Space Movies?

mindphuk

mindphuk

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heyYousGuys said:
Also, I strongly, strongly suggest "MOON" with Sam Rockwell. MAKE SURE you bake out before watching. A very trippy story. Not visually trippy, but at some point in the movie you'll be saying "what the fuck?"

Plus it's Sam fucking Rockwell. It never had a wide release. It came out a couple years ago. "MOON" and "Sunshine" are the best sci-fi movies in at least the last 5 years.
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It is a cool movie. It's considered a foreign film which is why it seems to have had limited release. I think it's on Netflix streaming.
 
cannabineer

cannabineer

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Brick Top said:
Some of it was pretty accurate. The CGI liftoff was accurate enough that a former Apollo astronaut asked where such great footage was found and asked if NASA could have a copy. CGI or not, if it totally fooled an Apollo astronaut, then you know it had to be realistic.

Former ground control crew went to the set that was supposed to be in Houston and they said that other than it being on the ground floor and they were on the second, it was like going back in time ... so that had to be fairly accurate. They also said that actions/reactions were very similar to what occurred.

Maybe it was when Marilyn Lovell's ring fell off in the shower and she freaked ...... which actually did happen to the real Marilyn Lovell.

Of course there was some artistic license taken, like when Jack Swigert/Kevin Bacon was hooking up with the LEM the guys on the ground made it sound like they only had one crack at it and only Swigert/Bacon could do it, when if he couldn't Jim Lovell almost certainty could have and Fred Haise likely could have too. But you have to create a little extra drama when you can.

The stuff about the un-broadcast telecast it true. I remember expecting to see it and instead there was regular programming.


Being the fan of the flick that you are, did you spot the real Jim Lovell in it the first time you watched it or did it take you a second or third time?
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Brick Top, I confess that I missed Jim Lovell entirely.
I am singularly bad at recognizing faces that I don't see daily ... and I seem to entirely lack the age-compensation skill.

i think what bugged me most about the movie was seeing the stricken spacecraft
1) make sounds,
2) vent visible stuff in multiple directions (there was one temporary, visible plume from the O2 tank iirc), and
3) (worst) Make repeated, rapid changes in angular velocity with unnaturally high angular acceleration.

On a positive note, i once talked to a fellow who knew an old Apollo employee. He said the launch scene nailed one thing that the old footage didn't capture ... the scream of the turbopumps as the five F-1s entered "main stage" operation.
Speaking of old heroes in younger movies ... what about that old bartender in "The Right Stuff"? cn
 
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