I was wondering how factual it was.  Good to know!

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On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 11:16 AM, <[email protected]> wrote:

> I read a deconstruction of the movie.  They said that bracelet thing is
> about the only fabrication they injected.  The rest is mostly factual.
>
> *From:* Cameron Crum
> *Sent:* Thursday, October 18, 2018 8:44 AM
> *To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group
> *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] OT Movie Review
>
> Wait...no gravity? There is gravity on the moon, just much smaller than on
> earth. If you throw something, providing you aren't the hulk, it will come
> down eventually.
>
> On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 8:29 PM CBB - Jay Fuller <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>>
>> I thought "BS" when he "threw" the bracelet.  There's no gravity - yet it
>> appeared to "float" " down"
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> *From:* [email protected]
>> *To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group
>> *Sent:* Saturday, October 13, 2018 10:11 AM
>> *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] OT Movie Review
>>
>> </lent>
>>
>> I did enjoy the soundtrack.  But it was not as remarkable as many
>> movies.
>>
>> They showed the first footprint, a couple of shots of them hopping around
>> on the moon.
>>
>> It showed Neil throwing a bracelet that had belonged to his daughter into
>> a deep crater.  I have never heard of that happening.  I think they may
>> have invented that scene.  That was really the focus of the EVA activity on
>> the lunar surface.
>>
>> Nice shot of the LM with the flag.
>> And when they left there is a shot of the LM and the retroreflector.
>>
>> But it was brief.  No shots of them lugging stuff around, taking samples
>> ( one I guess) or assembling and installing the flag.
>>
>> This whole anti patriotic thing is some cooked up fake controversy.
>> Plenty of US flag waving by citizens of other countries when they were
>> watching it on TV.  Flags on uniforms, USA on the side of the Saturn V etc
>> etc.
>>
>> Of course the right loves to pick on the left at every opportunity (and
>> vice versa) and Hollywood is probably 80% left.
>> So someone strained at gnats to find something to become apoplectic over
>> and it went viral.
>>
>> <lent>
>>
>> *From:* Ken Hohhof
>> *Sent:* Saturday, October 13, 2018 8:23 AM
>> *To:* 'AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group'
>> *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] OT Movie Review
>>
>>
>> What about the soundtrack?
>>
>>
>>
>> Ron Howard took some liberties with Apollo 13 but still everyone should
>> watch it once a year.  If you don’t find it inspirational check to make
>> sure you have a pulse.  Oh, and great soundtrack.
>>
>>
>>
>> Another docudrama that is not 100% historically accurate but everyone
>> should watch is Thirteen Days.
>>
>>
>>
>> I would say anyone who thinks the Cold War was the best of times must not
>> have lived through it, but how to explain Vladimir Putin?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* AF <[email protected]> *On Behalf Of *Chuck McCown
>> *Sent:* Friday, October 12, 2018 8:36 PM
>> *To:* [email protected]
>> *Subject:* [AFMUG] OT Movie Review
>>
>>
>>
>> First Man.
>>
>>
>>
>> Some spoilers here but I think everyone probably knows how the story
>> ends.
>>
>>
>>
>> First impression was I did not like the style of photography.  Too many
>> shaky closeups.
>>
>>
>>
>> One sure fire way to make me choke up, my nose burn and cause my eyes to
>> leak is to expose me to formaldehyde.  For some reason and am super super
>> duper hyper sensitive.  Other wise I am pretty stoic.
>>
>>
>>
>> The other sure fire way to cause this reaction is if I am exposed to
>> material covering Apollo 1, Challenger or Columbia.  Odd emotional reaction
>> every time.  I guess because I was so into all of the Mercury, Gemini and
>> Apollo missions when they were happening.  I built models.  Listened to the
>> moon landing on the radio.  Totally geeked out to all of this stuff back in
>> the day.
>>
>>
>>
>> They did not do a very good job in communicating the horrible end to the
>> lives of the Apollo 1 astronauts.  Perhaps they did not want to traumatize
>> the audience, but they made it seem like – boom – its all over.  The
>> reality was much much more gruesome.
>>
>>
>>
>> They overdramatized the uncommanded roll spin up of Gemini 8.  It was a
>> big time emergency but the graphics had it spinning like a dryer on spin
>> cycle.  I think max RPM was about 1 rev per second before Neil Armstrong
>> finally isolated it to a reaction control rocket firing continually.  He
>> killed the circuit breakers and was able to manually halt the roll.   I
>> have spun airplanes at this rate.  It is not going to cause you to pass
>> out.  If he was not able to stop the increase in roll rate it would have
>> done so, but they guy knew the spacecraft and he knew there were only so
>> many things that could cause this.  He did some basic troubleshooting and
>> saved the day.
>>
>>
>>
>> But the biggest thing that I disliked was them showing the inside of the
>> space craft.  Panels, annunciators and switches that were dirty, worn and
>> smudged.  Like some old bulldozer at a gravel pit instrument panel.  Almost
>> as if they built the props from stuff they got out of an aircraft bone
>> yard.  In reality, those things were brand spanking new and sparkling
>> clean.  The photos exist...   Not sure why they chose the grunge.
>>
>>
>>
>> Even the headliner of the spacecraft and their ear muff thingies looked
>> grungy and used.
>>
>> They also showed a Chicago connector on one of the hoses connected to the
>> capsule.  Pretty sure a generic jackhammer air connector was not used.
>>
>>
>>
>> They glossed over the 1202 alarm a bit too much. (The book Digital Apollo
>> is a great read about this).  They were more concerned about that than the
>> movie lets on.  They showed a scene where Neil flew over a super deep
>> crater while running out of fuel.  That never happened, he was just picking
>> out a spot between the boulders.
>>
>>
>>
>> So, if you care about fine detail accuracy, you may not enjoy this too
>> much.
>>
>> It is not nearly as good as a PBS special by any stretch of the
>> imagination.
>>
>>
>>
>>
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