"The Astronaut Farmer"...an actual libertarian movie?

[Manedwolf]

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.

[BobR]

This is the first movies in years that I have actually been looking forward to being released so I can go see it.

bob

[CAnnoneer]

Should be fun and a nice break from most of Hollywood's streak in horror and hopelessness.

[RevDisk]

Reminds me of Bruce Simpson.

http://www.interestingprojects.com/cruisemissile/

[Sindawe]

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.

[DJJ]

Is Billy Bob going to use a concrete mixer as a capsule? 

[TarpleyG]

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

[wingnutx]

Looks like a remake of "Salvage 1".