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Aug 31^st, 2012 at 10:36pm

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How about a new contest to replace the old Alien Mating Cry?

What about EASTWOODING!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mv2zFoopmlk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbhAWslgEis

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Reply #1 - Sep 1^st, 2012 at 5:55am

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How about a tribute to Neil Armstrong with some trip to the moon movies. On September 12 it will be 50 years from President Kennedy's "We will go to the Moon" speech at Rice University.

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Reply #2 - Sep 1^st, 2012 at 6:03am

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Isn't there a scene in the 1933 Invisible Man where Claude Rains' voice has a fireside conversation with his antagonist?

Your Eastwooding idea has merrit. I wonder if there are any Facebook followers who are capable of a long-winded, incoherent political rant? Wink

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Reply #3 - Sep 2^nd, 2012 at 2:09pm

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Rich Bartlett wrote on Sep 1^st, 2012 at 5:55am:

How about a tribute to Neil Armstrong with some trip to the moon movies. On September 12 it will be 50 years from President Kennedy's "We will go to the Moon" speech at Rice University.

I like it. SOME tribute of some kind is in order.

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Reply #4 - Sep 2^nd, 2012 at 7:49pm

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PANTS UP. DON'T LOOT.

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Reply #5 - Sep 5^th, 2012 at 8:38am

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Rich Bartlett: How about a tribute to Neil Armstrong with some trip to the moon movies.

I vote yea! Too bad that "Moon" and "The Dish" ran recently.

-Rocketship X-M (1950)
-First Men in the Moon (1964) was remade by the BBC (2010)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1535107/
-Capricorn I (1977)

The latter inspired an alarming number* of conspiricy theorists that think that Neil and Buzz were in a "Trip to the Moon Movie". Wink

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Meanwhile, on the "Curiosity" set... Wink

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*In this instance, even one is an alarming number.

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Reply #6 - Sep 6^th, 2012 at 1:31pm

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LA:
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What about EASTWOODING!

Bob Newhart tweeted
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"I hear that Clint Eastwood was channeling me at the RNC. My lawyers and I are drafting a lawsuit."

(#RNC2012 #GOP2012 #ClintEastwood)

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Reply #7 - Sep 7^th, 2012 at 7:56am

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RE: "Moon" theme - please note note in "Iron Sky" thread eleswhere on this site.

And there's that 1922 silent German epic out there somewhere - "Woman on the Moon" or something - that turns out to be interesting, bizarre and a bit prescient, after all. (All its spaceship graphics look just like the ones we were fed by Disney in the 1950s, but 30 years earlier.)

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Reply #8 - Sep 7^th, 2012 at 9:33am

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And there's that 1922 silent German epic out there somewhere - "Woman on the Moon" or something - that turns out to be interesting

Yes, I recommend "Die Frau im Mond" (Woman in the Moon, By Rocket to the Moon) having seen it on Netflix a year ago. It's visually beautiful having been directed by "Metropolis" director Fritz Lang.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0019901/

It even features the tall german actor Fritz Rasp, who played the spy in "Metropolis".
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0003248/

One thing to look for is the launch countdown sequence, which Lang added to produce dramatic tension. Years later real rocket scientists would use it.

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Reply #9 - Sep 7^th, 2012 at 4:43pm

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The Original Eastwooder:

Presidents Lincoln (left) and Obama (right)

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Reply #10 - Sep 12^th, 2012 at 6:50pm

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I'm kinda thinking the Armstrong tribute is the way to go.
SF38 A giant leap for marathoidkind.

Throw in some moon films (Apollo 18, Lunopolis, Iron Sky) maybe some astronaut related films like Capricorn One Destination Moon, Right Stuff and we have a good theme set

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Reply #11 - Sep 14^th, 2012 at 2:11pm

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I doubt we will wrap the Marathon theme around Neil Armstrong and the Moon - not, that I wouldn't be for it.

By the way, has anybody ever bought one of the Spacecraft Films DVD sets?

http://www.spacecraftfilms.com/

They are INSANELY detailed. I watched part of the Apollo 11 set in honor of Armstrong. Talk about overload! Just about every scrap of film and tape related to the mission are on the 3 discs.

da_Bunnyman wrote on Sep 12^th, 2012 at 6:50pm:

I'm kinda thinking the Armstrong tribute is the way to go.
SF38 A giant leap for marathoidkind.

Throw in some moon films (Apollo 18, Lunopolis, Iron Sky) maybe some astronaut related films like Capricorn One Destination Moon, Right Stuff and we have a good theme set

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Reply #12 - Sep 15^th, 2012 at 4:51pm

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hey i think armstrong was 38 when he went to the moon.

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Reply #13 - Sep 15^th, 2012 at 9:56pm

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kirok wrote on Sep 15^th, 2012 at 4:51pm:

hey i think armstrong was 38 when he went to the moon.

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Reply #14 - Sep 16^th, 2012 at 7:10pm

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da_Bunnyman wrote on Sep 15^th, 2012 at 9:56pm:

kirok wrote on Sep 15^th, 2012 at 4:51pm:

hey i think armstrong was 38 when he went to the moon.

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and! 3+8 = 11 (apollo 11) which by itself is not very amazing. but when you consider that 11 is the fifth prime number and apollo 11 was the fifth flight mission of the apollo program then you must pause and absorb the impact that this has apon a theme choice.

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