Nolte: Flag-Less ‘First Man’ Snubbed by Oscar
When a movie like that crash dives at $45 million, what you have on your hands is a serious case of audience rejection.
When a movie like that crash dives at $45 million, what you have on your hands is a serious case of audience rejection.
Eventually, all of this moping becomes tedious, and it certainly doesn’t help that the movie as a whole adopts this tone, a tone of controlled restraint that turns oppressive.
The 2019 Golden Globe nominees have been announced and “First Man,” the film that omitted the United States flag being planted on the surface of the moon, is not on the list of nominees for Best Motion Picture.
Director Damien Chazelle’s “First Man” has officially flopped, and not just here at home, but all over the world.
First Man tanked at the box office, coming in well below expectations, with just a $16.2 million opening weekend.
Damien Chazelle’s intergalactic thriller First Man hits theaters on Thursday. Its box office success may depend on how well viewers receive the movie’s internationalist theme.
First Man director Damien Chazelle defended his upcoming film amid a backlash over its failure to acknowledge the mission as an American achievement by omitting the presence of the country’s flag in the moon landing scene.
Legendary astronaut Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin on Sunday evening tweeted photos of Apollo 11’s historic moon landing amid outrage over First Man director Damien Chazelle’s decision to exclude the American flag from being planted on the moon.
Damien Chazelle, director of the upcoming movie First Man, defended the decision to not include a scene portraying the iconic moment the American flag is planted on the moon.
Jason Clarke, co-star in the upcoming movie First Man, dismissed controversy over the movie’s omission of the planting of the American flag from the moon landing, calling criticism “silly and naive.”
Iconic American astronaut Buzz Aldrin was photographed wearing a t-shirt of an astronaut standing next to the American flag amid backlash over the upcoming film First Man, which omits the planting of the U.S. flag on the Moon.
Actor Ryan Gosling and his Oscar-winning La La Land director Damien Chazelle reteam in the first visuals from Universal’s sensational true telling of the Neil Armstrong-led Apollo 11 spaceflight in First Man.