Apollo 11

[redbird]

I saw the movie Apollo 11 this afternoon, at the Somerville Theatre, and enjoyed it. This film is very much what it says on the tin, a documentary of the Apollo 11 flight put together entirely from archival footage, and works well.

I recommend seeing this on a large screen (in a movie theatre, or maybe on a large flat-screen television, rather than something like an iPad).

I had meant to go sooner, but I've been dealing with a lingering cough; there were a few days when I wasn't exactly sick, but was still coughing enough that it seemed unkind to go to the movies. By this afternoon, I sat for more than an hour and a half without coughing at all, aided only by a single medicated cough drop.

Comments

[thnidu]

So glad you're doing better!

[emceeaich]

I'm glad you're over the cough, and it was a gorgeous movie. I cried my eyes out afterwards.

[bibliofile]

Oh, significant improvement on the cough: excellent.

[cjsmith]

Ooo, that does sound like one to see on a large screen.

(I am always coughing enough that it's unkind to go to the movies. Since approximately age sixteen, and I'm 51. But I might go anyway, for something like this.)

[redbird]

That makes sense; "I won't go to a movie this fortnight" is a very different decision than "I will never go to a movie again."

[cjsmith]

True! But I'm not a huge movie buff, and many movies are OK on a home screen, so it works out. :)

[otter]

As a child of a certain age, that does sound like an interesting documentary. I remember watching the moon landing on TV as a small child.