Posted on 09/03/2018 4:48:07 AM PDT by vannrox
Please tell this actor and producer Bluto’s speech about the Germans bombing Pearl Harbor was not a documentary.
Ditto.
Oh, certainly it was. The narrative is that if it's bad, it's to be ascribed to the United States; if it's good, it's the property of all the world. And no, I won't be seeing the movie either. I saw the real thing.
I remember one of the recent Superman movies, where Perry White, said something like, “Superman fights for Truth, Justice.....and all that other stuff”.
Also, if the movie doesn't show Armstrong as the first man on the moon, why is it called First Man?
I would think that planting the flag would be the necessary theatrical climax to the film. It was in real life.
Fifty more years of Leftists destroying the West and the movie will be remade with Chinese actors planting a Chinese flag in 1969.
Marco did the great first move there - This tweet will help his campaign.
When Trump gets ahold of this I hope he takes his time with each tweet, crafting the words carefully for maximum effect.
It is time to hit China hard. Remove ourselves from the WTO & make the rest of the World beg to enter our market. As well as PAY for the privilege.
It is high time our tariff system reflected the costs associated with the expense the U.S. tax payer expends on keeping the sea lanes open & free!
That’s probably why they bash Trump and America. It plays well overseas.
It is amazing how they can make these Hollywood sets look like a real Moon landing!
*** But it came under fire for not including the moment the astronauts planted the American flag, with Gosling defending the decision by saying the achievement ‘transcended countries and borders.’ ***
I give Gosling a pass on this. He was born way after the events depicted in the film and was mis-educated about the period by his educators. The writers & producers of this film, however, should have known better. This was the height of the Cold War and to remove that dimension form the Race to the Moon is historical malpractice.
"This generation does not intend to founder in the backwash of the coming age of space. We mean to be a part of it -- we mean to lead it. For the eyes of the world now look into space, to the moon and to the planets beyond, and we have vowed that we shall not see it governed by a hostile flag of conquest, but by a banner of freedom and peace."
https://er.jsc.nasa.gov/seh/ricetalk.htm
This was a statement that we would go to the moon specifically to exclude the "global community" of Communists, who at that point had the stronger hand. If the planting of the American flag "transcended countries and borders," it was because the achievement had defined the world as being exactly two entities: The USA, and everybody else.
*** the Sailor skippering the boat was clearly an American.In real life the Sailors skippering those boats were British...which would make sense given that they’re sailing from a British port. ***
Never heard that. I had a great uncle who served in the US Coast Guard on LCT’s during the war. The landing craft that serve his ship were all crewed by Coasties. Usually a Coxswain and a Gunner.
I can’t resist—for those who haven’t heard the story....I was 16 and watched the first moon landing on TV.
The next day I was hanging out with my grandmother. I said “grandma, this is so exciting. Yesterday we landed on the moon.”
My (normally very pleasant) grandma got a stern look on her face, looked me straight in the eye and said “That is total nonsense. We did not land on the moon.”
Then she made a statement that explained why she lived a happy and healthy life of 106 years: “Never believe anything you see on TV”.
My grandma, the conspiracy theorist—totally cool lady.
We will never watch that movie.
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