Full Version: October Sky Appreciation Thread
This is an oldie but a goody!!! This is probably my all time favorite Jake movies! Post any comments here!
I think this movie is so sweet. I love how Miss Riley inspires them to pursue their dreams 
I love this movie. I re-watched it not to long ago. I couldn't believe how he still put his family first and went back to the mines while his dad was healing... even though his heart was somewhere else!
This is kind of interesting, there is an October Sky festival tomorrow, October 4th hosted by Homer Hickam himself! You can read about it at Collegiatetimes.com
Learn more about Homer Hickam and the Rocket boys on Homer Hickam's official website - includes books, movies and Homer's blog.
http://www.homerhickam.com/movies/
http://www.homerhickam.com/movies/
THis is very cool...
Homar Hickam will write the introduction to a new booke from woodlands press entitled Legends of the Mountain State 3
Read more from: huntingtonnews.net
Homar Hickam will write the introduction to a new booke from woodlands press entitled Legends of the Mountain State 3
Read more from: huntingtonnews.net
October Sky ranked as one of the best Space films.
From Jason Rhian of examiner.com dallas:
1. From the Earth to the Moon
2. Apollo 13
3. X-15
4. October Sky
5. The Right Stuff
I think he's right on most movies but forgot to include some other great Space films like 2001: A Space Odyssey. What do you think?
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Also... Read about Hickam's story of surviving cancer from www.al.com
From Jason Rhian of examiner.com dallas:
1. From the Earth to the Moon
2. Apollo 13
3. X-15
4. October Sky
5. The Right Stuff
I think he's right on most movies but forgot to include some other great Space films like 2001: A Space Odyssey. What do you think?
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Also... Read about Hickam's story of surviving cancer from www.al.com
October Sky Festival to be held this Saturday... Actress, Natalie Canerday (Elsie Hickam) to attend.
Original Rocket Boys
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Original Rocket Boys
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The October Sky Festival was a success. Students from Virginia Tech came to festival and also helped in community service for the small town of Coalwood. Did you know its been going on for 11 years? Intersting...
Read more from: bdtonline.com
Read more from: bdtonline.com
Ever since October Sky hit theaters the real Homer Hicam has been in demand for special appareances. This time in Colorado Springs.
' Hickam's lined up for two public appearances: a keynote speech at a pricey fundraising dinner with NASA astronauts, and a public speech and booksigning at Challenger Middle School, in conjunction with a Colorado Springs Rocket Society launch event. But Fox-Kret notes that "as part of his agreement to come here, he asked to spend 50 percent of his time in front of teachers and students. '
Read more from csindy.com
' Hickam's lined up for two public appearances: a keynote speech at a pricey fundraising dinner with NASA astronauts, and a public speech and booksigning at Challenger Middle School, in conjunction with a Colorado Springs Rocket Society launch event. But Fox-Kret notes that "as part of his agreement to come here, he asked to spend 50 percent of his time in front of teachers and students. '
Read more from csindy.com
Love how this movie inspires so many people!
Source: star-telegram.com
"BEDFORD — Eighth-graders in Sally Seil’s pre-Advanced Placement English class are big dreamers. So as a symbol of their aspirations, they decided to go out on the lawn of Harwood Junior High School and set off rockets.
"They represented hope for us," Seil said. "Hope and what we can achieve if we can keep trying."
The sky-soaring rockets were part of a six-week reading assignment for about 140 eighth-graders at Harwood. The students were inspired by the book October Sky, which tells the tale of a young man raised in a poor West Virginia coal-mining town in the late 1950s.
The young man’s father wants him to become a coal miner, but Sonny, the main character, insists on becoming a rocket scientist. On his own, Sonny learns calculus, physics and trigonometry. He uses his knowledge to build a rocket, compete in a national science fair and land a college scholarship.
Harwood students could relate to Sonny. They, too, want to achieve big things.
"Just the thought that he could do it makes me feel like I can do it, too," said eighth-grader Abby Eden, 13.
Taylor Avirett, 13, said she works hard at school because she wants to become a pastry chef and own her own shop. She also may even think of becoming a doctor, she said.
Isaac Ellsworth, also 13, says he wants to play in the NFL.
Sonny’s story "is about determination or perseverance," Ellsworth said. "I want to be a football player, so every day, I try my best to really be the best I can be."
And Melissa Given, 13, dreams of becoming a forensic scientist. She was a straight-A student until she moved to different schools twice in the same year. She knows she has to work hard to bring her grades back up.
But like Sonny, who faced huge obstacles, she knows she can do it, she said."
Seil’s class was assigned the book for summer reading. The rocket launches earned them extra credit, Seil said.
Source: star-telegram.com
"BEDFORD — Eighth-graders in Sally Seil’s pre-Advanced Placement English class are big dreamers. So as a symbol of their aspirations, they decided to go out on the lawn of Harwood Junior High School and set off rockets.
"They represented hope for us," Seil said. "Hope and what we can achieve if we can keep trying."
The sky-soaring rockets were part of a six-week reading assignment for about 140 eighth-graders at Harwood. The students were inspired by the book October Sky, which tells the tale of a young man raised in a poor West Virginia coal-mining town in the late 1950s.
The young man’s father wants him to become a coal miner, but Sonny, the main character, insists on becoming a rocket scientist. On his own, Sonny learns calculus, physics and trigonometry. He uses his knowledge to build a rocket, compete in a national science fair and land a college scholarship.
Harwood students could relate to Sonny. They, too, want to achieve big things.
"Just the thought that he could do it makes me feel like I can do it, too," said eighth-grader Abby Eden, 13.
Taylor Avirett, 13, said she works hard at school because she wants to become a pastry chef and own her own shop. She also may even think of becoming a doctor, she said.
Isaac Ellsworth, also 13, says he wants to play in the NFL.
Sonny’s story "is about determination or perseverance," Ellsworth said. "I want to be a football player, so every day, I try my best to really be the best I can be."
And Melissa Given, 13, dreams of becoming a forensic scientist. She was a straight-A student until she moved to different schools twice in the same year. She knows she has to work hard to bring her grades back up.
But like Sonny, who faced huge obstacles, she knows she can do it, she said."
Seil’s class was assigned the book for summer reading. The rocket launches earned them extra credit, Seil said.
Learn more about Chad Lindberg (the actor who played O'Dell) in a documentary. To be played at the Slamdance film festival in Philedelphia I believe...
"...Also on the schedule are Eve’s Necklace, a feature-length movie with no actors, only mannequins (a director’s dream?) on April 16 and My Big Break, a documentary by Tony Zierra that chronicles the rise (and subsequent fall) of his roommates: Wes Bentley (American Beauty), Brad Rowe (Billy’s Hollywood Screen Kiss, looking like Brad Pitt) and Chad Lingberg (October Sky, The Fast and the Furious)..."
Seems kind of interesting.
Read more about the festival and other movies to be presented from:
citypaper.net
"...Also on the schedule are Eve’s Necklace, a feature-length movie with no actors, only mannequins (a director’s dream?) on April 16 and My Big Break, a documentary by Tony Zierra that chronicles the rise (and subsequent fall) of his roommates: Wes Bentley (American Beauty), Brad Rowe (Billy’s Hollywood Screen Kiss, looking like Brad Pitt) and Chad Lingberg (October Sky, The Fast and the Furious)..."
Seems kind of interesting.
Read more about the festival and other movies to be presented from:
citypaper.net
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