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
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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"
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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.
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*From:* Ken Hohhof
*Sent:* Saturday, October 13, 2018 8:23 AM
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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
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*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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