{"id":175,"date":"2007-10-14T19:52:27","date_gmt":"2007-10-15T03:52:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobandeileen.com\/?p=175"},"modified":"2007-10-14T19:53:01","modified_gmt":"2007-10-15T03:53:01","slug":"more-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bobandeileen.com\/?p=175","title":{"rendered":"More Movies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='http:\/\/www.bobandeileen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/10n.thumbnail.jpg' alt='In the Shadow of the Moon' \/> <img src='http:\/\/www.bobandeileen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/10m.thumbnail.jpg' alt='Elizabeth: the Golden Age' \/>We watched two very good movies recently, so I thought I&#8217;d share my thoughts.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/title\/tt0925248\/\">In the Shadow of the Moon<\/a> is a documentary by Ron Howard about the NASA moon landings. It contains a number of interviews with nine of the living astronauts who landed on the Moon in the 1969-1972. The video footage was worth seeing, much of it I hadn&#8217;t seen before. But the stories are all very familiar if you have seen <em>Apollo 13<\/em> and <em>From the Earth to the Moon<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Disappointingly, Neil Armstrong did not participate. I worry that we might never hear his story in his own words, which would be a real tragedy. This film did contain a line (by Alan Bean, if I recall correctly) saying that it is very hard to be Neil Armstrong simply because he can never live up to the expectations.<\/p>\n<p>The other film we saw was <a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/title\/tt0414055\/\">Elizabeth: The Golden Age<\/a>, the sequel to the 1998 film <em>Elizabeth<\/em>. Eileen is a fan of this period of English history and was eager to see it. This film is visually stunning and quite dramatic although the storyline doesn&#8217;t really come together very tightly. The script also took a few small liberties with the historical facts, which was also disappointing. However the visuals are worth overlooking these small foibles.<\/p>\n<p>Seen any great (or bad) movies recently?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We watched two very good movies recently, so I thought I&#8217;d share my thoughts. In the Shadow of the Moon is a documentary by Ron Howard about the NASA moon landings. It contains a number of interviews with nine of the living astronauts who landed on the Moon in the 1969-1972. The video footage was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobandeileen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobandeileen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobandeileen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobandeileen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobandeileen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobandeileen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobandeileen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobandeileen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobandeileen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}