Yes, October Sky is worth seeing.
I'd give my take on the good points of this movie (of which there are many) but everyone else has already done this. So I'll tell you what I didn't like.
It seems to me as if the director/writer tried to make every moment soak with emotion and sentiment. This might be good, but it also makes it a little sappy and terribly predictable. At one point, I predicated word for word what the next lines were going to be. That's pretty bad.
In fact, October Sky is so busy trying to be inspiring that it acts like we already know the story. For example, why does Homer all of the sudden like rockets? Ok, so he saw Sputnik float across the sky. But so did everyone else. We never really find out exactly what his passion is with the sky. He looks up at space only three times in the entire movie. Anytime we have as dedicated and committed a character as Homer, we need to know why he is as dedicated and committed(Contact does a fantastic job of this).
Other questions: why is the principal so biased against Homer's rocketry? No one else in the town, save Homer's dad, is. And for some reason, after Homer sits down with Quentin, Quentin becomes everyone's best friend. Why? Homer isn't THAT cool in school.
October Sky is a great family movie for families. It's nice to see brains triumph over brawn. But I really wish they would've spent more time on the lure and the magic of space. Otherwise, rocketry might as well have been bridge building or car building.
I'd give my take on the good points of this movie (of which there are many) but everyone else has already done this. So I'll tell you what I didn't like.
It seems to me as if the director/writer tried to make every moment soak with emotion and sentiment. This might be good, but it also makes it a little sappy and terribly predictable. At one point, I predicated word for word what the next lines were going to be. That's pretty bad.
In fact, October Sky is so busy trying to be inspiring that it acts like we already know the story. For example, why does Homer all of the sudden like rockets? Ok, so he saw Sputnik float across the sky. But so did everyone else. We never really find out exactly what his passion is with the sky. He looks up at space only three times in the entire movie. Anytime we have as dedicated and committed a character as Homer, we need to know why he is as dedicated and committed(Contact does a fantastic job of this).
Other questions: why is the principal so biased against Homer's rocketry? No one else in the town, save Homer's dad, is. And for some reason, after Homer sits down with Quentin, Quentin becomes everyone's best friend. Why? Homer isn't THAT cool in school.
October Sky is a great family movie for families. It's nice to see brains triumph over brawn. But I really wish they would've spent more time on the lure and the magic of space. Otherwise, rocketry might as well have been bridge building or car building.