Buzz Aldrin slams ‘First Man’ movie
Fox News is reporting legendary Apollo 11 astronaut Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin critized the upcoming movie “First Man” late Sunday. Its director decided not to show the iconic planting of the American flag on the moon during the historic 1969 mission.
Aldrin, 88, who was the second man to step on the moon, behind crewmate Neil Armstrong, posted historical photos of the flag-planting and added the hashtag “Proud to be an American.”
Armstrong, who died at age 82 in 2012, is the subject of “First Man,” which stars Ryan Gosling and is scheduled to hit theaters next month.
In previous posts Saturday, Aldrin shared photos of himself wearing a T-shirt with the tagline “Buzz Aldrin, Future Martian” that shows an astronaut planting the American flag on the Red Planet.
He also retweeted a photo of himself saluting while standing next to an enlarged photo from the Apollo 11 mission that includes the flag on the moon.
The ultimate Selfie-Selfie…thank you for sharing the wonderful photo and your incredible journey @TheRealBuzz. #Moonwalker #Apollo11 #RoadToApollo50 #NASA pic.twitter.com/ZwAVgWZSJO
Jason Clarke, co-star in the movie, dismissed controversy over the movie’s omission of the planting of the American flag from the moon landing, calling criticism “silly and naive.”
Since it was an American achievement, not one of “humanity” as dick weasel here says, the flag was purposely omitted. Because you know, it might trigger some snowflake who would feel oppressed and have to hide in a “safe space” like Mom’s basement. I’ll not enrich the movie’s director, producers and cast with my hard earned American dollars.
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Guess I wont be going to see that, the.
Word.
I will rent Missing in Action 3 instead.
If I want to view some Hollyweird fake history, I’ll watch Capricorn One; after all, the tinfoil hat gang is convinced no American ever set foot on the Moon.
That’s the crowd that thinks the Lunar Landings were faked and “Pro Wrasslin'” is real!
Sigh……..
Right along with numerous other conspiracy theories that are so easily disproved. Even Slick Willy and his devil woman bride know that 9-11 wasn’t a conspiracy and call it just stupid….
It’s all simple physics, very simple physics…
Sigh…..
But, but, butt, carpet munchin’ Rosie says, “who ever heard of fire melting steel?”
Me either! Guess I will put that movie ticket right next to the pair of Nike I won’t purchase.
It is so as to NOT offend the Chinese who, since 1969, have been able to make exactly one soft landing on the Moon. There are other movies with history eliminated so as to NOT offend Chinese audiences.
Let them be offended. We can retrieve our manufacturing and put our own people back to work. I’d rather get my stove repaired than buy one made in China these days, anyway.
Took the words right out of my fingers, Ex.
Hollywood makes major moola from Chinese audiences who just want to gawk at effects.
Why the hell the producers figured this movie would even interest them baffles me aside piggy backing that part in “The Martian” that made me roll my eyes so hard I could see the reflection of my pupils on my spinal column.
Hollywood did the same thing to GI Joe, “A Real American Hero”.
They took out all the American lingo and changed GIJOE into an acronym that made it an international organization, which is the biggest problem people seem to have had with it.
And, if memory serves, the remake of Red Dawn as well.
For the Red Dawn Remake, they had the Chinese invading originally, but someone thought they’d be offended. So, everything Chinese in the movie was digitally reanimated to North Korean and Chinese language was dubbed over into Korean. It made it look just so horrid.
Like, oh yeah! North Korea with their 22 million citizens and 8 million member army could invade the US. Yep, sure….
Yup, that ungodly awful “reimagining” had the red invaders changed to North Koreans from Chinese to assuage Chinese audiences.
Regardless of the politics of this decision its a bad business decision. Why would you want to alienate 50% or more of your probable audience? I read Gossling thought the Armstrong would agree with “his decision” to not show the scene. I was wondering what Buzz…you know the other guy with Armstrong…thought of not showing the flag. I think he know Armstrong pretty well.
Its just people being ignorant of history. The US was in the space race with the USSR (not that a snowflake even knows who they were), and the flag planting was a way of saying “We won, bitches!”
Just more ungrateful pricks that enjoy the greatness of America while “hating everything it stands for”, and they won’t be getting money either.
I’ve been scratching my head over this business model from day one of Trump’s administration.
Lexington, Virginia, where the Red Hen restaurant refused service to Sarah Huckabee Sanders, has been forced to fund a tourism recovery campaign after receiving negative coverage over the incident.
The owner of the establishment has stepped aside from her leadership of a local business group.
Didn’t I rant about this the other day, almost sure I did; one of my favorite things to rant about, isn’t it? Screw the Chinese Govt, the state owned factories, the butt hurt snow flakes that don’t realize who really made most of this modern technology possible. If we ALL make a spirited attempt to NOT buy/put up with this crap, it will slowly start to change. How many remember when Kennedy said let’s do this? How many remember where they were when this happened? How many Chinese remember if it hadn’t been for us, they would still be speaking either Japanese or Russian. I do feel some sympathy for the average Chinese person, they are even more royally screwed by their gubmint than we are. This whole action ties in directly with the destruction of the other aspects of American History. Let’s wipe away every vestige of the devils and advance the New World Order. My big ol’ hairy butt. Better go take another BP pill.
It is surprisingly hard to avoid Chinese-made stuff. It can be done, but you are going to put extra effort and money into it.
(Grin)
Think of it as a scavenger hunt, for bragging rights.
It’s impossible to completely avoid Chinese made stuff because so many component parts of things are made there. However, it is possible to reduce considerably the consumption of them. Yes, you do without a lot of stuff that others take for granted and even after a few decades of not buying Chinese made products, I still discover a stray tag occasionally in my home.
Aww, go get a dartboard, 5th/77th-A, and stick Mao’s face on it (or JinPing’s) and Trudy Oh’s, too, and spend some time improving your aim.
You’ll feel much better after you do that.
Tried that Ex. Only dart board I could find was made in China. I use an old school homemade sling shot, taking aim at empty cold beer cans, also becomes part of my physical therapy program. I do curry comb, hunt, go out of my way, and do with out some things to keep China built product out of the house. Not sure what I’ll do when my current ‘puter, TV, and cell phone die.
Well looks like a movie I won’t be going to see.
Nice work Hollywood, you anti-American revisionist assholes.
I will never forgive the Communist party of China. They kept me from being born in Shanghai. My father was stationed there and my pregnant mother was just about to take ship for the orient. Mao and his happy hoard of bandits launched an assault on the region and all Americas were evacuated back to the states. My mother’s passage was cancelled and I was forced to be born in Hollywood California. I will never forgive the Commies for that insult.
I was going to say you’re better off, but Hollywood. Ouch. Tough break, Roger. 😉
As I’ve commented in past comments, I don’t go to watch the holleyweird left actors/actresses who hate everything America stands for plus a lot of the moola they make goes to their dem party so why should I support their party from the money that is made from the box office receipts. And I don’t give a flying fuck about how talented they are like some of my liberal friends who really don’t have a clue. I watch Torchy Blaine, The B&W Saint flicks, Bull Dog Drummond, Charlie Chan Etc on TCM plus all the old B Westerns on the Comcast on demand oaters.
Canadian film? Didn’t know but the same thing goes for the knooks
It is a Cananadian film …
The Cananada people, especially their boyish, soft-hand, skinny pants and pointy shoe’d leader does not like the USA!
If Buzz does not like the movie, I hate it!
If the original was really a hollywood movie as some conspiracy people claim then why shoot it all over again? Just erase the flag part in the original. Duh.
One of the bigger snowflake problems is that it’s also a film about a bunch of straight white guys. For political correctness, the director should have cast a black lesbian, a cross-dresser named Fernando, and George Takei…
I got to see the original because Richard Nixon gave us all the day off. I have no need to see this fake remake and no, I don’t like Trudy Truddow, either. He’s a putz.
We call Trudeau “Zoolander” in these parts. Seems to fit pretty well.
The only people who seem to like him live in Montreal. I guess they can out-vote the rest of the country. Hmmm… sounds almost like Coastal Voting, doesn’t it?
You mean like how LA, San Foo-foo and Sacrudmento decide for the rest of CA, Chicongo/Cook County does for IL and NYC does for NY?
It’s economics, pure and simple. As others have rightly pointed out, it’s othing more than an attempt to appeal to a global audience, which often salvages movies which have underperformed or outright bombed here in the US.
Another example of “globalwashing” a movie? Wonder Woman.
Guess the director forgot that the crew members were all at one time military officers of the…United States, before joining NASA, an American organization. How the fuck do they expect Canadian, Brit, Aussie and Irish actors not born during the landing to feel what Americans did in 1969?
There are two iconic moments from the landing on the moon. The first is Armstrong descending the ladder. The second is the planting of the flag.
It is true that going to the moon was an American achievement. We are still the only country that has put people on the surface. The moon race was a race against communism, specifically against the Russians (who, it turns out, never developed the capability to go to the moon.)
There is definitely a geo-political component to the flag being planted on the moon. It was a giant slap in the face of the Russians while shouting “Take that Ivan!”
Yet Armstrong’s words as he took the first step were not of just America. They were of “mankind.” His words echo that of Kennedy in his famous “go to the moon” speech at Rice University.
When one looks at Armstrong’s biography, there is no doubt he was a true American. His service was long and stellar in many ways. Gossling says that he doesn’t think that Armstrong saw himself as “an American hero.” That’s true. Heroes don’t often see themselves as heroes. While Armstrong did not see himself as an American hero, he sure as heck saw himself as an American.
There are a couple of interesting points to add……
First, the movie does contain shots of the flag on the moon. What is missing is the shot of the flag being planted. It’s not as if the flag is absent from the moon shots altogether.
Secondly, the Armstrong family has come out and said they have no issues with the flag planting not being shown. One would suspect that they knew Armstrong well and are trying to reflect what they think he would have said and done.
To me, if there were no images of the flag on the moon, that would be infinitely worse.
As it stands, I can understand why the shot of planting the flag on the moon was not shown, but disagree with that choice.
It’s not that they didn’t show it because they had to cut parts to save time. They did it because Hollywood is playing the PC card and thinks it’ll offend the rest of the planet.
They are a bunch of hypocritical pussies who are only concerned about making more money. But making the US look bad, or ignoring “American” accomplishments, they think, will do well both in the US and internationally.
They live here, enjoy the benefits of living here, but also take every opportunity to bash “here” making money from it.
I don’t think ANY other Nation is capable of landing on the moon. After all, EVERY Man who has ever set foot on the moon was AMERICAN!
A jackoff with the username “FlatEarther1965” from California keeps blowing up a message board devoted to this movie with hoaxer nonsense.
His username alone made me roll my eyes. Idiots.
Sounds like well earned derision.
THE ONLY TING Flat Earthers have to fear is Sphere itself!!!
Guess we will find out in ten years.
Here’s the list of those AMERICANS that have walked on the moon:
Neil Armstrong
Buzz Aldrin
Pete Conrad
Alan Bean
Alan Shepard
Edgar Mitchell
David Scott
James Irwin
John Young
Charles Duke
Eugene Cernan
Harrison (Jack) Schmitt
Aldrin, Scott, Duke and Schmitt are the only ones still alive (and all are in their 80’s).
Fuck Hooywierd and their SJW/libtard agenda.
The same FlatEarther1965 idiot says that Neil Armstrong’s refusal to swear on a bible that he walked on the moon is proof that it never happened, as if the man is obligated to do such a ridiculous thing.
Glad he socked that asshole in the face.
Actually, it was Col. Aldrin who socked the foolish person in the face, after that moron badgered Aldrin for a while. Ol’ Buzz still had a pretty good right hook.
You are correct, I was typing too fast and thinking of the first man on the moon at the same time.
A well deserved sock to the kisser either way.
God bless Colonel Aldrin! Still able to keep it real and speak his mind. Now go punch some conspiracy theorists, sir!
Guess I don’t see any reason to get all worked up over this – would I have liked if they showed the flag-planting? Sure. But you’ve got American astronauts, the American space agency, running American technology on American rockets… pretty sure it isn’t in doubt who did this even absent the flag.
Our flag is still up there. They chose to leave that part out because they feel it was not our endeavor but the world’s…. what the fuck is that nonsense?!
Disrespectful to the crew on that mission, the agency that sent them there and the combined efforts of all involved on all levels.
And I might add, this film doesn’t depict “A” landing on the moon… it depicts the American landing. Our achievement, our people.
Even my immigrant relatives cried with pride.
“American landing” is exactly right, Deckie.
Amazingly, no country that uses the metric system has ever put a man on the moon. Says it all, right there.
So I ask JUST HOW MANY other Nations donated money toward the US Lunar Landings?
And another thing they all forget; Not only did the Americans land Americans on the Moon, those same Americans got Americans off the Moon and back home to America.
Since they are redoing the Moon landing for social justice they should have planted the flag and had old Neal take a knee after planting the flag.
They should have put a woman and a transgender on the mission crew, while they were at it. Include everyone under the fucking LGBTQRSTUVWXYZ umbrella… because inclusion.
I never expect anything resembling the truth from Hollywood, they’re normally so full of shit I’m amazed that any actors/actresses have eye colors other than brown. However I’m absolutely amazed that we are taking a singularly unique event, landing on the moon, that was clearly one nation’s achievement and pretending it was something other than a single nation’s achievement.
The United States is the only nation that has put a man with a dune buggy on the moon. The Soviets and the Chinese are dropping robots…fifty years after we walked on it.
Telling a different story is telling a lie, plain and simple.
Having said that, what truly pisses me off in this country is abandoning our space program’s reach to the stars since we’ve walked on the moon and instead focusing on a series of probes and lowered expectations. Letting China take the lead on the moon fifty years after we were there first says a lot about the current state of space exploration in the US.
Sure we have some Mars dream in the pipeline, we’ll see how that plays out.
They (Hollywood elites) keep doing this crap, and then turn around and complain that all anyone wants to spend money on anymore are the superhero movies.
We went to the moon and what did we do?
We send up a golf cart and hit some golf balls!
Because ‘Merica, that’s why!
America is the greatest country in the world!
I can see why people in Swaziland and East Timor, aka “Terra humanus” may feel insulted and heartbroken after seeing all their native astro physicists and launch engineers emigrate to the USA in the sixties to make it all happen.
I’ll not waste my cash or time seeing this movie and I hope it bombs like Peter Fonda’s recent flik did.
CAPT Bones USN (ret)
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