All you nay sayers who didn't like the movie or tore apart it's plausability have missed the point. This movie has a basic message to it; that you CAN do anything you want if you desire it and work hard enough towards the goal. It is a darn good message for families, and especially children, to embrace. An YES, the plausability is there today! Burt Rutan's Spaceship One is a good example. Ok, it's not quite the backyard, but it's pretty darn close!
shareSpaceship One was a $25 million project undertaken by Burt Rutan's Scaled Composites, a 200-employee aerospace company. I would say that's a looooong way from the backyard.
Also, I love how you just assume that anyone who didn't like the movie "missed the point." The point of the movie was VERY OBVIOUS. I don't think anyone missed it. But a bad movie doesn't just magically become good simply because the writers were trying to convey a good message. Also, the message seems to have been weirdly muddled in this movie - Farmer came off as an obsessed person who was willing to sacrifice the well-being of his family in the pursuit of his entirely selfish dream. That makes it kind of hard to root for him, and undermines the basic "you can achieve anything if you try hard enough" feel-good theme that the movie seems to be aiming for.
He said that "you" missed the point which your post proves.
shareReally? And what is this magical point that I have missed? I thought the point was "just keep working toward your dreams and you can achieve them eventually," but obviously there was some other point that was too subtle for me. So please, by all means share it...
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Looks like someone needs to work on their reading comprehension.
shareI think he did not engineered everything by himself. He put he's rocket together from parts bought in different places. He just make them all work together.
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all million of them?... are you counting resisters, microchips and circuit boards where several thousand are contained in a single unit... obviously disingenuous on your part... get a life.
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Have you ever heard of the term "artistic license"?? Why do people insist on disecting the body of a movie? Movies are supposed to be enjoyment......suspend your reality for about 2 hours and sit back and enjoy!!
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I sure didnt miss the point but i wish i had missed this load of *beep* thats called a movie. what a pathetic waste of time. stating you can do anything you want is a stupid idea too ..fact is you CANT. lets see ok i want to swim to the bottom of the deepest ocean.. hmmm i can do that cos you say i can do anything if i want to bad enough ha ha sure i can. hey maybe if i desire it enough i can fly to a new galaxy on a scooter fuelled by coca cola. yeah thats it i will do that cos if i work hard and desire it enough i can .. lol what crap
shareYou two are such losers. Moreso Captain Cobweb, really.
shareWhat a pathetic reply. hardly worthwhile your taking time to type. listen kid read my post and then go build a spaceship remember the point was you can do anything if you want it enough.. once you have built the spaceship come back here and leave an intelligent reply. otherwise i guess you and the fools who believe such crap are the real losers lol. i still find it hard to believe people like you really live in this world when you have your fantasy world
shareYou guys ARE missing the point, and you know, it makes me a bit sad. This is a movie. It's not a graduate lecture, it's not a science lesson, it's not howto nor is it a documentary. It's a movie! Movies are not there to be BELIEVED. Movies, and books before them, are entertainment, they are an expression of our humanity, they allow us to communicate things that reality doesn't do so well. I know it's not scientifically correct, and you know what. GOOD! I've been studying hard for the last few years and I came here to be entertained.
I read some reviews here before I watched it because I hadn't heard of the movie before. All the negative reviews actually made me decide to watch it, because you guys are the same guys who hate movies like The Life Aquatic and The Big Lebowski and all those other great movies I love! Hehe!
It's a charming story, the cast is great, and damnit, Billy Bob is launching a homemade rocket like a boss! Haters gonna hate, and more power to you I guess, but some of us still have imaginations, and hearts, that like to be exercised from time to time.
The rest of you can go watch, hell, I don't know, whatever boring realistic crap it is that you watch. Have fun, suckers! <3
Exactly! I've always thought this movie would've been better if Billy Bob could shout his name backward five times and conjure a dwarf from the Lord of the Rings dimension. These dwarves would be crazy gifted with any sort of machinery, and could help him finish the rocket in days. Also, Legolas would randomly fly out of Billy Bob's mind riding that dog thing from Neverending Story. He could keep all the dwarves in some sort of subterranean bunker, where they all become irate but never actually rebel against him.
After all, it's just a movie, right? If Kevin Costner randomly shot flames out of his ass every time he saw a baseball player, the movie would be just as good, right? Because, it's just a movie, right?
Right?
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That's the lie. That's the illusion. You can't do anything. In fact you can't do most things. It's called manufacturing consent. It's how the elites exploit the working class. Just keep tantalizing them with that carrot that they too can be a billionaire when it's almost 100% guaranteed they'll never come close to it. Stop believing the lie and demand more for yourself!
I watched it on TV last night (though saw it before years ago). This is exactly what I thought. It's just another "American Dream" propaganda movie. There is nothing deep about this movie, there is nothing original, there isn't even anything worthwhile to learn. If you have hope in doing something with your life don't watch this movie.
shareI am not sure about the message, since haven't seen the movie from the start.
But it seemed to me this movie was some sort of metaphor of striving towards something spiritual and above this material world, though i guess it was sort of hidden to make it more marketable in USA - due to its materialistic culture and striving for worldly success/american dream.
In the late 70s-80s there were some soviet movies similar to this movie, that seemed ridiculous if taken directly, but had some hidden meaning,
like Stalker for example, which was a metaphor for faith.
Since i'm a christian by God's grace in Jesus, i thought when the main character took his kids from the school for home schooling, like some american christians do, and that he was investing more time on the rocket than on the material wealth of his family - it was a a metaphor for faith in Lord Jesus Christ and striving to get to heaven; it seemed somewhat in line with Jesus Christ's teaching that one must love God more than his family to be worthy and to take the cross and follow Christ, even with the risk of death.
Anyway, i'm not God and don't have the whole wisdom of the world and i might be mistaken.