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Except They show the flag standing right next to the spacecraft. Dry your tears.

The planting itself was hardly an Iwo Jima moment, so to not include those minutes of dead time was the correct decision. Besides, no one went to see that movie thinking, "oh boy, I can't wait to get to the flag planting scene!" The flag planting was not an iconic moment. The only reason you guys seem to think so is because your FIRST attempt to discredit the movie failed, when you claimed there weren't any US flags in the movie AT ALL. Then people who had actually seen the movie said, "yes there are, there are plenty". Then you changed your tune to, "yes, but what about the one on the moon? That's the important one!" "That's in the movie, too." And then you had to move the goal posts once more, desperately trying to find something the movie had missed. "Well, er, um... Aha! You didn't see them actually PLANTING it, did you? Eh? Eh?"

Much ado about nothing. I get that you don't want to look like idiots for immediately falling for such an easily debunked hoax that this is somehow a "liberal" or "liberalised" movie, but you look like even bigger idiots trying to defend the hoax tooth and nail.

Also, I have no idea why you drag Canada into this. The colloquially called "Canadarm" - which is not in this movie anyway - has a tiny little Canadian flag right next to where it says "Canada". You US folk plaster the Stars and Stripes all over the place wherever you can find the space, so why are you getting cranky about other people doing the same? Besides, as others have pointed out, the direction, screenplay and book (on which this movie is based) were all by AMERICANS. Not Canadians. If you thought they were Canadians, you have fallen for yet another hoax. Are you the type to have not a whit of source criticism? You just gobble up interesting rumours without the slightest question?

Agreed, and well said.

Well how about the fact that the original version of what happened was a complete fabrication to cover up the United States' embarrassment over what really happened on this mission: As soon as the astronauts set foot on the moon, they were set upon by a couple of moon martians from outer space who whipped them with moon-tree branches and chased them back onto their moon capsule and back to earth, tail between their legs. My grampa was in NASA, so I got to see footage of this that he smuggled home from work.

Why should the movie show the American flag being planted? BECAUSE IT'S HISTORY, DAMMIT!!!

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AMEN, Dalton!! Well said!


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I'm glad they didn't make a big deal about it. It would have soured it with cheap patriotism in what was a tastefully done and intimate portrait of Neil Armstrong