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So my old school was named and built after Katherine Johnson and I pretty much spent 5th-8th grade learning about her. When she died it lowkey shook the school. None of us knew her personally but her story and legacy was something a lot of us wanted to achieve or looked up to. Especially being a predominantly black and brown campus. Thanks for the reaction today guys!
As a black female engineering student and the first in the family, this was a huge movie for me and so many other girls. Their story is only now coming out, which is sad, but it’s the greatest motivation to keep persevering no matter what. Thanks guys for watching!❤
I looked up Black Women in science to create a calendar. There were sooooo many, it was challenging. to narrow it down to 12. There were other women from that group of "computers" who became notable inventors/engineers with NASA.
"I like her numbers." - John Glenn. I don't see that as a one-liner. I see it as a white man in a room full of white men - and here is this Black woman - the only woman, the only minority - and he is of course super impressed with her skills but also recognizes the position she's probably in -he can FEEL it - and so he puts himself out there, in front, as a leader, with his words, to support her. John Glenn really was like that - and trusted her calculations so completely he requested her specifically to double check the numbers on launch day (as seen later in the film). So I feel like him making that little joke in a charming way was a way of using his position to support her. If anyone was going to doubt/dismiss her, they'd have to come through him., It's a very SOFT use of his obvious power. imo.
i really appreciate this channel because you guys aren’t afraid to watch movies that arent about you. many reaction channels that are run by straight white men dont watch these types of movies and i dont know why. especially movies where the main character is a woman. they either dont watch it, completely misunderstand her character, sexualize every thing she does, or completely cut out all the important scenes in the youtube cut. and i really appreciate this channel cuz you can watch a movie where the main is a woman, a poc, or a queer person and still have a genuine reaction to the movie without minimizing its importance. idk ive just been thinking about this for a while and thought this was a good opportunity to say this.
You would appreciate The Movie Budz reaction channel as well. They heavily watch female led movies, with healthy commentary. Edit to add: It is wonderful to see reactions from outside the 'target audience'.
Completely agree! Not trying to sound contrarian, but there are at least some women on youtube reacting to films that constantly sexualize the men in films also. It of course doesn't carry the same exact ultra sexist connotations like when it's done by men, but it still doesn't sit the right way with me.
I read somewhere that said the real Katherine Johnson didn’t run half a mile to the colored restrooms. She basically said fuck it and used the white ones 🤣
Almost: the bathrooms weren't designated for any specifc "color", so she just used them. And nobody cared. Basically there was no drama around the bathrooms at all. She even declared that she didn't particularly feel segregation at Nasa, not like outside.
The term computers just means "to compute (numbers)". The women computed numbers, hence they were computers. Since machines came along to compute numbers, but faster, they just also called them computers. So computers as we know them, are named after the human computers they replaced.
Look up Annie Jump Cannon and the Harvard Computers. These ladies catalogued and classified the Stars, and also determined their distance; calculations that are still used today.
this is one of my favorite movies of all time! and I'm with Zuff; while all three of them were queens in their own right, Taraji absolutely slayed and rose above in her role as Katherine Johnson. thanks for the reaction guys! ❤
I was so pissed that I had never heard of these women and their stories until this movie. These amazing women were truly hidden and are such a HUGE important part of our history. This is such a great film and one that everyone should watch.
fr, so frustrating that we never learn about them in school. we learn about neil Armstrong and they cant think to add a few minute discussion about these women too? sad
If you guys are interested, you can watch an actual interview with katherine! A lot of the stuff in the movie is dramatized, like Mr. Harrison breaking down the sign. Katherine just went in the white bathroom!
I would guess there was a team leader, boss.. Any project has one. Also I don't think she went to the white bathroom without permission from someone, otherwise she would have gone after the first few days and the others there would have forbidden her to do so...
This is one of my favorite films of all time. These three women inspire me to step out and step up everyday. I was SO happy for the cast when they won the SAG-AFTRA award. It was the most meaningful nomination and the most meaningful win.
THE MUSIC IN THIS MOVIE IS ALL ORIGINAL ! Ferrell did the music and he was inspired because he grew up near this base in Virginia and he wanted to be an astronaut as a kid. He did such a great job making the music feel like the music of that generation.
Grissom did die, but not during his Mercury flight. He and his crew were tragically killed during a test on the launch pad (for the first manned Apollo mission) when a fire sparked in their capsule and they couldnt get out before asphyxiating (the door was too complicated to open quickly-- it was redesigned before the next Apollo flight). The crew with the teacher that you mentioned wasnt part of the Apollo program, that was the Challenger disaster, which was part of the space shuttle program (they went: Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, shuttle). Apollo 11 was the first moon landing.
To touch on the “We probably didn’t go to the moon” conspiracy. The movie & film industry debunked the conspiracy because the technology to do a fake live continuous film broadcast for the 11 hours did not exist and wouldn’t exist for decades. They also said that just the film alone would have required multiple football arenas to store it. It was a very fascinating deep dive on all aspects of the conspiracy.
One of the things I love about this movie is the costume design. For the three leads but especially with Katherine/Taraji. She’s always in Jewel tones while in a room full of white men in neutrals ❤
“ 🤔I didn’t know the first man went to space when JFK was-- 😨 OH NO IS HE GONNA GET-- Oh, no it’s not an assassination attempt. 😆” Zuff went through so many thoughts and emotions during that 10 second clip 😭🤣🤣
20:40 yes, on April 12, 1961, Yuri Gagarin became the first person in world history to fly into outer space. Since then, April 12, 1961 was declared a holiday in the USSR (later in Russia and other post-Soviet countries) - Cosmonautics Day. Fun fact: he met with Queen Elizabeth II, and the Queen, contrary to etiquette, took a souvenir photo with him, citing the fact that he was not an ordinary, earthly person, but a heavenly one, and therefore there was no violation of etiquette.
What I prefer in that type of movies, it's when they tell us in the end, what happened to the protagonists after the events and they show pictures of them. I don't know if you knew it but the real Katherine Johnson was the last Hidden Figure who was still alive when the movie came out. She died three years ago at 101 years old. Now guys, you have to watch the series " Self-made " inspired of the life of Madam CJ Walker, with Octavia Spencer in the main role. As a french, I advice you to watch " Intouchables " and " Chocolat " two movies inspired of real french stories
@47:57 - This ending sequence, where they hit you with the their accomplishments, always gets me right in the mid-throat region. And I've seen this a few time already now.
Guys (what is with education?) in 1969, Neil Armstrong was the first man to step on the moon. Buzz Aldrin was he second. Michael Collins was also in their module but he basically stayed on the ship while the other two went out and bounced around.
@@faureamourno he just cared for the project and didn’t want anything in the way he wasn’t a “white savior” and also they needed a moment for her to snap in the movie to just show what she was going through
As a general comment on the “white saviour” trope - while it’s true the event didn’t happen to Ms Johnson, it *did* however happen to her peers. Also, bearing in mind the time the movie is set in, it’s also important to acknowledge that these “white saviour” moments did happen - and were just as important and valuable to the Black community and to history. White people taking actions against segregation was in fact part of history (eventually) and very important for the time.
Omg I'm so excited 😊 this is my favorite movie I still remember going to the theaters with my grandma, Great Grandma, and grand aunt to watch this the say it released(all black women). Now everytime I see her she asks me to put it on and we watch it all over again. its honestly such a comfort movie at this point and I'm so glad y'all are watching this ❤
22:01 Getting life insurance for the Apollo 11 crew was far too expensive, so a couple months before the launch, the crew signed hundreds of autographs. The autograph covers were postmarked in the post office on the days of important events - the day of the launch, the day of the moon landing. Then they were distributed to the families, so if they did not return from the mission, the families could sell the autographs.
Don’t be hesitant to introduce some more black films to the channel. If you want something more lighthearted but still entertaining The Best Man/The Barbershop/Bad Boys/Creed films are pretty good.
I would be on board for The Color Purple. What a shame that movie didn’t get any Oscar wins* for such a heart-wrenching story. Celie’s strength and emotional journey always gets to me 11 nominations but no wins, thank you for the correction @lunabirdlove!
@@spaceface320 no the big story for the color purple was they got 11 nominations. i think the most that night but walked away with zero which is a big shame
Aldis Hodge, the actor who played Mary Jackson's husband, was in a series called Leverage , that ran for 5 seasons and recently had a 2 season sequel run, and the latest movie he was in was Black Adam. The shuttle that the teachers died on was the Challenger and it happened in 1986. Kids all over the country were watching the launch broadcast live when it exploded.
For someone from Asia like me, this movie help giving me a much more clearer picture and understanding of what African-American has been through, I'm glad the world have come so far from that time, but hope we can go to the point where everyone view each other as human equally soon💪
4:23 My daughter is in 6th grade Advanced Math and she asked me for help on a problem. We went over it together... I do not miss math in school. I do enough math at work, but her homework gives me anxiety.
if you watch some late 90s, early 2000s movies, you'll find her in smaller, supporting roles. she has been hustling as an actress for ages and only recently getting much bigger roles.
Great review of a great movie. John Glenn, from Wapakoneta, Ohio, served as a senator later on. In elementary school we watched John Glenn go into space on little televisions in our classrooms. My husband and I were atop Pike's Peak when the moon landing occurred, and we watched it later on television. Neil Armstrong was the first man to step on the moon, as he said , "That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind."
Calling them a computer wasn't an insult. They computed. People who computed for a living were computers. Later we took that name and applied it to the machines we now use. But the humans came first.
When this movie released in theaters all the girls/women in my entire extended family went to see it together. It was about 25-30 of us. After that first watch it became a comfort movie for me. Whenever I put it on I know I’m gonna enjoy it
A man bringing warm soup and flowers to a woman's home is a gentleman by definition. What a great movie this was. I wish we had an active space program.
The Apollo missions took us up into space and to the moon. Apollo 7 made it the moon, Apollo 13 is the 'famous one' where they almost died. Following that were the space shuttle programs. This was when the Challenger blew up. After that was the Enterprise shuttle program. Now we tend to focus on Space Stations and the Artemis programs. My Dad worked on the Gemini program, the Apollo program, and the Enterprise.
It is so crazy that I never learnt about this in the history of space exploration what a amazing film with amazing performances by all loved the reaction
@@TheLoonyLovebad1 I was less than a year old but I know! I was obsessed with the space shuttle and my mum had dad took me on holiday to Florida to watch a Lauch. Came all the way from the U.K. sat on cocoa beach to watch it with binoculars. Fantastic
It's amazing to me that the astronauts who went to the moon had less computing power on their rocket than we have on our phones in our pockets. Talk about brave!
Absolute inspiration. Several years ago, I took my young daughter to our local museum with an exhibit about these women. Then we read about them and watched the movie. Then we got figurines of all three for her dresser. My daughter is white and things are better than they were for women of any color now, but these three amazing women have been continued inspiration to keep working and trying for your passions and talents. And it’s “ok” that math homework can be hard! 😉
Bryce, the space race was to successfully put a manned spaceship in orbit (I think) rather than a race to land on the moon - that’s a little later in the race 15:22
Probably one of my top 10 fav films of all time. I absolutely love it! Not only does it leave you feeling so inspired but it also just makes you so proud and happy of/for them. They were most definitely hidden figures because I found out who they were through this film, so now I just considered them hidden gems!
The challenger was a space shuttle that exploded in January 1986. 7 people on board including a school teacher, Sharon was from New Hampshire. They blamed the cold weather, but they were informed multiple times about the faulty seals on the fuel line. The rubber was cheap asf and would freeze during cold launches. It broke and fuel spilled into the rockets and exploded 73 seconds after takeoff.
I think computers sounds dehumanizing because of what we know them to be nowadays, however, I don’t think that was the case back then. ComputER just meant a person that computes (they had white computers too). A lawyER is a person that practices law. A supervisOR is a person that supervises….etc.
The space stuff in the 1960s was three programs, one after the other: Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo. Mercury, which is what this movie is about, was the one that figured (ha!) all the basic stuff out and got the first Americans up. Then Gemini did a bunch of proof-of-concept experiments with two astronauts per mission. Then Apollo did the moon stuff. More questions you guys asked: Grissom did die, but he first flew on Mercury and Gemini. He died in the Apollo 1 fire, which happened during a test, on the ground, a month before the planned launch. Buzz was the second person to walk on the moon, about 15 minutes after Neil Armstrong's "One small step..." All the moon landings were Apollo. Six landings in total. Two people walking on the moon per mission (and the third dude remaining in moon orbit.) So, 12 people in total have walked on the moon. And the main reason we haven't gone back in 50 years is because it's freakin' expensive and there's no oil or Unobtainium on the moon it seems.
If you're into the space race - and want to get familiar with all these guys (Neil was the first man on the moon) - Gus Grissom, John Glenn - all the rest - you should watch The Right Stuff. Great movie!
One Night In Miami is another great movie! It’s got the guy who played Mary’s husband (aldis hodge) as Jim Brown, and it’s basically a night of him, Sam Cooke, Malcolm X, and Muhammad Ali being friends and talking about their struggles in their respective fields
Found your channel along with Arron and Jo when my great grandmother was dying and two days after my great grandfather died as well. You guys really helped to escape ❤
It's such an inspiring movie! Growing up, I never knew that women worked at NASA. I'm ashamed that I never knew about Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jackson until I saw the movie and eventually read the book. These women contributed to an essential part of our history. Their stories need to be shared. Representation matters!
Just an FYI: Buzz Aldrin was actually the second, after Neil Armstrong, which is unfortunately for him why everyone remembers Neil's name. Armstrong just happened to be the first to touch foot, but there were 3 men on that mission: Armstrong, Aldrin, and Michael Collins (whom everyone seems to forget).
To be fair computers were a thing long before actual the computer machine. So being a computer was on par as being called a doctor or and engineer or a librarian. We than took the human job title and called the machine a computer. It is just so synonymous with the machine we don’t realize computers predate the machine.
Gud Grissom did die... but it was Apollo 1, during a test on the pad when a fire broke out inside the cabin. The bitter irony was that his Mercury capsule was lost when the door prematurely opened, so it was redesigned, one that made it impossible for the Apollo astronauts to open the door during the fure (though they only had maybe 10 seconds).
I get chills every time I see tarajis performance during the bathroom part. You should definitely check out imitation game it's an amazing true story about Alan Turing
After watching your reaction, I realize how blessed I was to be a 7-year-old boy following the space program from the Mercury program (which I started watching in late 1960) thru Gemini (which perfected space walks and docking of two capsules) and ending with Apollo and the moon landing in July 1969. It was a science class that lasted for 9+ years that I followed with great enthusiasm. I had rockets for toys, instead of Sponge Bob. I guess it affected my life more than I thought.
Kevin Costner - Tjn Cup (golf), Dances with Wolves, Waterworld, Bull Durham (baseball), Field of Dreams (baseball), Yellowstone (Paramount+ TV) plus myriad others, including many historical and many westerns. The Bodyguard, with Whitney Houston, and, a favorite of mine, the Upside of Anger.
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So my old school was named and built after Katherine Johnson and I pretty much spent 5th-8th grade learning about her. When she died it lowkey shook the school. None of us knew her personally but her story and legacy was something a lot of us wanted to achieve or looked up to. Especially being a predominantly black and brown campus. Thanks for the reaction today guys!
That’s beautiful
thats so cool!
Wow
That's cool. Our rival high school a few miles away was named John Glenn high school.
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JGHS in Westland Mi? If so, my children went there and hated it.
As a black female engineering student and the first in the family, this was a huge movie for me and so many other girls. Their story is only now coming out, which is sad, but it’s the greatest motivation to keep persevering no matter what. Thanks guys for watching!❤
Yep same. I pursued two engineering degrees and worked with one until I switched careers. I still work in the space industry.
Congratulations
I looked up Black Women in science to create a calendar. There were sooooo many, it was challenging. to narrow it down to 12. There were other women from that group of "computers" who became notable inventors/engineers with NASA.
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How wonderful that you gals have this movie to see yourselves in ❤ 💐
"I like her numbers." - John Glenn. I don't see that as a one-liner. I see it as a white man in a room full of white men - and here is this Black woman - the only woman, the only minority - and he is of course super impressed with her skills but also recognizes the position she's probably in -he can FEEL it - and so he puts himself out there, in front, as a leader, with his words, to support her. John Glenn really was like that - and trusted her calculations so completely he requested her specifically to double check the numbers on launch day (as seen later in the film). So I feel like him making that little joke in a charming way was a way of using his position to support her. If anyone was going to doubt/dismiss her, they'd have to come through him., It's a very SOFT use of his obvious power. imo.
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100%
Yeeess
John Glenn went on to become a United States Senator, and I had the chance to vote for him in his last run for re-election.
Agree
“You can’t trust her with pie” 😂
i really appreciate this channel because you guys aren’t afraid to watch movies that arent about you. many reaction channels that are run by straight white men dont watch these types of movies and i dont know why. especially movies where the main character is a woman. they either dont watch it, completely misunderstand her character, sexualize every thing she does, or completely cut out all the important scenes in the youtube cut. and i really appreciate this channel cuz you can watch a movie where the main is a woman, a poc, or a queer person and still have a genuine reaction to the movie without minimizing its importance. idk ive just been thinking about this for a while and thought this was a good opportunity to say this.
I agree. These reactors are great. I love a ton of what they watch and how they're not afraid to watch everything.
You would appreciate The Movie Budz reaction channel as well. They heavily watch female led movies, with healthy commentary.
Edit to add: It is wonderful to see reactions from outside the 'target audience'.
@@toxicginger9936 I LOVE THEM
Completely agree! Not trying to sound contrarian, but there are at least some women on youtube reacting to films that constantly sexualize the men in films also. It of course doesn't carry the same exact ultra sexist connotations like when it's done by men, but it still doesn't sit the right way with me.
Blind wave....
I read somewhere that said the real Katherine Johnson didn’t run half a mile to the colored restrooms. She basically said fuck it and used the white ones 🤣
Almost: the bathrooms weren't designated for any specifc "color", so she just used them. And nobody cared.
Basically there was no drama around the bathrooms at all. She even declared that she didn't particularly feel segregation at Nasa, not like outside.
The bathroom situation happened to Janelle Monae’s character but they swapped it.
She was white passing
@@Rubyvipr🙄
the scene discussing the bathroom will have me in tears EVERY time. i have *NO* idea how she did not win an oscar for that. it was fantastic.
The term computers just means "to compute (numbers)". The women computed numbers, hence they were computers. Since machines came along to compute numbers, but faster, they just also called them computers. So computers as we know them, are named after the human computers they replaced.
Look up Annie Jump Cannon and the Harvard Computers. These ladies catalogued and classified the Stars, and also determined their distance; calculations that are still used today.
When the typewriter was invented and then went into common use, the people who typed were called "typewriters" and only later, "typists."
this is one of my favorite movies of all time! and I'm with Zuff; while all three of them were queens in their own right, Taraji absolutely slayed and rose above in her role as Katherine Johnson. thanks for the reaction guys! ❤
I was so pissed that I had never heard of these women and their stories until this movie. These amazing women were truly hidden and are such a HUGE important part of our history. This is such a great film and one that everyone should watch.
fr, so frustrating that we never learn about them in school. we learn about neil Armstrong and they cant think to add a few minute discussion about these women too? sad
Yeah and thats why i think movies like this are so important to make.
If you guys are interested, you can watch an actual interview with katherine! A lot of the stuff in the movie is dramatized, like Mr. Harrison breaking down the sign. Katherine just went in the white bathroom!
Also, Harrison did not exist.
Yeah, unfortunately, they needed a white savior moment.
I would guess there was a team leader, boss.. Any project has one. Also I don't think she went to the white bathroom without permission from someone, otherwise she would have gone after the first few days and the others there would have forbidden her to do so...
@alifc1082 Katherine herself said she went and either no one noticed, or no one cared.
@@mylokaf keratin? If you mean Harrison, I know that. That's why I said he didn't exist.
This is one of my favorite films of all time. These three women inspire me to step out and step up everyday. I was SO happy for the cast when they won the SAG-AFTRA award. It was the most meaningful nomination and the most meaningful win.
THE MUSIC IN THIS MOVIE IS ALL ORIGINAL ! Ferrell did the music and he was inspired because he grew up near this base in Virginia and he wanted to be an astronaut as a kid. He did such a great job making the music feel like the music of that generation.
Grissom did die, but not during his Mercury flight. He and his crew were tragically killed during a test on the launch pad (for the first manned Apollo mission) when a fire sparked in their capsule and they couldnt get out before asphyxiating (the door was too complicated to open quickly-- it was redesigned before the next Apollo flight). The crew with the teacher that you mentioned wasnt part of the Apollo program, that was the Challenger disaster, which was part of the space shuttle program (they went: Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, shuttle). Apollo 11 was the first moon landing.
i was gonna correct them on it all. but beat me to it! well done lol
I get Shuttle Colombia and Challenger mixed up.
You guys really need to understand history. What happened before you were born to bad they don’t teach it in school anymore.
There were 2 others with Grissom in that capsule when it caught fire. Ed White and Roger Chaffee.
@jeannettedow9709 yes, that's why I said "he and his crew"
To touch on the “We probably didn’t go to the moon” conspiracy. The movie & film industry debunked the conspiracy because the technology to do a fake live continuous film broadcast for the 11 hours did not exist and wouldn’t exist for decades. They also said that just the film alone would have required multiple football arenas to store it.
It was a very fascinating deep dive on all aspects of the conspiracy.
One of the things I love about this movie is the costume design. For the three leads but especially with Katherine/Taraji. She’s always in Jewel tones while in a room full of white men in neutrals ❤
“ 🤔I didn’t know the first man went to space when JFK was-- 😨 OH NO IS HE GONNA GET-- Oh, no it’s not an assassination attempt. 😆”
Zuff went through so many thoughts and emotions during that 10 second clip 😭🤣🤣
20:40 yes, on April 12, 1961, Yuri Gagarin became the first person in world history to fly into outer space. Since then, April 12, 1961 was declared a holiday in the USSR (later in Russia and other post-Soviet countries) - Cosmonautics Day.
Fun fact: he met with Queen Elizabeth II, and the Queen, contrary to etiquette, took a souvenir photo with him, citing the fact that he was not an ordinary, earthly person, but a heavenly one, and therefore there was no violation of etiquette.
What I prefer in that type of movies, it's when they tell us in the end, what happened to the protagonists after the events and they show pictures of them.
I don't know if you knew it but the real Katherine Johnson was the last Hidden Figure who was still alive when the movie came out. She died three years ago at 101 years old.
Now guys, you have to watch the series " Self-made " inspired of the life of Madam CJ Walker, with Octavia Spencer in the main role.
As a french, I advice you to watch " Intouchables " and " Chocolat " two movies inspired of real french stories
Lovvve “Chocolat” ❤. “Intouchables” is a 💎 as well!
@@pchygrl17 did you see them ?
@@a.g.demada5263yes!! I’ll watch anything with Omar Sy and/or Juliette Binoche
Ah un autre français 🖐 ça serait bien qu'il regarde marly gomont aussi
@@blackbird45 française pour être exact.
Par contre, je ne connais pas ce film
Z: What’s Glen Powell?
B: He’s an actor.
Z: Oh, I thought you were callin him by his nickname.
WAAAT!? 🤣😂
His names Hangman actually 😉
Neil Armstrong was first to step on the moon followed by Buzz Aldrin.
@47:57 - This ending sequence, where they hit you with the their accomplishments, always gets me right in the mid-throat region. And I've seen this a few time already now.
Guys (what is with education?) in 1969, Neil Armstrong was the first man to step on the moon. Buzz Aldrin was he second. Michael Collins was also in their module but he basically stayed on the ship while the other two went out and bounced around.
Katherine Johnson died in Feb 2020 at 101 and a half years old. Her husband (the same one) died in 2019.
If you wanna watch another historical movie real life about Alan Turing, who invented computers, you should totally watch the Imitation Game!
yessss
Yess one of the best movies
You will love The Imitation Game. It’s about Alan Turing, code cracker - played by Benedict Cumberbatch - fascinating!
Just know, the real Catherine didn't go through the bathroom thing. She never asked she just used the bathroom 😊.
Well, they needed a white savior moment for the action.
@@faureamour apparently the restroom thing happened to Janelle monae's character but they swapped it
@@faureamour He wasn't a white "savior." He didn't do it for her. He merely acknowledged the necessity for the project.
@@faureamourno he just cared for the project and didn’t want anything in the way he wasn’t a “white savior” and also they needed a moment for her to snap in the movie to just show what she was going through
As a general comment on the “white saviour” trope - while it’s true the event didn’t happen to Ms Johnson, it *did* however happen to her peers.
Also, bearing in mind the time the movie is set in, it’s also important to acknowledge that these “white saviour” moments did happen - and were just as important and valuable to the Black community and to history.
White people taking actions against segregation was in fact part of history (eventually) and very important for the time.
Omg I'm so excited 😊 this is my favorite movie I still remember going to the theaters with my grandma, Great Grandma, and grand aunt to watch this the say it released(all black women). Now everytime I see her she asks me to put it on and we watch it all over again. its honestly such a comfort movie at this point and I'm so glad y'all are watching this ❤
22:01 Getting life insurance for the Apollo 11 crew was far too expensive, so a couple months before the launch, the crew signed hundreds of autographs. The autograph covers were postmarked in the post office on the days of important events - the day of the launch, the day of the moon landing. Then they were distributed to the families, so if they did not return from the mission, the families could sell the autographs.
That's really interesting. Do you have a source?
@@robynjoffe1494 It can be found when searching, "Apollo insurance covers"
wow
@Nadia72639 I would really love to see your source on that
@@robynjoffe1494
just search “Apollo 11 life insurance autographs”
Don’t be hesitant to introduce some more black films to the channel. If you want something more lighthearted but still entertaining The Best Man/The Barbershop/Bad Boys/Creed films are pretty good.
I would be on board for The Color Purple. What a shame that movie didn’t get any Oscar wins* for such a heart-wrenching story. Celie’s strength and emotional journey always gets to me
11 nominations but no wins, thank you for the correction @lunabirdlove!
I want them to watch "Set It Off" with Vivica A. Fox, Jada Pinkett Smith, Kimberly Elise and Queen Latifah.
The Bodyguard.
@@spaceface320 no the big story for the color purple was they got 11 nominations. i think the most that night but walked away with zero which is a big shame
halle bailey has a version coming soon@@spaceface320
Aldis Hodge, the actor who played Mary Jackson's husband, was in a series called Leverage , that ran for 5 seasons and recently had a 2 season sequel run, and the latest movie he was in was Black Adam.
The shuttle that the teachers died on was the Challenger and it happened in 1986. Kids all over the country were watching the launch broadcast live when it exploded.
The part about John Glenn saying he wouldn't go unless Katherine Johnson agreed with the numbers is true.
For someone from Asia like me, this movie help giving me a much more clearer picture and understanding of what African-American has been through, I'm glad the world have come so far from that time, but hope we can go to the point where everyone view each other as human equally soon💪
Lmaooooo “do they go to the moon in this movie?”
“Idk let’s watch it” 😭😭
If Zuff’s relationship philosophy is true, Zuff needs to drop the addy already and we’ll bring you some soup LOL
Hot meal for the boys
A landmark moment in NASA history and an excellently acted monologue and these three; "Is that Shoop?" "That's Shoop".
4:23 My daughter is in 6th grade Advanced Math and she asked me for help on a problem. We went over it together... I do not miss math in school. I do enough math at work, but her homework gives me anxiety.
Octavia Spencer… UNDERrated! “Snowpiercer”, “the Shape of Water”, “Hidden Figures”, etc…
if you watch some late 90s, early 2000s movies, you'll find her in smaller, supporting roles. she has been hustling as an actress for ages and only recently getting much bigger roles.
She was hilarious in Ugly Betty as Ignacio's stalker/immigration officer.
@@grannyajraTHIS THE ONE! SHE ATE😂😂😂
Great review of a great movie. John Glenn, from Wapakoneta, Ohio, served as a senator later on. In elementary school we watched John Glenn go into space on little televisions in our classrooms. My husband and I were atop Pike's Peak when the moon landing occurred, and we watched it later on television. Neil Armstrong was the first man to step on the moon, as he said , "That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind."
Calling them a computer wasn't an insult. They computed. People who computed for a living were computers. Later we took that name and applied it to the machines we now use. But the humans came first.
“Radium Girls” is also a movie based on historical events
When this movie released in theaters all the girls/women in my entire extended family went to see it together. It was about 25-30 of us. After that first watch it became a comfort movie for me. Whenever I put it on I know I’m gonna enjoy it
You guys have become my new favorite reaction channel!!!
A man bringing warm soup and flowers to a woman's home is a gentleman by definition. What a great movie this was. I wish we had an active space program.
The Apollo missions took us up into space and to the moon. Apollo 7 made it the moon, Apollo 13 is the 'famous one' where they almost died. Following that were the space shuttle programs. This was when the Challenger blew up. After that was the Enterprise shuttle program. Now we tend to focus on Space Stations and the Artemis programs.
My Dad worked on the Gemini program, the Apollo program, and the Enterprise.
It is so crazy that I never learnt about this in the history of space exploration what a amazing film with amazing performances by all loved the reaction
I'm an aerospace engineer and its was so funny o me hearing how little you guys know about the Space Race lmao
I’m not an engineer and it made me cringe!
@@fayesouthall6604 Yea not knowing Neil Armstrong was the first man on the moon is something lol
@@TheLoonyLovebad1 I was less than a year old but I know! I was obsessed with the space shuttle and my mum had dad took me on holiday to Florida to watch a Lauch. Came all the way from the U.K. sat on cocoa beach to watch it with binoculars. Fantastic
I'm glad they enjoyed the movie, but at the same time this reaction made me feel so very old! Do they really not teach any of this stuff anymore? Lol
@@orchidk518 I am around the same age as them, I think it's just a them thing
It's amazing to me that the astronauts who went to the moon had less computing power on their rocket than we have on our phones in our pockets. Talk about brave!
Absolute inspiration. Several years ago, I took my young daughter to our local museum with an exhibit about these women. Then we read about them and watched the movie. Then we got figurines of all three for her dresser. My daughter is white and things are better than they were for women of any color now, but these three amazing women have been continued inspiration to keep working and trying for your passions and talents. And it’s “ok” that math homework can be hard! 😉
This movie is what inspired me to pursue engineering in college. I love your guys’ reactions.
Bryce, the space race was to successfully put a manned spaceship in orbit (I think) rather than a race to land on the moon - that’s a little later in the race 15:22
Hidden Figures and The Help are two of my all time favorite movies that I could never get tired of watching.
I love this movie! I watch it like once every three months haha. Thanks for reacting to it!
I love Taraji henson as an actor, another good movie she played in “The best of enemies” the rage I felt watching it 😭
Yay, I’m so glad you guys watch movies like this! So important and informative, glad you liked it!! 🥰
That jazz walk edit got me!!!! Y’all are hilarious
such a gem of a movie. hats off to these women who paved the way & also the men who supported them.
Zuff is so.....adorable 😭
Probably one of my top 10 fav films of all time. I absolutely love it! Not only does it leave you feeling so inspired but it also just makes you so proud and happy of/for them. They were most definitely hidden figures because I found out who they were through this film, so now I just considered them hidden gems!
simply an incredible story told and portrayed so fng well. can make you get teary eyed but ends so triumphant.
The challenger was a space shuttle that exploded in January 1986. 7 people on board including a school teacher, Sharon was from New Hampshire. They blamed the cold weather, but they were informed multiple times about the faulty seals on the fuel line. The rubber was cheap asf and would freeze during cold launches. It broke and fuel spilled into the rockets and exploded 73 seconds after takeoff.
The teacher’s name was Christa McAuliffe.
I think computers sounds dehumanizing because of what we know them to be nowadays, however, I don’t think that was the case back then. ComputER just meant a person that computes (they had white computers too). A lawyER is a person that practices law. A supervisOR is a person that supervises….etc.
The space stuff in the 1960s was three programs, one after the other: Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo. Mercury, which is what this movie is about, was the one that figured (ha!) all the basic stuff out and got the first Americans up. Then Gemini did a bunch of proof-of-concept experiments with two astronauts per mission. Then Apollo did the moon stuff.
More questions you guys asked:
Grissom did die, but he first flew on Mercury and Gemini. He died in the Apollo 1 fire, which happened during a test, on the ground, a month before the planned launch.
Buzz was the second person to walk on the moon, about 15 minutes after Neil Armstrong's "One small step..."
All the moon landings were Apollo. Six landings in total. Two people walking on the moon per mission (and the third dude remaining in moon orbit.) So, 12 people in total have walked on the moon. And the main reason we haven't gone back in 50 years is because it's freakin' expensive and there's no oil or Unobtainium on the moon it seems.
If you're into the space race - and want to get familiar with all these guys (Neil was the first man on the moon) - Gus Grissom, John Glenn - all the rest - you should watch The Right Stuff. Great movie!
I agree, except for how they portrayed Gus Grissom. Pure slander. The miniseries "From the Earth to the Moon" is a far better look.
The Right Stuff is an excellent movie
Neil was first down the ramp, Buzz Aldrin was right after him in the same capsule as part of the Apollo 11 mission.
One Night In Miami is another great movie! It’s got the guy who played Mary’s husband (aldis hodge) as Jim Brown, and it’s basically a night of him, Sam Cooke, Malcolm X, and Muhammad Ali being friends and talking about their struggles in their respective fields
"Were you in the intro" had me dying😂😂😂
“Now get outta the movie” 😂😂Y’all crack me up. Love you guys
“The dad from Man of Steel” WHAT!? You mean KEVIN COSTNER!!
Found your channel along with Arron and Jo when my great grandmother was dying and two days after my great grandfather died as well. You guys really helped to escape ❤
I LOVE THIS MOVIE! I cannot wait to see your reaction!
It's such an inspiring movie! Growing up, I never knew that women worked at NASA. I'm ashamed that I never knew about Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jackson until I saw the movie and eventually read the book. These women contributed to an essential part of our history. Their stories need to be shared. Representation matters!
Kirsten Dunst also has a great cinematography. She has done so much more than what she's classically known more, I recommend all her movies !
You mean filmography.
Just an FYI: Buzz Aldrin was actually the second, after Neil Armstrong, which is unfortunately for him why everyone remembers Neil's name. Armstrong just happened to be the first to touch foot, but there were 3 men on that mission: Armstrong, Aldrin, and Michael Collins (whom everyone seems to forget).
35:10 had me weakkkkkk😂😂
I was so excited when i saw the notification, and you guys did not disappoint❤
To be fair computers were a thing long before actual the computer machine. So being a computer was on par as being called a doctor or and engineer or a librarian. We than took the human job title and called the machine a computer. It is just so synonymous with the machine we don’t realize computers predate the machine.
If I'm not mistaken, NASA did de-segregate the bathrooms (and every other space) long before the rest of the country did.
29:00 Zuff thinking JFK was about to get domed in the middle of the movie had me dyin HAHAHA
The sport ones you were talking about may be “McFarland” where he’s a coach. I recommend it🙏🏽
44:43 DID HE JUST QUOTE SEVEN LMFAOO
Gud Grissom did die... but it was Apollo 1, during a test on the pad when a fire broke out inside the cabin. The bitter irony was that his Mercury capsule was lost when the door prematurely opened, so it was redesigned, one that made it impossible for the Apollo astronauts to open the door during the fure (though they only had maybe 10 seconds).
I get chills every time I see tarajis performance during the bathroom part. You should definitely check out imitation game it's an amazing true story about Alan Turing
I love these three so much. Katherine's speech gives me life
Speaking of Kevin Coastner y’all should watch The Bodyguard staring him and Whitney Houston it’s so good 👌🏾
Yeah it’s a great film. I really wanted to hate it but, it’s fantastic
Loved this reaction! You guys should react to “42” about Jackie Robinson if you haven’t it’s such a underrated movie.
Kevin Costner - The Bodyguard, Man of Steel, Draft Day, Field of Dreams, The Guardian.... Great actor. The actresses in this movie are incredible!
It's probably already been said but Kevin Costner character was the only one that didn't exist. He was added to the story for the movie.
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Have you guys already watched "Apollo 13"? If not, I think you'd love it.
Finally, so glad you guys react to one of my favorite movies
Nice jazz walk 😂
So glad you like this film. Think you'll really like "A League of Their Own" (1992) and The Finest Hours (2016)
Yay omg I requested this onee thank you! I love yalls reaction
Kevin Costner was THE MAN in the 90s. You've gotta do the list. Dances With Wolves. Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. The Bodyguard. Field of Dreams.
the book was an interesting read and I think if you want to know more about the other women (along with some inaccuracies) you should check it out
After watching your reaction, I realize how blessed I was to be a 7-year-old boy following the space program from the Mercury program (which I started watching in late 1960) thru Gemini (which perfected space walks and docking of two capsules) and ending with Apollo and the moon landing in July 1969. It was a science class that lasted for 9+ years that I followed with great enthusiasm. I had rockets for toys, instead of Sponge Bob. I guess it affected my life more than I thought.
I am weirdly jealous of Bryce's eyebrows
Kevin Costner - Tjn Cup (golf), Dances with Wolves, Waterworld, Bull Durham (baseball), Field of Dreams (baseball), Yellowstone (Paramount+ TV) plus myriad others, including many historical and many westerns. The Bodyguard, with Whitney Houston, and, a favorite of mine, the Upside of Anger.
Love The Upside of Anger, too!
A Perfect World! His best performance alongside John Dutton in Yellowstone IMO.
I loved this film - very entertaining and satisfying. The scene where Mahershala Ali proposes really was heart-touching.
Loved the movie reaction! This is such an amazing movie and I’m glad y’all enjoyed it.