It seems that it gets increasingly more expensive to bring Matt Damon home.
@obrhoff wait, I hate to be a nitpicker, but Matt Damon never appeared in Interstellar, that was Matthew McConaughey.
Christopher Nolan's Interstellar: Mann's Betrayal 720p HD

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@obrhoff if we ever became interstellar i wish the violence wasn't present there
@floe @obrhoff
Oh yes he did. This time as a gibe mad scientist.
@Derek_DIY @obrhoff I stand corrected, too long since I've seen it obviously 🤷
@floe @obrhoff you forgot about him because he never came back home. Nolan ran out of money.
@wtrmt @floe @obrhoff Or he didn't have enough love for other people. Only for himself.

@fskornia @floe @obrhoff “I’m not bad… I’m just drawn that way”

— Jessica Simpson, Who Framed Roger Rabbit

@Florian 'floe' Echtler Matt Damon plays Dr Mann in Interstellar, who...kinda gets rescued I guess
@obrhoff damonflation reached the hills

@obrhoff

is the general public expected to pay for this again?😜

@obrhoff @ErikUden That’s probably just Damonflation.
@roelgroeneveld @obrhoff @ErikUden It seems that Damon ages like a good wine.

@obrhoff
Don’t forget 𝘋𝘰𝘨𝘮𝘢, in which Damon played an angel trying to get back to heaven. Only budgeted at $10 million.

But since it was released a year after 𝘚𝘢𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘗𝘳𝘪𝘷𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘙𝘺𝘢𝘯, it sorta messes with your theory that the price is going up.

@kwleslie @obrhoff He didn't actually make it that time. Right at the step...

edit1: But he doesn't in Interstellar either so whatever I guess.

edit2: But it's not a recovery. He's the one just trying to get home and he's being kind of a dick about it. Totally with him on the golden calf thing though.

edit3: But The Odyssey, unless it's very different from the source material, is also not a recovery...that's him just being very lost. vOv

@kwleslie @obrhoff It also gets increasingly more away from home:
Soldier in another country
Astronaut on another planet
Mythological character in another reallity/dimension

Dogma would also break that pattern.

@lankohr @kwleslie @obrhoff Maybe the time as the character perceives it is it? Ryan, a few weeks, Odysee, several years. etc.
@obrhoff Well, over nearly 30 years, a bit more than the normal inflation rate.

@obrhoff Of course it is.

I don't know for sure, but I'd bet any emergency recovery proff. will tell you that it's more expensive to recover older people than younger ones.

We're frageelay.

@obrhoff

#alttext

Four movies and their costs with pictures of Matt Damon.
THE ODYSSEY $250 Million
THE MARTIAN $108 Million
INTERSTELLAR $165 Million
saving private ryan $70 Million

@obrhoff Also his stranded characters all wear helmets for their job.
@FediThing @obrhoff safety matters. That's why he gets to go home at all.

@obrhoff and adjusted for inflation?

EDIT: supposedly

* **Saving Private Ryan** (24 July 1998): $143 million
* **Interstellar** (7 November 2014): $232.1 million
* **The Martian** (2 October 2015): $151.7 million
* **The Odyssey** (17 July 2026): $250 million

@wojtek @obrhoff these are interesting numbers! Thank you!
@obrhoff blame jimmy kimmel /s

@obrhoff

We’re all getting older, aren’t we?

@obrhoff @geeksam Though he didn't deserve it in one of those films!
@obrhoff
Inflation comes for everything
@obrhoff @geeksam I had to check. Ironically, this holds, when adjusted for inflation.
@obrhoff @geeksam In 2026 dollars, in total, it cost ~ $800M to bring Matt Damon home.
@obrhoff hahaha...20 years more expensive
@obrhoff wrong perspective. Not everybody is as efficient as Tom Hanks to bring him home… also, perhaps Jimmy Kimmel is responsible for the hurdles 😉
@obrhoff At some point you'll hear a girl in the background yelling "Leave him Stacy! He's not worth it!"
@obrhoff
There are many things about our world that confuse me and that I can't explain.
Take the popularity of Matt Damon as an actor, for example.
Can YOU explain it?
Do YOU have a public figure that you feel this way about?
#MattDamon
@obrhoff So, can we just like, leave him next time?
@obrhoff although it only took about a week to save Ryan, it's a decade long thing getting Oddyseus home...

@obrhoff

Because of the helmets.

🤪

@obrhoff I hope that in between all this time and space travelling he has at least some time to stay at home!
@obrhoff Cecil B DeMille's 'The Odyssey'. 😊
@obrhoff Maybe it's the increasingly elaborate headgear 🤔
@obrhoff I don’t recommend trying to rescue Interstellar Matt Damon
@obrhoff he shoulda stayed in southie
@obrhoff I would like to see how much cost for him to bring the Webb Ellis Cup for South Africa