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Apollo 11 In Real Time (Science Talk Post)

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All Time 10's - Remarkable Rescues

Will Smith - Men In Black OST

budzos says...

Saw MIB3 this weekend on impulse. It was okay, wouldn't necessarily recommend it unless you want a seriously breezy and disposable movie. Definitely better than the 2nd one, which is not hard to do. If they make another one they need to open up the scale a bit. This movie's budget (admittedly with marketing) is reported at $250 million. That is insane. There are only two real money sequences: a chase to end act 2 that looks like the Obi-Wan and Darth Grievous chase in episode III, and the climax which takes place at the launch of the moon mission at Cape Canaveral in 1969 and looks a lot like Apollo 13.

This movie has some really dumb and small-scale choices. Smith's character is equipped with a device that requires him to plunge from a height in order to gain enough speed to "time-jump". The movie climaxes with Smith literally standing on top of the saturn rocket lifting off for the first manned moon landing. You'd think they'd have a money shot with Smith jumping off the rocket as it lifts off. Those things went pretty slow to start, you could survive the first 30 seconds it takes to get up to any kind of speed, and then jump off for an awesome looking stunt. Or, hell, if I were writing the movie, have him just stay on the rocket until it reaches the necessary ascent speed (something like 100 MPH or some shit.. I remember thinking it didn't sound far from 88MPH), which wouldn't take long after the rockets fire. Then Smith is transported into the future thousands of feet in the air and you have a post-climax gag where he's falling apparently to his death only to have Jones' character sweep in at the last second and save him in a flying car or flying alien bubble pod more likely. Smith's character would be like "How in DA HELL you know I was gonna falling through the air over Florida man!?!?" and Jones' character would put up the video feed that only MIB had access to of Smith riding the rocket and disappearing from 1969's POV. "We had a lot of eyes on that mission" or some shit. Do I have to write this crap for you Hollywood? It flies out of my butthole effortlessly. Instead Smith's character jumps into an evacuation basket and rides it down a zip-line... and this is not even filmed in an interesting way. A whole lot of this movie looked sort of non-commital, like 2nd unit did the whole thing.

They added a "poignant twist" to the time travel aspect which is the same problem with so many movie series these days... Star Wars, Star Trek, Spider-Man.. in a sequel, everything is revealed to have been previously connected.. connected from the start in fact! Oh yawn... more than 30 years later people are still trying to re-create the "I am your father" buzz from Empire Strikes Back. Always at the expense of cheapening the overall franchise and sapping meaning from the actions the characters took in preceeding films. What's worse, they layered on some spiritual/karmic hokum to support another cliche forced by executive interference.

It's crazy to think the first movie turns 15 years old this year. I thought it would be an eternal classic, but the last time I watched it, which might actually have been when MIB2 was coming out a whole ten years ago, it did not hold up.

Oscar winner Tom Hanks sure does pee a lot

How far away the Moon REALLY is...

radx says...

People know better though, don't they? They just haven't thought about it.

The way I see it, even if they don't know the distance to the moon, they probably know the rough diameter of Earth and are aware that visiting the moon is not a one-hour trip. At least, they will have watched Apollo 13, so they know a trip on a really, really, really fast rocket still takes days. Ask them to think it through once again and make them give another estimate. It will still be off by a large margin, but it'll be more realistic.

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Ben Heck's Bill Paxton Pinball Game is DONE! Awesome

Space Shuttle Destroyed - 2009 - CGI - 2D

Plasma Rocket Breakthrough

GeeSussFreeK says...

Indeed, but only to a point...well 2 points that is. The mass and density of the atmosphere and cosmic body in relation to your speed, and the G forces it creates are still a problem for humans...for machines not as much. In other words, you can't hope to be going near light speed and use, say, mars to slow you down , and even if you could, the G force from near light speed in a straight line to an angular velocity would be deadly (as depicted in the 9g turn on the Apollo 13 movie.)

>> ^dag:
Aerobraking works.

Just walked out halfway through Angels & Demons (Cinema Talk Post)

dag says...

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^Ron Howard did Apollo 13. I enjoyed that - and it even had Tom Hanks.

I won't be seeing the new Terminator movie - in protest for them canceling the Sarah Conner Chronicles. Lena Headey was sending me subliminal messages through Hulu - declaring her secret, undying love for me.

Who said it: Bush or Batman?

11807 says...

I know I've heard that music before. I'm 90% sure I heard it in a Steven Spielberg movie. I think either Saving Private Ryan (in the movie or DVD "extras" featurette) or Ron Howard's Apollo 13. Come to think of it, I'm pretty sure now it's in a Saving Private Ryan DVD "extras" featurette.

Tom Hanks tells the greatest knock-knock joke on Earth

Apollo 13 Launch Scene



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