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Summary: Kindled my interest all the way to Space Camp 1988!
Review: I remember flipping through the channels at home and came across a preview for this on HBO. I sat down and watched it. I was hooked! When I saw at the end that it was filmed at the US Space Camp, I ran to the Post Office to look up Huntsville, AL's ZIP code and I sent a letter off. I got info. I worked hard the summer of '88. I was only 12 but everything I earned went towards my trip to Space Camp in Florida (which had just opened that year). I remember the trip down there by van with my dad and two bothers. All the way from southern Minnesota to Florida by van. My brother quizzed me on every system of the shuttle and I wound up being Commander of my team. What's this got to do with the movie? Well, if not for this movie, I never would have gone there. This movie inspired me to reach beyond what I think I can do and 'reach for the stars'. This movie taught me that anything is possible. I loved this movie then, but today I understand even more what it did for me. Great movie, great story.
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Summary: Fantastic adventure epic
Review: I remember recieving this on video from my mother a few years ago. I put it aside, never watched it. It wasn't a widely released title.
Years later, 3 years ago from now, I picked it up and put it in my VCR. What I saw was one of the most beautiful, wonderful stories ever to capture an idea that space is beyond magic - it's much more.
The story starts with 3 teenagers, a kid and an instructor, taught and teaching what it is like in outer blackness, what to expect and basically how to survive. One test is to sit in a space craft and get used to its feeling. During their exploration of the space craft, a robot named 'Jinx', a handyman for N.A.S.A, who is great friends with 'Max', the young child on part of the Space Camp team, pushes the button to launch the space craft in to space, as a wish of 'Max'.
And so they are launched. The craft was only ready with 2 oxygen tanks; no where near enough to last them the flight back in to the Earth's atmosphere. Upon entering space, they must work as a team, which proved difficult during Space Camp, collect tanks of Oxygen from the space centre in the black yonder and make it back to Earth alive.
This is their one chance of working together as a team, and ultimetly, surviving.
At one point, 'Max' goes to help Andy, the instructor, who has been knocked out by an oxygen tank that flies towards her, and himself, starts to drift out in to the depths of Space. The visuals are extra-ordinary, and there is immense intense during viewing.
When the credits roll, you've just seen an epic, and you'll never be able to stop talking about it.
Beautiful.
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Summary: Fun and silly, but wholly unrealistic and ridiculous
Review: I saw this film when it came out on video in the United States in the mid 1980s. It was mere months after the Challenger disaster and the U.S. just wasn't in the mood to watch five plucky kids and their astronaut leader be accidentally launched (safely) into space and return (safely) home. NASA's cooperation on the film was total and it might mystify those who weren't aware of the internal politics at NASA at the time, who was deathly afraid of losing the public's interest in space travel, which at the time of the Challenger explosion was seen as "routine." NASA's participation in this film surely was meant to spark renewed interest in the shuttle program. That being said, the film is a LOT of fun for kids. I was only 11-12 years old when I saw it and I thought it was the BEST film ever made. To this day it is a guilty pleasure. I attended Space Camp myself in 1988 at the age of 13, and though the camp had changed noticeably in just the 2-3 years since the movie was filmed, certain parts of the camp stood out obviously as locations from the film. To rebut the Amazon reviewer, there ARE standards for the camp and you must have written recommendations from science and math teachers to attend. Incidentally, Space Camp is actually located in Huntsville, Alabama, but like the hundreds of other inaccuracies of the film, that is too overlooked. Interesting sidenote: the bulk of the movie was filmed inside one of the Space Camp's shuttle simulators. All said, the film is fun for children and a lovely guilty pleasure for adults like myself who once dreamed of going into space. Just ignore the inaccuracies.
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Summary: Space Camper
Review: I say this is a must see for soon to be trainees or fromer trainees. Movie is far fecthed but is a good laguh. It tells only a short story of what camp is really like not even close.
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Summary: kate capshaw is a fox
Review: i thenk kate capshaw is fine i am wandering wiy she is not making any more moves can some one tell me wiy.
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Summary: Don't like science fiction, you'll still love this movie!
Review: I was only 6 when this movie came out, but I still remember the first time I watched it. And 12 years later, when I got to go to Cape Canaveral and visit with NASA people, I remember this movie. I am by no means a science fiction person, but I love wholesome family movies. This movie does have the occasional swearing, but if my parents let me watch it, it couldn't be that bad. Space Camp made me want to be an astronaut, and I think any good movie does that to it's viewers.
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Summary: Great Story
Review: I'm about in the middle of it but still I think that it was a great story. Even though it is an 80's movie and I am not a big fan of an 80's movie I still think that it is cool.
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Summary: Due to this movie, wanted to be an astronaut for 5 years!
Review: Loved this movie as a kid so much that I made all my friends watch it at every sleepover for 2 years. Can't find it in any local video store, looking forward to seeing it again after about 10 years!
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Summary: One of My Favorite Movies
Review: No, this movie does not have great acting, but it is one of my all-time favs. I watched it every weekend when I was young and have had the video for many years. It is just such a fun movie and story that you can't help but to imagine yourself in their shoes. A definite must see!
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Summary: why is space camp $39
Review: Ok, So it was a good movie in the 80's....You can get other classics like Stripes, Caddyshack and Ghostbusters for under $20....why can't they release Space Camp at the same price???
Just a note for the movie industry to review....
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