WOW!!!


It was just on TV and I almost forgot just how bad this movie really was!

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You're missing 40% of the picture on TV ...

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Thank God for small miracles. Now if they can find a way to cut out the other 60%.

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They have found a way to cut out the 60% and the 40% simultaneously, it's called not watching it. Pretty simple. To each their own. I thought it was entertaining.

Cheers!

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Which part did you find the most entertaining? The part that NASA can't fix some crappy out dated technology without the help of four guys who can't get it up anymore or the awesome ending where Hawk survived a trip to the moon and the subsequent 25,000 mph impact only to die quietly after walking away from the crash with a beautiful view of the Earth? Sorry but I can only leave so much to the imagination.

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"The part that NASA can't fix some crappy out dated technology without the help of four guys who can't get it up anymore"

I know some people trying to get the original Lunar Module guidance software running again. So far they can't do it, because one of the instructions in the software is undocumented and no-one seems to know what it does... except, hopefully, the person who designed that instruction if they can track him down. It's highly likely that there would be similar issues with any old spacecraft hardware.

Similarly, no-one seems to have a copy of the software for the Saturn V launch guidance computer... if any copies exist it would appear that they're in the core memory of the remaining Saturn Vs on display at KSC and elsewhere, and even then it would be binary code not source code, so you'd still probably need some of the original engineers to tell you what it did if there was ever a need to reuse that software.

Today all hardware and software is documented out the ass and electronic copies would be made in many places. But in the 60s and 70s no-one cared: when the project was over whatever documentation did exist would end up in some archive somewhere where it may or may not be lost or looked after... a lot of it is either gone forever or almost impossible to find.

"Which part did you find the most entertaining?"

All of it, really. The movie isn't meant to be taken seriously, but at the same time it's probably the most accurate 'space shuttle' movie made so far... despite the glaring inaccuracies in places (e.g. the landing). Of course one thing we do know now is that it's unlikely they'd survive a re-entry after the damage that a collision of the size shown in the movie would have done to parts of the heat shield.

But it's basically four famous older actors having a fun time together: and at that it works well... not a brilliant movie, but entertaining for what it is. If you're twelve, you may not care about that.

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outside of the language,its one of my favourite space/flight movies.true, its inaccurate (who doesn't cringe seeing the solar panels crash across the shuttle, after what happened to Columbia?), but how many movies really are 100% accurate anyway? this one is intended to be for fun, and i see it as kind of a "Grumpy Old Men Go To Space" sort of thing...i enjoy this for the same reason i love the "Grumpy Old Men" movies- the fun of watching two old and dear friends hasseling each other because they are too proud to admit how lost they would be without each other.

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Please don't insult a great movie like "Grumpy Old Men" by mentioning it in the same breath as this mess.

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You take this movie too seriously. Something the movie itself doesn't do, foundoggy.

Maybe that's why you don't like it?

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Oh I must have missed it being labled as a straight up comedy oh wait no I didn't. It was meant to be taken serious and anyone who says otherwise is trying to make excuses for it.

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I'm sorry foundoggy. I didn't realise.

I'm looking at my collection of movies and of those not listed as comedies, of course, none should be taken any way other than seriously.

Thank you for putting me straight.

I now realise that Kelly's Heroes (WAR), North by North West (THRILLER) and Rio Bravo (WESTERN) are all to be taken seriously and therefore are terrible movies.

Think again.

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This is a horrible movie, and no, it should not be taken seriously. The only way to really enjoy it is to laugh at how awful and cheesy it is.

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LoL!

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