and the RATS, take another one in the.........HA ha!!!
Posted on 11/04/2018 1:36:33 AM PDT by JonnyFive
That whole movie should have every copy burned and the ashes sunk in the Laurentian Abyss.
Gosling should reimburse the producers.
...and rightfully so. Hahaha
Now I get it. both films had the same director
When Mr RooRoo and I heard about the changing of historical facts for PC purposes, we wrote this movie off.
If you want to see an excellent and amusing (and non PC) movie about the space program in general, watch “The Right Stuff.” It doesn’t include the moon landing but it’s still a great movie.
I saw it.
The portrayals of space flight were intense.
The placing of the flag was sorely missed. So were most of the other technical/scientific events on the moon.
The flag was visible in place, in later shots. So were the instruments left on the surface.
It compared moderately well with the episodes of “From the Earth to the Moon” dealing with the same events Apollo 1 fire, and Apollo 11).
Don't recall ever seeing him in another movie.
Went to see it a couple of weeks ago. I really didn’t want to go because of what I heard about the flag scene, but the group made the decision.
Frankly, the flag scene was the least of their problems. It was a terrible movie.
I found the focus on the “dark side” of Armstrong to be more than disturbing. As for Claire Foy’s portrayal of his wife..what a hit piece.
Luckily, Armstrong is no longer around to have his accomplishments tarnished by a “docudrama” that implies he was borderline psychotic.
As one who grew up in the era and remember well watching the Mercury program launches around a TV in my elementary gym, this film does a huge disservice to those who took the risks and proved that American ingenuity can prevail when called upon.
I had the opportunity to watch “Hidden Figures” on cable this past week which was about black “computers” who worked for NASA during the same time frame. It was a far better film and I would have gladly paid to see it in a theatre.
The majority of my Dad’s career was project management of spacecraft and their systems. Some of my first memories were Dad’s Aviation Week magazine on the coffee table (it changed names in 1958), seeing Dad’s worry about Sputnik in 1957, seeing Echo fly overhead in 1960, watching the evening news show the launch failures of Vanguard, Thor Agena, and Atlas vehicles. Dad got me a subscription to Popular Science around 1959 when I was 9 and four years later they signed Werner von Braun to write articles. I followed Mercury, Gemini and Apollo very closely.
The men who built those rockets and spacecraft and the men who flew in them were real heroes to most Americans. It was a real time of national pride coming out of the post-war era.
The movie was a HUGE disappointment in all aspects. As you say, they made Armstrong seem borderline psychotic.
His range is very limited.
You are only 1 year older than I so our memories are similar. My passion was “Flying” magazine. I had a subscription for years.
It’s too bad we no longer have a “goal” for manned space flight. I was so disappointed the last administration killed the shuttle program. The only saving grace was I was at the Cape when the last one launched. It was incredible to see so many people from other countries that were there to see the end of an era. I think we sometimes take for granted just what we have accomplished over the years.
Hopefully, Orion may get us back on track. I had the opportunity to see the test crew capsule at Plum Brook a couple of years ago. The passion for exploration is still there, we just need a goal to work towards. Maybe with a common goal there would be less division and more pride in this country. There certainly weren’t any concerns if a Republican or Democrat was the first one to step on the moon’s surface. It was an American and that’s all that mattered.
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