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NickGaters
I saw it and aside from the watches + space history came away dissapointed. Both Buzz and Neil seem to be portrayed as unlikeable characters. Neil's wife didn't seem chuffed at all that he made it back.
In short: grim and now I'm paying for it as the wife chooses the next film. YMMV
I gather that the film is pretty true to the book (link1 & link2) on which it is based. The author has said (link):
..The movie does a good job of depicting Neil because Ryan Gosling did such a great job of portraying him. When an actor in a movie is playing a historical character, the best you can hope for is a really solidly researched role, and Ryan did that. Ryan not only read my book very carefully and had many conversations with me, but he had conversations with Neil's two sons and with Neil's sister and lots of people that knew him. As Ryan told me, he wasn't trying to mimic Neil. He wasn't trying to become Neil. He was trying to interpret some truths about Neil's character. I think he did that very well. Neil's two sons, Mark and Rick Armstrong, who are now grown up, both feel that Ryan's portrayal of Neil was the father — the man — they knew...
If you want a feel-good movie about a US astronaut...try The Last Man on the Moon.