New Movie Coming: "First Man"

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New Movie Coming: "First Man"

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Looking forward to this one!

Preview here...

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/29/movi ... 80831&te=1

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Re: NEW MOVIE COMING

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Thanks for the info Tom. I to look forward to seeing this one.
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Yes, I to am looking forward to this one. It holds something no other movie can provide for people my age (73), "participation". No one was there to even record Columbus setting foot on the Western Hemisphere. We didn't see the blast of the first atomic bomb until months after the fact. We have to be told about so many historical events. But not this one. We lived it. We "participated" as we watched in real time man's greatest achievement to date.

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Club movie field trip?
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Well said, Don. I truly identify with your perspective.

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That's not a bad idea, Bruce. Glad I came up with it. :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

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Thanks Tom let it be known you are the motivating force behind the field trip !
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Genius, Tom, genius.
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I've read that one scene intentionally left out of the movie is the planting of the US flag on the moon. :roll:
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Mark don't get me started!
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