Didn't see another thread about this.

Saw an early screening last night - it was really good and should get a lot of Oscar nominations. Everything related to the events leading up to and during the moon landing were framed and shot really well. It was very intense. Think Gravity meets Apollo 13.

I don't want to say too much more until people have had a chance to see it, but definitely worth checking out.

10/10/2018 1:05:53 PM

I may be able to go to a prescreening at work tomorrow, I'm hoping for technical accuracy in this one.

10/10/2018 1:36:38 PM

gravity sucked, how much is this like gravity?

10/10/2018 3:27:16 PM

^^is it you that works at NASA? curious to know if you do think it's accurate

^the intensity is like Gravity's best scenes but more intense.

the big downfall to this film is the subplot of Armstrong's marriage. I get that it was central to his character building but I just found it to be distracting.

10/15/2018 11:29:11 AM

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"I may be able to go to a prescreening at work tomorrow, I'm hoping for technical accuracy in this one."

What was the most technically accurate space movie of recent years? Rank a few if ya want.

10/15/2018 11:43:33 AM

When I grew up in China, I heard a joke about Armstrong with sex. But I can't remember it clearly now.

OK. I googled it. It's Good luck, Mr. Gorsky!

10/15/2018 12:10:05 PM

This ended up being the most technically accurate depiction of space flight since Apollo 13. The way they shot the in-cockpit scenes were really accurate. To the astronauts onboard during liftoff, it literally was a few minutes of intense shaking/rumbling and extremely high accelerations. Not really much that they did during that portion.

I was surprised at how melancholy the whole movie was, but from what I heard, Armstrong was a very quiet and private guy. One of the reasons they chose Armstrong to be the Apollo 11 mission commander was because he was so calm under extreme conditions. They did a good job of capturing his contrast with Aldrin, who is still to this day very vocal and charismatic.

^^In recent years the most accurate space movie was The Martian, but even then they took some pretty big liberties. Outside of that, I'd say there has not been any recent space movies that I would say were accurate. In general, unless it is a dramatization of real life events (Like First Man, Apollo 13, The Right Stuff, etc.), they take way too much artistic license to make things more entertaining. In truth, space is pretty boring and everything is quiet and takes a long time. Oddly enough, the shuttle parts 2001: A Space Odyssey captured this pretty well when they had long scenes of complete silence or just breathing. That is at least, up until the trippy space acid part .

I actually work with someone who was a consultant on Gravity, they asked her all sorts of questions on orbital mechanics and how things would play out in certain situations. In the end they didn't listen to a SINGLE THING she told them and they just went with their own ideas.

10/15/2018 2:12:01 PM