Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood

The best thing I can say about this one - and The Hand of God months ago - is that it made me want to a write a script about my youth and coming of age times.

Of course, I'm not American and this one is a very American culturally youth - and I would need to be a successful writer before having this script approved - but I felt this was much more about honouring a time and closing a chapter than about space. Linklater is a specialist about these stories and he knows how to keep us interested.

I grew up in Houston from mid '50s to mid '70s and the nostalgic details in Linklater's great new animated feature was almost overwhelming. I'm sure many people will appreciate it, especially the visual style, but for us Space City kids, it is a real treasure trove of memories. Only one goof: the Majestic Theater did not look like that and was quite the opposite of the run-down theater he described. It was a magnificent movie palace in the heart of downtown.

A new Richard Linklater movie got dropped onto Netflix about a month ago with little promotion or fanfare, which is a shame, because it was an enjoyable watch and there's quite a lot of good stuff in it.

It's a very, very nostalgic look back at being a kid in the late 1960s, and how it felt to grow up at the time of the Apollo space missions. It mixes comedy, animation, some documentary/historical footage (that's been animated over), voiceover, and even a little bit of fantasy to make for a breezy and largely entertaining watch.

It is more of a hangout/mood sort of movie, and whether it would've necessarily been better with a more focused story is hard to say. I didn't really mind, and it was only towards the very end where I felt like they started to stretch the fairly simple premise about as far as it could go.

And shortly after that point, it wraps up, coming in at about 90 minutes. There was a little repetition throughout, but most of it was really charming and enjoyable. It's a good watch- I think it's another overall solid film in Linklater's extensive, very strong filmography.

Fun animation depicting a time when most all people were experiencing the same look at a real time event in our early stages of technology. For better or worse, everyone was viewing from a shared lense. Quite a contrast from our splintered viewing from which we now interpret real time reality. The director has nailed the zeitgeist of 1969.

It's a great little trip down memory lane. I grew up in the late sixties and this little film really resonated with me. It depicted the era perfectly, although, since I didn't grow up in the Houston area, there were a few local things that didn't[t resonate with me. But overall, this is a fun family movie just bout everyone can enjoy! Great job on picking out the songs of the era too!