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Screensize: 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1280 x 1024 UserName: Password: Format Mode: Basic  Help  Prompt  Format: Font Andale Mono Arial Arial Black Book Antiqua Century Gothic Comic Sans MS Courier New Georgia Impact Lucida Console Script MT Bold Stencil Tahoma Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Verdana   Size 1 2 3 4 5 6   Color Black Red Yellow Pink Green Orange Purple Blue Beige Brown Teal Navy Maroon LimeGreen Message: Smilies [quote][i]Originally posted by GHcool[/i] [br]I thought I'd give some good word of mouth to a movie I just came back from seeing called [i]In the Shadow of the Moon[/i]. It is a documentary about the Apollo missions now in a limited theatrical release in the United States. [url="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0925248/releaseinfo"]According to IMDb[/url], it will be playing later this year in the UK and early next year in Australia. Its very rare that a film moves me to tears and even rarer that a film moves me to tears of happiness and pride. By the time the lights went on, there wasn't a dry eye in the house. Most of you are pretty well-informed, so you probably won't learn any new facts about space exploration from this movie, but this isn't a technical/scientific movie. Its an extremely emotional, sometimes spiritual, retelling of the Apollo missions (with special emphasis on Apollo 11) told through interviews of the 5 surviving astronauts from the period and through beautiful and humbling film and television footage taken from the voyages and from the period. The message is that the human race is capable of fulfilling its own dreams and that the Earth is "the Garden of Eden," as one astronaut put it, and we often don't recognize it. Highly recommended. [/quote]    -  HTML is OFF | Forum Code is ON   Check here to include your profile signature.