Great movie last night
By snowy
@snowy22315 (169983)
United States
November 18, 2017 8:28am CST
As I mentioned in a previous post, I have the free HBO and Cinemax preview weekend. Last night, I saw a movie I have been wanting to see since it came out..Hidden Figures about the black female geniuses employed by NASA in the early days of the space program. It was fascinating even more so, because it took place in Virginia, my state. NASA was apparently based in Hampton before it moved to Texas. In fact, John Glenn would only agree to do his space launch and earth re entry after the IBM computer's figures were manually checked by one of the women. Amazing story and movie!
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@snowy22315 (169983)
• United States
18 Nov 17
Yeah..I thought it was too. I think it was quite realistic.
@amadeo (111948)
• United States
18 Nov 17
@snowy22315 it was.the actors were so good there.
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@CinnamonGrl (7083)
• Santa Fe, New Mexico
18 Nov 17
My mom and I absikytey loved that movie. And they WERE "hidden figures." I'm glad finally they got some recognition. I've been afraid of math for years, let alone physics!
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@snowy22315 (169983)
• United States
18 Nov 17
I am glad some people recognized their talents and abilities..although of course they had to be excellent and work doubly hard to be acknowledged. Everything was still segregated then too.
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@CinnamonGrl (7083)
• Santa Fe, New Mexico
18 Nov 17
@snowy22315 Yes and a lot of people forget that, or are too young to remember it.
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@snowy22315 (169983)
• United States
18 Nov 17
@CinnamonGrl I lived in the North and would have been too young to remember anyway..It seems so odd to see it in a movie or read about it in a book.
@snowy22315 (169983)
• United States
18 Nov 17
It is defintely one worth seeing.
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@snowy22315 (169983)
• United States
18 Nov 17
Sadly, most of us don't know as much as we should about black history.
@Courtlynn (66921)
• United States
18 Nov 17
I never saw it but half wanted to so might soon
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@snowy22315 (169983)
• United States
18 Nov 17
You are welcome..it was truly very good.
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@JudyEv (325818)
• Rockingham, Australia
19 Nov 17
Wasn't it a magical film? And so nice that the women got the recognition they deserved.
@JohnRoberts (109857)
• Los Angeles, California
18 Nov 17
Hidden Figures received numerous Oscar nominations last year.
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