October Sky (1999)

[Edgy MD]

In 1957, news of the Soviet Union's successful launch of Sputnik 1 reaches a small West Virginia mining town, and a going-nowhere high-school student named Homer is suddenly inspired to start building rockets of his own. Despite fate seemingly having other plans, he and three friends do just that, 'cuz, you know, there's more to life than just these damned mines.

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[Edgy MD]

No thoughts on this movie?

GOOD!

[TransMonk]

I liked it...been a long time since I've watched it.

Good performances all around and a compelling story. Certainly a little hokey toward the end, but if it came on the TV, I wouldn't turn the channel.

[Edgy MD]

A well-photographed slice of mid-century middle Americana. The posters proudly read FROM THE PRODUCERS OF FIELD OF DREAMS (except in Spanish-speaking countries, where the posters cry (DE LOS PRODUCTORES DE CAMPO DE SUEÑOS). Like that film, a key conflict is the struggle between a stern, working-class father and his outward-looking son, but the better parallel is probably Hoosiers, with its high-school setting and its semi-faded film stock, showing gorgeous 1950s colors dimly surviving through the conflicts of the decades.

The protagonist isn't as interesting as Gene Hackman's, of course, as the kid is the center. Also, it is perhaps harder to get an audience to be as sentimental about Cold War renegade high school rocketry experiments getting into a big science fair as it is seeing a small-town team of 5 1/2 basketball players make the state championships. Maybe that says more about me, but it struck me as under-written and sporadically edited.

Good-looking film though.

[TransMonk]

I have Peacock...I'll watch it either tonight or tomorrow night. I'd like to revisit.

[roger_that]

Denzel/Marky Mark buddy flick.

As dumb a script as I ever saw filmed.

Just the principle of "one betrayal, reversal, twist after another," so fast they couldn't be followed, plus car chases, crashes, explosions, and one scene featuring Paula Patton topless.

Recommended for boys under fifteen.

[MFS62]

Denzel/Marky Mark buddy flick.

As dumb a script as I ever saw filmed.

Just the principle of "one betrayal, reversal, twist after another," so fast they couldn't be followed, plus car chases, crashes, explosions, and one scene featuring Paula Patton topless.

Recommended for boys under fifteen.

 

Did you intend to start a new thread about 2 Guns and hit reply instead? This doesn't belong in the October Sky thread.

And when you're done correcting that, you can answer Edgy's question.

Later

[roger_that]

Denzel/Marky Mark buddy flick.

As dumb a script as I ever saw filmed.

Just the principle of "one betrayal, reversal, twist after another," so fast they couldn't be followed, plus car chases, crashes, explosions, and one scene featuring Paula Patton topless.

Recommended for boys under fifteen.

 

Did you intend to start a new thread about 2 Guns and hit reply instead? This doesn't belong in the October Sky thread.

And when you're done correcting that, you can answer Edgy's question.

Later

Quite right. I will correct. Did Edgy ask me a question? I missed that.

[MFS62]

And when you're done correcting that, you can answer Edgy's question.

Later

Quite right. I will correct. Did Edgy ask me a question? I missed that.

I think it was in one of the political threads a while ago.

Later