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What was the last movie you watched and how would you rate it?

  • jmog
    vball10set;1833174 wrote:My wife saw Hidden Figures and loved it...however, she had one question--why did it take so long for us (aka America) to discover these smart-as-hell black women who were the literally called 'computers'? You would've thought by now someone would've recognized their contributions to the space program and made it public--I mean, it's not like we're stuck in the 60's...is it?
    Um...NASA had recognized them years ago.

    As Bases linked, the one was given the Presidential Medal of Freedom a couple years ago.

    The movie depicting the story just now came out.

    Many documentaries and other TV shows have talked about this, recently the show "Timeless" a scifi about time travel had an episode about these "computers".

    They most certainly have been recognized, just well known by the mainstream population until probably this movie.
  • vball10set
    Thanks, Zunardo & bases_loaded, and reps to you both...can't wait to see the movie myself.
  • jmog
    Zunardo;1833210 wrote:Good question - as a reasonably well-read guy who read "The Right Stuff" and followed the space program from the 1960's, and who was also unaware of these women until seeing the movie this weekend (we really enjoyed it), I thought of a few reasons.

    - institutional racism, by which I mean there are a plethora of blacks in various fields who weren't known about in other facets in our history - this might be the biggest, though.

    - the collective faceless machine that is NASA consisted of so many people behind the scenes from 1955 to 1975 that the sheer numbers of talented people who were cogs in the machine don't lend themselves well to publicizing individual or small-group accomplishments, even if they were racial pioneers. Let's face it: we don't know about nerds unless they invent something popular and get to market and sell the rights themselves.

    -that Hollywood producers thought the "real" story was so dull that they were forced to invent meaner and more blatantly racist villains than actually existed.

    Kinda disappointed to learn that in reality, Dorothy Johnson's white colleagues (when she was detailed as "the computer" in the orbit computation group) pretty much accepted her and respected her work, and that things weren't AS bad as portrayed. The restroom she actually used was a heck of a lot closer, and Jim Parson's character was a fabrication.

    Still, a very apt title for the movie - "hidden" no more.
    I did read in an article that had her being quoted as saying the racism wasn't as bad as shown in the movie but still did exist. Like you said, they made it more "interesting".

    One thing that was not covered in the film was that at that time no women could be engineers, they all had to be "computers". It wasn't as much discriminatory to blacks as it was to women in general.
  • SportsAndLady
    Wasn't going to see this movie in the first place, but definitely won't be now.

    http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_587fbef7e4b0cf0ae881a304
  • Fab4Runner
    She's All That - 10/10. American classic. RIP Paul Walker, who is one of the worst actors of all time.

    High Strung - 0/10. Hilariously awful.
  • Commander of Awesome
    SportsAndLady;1833366 wrote:Wasn't going to see this movie in the first place, but definitely won't be now.

    http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_587fbef7e4b0cf0ae881a304
    Jesus, that is awful.
  • O-Trap
    SportsAndLady;1833366 wrote:Wasn't going to see this movie in the first place, but definitely won't be now.

    http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_587fbef7e4b0cf0ae881a304

    WTAF

    Look, I get that that part of the movie has to be in there, and I'm sure if you CGI it, it takes longer, but at that point, I think it's worth it.

    I hope this hurts the movie's bottom line significantly.
  • Belly35
    Dinner and a movie with the wife ...... Dinner was good.. Palumbos Italian North Canton the She Crab soup is always good. Hidden Figures was entertaining and enjoyable but I'm not going to ever look it up on Nextfix in the coming years... 5/10
  • Wolves of Babylon
    Split 9.0- Mcavoy was pretty good in this and the ending delivered.

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  • O-Trap
    Belly35;1833531 wrote:Dinner and a movie with the wife ...... Dinner was good.. Palumbos Italian North Canton the She Crab soup is always good. Hidden Figures was entertaining and enjoyable but I'm not going to ever look it up on Nextfix in the coming years... 5/10

    LOVE some good she crab soup.
  • vball10set
    Lucy- 6/10...mostly for Scarlet J looking hot
  • O-Trap
    vball10set;1833605 wrote:Lucy- 6/10...mostly for Scarlet J looking hot
    This movie seemed, to me, like what would happen if Limitless was directed by Quentin Tarantino.
  • Classyposter58
    Bridge of Spies- 9/10


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  • jmog
    SportsAndLady;1833366 wrote:Wasn't going to see this movie in the first place, but definitely won't be now.

    http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_587fbef7e4b0cf0ae881a304
    The whole story from the film's producer. He admits where wrong happened but still calls out where the media got it way wrong.

    I suggest reading this, real insight.

    http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/gavin-polone-a-dogs-purpose-outcry-what-happened-whos-blame-967160
  • jmog
    Bored on a work trip so saw new XXX movie.

    2/10, and that's being generous. Some decent action but overall terrible movie.
  • SportsAndLady
    Anyone see the HBO documentary called the slender man?
  • friendfromlowry
    SportsAndLady;1834136 wrote:Anyone see the HBO documentary called the slender man?


    Have it on my DVR - haven't pulled the trigger yet. Expecting to be very disturbed, though.
  • Belly35
    SportsAndLady;1834136 wrote:Anyone see the HBO documentary called the slender man?
    No but I will look it up now. The wife is into English Royal Family history ... between The Crown and now Victoria Thursday evening is a night with the Brits... :) I'm kinda of interested but ... Not really...
    note: not a movie ...short story filmed to tell a ongoing story ...like the movie. Rocky....1 thru 99,
  • Commander of Awesome
    SportsAndLady;1834136 wrote:Anyone see the HBO documentary called the slender man?
    No, tell me more. Esp now that I have an HBO GO log in.
  • SportsAndLady
    Commander of Awesome;1834215 wrote:No, tell me more. Esp now that I have an HBO GO log in.
    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slender_Man_stabbing

    Friend watched it and said it was creepy, but good. Going to watch soon but just wondering if anyone else had seen it.
  • wildcats20
    Law and Order SVU did a ripped from the headlines episode of that a few years ago. Fucking weird as hell.
  • Laley23
    Magnificent Seven (2016) - 7.3/10
  • O-Trap
    Laley23;1834274 wrote:Magnificent Seven (2016) - 7.3/10
    Well, that was specific.
  • vball10set
    O-Trap;1834312 wrote:Well, that was specific.
    it's Laley
  • Automatik
    Seeing Arrival tomorrow. I've heard good things!