I'm not even a fan of space stuff, and don't get me started on my Tom Hanks rant, but From the Earth to the Moon is some of the very best television of all time.
Congratulations to the class of 1999. You all proved more or less adequate.
Snyder ,'Chosen'
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beekaytee - Jun 20, 2007 3:45:28 pm PDT #9362 of 10001
Compassionately intolerant
Kathy A - Jun 20, 2007 3:55:09 pm PDT #9363 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
From the Earth to the Moon was one of my first DVD purchases, and is still the most I've spent on a DVD set to date (I keep looking longingly at the I, Claudius set, though...). I remember seeing the "1968" episode in its first run at my dad's (he had HBO) and enjoying it, but bought the set just because I'd heard how good the entire series was, and I was right to do so.
The weakest eps (for me) are the ones on Apollo 7, Apollo 13 (although concentrating on the media was an interesting approach, it didn't really fit in with the rest of the series), and Apollo 16 (even though the wives did deserve their own episode, I just don't go back and rewatch it at all). My favorites are Apollo 12, the LEM ep, Apollo 15 (for the sheer scientific geekery of it all), and the gut-wrenching Apollo 1.
Aims - Jun 20, 2007 4:29:29 pm PDT #9364 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
the LEM ep
SPIDER!!!
"What you did was good. Not this...this is bad."
Love that series. Like woah I love that series. Except the final episode.
Sean K - Jun 20, 2007 4:37:03 pm PDT #9365 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
I *LOVE* the final episode.
So there.
Frankenbuddha - Jun 20, 2007 4:50:55 pm PDT #9366 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
What exactly is the premise of this AFI 100? Just the greatest films? I love to disagree with these (though I can't fault a large number of choices, except maybe as top 100), but they aren't giving me any context (especially when they flashed back to the last decade of AFI topics).
Nutty - Jun 20, 2007 4:54:37 pm PDT #9367 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
I always liked the stuff happening in Houston
What I liked about that part of the film was that those characters most of them didn't even have last names (if they even had first names), but they were well-cast and distinctive and looked like real people and plausibly geeky. (Also, Loren Dean puts on a Chicago accent for no explicit reason, and hearing geeks talk nasal-Chicago is twice as funny.)
Amy - Jun 20, 2007 5:16:16 pm PDT #9368 of 10001
Because books.
What exactly is the premise of this AFI 100?
Morgan Freeman's introduction explained that it's still the 100 greatest American films, but that the list has changed in the past 10 years, to reflect attitudes, add new films, etc.
It shames me every time I watch one of these things how many films I still haven't seen, or have only seen bits and pieces of. Probably watching shows like this.
Polter-Cow - Jun 20, 2007 8:03:30 pm PDT #9369 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
This just in: Knocked Up is really funny.
Aims - Jun 21, 2007 4:12:26 am PDT #9370 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
I *LOVE* the final episode.
Pffft. Like you're normal.
Kathy A - Jun 21, 2007 7:21:39 am PDT #9371 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I like all the Harrison "Jack" Schmidt stuff in both the final episode and the Apollo 15 ep. The fact that NASA caved in and put a geologist on the moon in the final moon shot was a victory for all science geeks!