Digging into the Disney Channel and came across this. Essentially an updated retelling of the US race to space. I remember the original movie being one of the first if not the first movie I’d ever seen in a theater. So far I’m only two episodes in but it’s pretty good. More in depth than the movie due to its 7 episodes. Good special effects but not great. More in depth about the actual astronauts. So far it’s been better than average and worth a watch if you are interested in that part of history.

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I've enjoyed it so far, but I'm annoyed that they cut out Chuck Yeager.

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Chuck Yeager was the most interesting story of the movie, damn.

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There are only two examples of infinity: The universe and human stupidity and I'm not sure about the universe.

Damn, my first was Blackula, followed by a Shaft knock off or two, then Blazing Saddles. My parents took us to those, but wouldn't take us to see The Exorcist. Go figure.

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There are only two examples of infinity: The universe and human stupidity and I'm not sure about the universe.

Glamorous Glennis was the highlight of my Smithsonian Air and Space trip a few years ago. Not the Spirit of St Louis or the Wright Bros plane. The X-1 was the star to me.

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Assuming we’re not counting cartoons mine were Disney movies featuring Kurt Russell as Dexter and I loved the Worlds Greatest Athlete.

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“Mr. Trump is unfit for our nation’s highest office.”- JD Vance
“My god, what an !diot.”- JD Vance tweet on Trump
“I’m a ‘Never Trump’ guy”- JD Vance

Went there in '88, I had the exact same star. Felt like that it should've been in the Museum of Science and Industry where I lived as a kid.

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There are only two examples of infinity: The universe and human stupidity and I'm not sure about the universe.

Back then my mom picked the movies, if there was a kid's movie she thought was good, she'd make the whole school go see it. She was the principal. At home was decidedly different.

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There are only two examples of infinity: The universe and human stupidity and I'm not sure about the universe.

Yep

The movie was added to HBO Max this month, too. Haven’t seen it in a few years, but it’s in my list of things to watch soon.

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Dang I can't remember what my first movie was.

Probably a Disney one though, as they only came back around every 7 years back then.

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We Now Know That JOE BIDEN has been COMPROMISED by CHINA! (let that sink in)

Election 2020-The Largest Fraud in the History of Mankind.

*If you believe that Biden won, you also believe that Epstein killed himself*

Mine may have been Oliver! I remember going to see the re-release of Fantasia when I was pretty young. My sister and I thought it was boring and my mom hated it so we left in the middle. My dad took me to see The Green Berets when I was very young too. To this day I'm haunted by Jim Hutton being impaled on that booby trap.

Where'd you see those blaxploitation movies, Reader, the Oriental or the Woods?

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

I sorta remember a few minutes of 2001: A Space Odyssey...then my mom walked us out.

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Back then we had four old line movie houses that were less than a five minute drive to. I didn't go downtown to the movies until the early 80s when the neighborhood spots were all gone.

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There are only two examples of infinity: The universe and human stupidity and I'm not sure about the universe.

I don't know why but your post brought back vague memories of the opening sequences of The Godfather viewed from the back seat of a station wagon at a Drive-In theater somewhere near Decatur. I mostly remember waking up as we drove home.

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“Mr. Trump is unfit for our nation’s highest office.”- JD Vance
“My god, what an !diot.”- JD Vance tweet on Trump
“I’m a ‘Never Trump’ guy”- JD Vance

First Movie in the theater for me was Masters of the Universe, which apparently I demanded to see 3 times in the theater. I do not remember that. But my mom says it was the beginning of my obsessive personality.

One of the better exchanges in that movie...

Guy Driving Jeep (pointing to a charred Chuck Yeager emerging from the smoke of his crashed F-104): Over there. Is that a man?

Levon Helm: You damn right it is.

I always found it funny how after Yeager banged up his arm, he still managed to stick with the test flights by using a piece of a broomstick to close the plane's canopy.

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There are only two examples of infinity: The universe and human stupidity and I'm not sure about the universe.

I was too young to understand the sample they were trying to extract from the pilots applying to be astronaughts. I thought they were just going to the bathroom.

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

I just checked and Chuck Yeager is still alive and kicking at 97 years old. Damn.

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The Right Stuff movie is as old for my kids as the first talking movies are to me.

I get a little depressed when I hear these types of comparisons.

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.