[Joe 6-pack]

"Another Freeper pointed out the other day that there's a reason Hollywood diminishes U.S. influence in its movies even in cases like this where the movie is based on a true story that is distinctly American from top to bottom."

I was amazed a few years ago at the end of George Clooney's, "Monuments Men," which was based on the true story of the American, British and French art historians who were commissioned to form an allied unit tasked with relocating and returning arts and antiquities looted by the Nazis. The Western allies were frantically racing against the Soviets who were trying to seize as much as they could strictly for reparations. In one of the final scenes they track down a mother load of art that had been secreted away in a salt mine and got as much as they could out of there. When the Soviet team arrived, the were greeted by a huge US flag left there as a big, "FU." I was pleasantly stunned that a scene like that made it to the screen in a movie with Cloony and Damon.

[vannrox]

How can you POSSIBLY have a movie about Apollo and not have the flag? It was everywhere. It was on their uniforms. It was on their equipment. It was in the mission readiness rooms. It was in the control room. It was on the friggin' rocket for goodness sakes!!!!

[rlmorel]

God, I detested that movie with a white hot burning passion.

It was a true story, I had read the book and thought “Wow! Most Americans know absolutely nothing about this...this would make a great movie!”

And then they made that bloody cartoon. Stupid light hearted flute music and that dimwit George Clooney with his aviator sunglasses. Damn. They could have done something good with it.

I did like that part of the story you mentioned, though!