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Title: "The Astronaut Farmer"...an actual libertarian movie?
Post by: Manedwolf on February 17, 2007, 11:27:50 AM
I, for one, am shocked.

Go here:

http://movies.go.com/trailer?cid=864293&vid=864294

And click on the clip called "if we don't have our dreams, we have nothing"...wherein Billy Bob Thornton gives investigators a speech about how we have laws to protect from ourselves, laws to protect us from other laws...

And the whole plot is apparently about a guy in Texas who rebuilds a 1960's-tech booster in his barn, designs a capsule for it to take it up, and everyone from the FBI to the FAA is trying to stop him, just because laws must be laws, and it, of course, could be a threat.

DAMN. About time! It really looks like a good "American pride" movie, about...just when, exactly, did we stop wondering, and when was that once upon a time when people could look at the space program with awe and national pride?



I can't believe this came out of Hollywood. "Field of Dreams" with rockets.
Title: Re: "The Astronaut Farmer"...an actual libertarian movie?
Post by: BobR on February 17, 2007, 01:36:26 PM
This is the first movies in years that I have actually been looking forward to being released so I can go see it.

bob
Title: Re: "The Astronaut Farmer"...an actual libertarian movie?
Post by: CAnnoneer on February 17, 2007, 03:28:52 PM
Should be fun and a nice break from most of Hollywood's streak in horror and hopelessness.
Title: Re: "The Astronaut Farmer"...an actual libertarian movie?
Post by: RevDisk on February 17, 2007, 07:09:25 PM

Reminds me of Bruce Simpson.

http://www.interestingprojects.com/cruisemissile/
Title: Re: "The Astronaut Farmer"...an actual libertarian movie?
Post by: Sindawe on February 18, 2007, 05:47:43 AM
I'm looking foward to seeing this since I like Billy Bob Thornton's work.  The premise does sound like a rework of the short lived TV series Salvage 1, which starred Andy Griffith.  Who's work I'm also a fan of.
Title: Re: "The Astronaut Farmer"...an actual libertarian movie?
Post by: DJJ on February 18, 2007, 05:53:19 AM
Is Billy Bob going to use a concrete mixer as a capsule?  cheesy
Title: Re: "The Astronaut Farmer"...an actual libertarian movie?
Post by: TarpleyG on February 19, 2007, 01:49:13 AM
I like the line in the trailer when the "Powers-that-be" ask him if he's building a WMD.  He stated that if he was, they couldn't find it.

Greg
Title: Re: "The Astronaut Farmer"...an actual libertarian movie?
Post by: wingnutx on February 19, 2007, 09:09:25 AM
Looks like a remake of "Salvage 1".