At least they have flags on their spacesuits.
Except for a hardware delay, Pete Conrad would have been the first man on the Moon.
I think Armstrong was the perfect man for the job. It’s funny how those things turn out.
That is all well and good except that they actually admitted to purposely leaving it out. They did not want it to focus on America accomplishing this great feat. So, no thanks, I will not be seeing it.
Thank you for that well-written review! Kudos!
Interesting about the sound. Might make it worth experiencing in a theater.
“There are contemporary interviews of young Baby Boomers whining that space program money could be spent to solve all of our society’s ills instead of being wasted on exploration.”
I was 18 at the Moon landing so I remember it well. The film makers must have looked long and hard to find someone saying that because I never, ever heard anyone whining about the Moon landing. It easily could have been staged by the news crew at the time considering the liberal dominance of the news even then.
I was driving across the South one night in July 1969 and I stopped at a gas station in Cajun country. I went into the office to pay for my gas and when I glanced at the black and white TV they had there I saw an astronaut standing on the Moon.
When they landed on the moon, I thought for sure that by the year 2000 we would be on Mars.
Instead politicians convinced everyone, or at least themselves, that all that money would be better spent on earth, and they killed the space program. So 50 years later we can’t even get back to the moon, a mere three days from home. We still have poor people, we still have highways with potholes, the decision to remain earthbound has in my opinion been a stupefyingly stupid mistake.
I know about the space program because my auntie was a rocket scientist....NACA and NASA. She inspired me to change majors
I appreciate the review. I don’t think I’ve seen a movie in the theater in over 20 years, but I might go to see this one.
The “whitey on the moon crap” pissed me off. Eff the gibmedats.
Gotta see it bow!
Gotta see it now!
The moon landings were not "human achievements"...they were AMERICAN achievements.
Not watching, ever.
No excuse-hope they lose money.Gosling is not an American and has a smart mouth for money.
this production is not worthy of my time nor money.
Actual content of the film doesn’t matter at this point. Gosling said what he said. Case closed.
Hmmm
FR, interesting as always.
When you make a movie so you don’t want to offend the Chinese market because they can’t stand our flag, covering it up for the American audience ain’t doing the picture any good in the state, don’t you think? But hell, take a knee for a flag, dont show it on the moon, hell call Clint Eastwood for a directors cut of the marines not raising it on Mt Suribachi. It’s either part of history, or revisionist history, and that what this is. Done with American hating Hollywood trying to be PC in retelling history as they think it should have happened. That crap started with Oliver Stone and JFK.
Enjoyed this review. Thank you!
In 6th Grade our class had a “formal” debate over whether to continue the space program. This was in 1969 or so. Most of the class chose the side of “Yes, let’s continue.” Two people plus myself took the other side, saying, “No. We should hang it up.”
My intellectual and emotional investment in space exploration is comparatively dull, but I would not go out of my way to argue against it. At the time I just figured there is too much we do not yet know about the planet we live on. There is still a lot we do not know about it.
In later years I have had flashes of appreciation for space exploration, as various probes have reached significant benchmarks. Like opera, there is a learning curve that comes with appreciation of some things. I still do not appreciate man’s landing on the moon as I should. Maybe this movie will have a part in changing that.
Excellent review, makes me want to go see it on the big screen.