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.
I've seen about half of them.
I'm really bad--I've only seen 58 of those films all the way through.
That's better than me! And I even counted
A Night at the Opera,
which I may have fallen asleep during. I was disappointed, after all the hype. It was no
Duck Soup.
Pulp Fiction and Goodfellas were in the 90s on that list. So last night we had to develop an oral macro for "THIS is better than Pulp Fiction/Goodfellas?" And once Godfather II came in at 32, "This is better than PF/G/G2?!" I have to say, it's a very Western-heavy list.
The biggest chunk of that list I haven't seen is from the 1960s and '70s--Godfather, Graduate, Raging Bull, Chinatown, and a lot more on my to-be-watched list.
