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* [[Angst Dissonance]]: Grissom's prolonged attempt to prove he's not a "squirming hatch-blower." |
* [[Angst Dissonance]]: Grissom's prolonged attempt to prove he's not a "squirming hatch-blower." |
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* [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming]]: The astronauts and their wives all stand together to protect John Glenn's wife, a shy woman who stutters, from being in a televised meeting with LBJ. |
* [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming]]: The astronauts and their wives all stand together to protect John Glenn's wife, a shy woman who stutters, from being in a televised meeting with LBJ. |
Latest revision as of 15:55, 29 November 2013
- Angst Dissonance: Grissom's prolonged attempt to prove he's not a "squirming hatch-blower."
- Crowning Moment of Heartwarming: The astronauts and their wives all stand together to protect John Glenn's wife, a shy woman who stutters, from being in a televised meeting with LBJ.
- Crowning Music of Awesome: Certainly the high point of Bill Conti's composing career.
- A truly awesome film soundtrack -- And no soundtrack album was ever released. What were they THINKING?
- It may have something to do with the fact that the main theme's similarity to Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto teeters on the ragged edge of plagiarism.
- Tchaikovsky is in the public domain.
- Harsher in Hindsight: The lines "You know what makes this bird go up? Funding makes this bird go up.", and "No bucks, no Buck Rogers.", are painful now that NASA is at a standstill after the retirement of the space shuttle in 2011.
- Visual Effects of Awesome