“First Man” (2018)—Neil Armstrong story - from “La La Land” director

Damien Chazelle’s new film, a Neil Armstrong biopic covering the years leading up to the Apollo 11 mission, is premiering Aug. 29 at the Venice Film Festival. It’s scheduled to be in theaters Oct. 12. (And right here I’ll admit Chazelle is my favorite filmmaker to emerge in the past decade, so I’m really psyched about this.)

Here’s the trailer:

 

I would like the moon landing it's never been done .. In a movie ( no not Capricorn one) in fifty years what with cgi surely it could be recreated ?

 

A prequel to "Apollo 13" without Tom Hanks? No sale!!!

 

I saw the trailer for this and thought, surely there’s been a movie about Armstrong and the moon landing before? It seems like there must have been something, but the astronaut movies I can think of were about other people and missions (Apollo 13, The Right Stuff...).

 

Requisite poopooing naysayer aside, I do look forward to La La Land and Whiplash follow up, as should anyone interested in cinema.

Apollo 13 movie was great but Tom Hanks does not have a monopoly.

 

Didn't like LA La land.

 

You realize when there's a "" emoji involved, that means the comment was a joke, right?

 

They faked it the first time with no CGI.

 

Black & white

 

Ha! Not at all. Cruising the forum on a 5s limits my perception.

Btw, Touch of Evil is now on Netflix. Everyone should check out the first 5 minute shot at least. It is incredible.

 

Not a fan of LaLa but looking forward to this.

 

Trailer #2 and review. I'll be seeing this in IMAX for sure.

'First Man': Film Review | Venice 2018

 

pretty sure there are no dance numbers in this one

 

Soundtrack no doubt suck.

 

Quite the stylistic switch-a-roo for Mr. Song and Dance. Obviously a two-script man. Probably someone wanted pretty boy Ryan and cut him a deal to shoot this script if they got Ryan. I hope it sucks. I didn't like either of his phony baloney movies. Whiplash sucked. So did La-La-Land. But if someone else wrote this script, then it might be good. No a bad visual director, but a lousy writer. I didn't buy Whiplash for a second.

 

As someone who grew up with the space program, this looks horrible. I hate the modern style of film-making that takes this out of the historical feel that is appropriate, trying to mimic the look of the era with a modern thundering melodramatic soundtrack, and lots of over-acting moments to show the "dangers" of it all.

 

I’m looking forward to it. I loved Whiplash. I thought La La Land was very good but not as good as Whiplash. I am also a sucker for space movies. It has to at least be worth seeing, for me.

 

I never understood the mentality of people who actively hope the creative endeavors of others will fail. Not your cup of tea? Fine, no one's forcing you to watch it. But really, what purpose does it to serve to actively hope that someone else's hard work will crash and burn?

 

A must see for me - for the subject matter, not the director, particularly.

P.S. Those family scenes in the trailer look depressing.

 

You obviously never worked in Hollywood: "Where's it's not enough to succeed; you also want to see your competition fail." Working into Hollywood is like being in final year of law school, you're out to screw everyone else to get to the top. That's the way it is, that's the way it will probably always be as most people in competition are 21-years old Ivy leaguers, fresh to LA, full of piss and vinegar, playing a no-holds-barred game, based on schmoozing, contacts, and balls.

 

The reviews are very positive so far:

Ryan Gosling's 'First Man' gets liftoff with stellar reviews at Venice Film Festival

 

I really like Ryan Gosling's work, but I'm just not nuts about about seeing another "US astronaut" movie . . . I'd rather see a sci-fi space movie (e.g., Sunshine, Moon) than a docudrama. Just a personal preference.

 

The hard part of any story about Neil Armstrong is that he was such a steely nerved badass, that it's hard to come up with "drama." Apollo 13 had the same issue, where they had to invent a scene of them yelling and arguing, when in reality they just calmly, rationally went about "working the problem." They have a bit in this trailer of Neil nearly dying testing the lunar lander simulator (aka the flying bedstead), and his reactions in this situation were downright inhuman - how does an audience empathize with someone like that?

 

I know that if I was in charge of the space program, very high on the list of qualifications would be the ability to keep your **** together if things start to go wrong. I don't think any of them fit the profile of loose cannon .

I know that I wouldn't want this guy in the crew even if he's right.

 

Same here. There's enough stylistically interesting stuff in his work that that I'm sure he can eventually produce something great, which neither La La Land or Whiplash were.

I'm 57, and those family scenes look perfectly accurate for the time.