I’m going to see it again. I’ve been going to the movies with a friend. We started last month. Let see, she had never seen Smokey and the Bandit. It was playing in honor of Burt. Of course, the movie with today’s standards was lame.
Then we went to see A Star Is Born. Both of us liked Lady Gaga, but what a downer movie. No one would ever see this a second time. Plus 2 hours and 15 minutes of a stupid story. A Star Is Born is a vehicle for a female singer, that ordinarily 1/2 the public would not know about, ie Judy Garland, and Barbar Streisand.
Anyway, thanks to the posting here, I went to see the movie MYSELF and loved it. I mean, I loved it.... and can’t wait to see it again with my friend.
We have some great people on this forum, but we have some out right stubborn ones, who will not admit they’re wrong, or even check something out.
But in all fairness, you must admit... the PR on this was terrible. Gosling should have kept his mouth shut. The flag is shown on the moon, and Armstrong salutes it...It’s plain as day. They decided NOT to show him hammering the flag into the ground. I think in retrospect Speilberg should have.
But there were a lot of things cut out of the movie. I mean 90 minutes to show the entire Pre Gemini, Gemini and Apollo missions?
The PR was bad, but mostly due to screeching overreaction. They said they didn’t show the flag planting scene. Then Chazelle clarified and said that the flag was there. That told me that they put it there (since it really was there), they just didn’t film an explicit scene of them planting it.
Not having seen the film, I didn’t know if that was a good choice or a bad choice or a necessary or unnecessary one, so I figured I’d check it out and make up my own mind. Oh, man, is THAT the wrong answer, apparently. I saw people all over social media immediately jumping to the conclusion that the flag was completely deleted and wouldn’t be seen at all. Amazingly, people are STILL saying that—people who haven’t even seen it. It boggles my mind.
As I said in my review, they could’ve had a real quick shot of Armstrong and Aldrin unfolding the flag or whatever during the short montage scene after they leave the LEM, but it didn’t ruin the film or turn it into some kind of anti-Amerian travesty by default. The notion that it did—made by people who haven’t even seen the film—is, frankly, insulting.
I don’t like being told what to think, I don’t care if it’s a liberal trying to do it or if it’s a conservative. I’ll make up my own mind, thanks very much, and this is one of those cases where I’m very glad I did.