Countdown (1967)

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   nbats

   https://ww2.m4ufree.com/watch-oc66a 1 year 4 months ago
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   Siskoid

   Cards on the table, I have a bias for pretty much any realistic astronaut narrative. Countdown may be an alternate take of America's first moon shot - released almost a year before Apollo 8 went round the Moon, 18 months before Apollo 11 landed, 28 months before Apollo 13 - but it was made in and around NASA and without being strictly procedural, feels very authentic. This was Robert Altman's first film after 10 years of working exclusively in TV, and so his vision was compromised by the studio who fired him for overlapping dialog (it's part of the realism, dunderheads!) and changed the ending (which isn't much more satisfying than Altman's ambiguous downer). James Caan and Robert Duvall are good as competing astronauts who have to put aside their differences if they're to beat the Russians in a closer space race than history's, but what I most liked, character-wise, was the glimpse into their family lives, and the toll the space program takes on them. Both endings are lacking on closure for the people on Earth, but that's the only time I really felt let down. Otherwise, lots of tension and verisimilitude, even in the training scenes. Definitely interesting to see how the fiction compares to the eventual truth. If you're not a space nut like I am, feel free to knock one star off my score. 5 years 9 months ago
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   benhere

   https://ok.ru/video/841757952635 4 years 5 months ago

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