I don't see many movies but I was kind of dragged to this last week during my Florida beach vacation when it poured rain for most of the day. There was not much else to do so my wife said I either take her to a movie or take her shopping - so easy choice for me. Hidden Figures seemed to be best of the lot that was playing that day - the preview had me at "NASA".
While it was obvious some artistic license was taken and that those women mathematicians did not literally save the space program, I was pleasantly surprised by the movie. The black women in the movie exhibited conservative family values, putting achievement based on merit ahead of entitlement. One of the women (widowed) married a black black man who immediately took responsibility for fathering her already existing children. Another woman fought for the right to go to a white high school, not to grab attention and headlines, but to take advanced math courses that were unavailable in her black school.
I won't put any more spoilers in but this is the kind of movie that conservatives ought to support. Maybe it's not 100% factually correct but what movie is? One of my favorite NASA movies is "The Right Stuff" and it was laughable how they portrayed LBJ and some of the astronauts. But all in all "The Right Stuff" was a worthy flick that made you proud to be an American (the book by Tom Wolfe is even better).
This movie had the same effect on me. Much better than that other black movie given the best picture award that features blacks dealing drugs. Way to go perpetuating racist stereotypes Hollywood.
Hidden Figures is much better and worth a few dollars to see on a rainy day.
I’m happy that you found some redeeming qualities movie Sam. However, I still believe it is revisionist history and propaganda.