Turtles all the way Down vs Green Cheese

Rating: 10/10 (17 December 2018)

This film.
It's not about planting a flag waving in phony "wind" on the moon. It's about the man who left that first footprint up there. And about what he personally lost to make it up there and back. And what he personally left up there. Which from that point of view, is much more important to Neil than planting a flag and then spouting Jingoisms. This focuses on just one of the men that made this happen, and he actually contributed to the program, he was one of the men who figured out how to do it.
And although there are other astronauts in this film, It's his story, and how he fit into the program that put him up there. And it's personal.
This is not "The Right Stuff", and it's not "Apollo 13" even, although there are depictions of a few tragedies in this, but it's about how they related to Neil, and how he dealt with them.
There were also a few near tragedies shown that I never knew about, I had not realized how treacherous the Gemini program was. And although I made models of Gemini capsules when I was a child, I never realized how small they actually were.
One thing that angers me are people who actually believe we faked this whole thing, usually those people also believe the earth is flat, or it's "turtles all the way down".
Or the complaints about this movie that it doesn't show the flag non-sequitur. Really, who cares? We know it was done, this movie was so far from being about that than is utterly possible.
I found this film far from slow or boring, it's intimate. And it shows Neil coming full circle to the person he was at the point where this movie begins. And that explained a lot to me.