Hidden Figures: we wuz space kangz

i hope the line BAZINGA is used at least once

Music and production by pharrell williams! I'm in.

Hoping for hidden figures 2: The 399,999 other people who helped with really smart space stuff.

Turns out this is a pretty good movie.

It's still obama-son loving bullshit lies. How exactly is it good?

1) Get "them" to acknowledge reality and admit we actually went to the moon
2) ???
3) Profit

When do they do the oscars?

Seems like they nailed oscar bait and cashgrab both at the same time.

I haven't seen it. I wouldn't be that surprised if it is actually a decent movie. But these kind of political pieces do need to be judged by the meta message.

Wolf of Wall Street is a trash movie, even if it was entertaining.

Some of you are acting like "based on a true story" has ever been anything more than a loosely applied marketing tool used by an industry largely built on the peddling of fiction. When a largely accurate retelling of real life events doesn't make for a compelling story they embellish, sometimes heavily. It has always been thus.

Leadsalad said:

It's still obama-son loving bullshit lies. How exactly is it good?

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The main character's Wikipedia matches up pretty perfect with the movie story, what exactly is the lie here?

Known for accuracy in computerized celestial navigation, her technical work at NASA spanned decades during which she participated in calculating the trajectories, launch windows, and emergency back-up return paths for many flights from Project Mercury, including the early NASA missions of John Glenn and Alan Shepard, the 1969 Apollo 11 flight to the Moon, through the Space Shuttle program and plans for a Mission to Mars.

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Every time I watch a 'based on a true story' movie I go and ruin it by looking up the actual story afterwards. Most of the times what they take from the source material is just names and places. Apparently end results don't even matter that much.

Lenas said:

The main character's Wikipedia matches up pretty perfect with the movie story, what exactly is the lie here?

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There wasn't a couple minorities shouldering the entire burden of NASA on their backs. There literally was multiple teams of mathematicians and scientists double checking each others work but they Captain Philips-ed it up with the SJW.

I still dont get why the ruined the Leo movie revenant when the true story was much more entertaining. Movie managed to make the story boring and also unbelievable when it shouldnt have been

Malakriss said:

There wasn't a couple minorities shouldering the entire burden of NASA on their backs. There literally was multiple teams of mathematicians and scientists double checking each others work but they Captain Philips-ed it up with the SJW.

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I mean, this movie still had entire teams of people working on solving problems. The main character 90% of the time was just checking other people's work. Did you watch it?

Just watched this and really liked it. Katherine was checking work because she wasn't allowed to do her own work essentially. Then she started showing them that she knew her shit, insisting she gets in on briefings, etc. I have no idea how much of or which parts of the story were true, but I enjoyed it.

/csb
I cant seem to find a clip but Vice News had an interesting interview with the director over the fact Ms. Johnson always used the white bathroom but chose to make it a point in the film that she did not. When confronted with this he doubled down on his reasoning (don't recall exactly because it seemed stupid). IMO it would have been a far more powerful statement for her to flip the bird and use the white woman's bathroom as she did in RL.

Anyway, just an interesting fact, given the current context of discussion.

I read a bit more about them. When computers started to get better, one of the characters in this ended up getting into programming and tried to teach the calculator women how to program as well so they could stay relevant.

Cybsled said:

I read a bit more about them. When computers started to get better, one of the characters in this ended up getting into programming and tried to teach the calculator women how to program as well so they could stay relevant.

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So, exactly as the movie depicts her.

How black is the main character? My grandma looked more black than Katherine Johnson in some of these photos