I attend the drive-in across the river from Pt. Pleasant a few times every summer (Located a half mile north of where the Silver Bridge disaster occurred), and I was told what Hollyweird and Richard Gere did to the story of the Mothman was not dissimilar to Ben Affleck's take on Pearl Harbor.
How do you take a story that allegedly happened in 1967 and NOT portray it as 1967?
I grew up and still live in WV. I remember vividly the night the Silver Bridge collapsed and I listened on the radio to the news reports. I have heard stories of the Mothman for decades so when the movie came out my wife and I couldn't wait to see it. (I know a guy who swears he saw it.)
It was unbearably boring.