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@MLClark "How do you bear up to filmic reenactments of space flight history in general?"
Hmmm ... Funny you ask that. I was thinking that today.
"The Right Stuff" and "Apollo 13" are at the top of my list. "The Right Stuff" takes many liberties with history, but gets the look and feel right. Ron Howard and Tom Hanks used NASA's "vomit comet" to film weightless scenes in 30-second bits.
"First Man" was relentlessly depressing. It had some nitpicky things wrong ... (1/2)
@MLClark The one that stood out in my mind was the scene of the Gemini 8 launch. It shows Armstrong and Scott walking across the access arm to their capsule while an Atlas launches in the background. That would never happen!
Even worse, they were using the LC-39A gantry with the VAB in the background, while in reality they were at LC-19 which was way smaller and nowhere near the VAB. Harrumph. (2/2)