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Liberal flag free Moon landing fantasy staring Ryan Gosling's eyelashes Flops really Hard.


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2018 Oct 14, 8:51am   1,093 views  4 comments

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https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2018/10/14/box-office-fail-flag-free-first-man-flops/

First Man tanked at the box office, coming in well below expectations, with just a $16.2 million opening weekend.
At worst, the story of Neil Armstrong’s historic trip to the moon was projected to do much better, anywhere between $19 million and $21 million. Keep in mind, though, that those projections are usually downplayed as a means to save face and to inspire free publicity when a film over-performs.

In other words, $16 million is a catastrophe for a movie that probably cost $100 million to $125 million to produce and publicize.

Directed by Oscar-winner Damien Chazelle, First Man roared out of elite film festivals with a ton of buzz and rave reviews. The movie took a big tumble, though, when moviegoers learned that one of the most iconic moments of the last century was arrogantly removed for touchy-feely and oh-so woke globalist purposes.

First Man tells the story of astronaut Armstrong and the 1969 Apollo 11 mission that ensured his place in history as the first man to walk on the moon. This was not only a triumph for Armstrong, his pilot Buzz Aldrin, and NASA, it was the single most important moment of the Space Race, which itself was a hugely important battle in the overall Cold War.

In the late ’50s and early ’60s, the Soviets were kicking American butt, which was a much bigger deal than a blow to U.S. pride. After Russia launched the first satellite and man into space, it was President John F. Kennedy who understood the existential stakes and directed NASA to do the impossible.

“We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard,” Kennedy famously said in late 1962.

But in a Special Message to Congress the previous year, just months after assuming office, Kennedy made clear to lawmakers that the Space Race was something bigger than bragging rights.

“If we are to win the battle that is now going on around the world between freedom and tyranny, the dramatic achievements in space which occurred in recent weeks should have made clear to us all, as did the Sputnik in 1957, the impact of this adventure on the minds of men everywhere, who are attempting to make a determination of which road they should take,” Kennedy wrote.

“Now it is time to take longer strides — time for a great new American enterprise — time for this nation to take a clearly leading role in space achievement, which in many ways may hold the key to our future on Earth,” he added.

After explaining how far ahead the Soviets were, Kennedy urged Congress to understand the importance of this in the larger picture.

“I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth,” Kennedy urged. “No single space project in this period will be more impressive to mankind, or more important for the long-range exploration of space, and none will be so difficult or expensive to accomplish.”

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1   Ceffer   2018 Oct 14, 10:16am  

It's about time they upgraded the film sets for the moon landings. The LM from the Apollo photos looks like crepe paper, coke can aluminum, and cardboard with a bit of fancy gold foil added in spots. Like, that went to the moon, Heh, Heh!
2   RC2006   2018 Oct 14, 10:30am  

I went and saw it with my wife. We both thought it was ok and liked it. It does show the Flag in the ground next to the lander just doesn't show it getting placed. The actual moon landing part of the movie was pretty short and spent more time on his first step and a moment that he spent by himself and what they speculate he did. There was a brief scene they showed liberal crazies of the time protesting the space race and money being spent on it, but other than that it seamed pretty apolitical. It was more of a movie about Neil Armstrong and him having to deal with his family and making sacrifices than anything else.
3   clambo   2018 Oct 15, 5:17am  

The director's parents are foreigners (France, Canada)

The actor is a foreigner (Canada).

Foreigners all get a hard on with envy for American accomplishments.

Men going to the Moon was a "human accomplishment" in the same way that Al Gore "invented the internet."
4   clambo   2018 Oct 15, 6:28am  

Herewith some anecdotes on the space race and the milieu:

I remember when very little being taken to see the United Nations where they had Sputnik hanging. It was about the size of a medicine ball. I didn't know enough to be impressed.

I saw a ticker tape parade in Manhattan with John Glen after he was up there for a quick few orbits. It was fun to see the excitement and pride.

Later I was taken out to Grumman in Long Island and we saw the guys in bunny suits making the lunar lander. This was a bit more impressive than Sputnik.

Around the same time, I saw them build the World Trade Center and boy it went up quickly. It was a unique type of structure not duplicated. They also built the Verrazano Narrows bridge which was the longest at that time.

I visited Moscow for a few days in 1973, it was a super cheap "magical mystery tour" from England and one thing I saw was the Vostok rocket; that thing was too puny compared to the Saturn V rocket. I realized that there is no way they could have shot lunar landers into space with that little thing.

The key to our rocket superiority was using multiple stages, and the Russians today still have difficulty with this technology. The Soviets were never going to beat the USA to the moon unless they sent Sputnik with some mice in it.

Later I met several men who were engineers working on different aspects of the space program. None of them were "wise Latinas".

Later I saw the space suit zipper used in scuba diving for dry suits.

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