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Did First Man Director Remove Neil Armstrong’s U.S. Flag Scene To Downplay American Greatness?
Townhall.com ^ | September 4, 2018 | Phelim McAleer

Posted on 09/04/2018 1:51:45 PM PDT by Kaslin

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1 posted on 09/04/2018 1:51:45 PM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

That’s exactly the reason.


2 posted on 09/04/2018 1:52:35 PM PDT by I want the USA back (Cynicism is the only refuge in a world that is determined to eliminate itself.)
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To: I want the USA back

If cornered, they’ll tell us they didn’t want to offend any of the Fraud’s chosen people.


3 posted on 09/04/2018 1:53:33 PM PDT by treetopsandroofs
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To: Kaslin

Another Freeper suggested it was because the movie will play in China, the world’s biggest film market.

I also suspect, though, they could have made two versions; one for the USA and one for China. So, yes, the lack of a flag scene was to downplay America’s role in the world.


4 posted on 09/04/2018 1:58:34 PM PDT by Gen.Blather
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To: Kaslin
It is difficult to find anything good to watch at the movies anymore. Plus, it is damned expensive.

Even the Star Wars and Star Trek genres have run their course. No new ideas and even the “good stuff” is “old retread tires” from previous movies.

I like the quote from Space Balls...”Merchandising! Merchandising!... God willing, we'll all meet again in Spaceballs 2: The Search for More Money.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgRFQJCHcPw

I guess that I am getting old....

5 posted on 09/04/2018 1:59:38 PM PDT by dhs12345
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The director must be so pissed off at Goosling for revealing the truth. You never threaten the box office!

You're not supposed to talk about your anti-American feelings and motivations until the movie has landed on HBO. The trip there will be much shorter for this movie now.

6 posted on 09/04/2018 2:00:12 PM PDT by dead
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I have the book First Man, by James R. Hansen. The Flag planting and Buzz Aldrin's taking of Communion are both in there.

In fact, they had some trouble with the telescoping poles, and getting it into the surface deep enough to stand up straight.

I'm surprised the movie didn't include that as a bumbling 'America fail' type scene.

7 posted on 09/04/2018 2:02:10 PM PDT by real saxophonist ( YouTube + Twitter + Facebook = YouTwitFace.com)
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To: Gen.Blather

And you piss off millions of Americans in the process. This was a major event in all of human history and yes, the space race was during the cold war. Reminder: the cold war was against the communists and China was communist.

Sorry if the truth hurts.


8 posted on 09/04/2018 2:03:12 PM PDT by dhs12345
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To: Kaslin

Yep. Beer and poutine is the only thing they’re noted for; well okay, ice hockey.


9 posted on 09/04/2018 2:04:31 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: Kaslin

Neither. I will choose neither because I refuse to support anything from Hollywood until they get their heads screwed back on! Also, to choose a Canadian to play an American hero was a deliberate low blow. It is not as if there are not plenty of talented AMERICANS available.


10 posted on 09/04/2018 2:08:32 PM PDT by Mollypitcher1 (I have not yet begun to fight....John Paul Jones)
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To: SkyDancer

Don’t forget maple syrup and whining.


11 posted on 09/04/2018 2:11:21 PM PDT by Chainmail (A simple rule of life: if you can be blamed, you're responsible.)
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To: dhs12345

At the price of tickets and popcorn, it is far better to put the money in a jar and save it up for a trip to somewhere you’ve never been. Take a vacation instead of feeding the croc trying to destroy America.


12 posted on 09/04/2018 2:11:43 PM PDT by Mollypitcher1 (I have not yet begun to fight....John Paul Jones)
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To: dead

“...until the movie has landed on HBO.”

I’m guessing it’ll be in the 4 for $10 barrel next to the trucker’s showers at most Union 76 truck stops soon enough.


13 posted on 09/04/2018 2:16:30 PM PDT by moovova
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To: real saxophonist

They should have just told the story. (I was all set to go ballistic because of the author, James Hansen (of NASA) but found out it was a different James Hansen who wrote it.

But...they wanted to make a statement. Stupid. People would have probably gone to see it in good numbers.

But no. They had to inject their crap into it.


14 posted on 09/04/2018 2:30:40 PM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists: They believe in the "Invisible Hand" only when it is guided by government.)
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To: Kaslin

i believe so.


15 posted on 09/04/2018 2:38:48 PM PDT by ronniesgal ( I wonder what his FR handle is??)
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To: Kaslin

So where will you be on the evening of October 12th? Here are your cinematic choices....

<<<
I’ll go with my usual choices, i.e., no movies.


16 posted on 09/04/2018 2:39:28 PM PDT by Bigg Red (The USA news industry, the MSM-13, takes a machete to the truth. {h/t TigersEye})
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To: Chainmail

Vermont and New Hampshire has them beat.


17 posted on 09/04/2018 2:42:02 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: I want the USA back

communists always hate and deny things they are not capable of doing themselves.


18 posted on 09/04/2018 2:42:45 PM PDT by elbook
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To: Kaslin

A follower of Øbowel, wanting to take America down a peg or two.


19 posted on 09/04/2018 2:46:50 PM PDT by doorgunner69 (no mntion whast)
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To: Kaslin

What other reason would there be?


20 posted on 09/04/2018 2:49:16 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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