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Tuesday, October 9th, 2018 4:48 PM

Live Poll: Favorite Film About NASA

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4 years ago

Lots of films that I rate highly on this list, but hands down The Right Stuff (1983).

There seems to be a lot of films listed where the whole plot revolves around NASA and few were it only is a minor part of the film. I would cull the couple options aren't NASA-centric: Men in Black 3 (2012), Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011) My Favorite Martian (1999),Tomorrowland (2015), Geostorm (2017)? In some of these movies the NASA link is a single scene or a minor plot point, even though some are listed in Category:Films about NASA - Wikipedia, the connection is very weak.

Movies like Armageddon (1998), Space Cowboys (2000), Contact (1997), Countdown (1967) or Life (2017) would be a far better movies to list as NASA is part of the movies from beginning to end.

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Hi Benu,
Thanks for your valuable input. I have added your suggestions.

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I would give some thought to Countdown (1967)  a Robert Altman film  with James Caan and Robert Duvall, as it was the first major movie about NASA and trailblazed the way for all the other NASA movies. It has a pretty novel plot about NASA going to the moon even before we went two years latter or figured actually how to do it. Plus, it will give some balance with a token older film to the poll. It still gets shown on Turner Classic Movies, so it still has relevance today and is more widely seen than the IMDb votes indicate.

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Stafford, Jeff. "Articles: Countdown." Turner Classic Movies. Retrieved: May 18, 2013.

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Thanks Benu!

I have added 'Countdown'.

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4 years ago

Apollo 13

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4 years ago

See 2 many to choose, mine total 5 movies.

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My vote: Interstellar (2014). 

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my pix: Apollo 13, Right Stuff, Gravity, Hidden Figures,Marooned, & agree on Countdown

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4 years ago

add X15 (Charles Bronson as test pilot)

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X-15 (1961) fits the subject, although it doesn't have many IMDb votes.

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I third X-15 (1961). It's a watchable film that comes across as a NASA PR film.

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I would add it if it had at least 1,000 votes. Currently, only 473 votes...

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4 years ago

Love your polls, great!

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Thank you Breu!

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4 years ago

Congratulations Dibyayan_Chakravorty on your 439th live poll! As of 17-Oct-2018 8:31 PM Pacific your polls have 1,232,882 or more votes, for an average of 2,808 votes per poll.

Favorite Film About NASA
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4 years ago

DC,

Your poll is currently on the IMDb Home Page.

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Thank you Dan! I just saw this.

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4 years ago

Congratulations Dibyayan_Chakravorty. This is the 76th time your poll has been featured at IMDb Home Page (http://www.imdb.com) since July 28, 2015.

06 November 2018: Favorite Film About NASA - https://www.imdb.com/poll/sUKQd5ol1Dg/ (A poll by Dibyayan_Chakravorty)


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They can make a poll twice in the homepage? Did that happen before? I think it did once... 
But seriously, DC, if I were you, I'd feel like Sally Field 'right now'...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWtUVDG5M1w
It must feel so good...


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A bit ridiculous, I think. There should be more diversity in the homepage...

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Elmo,

The same poll getting home page multiple times have occurred many times in the past. Most of them are special polls like award season polls.

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This one is because of the 50th anniversary of the moon landing.

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Thanks for the info Pibby!

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Well, I bumped this one (we'll see if IMDb editors like it)... it's an old poll, maybe I should have rebooted it 
https://www.imdb.com/poll/MAeS625McS8/

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4 years ago

Dear IMDb Editors,

Thank you!

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4 years ago

October Sky is reasonably notable omission.

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4 years ago

Moontrap with Walter Koenig and Bruce Campbell. Way better than the pretentious Interstellar.