Comments on: Fly Me To The Moon

By: PhilK

PhilK — Fri, 26 Jul 2024 19:25:33 +0000

Why are you so sure the moon landing wasn’t faked?

By: Hillary

Hillary — Sat, 20 Jul 2024 05:46:39 +0000

Absolutely agree with the additional woke elements. My husband and I weren’t impressed with this movie. It could have been a good movie.

By: James Carrick

James Carrick — Sat, 20 Jul 2024 03:10:29 +0000

In reply to Enlightened Liberal.

Merged one of me and him. It was always meant as a placeholder but I keep forgetting to change it.

By: Enlightened Liberal

Enlightened Liberal — Sat, 20 Jul 2024 03:05:03 +0000

In reply to James Carrick.

Is your profile picture an edited version of Topher Grace?

By: Petranic1

Petranic1 — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 12:02:19 +0000

My wife and I saw it tonight. It was enjoyable but there was a few additional woke moments – such as the lefty assistant hating on Nixon (twice) and I think the gay Director counts too (although he had some good humour moments). In terms of the film itself, Tatum just didn’t cut it as a launch Director (for a real effort – see Ed Harris in Apollo 13). Continuity errors including the prices for food in 1969 (see outrageous prices on wharf cafe board). The story worked in many ways but didn’t in others. I’d rate it 65/100.

By: James Carrick

James Carrick — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 06:27:47 +0000

In reply to A S.

We can’t always agree. Such is life. I’m glad that you liked it. Please be sure to register your Audience Woke Score at the top of the page.

By: A S

A S — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 05:00:23 +0000

My husband and I loved the movie and, frankly, I don’t really think what you discerned as “woke” is really woke (but I respect your opinion). I think it’s just a character trait that she was smart and witty, and I don’t see anything woke with it.

By: Sweet Deals

Sweet Deals — Mon, 15 Jul 2024 23:29:43 +0000

I didn’t see this movie yet. However, I recently read the novel “Lessons in Chemistry”, which was recommended to me because I love science. I may love science, but I hated the novel. It had the same “Mary Sue” phenomenon you mentioned.

Like this movie about the Apollo program, “Lessons in Chemistry” is also set in the 1960s, and is about a female chemist who leaves academia to host a cooking show where she uses fancy chemistry terms to impress the audience. Not only does the novel contain many anachronistically woke and anti-religious elements (too progressive for 1960, but coincidentally fashionable in 2022), there was also a pervasive sense of bitter smugness emanating from the protagonist. Everything she said and did, every lifestyle choice she made, from her academic credentials, her fancy kitchen and fancy foods, her hobbies, her progressive beliefs, and even her rough childhood, thwarted rape and single motherhood all serve to make her look better and more superior than everyone else around her. She is always right; even when she’s wrong, she’s right. Everyone is supposed to cheer her on, and all the characters who dislike or disagree with her are automatically uncool. It all culminates in what I find to be the ultimate hypocritical “woke” belief: she’s an atheist and secular humanist because that’s what’s an “enlightened” scientist is supposed to be, except her view of humanity is so dismal because of her hardships and her smug superiority that she doesn’t really believe in humanity at all.

I love the Apollo program, too. I think I’d rather go back to my old history books on the subject, along with films such as “The Right Stuff”, “Apollo 13”, and the documentary “For All Mankind”. It hearkens back to a time when space travel was a story about the ingenuity of the human spirit that we all shared; more than just a playground exclusively for the ultra-smart and ultra-wealthy.