Buffy ,'Potential'
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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.)
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.
This just in: Knocked Up is really funny.
I *LOVE* the final episode.
Pffft. Like you're normal.
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!
Loren Dean puts on a Chicago accent for no explicit reason
Was he the kid genius who worked Ken Mattingly on the start-up procedure? If so, he was HAWT!! When I first saw Apollo 13 in the theater, I told my mom afterwards that the guy who played that NASA guy was drool-worthy, even in those horn-rim glasses.
IRL, that NASA guy was also the one who saved the Apollo 12 launch by telling the astronauts to "Try SCE to aux," as shown in From the Earth...:
"FCE to aux? What the hell is that?" Pete
"No--SCE, not FCE..." Mission Control
"I know what that is!" Al, who saves the day
So I checked the AFI Top 100 Movie list and I've seen 95.
I haven't seen:
Raging Bull
High Noon
Sunrise
The Gold Rush
In the Heat of the Night
Raging Bull is just a weird oddity in my film going since I've been holding out to see it on screen instead of on a TV and though it's played around SF at the rep theaters, I've never managed to go.
This list on Wikipedia also notes which movies were bumped.
I can't believe they bumped The Third Man and The Manchurian Candidate and Frankenstein!
In The Heat Of The Night? Seriously?
Dude. Remiss.
Dude. Remiss.
The Gold Rush too.
Five isn't so bad. I can knock those off this year.
How many have you seen?
Probably very few (I can't really look at the list from here). But I'm not a movie buff, nor from around these parts.