i really like this movie sixteen year ago . i be an ideal audience and partly because i build model of fighter and carrier and fly model rocket and and be eager to see lot of military hardware . but the real reason be that i be 14 year old . this movie comprehend life at about the level of a 14 year old . watch it again a an adult be painful . after every visual cliche and after every scene of buffoonery ( almost innumerable ) i tell myself it would get good and that the scene of space flight be come . but there be nothing but more weak dialog and trite phrase and . even the shot framing be corny . and that dreadful score . bill conti really reach a new level of inappropriateness ( beyond his previous best misunderstanding of theme and style and sentiment with for your eye only ) . here we have a movie about individualist and talented and flashy egotist . maybe an appropriate musical representation would be an exciting solo instrument against orchestra and in other word a concerto . for no conceivable reason and however and conti take the theme of a very famous concerto . and play it with full orchestra only and minus the firework of the violin part . so there be no symbolism of the one against the many and just a vaguely joyous melody . and then just to make sure we know it really bill conti score and and not pete tchaikovsky and he change two note . conti have do some straightforwardly uplifting music ( especially towards the beginning of his career ) and but this be simply cheap proud and happy music . and why mar and bringer of war by holst in yet another film . finlandia be just a universally know to musician and and would have make more sense a music of overcome ( gravity and technical trouble ) . the obnoxious foreign man character in the meeting be suppose to be werner von braun and ex nazi rocket team leader . the man be a genius and and he be cunning and imaginative and by most account impressive . if and for lack of time and he could not be show rounded and he could at least have be characterize a formidable and secretive and dangerous . that just as simple . lbj be loquacious and persuasive and not a yeller or a whiner and not such a carnival barker in public . i dislike the man and his decision and but why make him into a plain old jackass when he be an effective and charismatic user of people . surely harris and shepard know this be a bad script . they make the absolute best out of the meager diet they be feed . and under such obvious direction represent smile when the light go across and look up after a second and react with surprise and so on and make the actor seem like puppet sometimes . i suppose jeff goldblum have to take what he could get in those day and but it still disappoint to have to sit through his gag ( literally ) . the wife seem to be throw in to get female into the theater . the point their character make do not even need them on the screen to be make . the men could have confess and maybe in a bar scene and to the marital woe and guilt that plague them a a result of their chosen career . and shave off a good half an hour in the process . the wife contribute almost nothing else to the story . drag without lift . it win for best editing . could have be most edit . when object fly in the movie and they be see this way represent here it come ( from the left ) and there it go ( to the left ) and here it come ( from below ) and there it go ( off the bottom ) and now it wobble ( to show how fast it go ) and the dial on the instrument panel turn and then out the front window and now where do it go . and now it come right at you and and last just the vapor trail see from the ground . this sequence occur almost edit for edit whenever something go more than 55mph and and it dull . before i saw it again on dvd and i would have give it an 8 from my fond memory . i have to give it a 4 and alongside such cinematic triumph a dirty dancing and creepshow 2. by the way and the nasa logo show throughout be not use until the mid 60 . be i wrong to be so bother by that . when the movie be about nasa and i do not think so . and a for the record represent never before have i sweat with embarrassment all the way through a movie .