October sky

I received on good word(one cryer girl, one non cryer girl, and two non cryer boys) that this movie was a tear jerker. So when Dave and I got the store last night he started looking for his standard fair (movies containing the most ownage/hour) to bolster his ego or pump him up or what ever I was... feeling it... not so much.

I was going to do a peek into the mysteries of Dave like other blogs have promised to do about Joanna (and failed) So here it is. Dave likes to cry. he likes to see the sadest thing ever and not cry but thats only so he can bottle it up and then let it fly when the time comes.

Anyway we watched this movie. It was very cute. about a group of three cool kids and one VERY cool kid who also happened to be a scrawny redheaded nerd. The era is one when the first russian satelite was launched. It was called sputnick (for those less educated) and all it did was beep. It was kinda funny though people were suspicious and thought it was "takin pitchurs uv ar missle bayses" or that I would drop a bomb on us.

Ooh this reminds me of the other night when I was standing in the church parking lot in the dark and able to see the sky and all the beautiful stars for the first time in what feels like more than a year I saw a satelite reflect the sun on a solar pannel. It was like the star got all bright and then faded back to a normal star really quick.

Any way october sky is about kids who bulid rockets and live in a mineing town. its about dreams and deafeat and dads and death (his dad doesn't die, no one in the movie does... riddle me that:)

So Dave and I watched it and we just about laughed our heads off. there was a part where one character is brooding and there is slow gun fire coming from behind him, you can't see what he's shooting at and it turns out to be his junker car. I had to turn it off so Dave could finish laughing.

Very good movie all in all though. probably has good special features though I didn't check. .8 mandibles out of 1