posted 01-30-2016 04:32 AM
I've just watched this trailer for the new Paramount animated film "Capture The Flag". I am nearly forty years old but I'm damn well going to watch this tomorrow:
Is it my imagination or is 'Grandpa' based heavily on a certain Apollo Flight Director?
Those of you who watch the trailer, you try telling me that even though this is a very American, very cheesy animated kids film, that it doesn't stir just a little something inside you. It did for me...
On edit: Right, that's it!! I'm taking my wife and niece to see this today.
Robert Pearlman Editor
Posts: 42981 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
posted 01-30-2016 04:43 AM
quote:Originally posted by Buel: ...even though this is a very American
Which is a tad ironic, given it is a Spanish-produced film. From Variety:
Spain's biggest animation play of 2015 – and one of its two-or-three biggest films of the year – Enrique Gato's "Capture the Flag" will be released by Paramount Pictures on Aug. 28...
"Capture the Flag" is Spain's big toon hope of 2015. That now means something. Telecinco Cinema, [director Enrique] Gato, screnwriter and producer Jordi] Gasull, [producer Edmond] Roch, Lightbox and Telefonica previously teamed on "Tad, the Lost Explorer," listed by a keystone European Audiovisual Observatory report ... as Europe's third highest-grossing independently-financed animation film over 2010-14, after "Paddington" and "Sammy's Adventures."
Jordi Gasull, who is credited with the idea for the film, is a cS member since 2002 (though hasn't been active as of late).
With Gasull, a self-confessed space-geek, Lightbox set out to replicate nearly bolt for bolt the 40-year-old rocket used by the U.S government to launch a moon-mission, for lack of any modern moon vehicle, the NASA control room, with its surprisingly humdrum all dun green control panels, even the walkway used by astronauts to get to rockets.
lspooz Member
Posts: 384 From: Greensboro, NC USA Registered: Aug 2012
posted 01-30-2016 09:00 AM
As usual I'll support anything that can inspire STEM kids...
[addendum]: apparently this was a limited-release movie in December, coming to DVD in March, with lukewarm reviews, so I'll have to wait to have my son see it...
mode1charlie Member
Posts: 1169 From: Honolulu, HI Registered: Sep 2010
posted 01-30-2016 09:18 PM
Never heard of this movie until now. It's not the kind of movie I ordinarily go out to see, but anything that puts the excitement of space exploration front and center for kids is ok by me.
Buel Member
Posts: 649 From: UK Registered: Mar 2012
posted 03-02-2016 03:12 PM
Oh if only this place existed (snapshot from the film).