First Man review: Damien Chazelle's moon-landing movie out of this world

BY DAVID OPIE

 

 

Everyone remembers where they were when Neil Armstrong first landed on the moon, but will future generations remember when Ryan Gosling became the first man to play him on the big screen?

 

Damien Chazelle's fourth feature and his second with Ryan Gosling launches with the kind of explosive opening rarely seen in American biopics of this nature, tuning in just as Armstrong breaks through Earth's atmosphere in one of his earlier missions.

 

As the horizon fills his vision, it's hard not to be inspired along with Armstrong and Chazelle continues tapping into that sense of awe and bewilderment throughout First Man's running time.

 

By deliberately keeping most of the space-bound action inside the NASA rockets, we too learn what it's like to wear those shiny moon boots.

 

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This looks good. Along the lines of The Right Stuff, which will be hard to follow.

Heavily criticized for not showing the US flag on the Moon. 

For some this could be considered as a remake of the original 1969-movie...?

3 hours ago, khunPer said:

For some this could be considered as a remake of the original 1969-movie...?

Without the intentional disregard for who made that moon landing 

CNN HEADLINE, "CANADIAN ACTOR REFUSES TO PLANT AMERICAN FLAG IN MOVIE"

On 9/5/2018 at 7:11 AM, Boon Mee said:

Heavily criticized for not showing the US flag on the Moon. 

You know what you say is completely wrong - so why do you say it?

 

It has been exetensively reported that it is shown. Just not him actually putting it in the dirt.

Edited September 9, 20187 yr by ncc1701d

I can't wait to see this film. 

 

 

On 9/5/2018 at 1:36 PM, khunPer said:

For some this could be considered as a remake of the original 1969-movie...?

 

Helmed by Stanley Kubrick no less. ?

 

This Mockumentary is a classic...

 

I'm still a Capricorn One fan!

 

 

 

 

 

Edited September 12, 20187 yr by mtls2005