Just returned from seeing it. It was awesome. The flag controversy was just plain nonsense. No you didnt actually see the flag planting..but you saw the flag on the moon. It was a grest historical drama keeping you on the edge of your seat the whole time.
Awesome? Guess I saw a different movie.
I saw it the other day. 3 stars.
The flag thing (you see it but don’t see it being planted), I get it but I think “our side” is overreacting, I don’t think it was any grand conspiracy to “not offend foreigners” or any such, it was an artistic choice by the director. I wasn’t so much a “moon landing movie” per see (I can hardly believe that other than a 1996 tv movie there hasn’t been one) as a biopic of Armstrong’s career, the focus was all on him during the landing. Big emotional punch, I knew he’d be leaving that bracelet on the moon (if something that that actually happened it’s not public knowledge).
I would liked to seen more of Aldrin, they cut a scene that I think was important, when Armstrong was offered the chance to replace him but didn’t.