Apollo 10 1/2 (Richard Linklater, April 1, 2022) Movie

A coming-of-age story set in the suburbs of Houston, Texas in the summer of 1969, centered around the historic Apollo 11 moon landing

 

Will it be good Linklater or bad Linklater? It is so hard to guess in advance.

 

hm

 

wishful thinking, but this seemingly being way more personal/tied to linklater's interests than bernadette or last flag flying may point to him at least being in his bag to some extent again

 

Definitely intrigued by this one.

 

hope it's good

 

It’s pretty intriguing. Love the rotoscope animation and I think it works well for trying to give Linklater’s memories a uniform quality.

Kind of like “Waking Life,” there’s not a ton of story. It’s basically a memory dump of Linklater’s childhood experiences in the late ‘60s. Maybe it’s a little too “‘60s, back in my day” Boomer Facebook memes and Jack Black’s narration can be a little too precious. I still think it’s worth a watch.

 

Really don’t like that kind of rotoscoping animation that Linklater seems to love so much

 

Then this will not be up your alley.

 

Everything with space in this was awesome, the 60s culture stuff was just meh but I don't think the space stuff could have stretched out to fill a 90 minute movie.

 

me neither, it's ugly.

 

This was the most boomer shit I’ve ever seen, but it’s a pretty cozy watch. Feels like an “I Love The ‘60s” doc for most of the runtime

 

texas rick back

 

The number of copies bought by @OhTheWater alone should have made the movie break even.

 

We did have 2 VHS tapes of it

 

man hell yeah

 

bullshit

 

I quite liked this film

 

I didn’t even realize this came out.

 

Good!