learn some respect and tolerance: we are NOT in China, where people who speak their minds get "deleted". You are under suspicion of committing CENSORSHIP.
AGAIN:
"...as a movie it's for Anderson die-hards only, and maybe not even too many of them". I share the queasiness of critic Owen Gleiberman. Mr. Anderson certainly overdid it this time. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.69.140.138 ( talk) 13:51, 1 August 2023 (UTC)
Change "temperamental yet talented" to: talented yet temperamental actress 2600:4041:5D21:CB00:8B85:B1B8:50D8:DC27 ( talk) 08:58, 13 October 2023 (UTC)
The television show hosted by Bryan Cranston's character is not describing a real famed playwright; he's describing a hypothetical play and its production for illustrative purposes. He states this multiple times in the opening section. The plot section regarding this is misleading, then, is it not? Alikkss ( talk) 14:53, 24 December 2023 (UTC)
Skylab, the first crewed orbital outpost spacecraft of the United States, fell onto the Western Australian desert in 1979.
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Bob Balaban is also cast, but I can't find a source.-- Megustalastrufas ( talk) 07:51, 14 October 2021 (UTC)
I've done an extensive edit to shorten the summary's length, per the warning tag that it was excessively long. If other editors feel the revised length is adequate, please remove the tag. PNW Raven ( talk) 03:06, 29 June 2023 (UTC)
Is there any reason to believe that the play we see is meant to be a recorded performance? If anything, it seems like there are indications that it is a live performance, like Schupert saying, “are you on,” implying that time is an urgent matter. Unless I missed an interview of some kind, this assumption that the play is a recording and not live in the plot section seems like a significant leap in logic. Additionally, the plot section is currently rife with speculation. Am I out of line here? 2600:1702:1B20:CB20:4517:95D1:800C:CEA3 ( talk) 23:47, 13 July 2023 (UTC)
What makes the present of the story a "retro-futuristic version of the 1950s"? Mind you, that statement in the synopsis refers to the present where the television program is filmed, not the play itself (which is mostly fantastical and purposely scientifically incorrect, I wouldn't even say that's retro-futuristic, it just imagines kids being able to invent crazy stuff, not that it's stuff that's already ingrained in an alternate version of society. The technology seems for the rest 1950s-appropriate). I don't think there's anything in the black and white scenes that makes us think their reality differs from normal. I'm not even sure they're in the 1950s, to be honest. The playwright says "The action of the play takes place in September of 1955", but from where do we infer that's also the time period of the black and white scenes? Kumagoro-42 ( talk) 03:30, 17 July 2023 (UTC)
All of the marketing for the film encloses Asteroid City in quotation marks. This appears to be a deliberate and meaningful choice by Anderson. Shouldn’t the film be referred to as “Asteroid City”? ScottMainwaring ( talk) 17:41, 30 July 2023 (UTC)
I don't know why you erased my commentary again. This is a TALK page. Learn some respect and tolerance: we are NOT in China, where people who speak their minds get "deleted". You are under suspicion of committing CENSORSHIP.
AGAIN:
"...as a movie it's for Anderson die-hards only, and maybe not even too many of them". I share the queasiness of critic Owen Gleiberman. Mr. Anderson certainly overdid it this time. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.69.140.138 ( talk) 13:51, 1 August 2023 (UTC)
Change "temperamental yet talented" to: talented yet temperamental actress 2600:4041:5D21:CB00:8B85:B1B8:50D8:DC27 ( talk) 08:58, 13 October 2023 (UTC)
The television show hosted by Bryan Cranston's character is not describing a real famed playwright; he's describing a hypothetical play and its production for illustrative purposes. He states this multiple times in the opening section. The plot section regarding this is misleading, then, is it not? Alikkss ( talk) 14:53, 24 December 2023 (UTC)
Skylab, the first crewed orbital outpost spacecraft of the United States, fell onto the Western Australian desert in 1979.