In 1985, CBS heavily promoted SPACE, their 13-hour miniseries based on the James Michener novel. Harry Hamlin and James Garner were among the many actors involved. Music was by Miles Goodman and Tony Berg, who split composing duties.
In 1985, CBS heavily promoted SPACE, their 13-hour miniseries based on the James Michener novel. Harry Hamlin and James Garner were among the many actors involved. Music was by Miles Goodman and Tony Berg, who split composing duties.
I only saw the first two episodes, it premiered during an HBO free weekend promotion. I really liked it. I've never seen the rest of the series. I wasn't subscribed to HBO and the proceeding VHS and DVD sets were way to expensive.
I haven't seen FIRST MAN. Some of the silliness in THE RIGHT STUFF really detracts from the movie. I've read that many associated with the space program hated the movie. I like APOLLO 13 a lot.
Agree. I loved Wolfe's book and am a.big fan of the space program. But, the humour fell flat and seemed from another movie. FIRST MAN was a big let down.
13.worked on many story levels. Howards best film. Brm
It may or may not be difficult to judge "The Right Stuff" if you've only seen it on the confines of a home theater system -- even on a very good large screen. Back in the day I was there on opening night in NYC -- and the thunderous sound mix and epic design of the film was truly overpowering. The audiences (I saw it three times that weekend) all loved it. It was a wonderful "movie" experience to share with an audience. I tried watching it at home not long ago -- and it just wasn't the same. The vistas seemed cramped -- the walls of my apartment weren't shaking and threatening to self destruct with shattering bass -- and the close ups simply didn't "land." The jokes also seemed jokier -- less balanced by the grand, epic tone of the film when seen in large format projection, super-duper sound.
One of my favorite scenes in TRS still remains the one where Goldblum and Shearer are seasick, and they're trying to talk... I lose it every time(No... not my lunch!)
You thought that was funny. You actually, truly felt that was fumny?
The First Man will go toe to toe in the best picture category against "A Star is Born".
I figured that with its made-for-IMAX scenes, FIRST MAN would play in my local multiplex's premium house...and that's where it opened last Friday. But after the weekend, because of what I assume was less than stellar attendance, it was pulled and replaced with A STAR IS BORN.
Like many "set in the Sixties/ Seventies films*,.. the director chose to shoot the film on film in. lo-res formats: Super35 and Super16, Techniscope. So, we get to see lotsa film grain - hooray! Plus much of the film was shaky- cam.
For folks who complained.the film was " depressing". Imagine how it was for those of us who are buffs. We know the names Grissom, White, Chaffee. We knew they were going to fry
the director chose to shoot the film on film in. lo-res formats: Super35 and Super16
That's an over-simplification.
"First Man" used Super 35 for terrestrial scenes; and Super 16 for scenes on board spacecraft, usually clamped to space vehicles in ways that NASA would have used on-board motion picture cameras. Launch footage scenes involved widescreen expansions of full-gate archival 70mm NASA footage, an arcane high-res format that that Kodak developed for military use in the '60s. And all lunar surface scenes were shot in full 1.43:1 aspect ratio, on 65mm negative, with IMAX Hasselblad lenses.
Apollo 13 didn't feel the need to go retro. If I want to watch shaky cam and excessive film grain I'll watch a documentary. Don't want it in a modern day film.