Review of October Sky (1999) by Gavin M — 11 Jan 2014

I'm in middle school and my lazy teachers show a lot of movies (because they don't want to teach), and 90% of them are crap beyond belief, but October sky was an exception. It was quite predicitable, formuliac and a bit cheesy at times, but it was still well made, and man, was I surprised when I saw that it was directed by Joe Johnston.

I was amazed that he could go from directing a movie as mature as this, to a complety immature film - Jurassic Park 3. The Acting was pretty decent, and I thought Laura Dern in particular was great, she kind of reminded me of Sandra Bullock's character from The Blind Side.

The main thing in the film that I found annoying was Homer's (the main character) relationship with his dad. We've seen this "Dad-wants-his-son-to-follow-in his-footsteps-and son-wants-to-be-independent" relationship so many times, I got bored with the father-son scenes, instead of being entertained.

But, all that being said, it was still a good movie, and if you haven't seen it and have got the time, I recommend checking it out.