Since the movie was nominated for Best Picture, and usually I like to see all the BP nominations, I wanted to see this movie. However, I am not interested in the subject at all, and movies like this ALWAYS bore me. Should I see it?
shareI would definitely recommend it.
share...not interested in the subject at all, and movies like this ALWAYS bore me...I think you have to clarify exactly which subject you are not "interested in" and what is the "this" you are referring to.
Like Milk, Florence Foster Jenkins and A Beautiful Mind to name but a few, a true story has been shaped for the mass audience and the result here is both engaging and frustrating.
shareI would recommend it. It is entertaining. They do not explain the math/calculations as in depth as they did in The Martian, but they break it down enough to be understood by most laymen.
Benoit killed 2x as many w/o a gun than Belcher did with one/S&W fighting climate change since 1852
Jmartisty: You are not interested in the space race, the civil rights movement, the women's movement? Obviously, you should not see this movie, or any one that deals with important issues. You seem to be lacking in the traits that would allow you to appreciate such films.
shareYou should see it. I saw it tonight and thought was amazing. Stay for the credits and see what happened after to the real people. Fascinating! The movie was so well done with the clothes, the cars, the hairstyles—I lived through those times and it felt real although I didn't live in the South and never experienced the entrenched segregation they had going on there, thank God.
I loved this movie. It was funny, fascinating, and so touching at the end I was in tears. The thing that struck me the most was how government, which is so maligned by the radical right these days, was able to accomplish incredible feats of engineering by relying on talented people of different colors working together, and it was wonderful to see the progress that has been made in the area of race relations since then. One of the women featured was given the Medal of Freedom by President Obama, and I remembered seeing her get that from him but I hadn't remembered why. How amazing she is! But we can all learn something about our past and our future watching this film. I sent an immediate email when I got home to my daughter, who is a math teacher, and told her she must see it and so should her students.
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"How was the war, sir?"
"As any war—a waste of good men." (Poldark)
If you feel that 'movies like this' (I'm not sure what kind of movie you mean) always bore you, then probably not, because you'll be biased against it in advance. I've just seen it, and I thought it was excellent. The acting was very good, and I found it a thoroughly compelling film that left me feeling enormous admiration for the three ladies whose stories it portrayed. You don't have to be particularly interested in the space race, but if you're interested in history, people and how they act and react, then I'd give it a go. I thoroughly enjoyed it.
shareI would recommend it.
I don't necessarily think you have to be interested in the space program to like the movie.
But I think somebody who does have a working knowledge of sociology, government hiring programs, and government workplace rules (why the papers are not just left on the desk when she does run to the colored bathroom!) would be able to follow along. Otherwise the movie is really going to look like it has holes.
Interesting, but conveient, to see both pages of a thread have the same topic starter (applies to all thread with more than one page. :-))
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