Refreshing

Apollo 13 and First Man are non fantastical, but great selections nevertheless.

Interstellar is vague. Are future fifth-dimensional human aliens? Hmmm... I think kinda. Cause they are arguably not human anymore.

Apollo 13 eludes to an alien encounter, if very briefly.

2001 has the Monolith aliens.

Well, it is a spoiler for this movie even if not a major one.

Well, it's fantastical. It's almost like how The Lord of the Rings is set in the medieval times, but obviously NOT the real medieval times, just some look-a-like. A fantasy one.

This movie is most likely set in a look-a-like fantasy / surreal near future, not real near future. Which is unorthodox, but fine to me.

That said, some things are just flat out ridiculous like you mentioned, the silly climbing abroad a rocket via the propulsion engine was a terrible scene. That's Fast & Furious turf right there.

Yeah, I still find it quite odd that they had those wacky moments. The climbing into the rocket part, like you said. And, all the stuff at the film's finale, where Pitt magically propels himself on EXACTLY the right trajectory to get to his spacecraft, and uses a piece of spacecraft to protect himself from all those pieces of ring. Then, the explosion (again!) propels his spacecraft on EXACTLY the right trajectory to get back to Earth.

It really takes you out of the movie when this stuff is going on. And, they people who are drawn to this movie are seeing it because they are likely more science minded.