How to completely screw up a movie

Flopping Aces ^ | 08-31-18 | DrJohn

[Starman417]

I was working at a gas station in 1969 when Neil Armstrong stepped onto the moon. In order to watch it, I brought along a TV complete with rabbit ears and watch it I did. I also watched Neil and Buzz Aldrin unfurl the American flag. It was kind a big moment and filled a lot of people with pride.

https://youtu.be/JfOR1Xewo-4

As a kid I was mesmerized by the space program. I even have a letter from Alan Shepard. There was a time I could rattle off the crews of all Mercury and Gemini and Apollo  flights. We watched the Enterprise make its first unpowered flight after separation from the 747. When we're in Orlando we'll usually make a trip to the Kennedy Space Center and spend the day.The fascination and wonder has never left me.

So when I heard about a new movie about Neil Armstrong, I was very pleased and looked forward to it. And then, bam.

There is nothing liberals cannot f**k up.

In the new movie "First Man" they decided to leave out the First Flag.

The late Neil Armstrong’s 1969 trip to the moon may have been “one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind,” but it was also a massive achievement for the United States.

One of Armstrong’s first orders of business was to proudly plant the American flag, after all.

But Ryan Gosling, the Canadian actor who plays Armstrong in “First Man,” Hollywood’s rendition of the moon landing, told the Telegraph the magic moment was intentionally omitted from the big screen because Armstrong’s achievement “transcended countries and borders.”

“First Man” is getting rave reviews at the Venice Film Festival, but critics noted the unpatriotically sanitized flick is missing something important, and Gosling explained he worked with French-Canadian director Damien Chazelle and the Armstrong family to decide on its key moments.

“I think this was widely regarded in the end as a human achievement (and) that’s how we chose to view it,” he said. “I also think Neil was extremely humble, as were many of these astronauts, and time and time again he deferred the focus from himself to the 400,000 people who made the mission possible.”

“He was reminding everyone that he was just the tip of the iceberg – and that’s not just to be humble, that’s also true,” Gosling said.

and then moron twists the knife

The actor admitted “I’m Canadian, so might have cognitive bias,” but he believes Armstrong didn’t think much of patriotism.

“So I don’t think that Neil viewed himself as an American hero,” Gosling told the Telegraph. “From my interviews with his family and people that knew him, it was quite the opposite. And we wanted the film to reflect Neil.”

Gosling is an a**hole. Armstrong was a quiet and humble man but he absolutely was patriotic.He served his country in the Korean war, flying 78 missions as a Naval aviator and then as a test pilot for NACA. He was selected as an astronaut candidate in 1962 and went on to be the commander of Gemini 8, along with Apollo 11. Gosling doesn't know squat about Armstrong and is projecting his Canadian ass into places it does not belong. Armstrong did not believe himself to be a hero, but he sure as hell was a patriot.

He didn't fly jets for Canada in the war. See what's on Armstrong's shoulder?

This movie "reflects" Armstrong by omitting the planting of the American flag?

Insert expletive here and follow it with "Gosling."

What this movie does is hand a participation trophy to the rest of the world by essentially changing history. They've ruined it for me and probably many others. Today Ben Shapiro offered a view of the future portrayal of the momentous event at Iwo Jima if left to the Ryan Goslings of the world:

[Army Air Corps]

for which we had the potential tech in the 60s to travel to in about 3 days, not years

Okay, that's a new one on me. I do recall reading proposed mission profiles in the 1980s that estimated a three month trip just to reach Mars.

[TheNext]

America - First moon landing.

Canada - First flagless man cuz socialism fails.

China - First collective.

[PIF]

1964 was when Project Orion was killed; motto: Mars by 1965, Saturn by 1970. Solar system exploration ships (10,000 tons) would be have crews 150; interstellar proposals were in the discussion stage - crews in the thousands (40 million tons).

The bigger these ships were, the better they would preform. Would use water in the millions of gallons as insulation from external radiation; spin gravity; nuclear propulsion.

Many videos on YouTube from artist conceptions to documentary videos made at the time as well as interviews with the people involved.

Reasons killed: Government interagency infighting, NASA Apollo conflict, perceived treaty obligations, lack of political leadership. “...the first time in modern history that a major expansion of human technology has been suppressed for political reasons.” - Freeman Dyson.

So we got 12 guys walking the moon for something like 80 hours total in one general area and called it good ‘because there was nothing to see except rocks’ 45 years ago. Sic transit spes; Eheu fugaces labuntur anni

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PS: my step dad was a bomber pilot in the AAC; service - WWII, Korea, Nam

[Army Air Corps]

Yes, I remember reading about Project Orion - shockwaves from nuclear explosions for propulsion.

[Army Air Corps]

According to the sources that I read, the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty played a significant role in the cancellation of Orion.

[PIF]

i said in part: Reasons killed: Government interagency infighting, NASA Apollo conflict, perceived treaty obligations

[minnesota_bound]

Did they not include the US flag patch on the space suit too?

[Army Air Corps]

I meant no quibble. I was stating that out of the varied reasons, the NTB Treaty is said to be the most significant.