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Hey everyone, my name is Anthony and welcome back to my movie review. But this is not part of Halloween Special, but il promise that il going back at next Monday.
Anyway, when you're a kid, are you fascinated about science going to space, a planets or even a station? Well, im one of those since my childhood. Because ever since you like some cultures like Star Wars, Star Trek, Transformers and more. But in a very old days, there was real thing that they we can go to space for the first time since 1961 with the late Soviet name Yuri Gagarin. Though it made a big deal to going in space, but none can compare one of the most famous and the most talk about true story we've ever heard.
"First Man" is a 2018 biographical film directed/produced by Damien Chazelle, produced by Wyck Godfrey, Marty Bowen and Isaac Klausne, and written by Josh Singer.
Even though it said to be based on the book of "First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong"
by James R. Hansen, but we're always believe this film was based on the true story about our late astronaut named Neil Armstrong who's the very first man for going to the moon. Although this is not the only film about a plan to the moon, such as "Apollo 13", nut in opposite direction where they wanted going to the moon, but didn't make it due to the broken oxygen supply and electric power as they struggling to going back to Earth.
So now we got this film that we ask our question, where did it began about the first man on the moon, is accurate or perhaps a poorly written film for cash-in?
Well, lets find out.
The Story
It started in 1961 where Neil Armstrong worked as a test pilot of X-15 flights, but failed several times, causing him to be temporarily grounded, and his daughter Karen is sadly died shortly from brain tumor. However, Neil decided to joining NASA Astronaut Group 2 with his pal Elliot See, but four years later (1965), it went down again where not only the Soviet Alexey Leonov done the first EVA Voskhod 2, but Neil lost his friend Elliot from T-38 crash. After the devastation, Neil and his pilot David Scott working together with Gemini 8 and it was successful, even though it had a divided reception, including his wife Janet. And finally the mission to the moon where Apollo 1 was supposed to be the first time, but failed from the electrical wire causes to light on fire and explosion in the cockpit, resulting a plan B for Apollo 11 with Neil and Buzz Aldrin and the rest is history.
Though il apologize for the spoiler, but come on, its simply predictable for the story to follow from real event. Anyway, i find the story itself is rather interesting to see where did Neil began before to the moon. The movie mainly focus on Neil's mission in NASA with Gemini 8 to Apollo 11. The direction of the movie is pretty nice for how it goes. Even though its a 2 hours film. But my nitpick of the film is a subplot of the Neil's family about his drama from the past and semi separation from his wife, which i know they want to see the reception of Neil's wife and the kids about the mission, but i felt that its kinda unnecessary and probably dragged on.
The story is how it goes that we like to know Neil's pre-mission of the moon, its simply good, but sometimes the subplot could be a bit too much.
The Production
Before we get the presentation, but we're going to take a little bit of origin. The development was started back in 2003 that it was originally to be directed by the legendary badass actor/director Clint Eastwood with Warner Bros, though this is not the first time he made a space mission called "Space Cowboys" in 2000. Unfortunately, that idea won't happened with Eastwood, that is until it was taken over by Universal and DreamWorks, especially with Josh Singer came in to rewrite the script of the story.
For the presentation, it looks pretty cool for how it takes place in 1960's, i mean it looks really nice with the 60's stuff around, especially with a recreation of Armstrong's home, even though the house is feels a bit modern-ish. The space scene like Gemini 8 is pretty intense which it might be obvious for the use of CGI, which it looks pretty cool for represent, even if its not a fan with some scene with Armstrong's training or even the spinning Gemini 8 scene for a motion sickness, like when i saw them, i was a bit dizzy from a lot of shaky stuff. Speaking of it, another nitpick of the film for me is the shacking camera, which is a pretty cliche development, which makes it even more annoying to watch. As for the moon landing, it was filmed on local rock quarry at night, which it is pretty hard to filming to pretend the characters are in space, but its a nice filming for a tricky effect. One last thing to say, the music of this movie is very nice.
Though the production is nice and beautiful looking, sometimes some of stuff feels like a rollercoaster of intensity in space.
The Characters
Though i like to give the info and my thought of the characters in various movies, but its rather a difficult story for this one.
First is Neil Armstrong (played by Ryan Gosling), he's likely the main focus of the movie that we're routing for his mission, especially he's famously know as the first man in the moon in history with NASA. For Ryan's role, i find he did a nice job and probably nice fit for his look. But hey, at least he deserves better than Blade Runner 2049.
Then we have Neil's wife named Janet Shearon (played by Claire Foy), though Claire might have a nice look and a not bad acting, but i felt that they use her a bit much for her reaction about the mission and the argument for what's happening, especially where she didn't realized about Armstrong's traumatic loss of his best friend and his dead daughter.
As for the rest, there aren't much else to say, they're a lot of characters, which like i said before, the movie mainly focus on Neil Armstrong, though it may have some characters for a team work, like Buzz Aldrin (played by Corey Stoll) for Apollo 11 and David Scott (played by Christopher Abbott) for Gemini 8.
To be fair, the acting is pretty good, despite for some moment with pause before the line, which i know its a dramatic biographical film, which they could've be a little bit realistic than slowing down, even for 2 hours long movie.
The characters aren't as much important for more info. But like i said, the movie is mainly focus on Neil himself that we can't wait to see.
And now for my final opinion of this film.
Overall, "First Man" is good movie that i can say and its nice to see how it goes before the famous Apollo 11. The story is nice, the presentation is beautifully done, the direction is interesting and the casts are not bad. Even though the movie takes a lot of time before the moon mission, like Gemini 8 which it is pretty intense to see. Even if the subplot is a bit too much for the family and the shaky camera is probably annoying for intensity from plane incident to space mission. don't give me wrong, its pretty cool how it looks, but i don't want it too much for anyone with motion sickness.
If you're pretty curious where did Neil Armstrong began before Apollo 11, maybe this one is for you.
Il give this movie a 7/10. It may not be my favorite film based on true story, but its really nice to see how it depicts.
So this ends of my movie review, if you guys have your opinion or any suggestions, let me know at comment bellow and support me on KO-FI.com/blackevil.
Thanks for reading, and im Anthony, signing out.
Though il apologize for the spoiler, but come on, its simply predictable for the story to follow from real event. Anyway, i find the story itself is rather interesting to see where did Neil began before to the moon. The movie mainly focus on Neil's mission in NASA with Gemini 8 to Apollo 11. The direction of the movie is pretty nice for how it goes. Even though its a 2 hours film. But my nitpick of the film is a subplot of the Neil's family about his drama from the past and semi separation from his wife, which i know they want to see the reception of Neil's wife and the kids about the mission, but i felt that its kinda unnecessary and probably dragged on.
The story is how it goes that we like to know Neil's pre-mission of the moon, its simply good, but sometimes the subplot could be a bit too much.
The Production
Before we get the presentation, but we're going to take a little bit of origin. The development was started back in 2003 that it was originally to be directed by the legendary badass actor/director Clint Eastwood with Warner Bros, though this is not the first time he made a space mission called "Space Cowboys" in 2000. Unfortunately, that idea won't happened with Eastwood, that is until it was taken over by Universal and DreamWorks, especially with Josh Singer came in to rewrite the script of the story.
For the presentation, it looks pretty cool for how it takes place in 1960's, i mean it looks really nice with the 60's stuff around, especially with a recreation of Armstrong's home, even though the house is feels a bit modern-ish. The space scene like Gemini 8 is pretty intense which it might be obvious for the use of CGI, which it looks pretty cool for represent, even if its not a fan with some scene with Armstrong's training or even the spinning Gemini 8 scene for a motion sickness, like when i saw them, i was a bit dizzy from a lot of shaky stuff. Speaking of it, another nitpick of the film for me is the shacking camera, which is a pretty cliche development, which makes it even more annoying to watch. As for the moon landing, it was filmed on local rock quarry at night, which it is pretty hard to filming to pretend the characters are in space, but its a nice filming for a tricky effect. One last thing to say, the music of this movie is very nice.
Though the production is nice and beautiful looking, sometimes some of stuff feels like a rollercoaster of intensity in space.
The Characters
Though i like to give the info and my thought of the characters in various movies, but its rather a difficult story for this one.
First is Neil Armstrong (played by Ryan Gosling), he's likely the main focus of the movie that we're routing for his mission, especially he's famously know as the first man in the moon in history with NASA. For Ryan's role, i find he did a nice job and probably nice fit for his look. But hey, at least he deserves better than Blade Runner 2049.
Then we have Neil's wife named Janet Shearon (played by Claire Foy), though Claire might have a nice look and a not bad acting, but i felt that they use her a bit much for her reaction about the mission and the argument for what's happening, especially where she didn't realized about Armstrong's traumatic loss of his best friend and his dead daughter.
As for the rest, there aren't much else to say, they're a lot of characters, which like i said before, the movie mainly focus on Neil Armstrong, though it may have some characters for a team work, like Buzz Aldrin (played by Corey Stoll) for Apollo 11 and David Scott (played by Christopher Abbott) for Gemini 8.
To be fair, the acting is pretty good, despite for some moment with pause before the line, which i know its a dramatic biographical film, which they could've be a little bit realistic than slowing down, even for 2 hours long movie.
The characters aren't as much important for more info. But like i said, the movie is mainly focus on Neil himself that we can't wait to see.
And now for my final opinion of this film.
Overall, "First Man" is good movie that i can say and its nice to see how it goes before the famous Apollo 11. The story is nice, the presentation is beautifully done, the direction is interesting and the casts are not bad. Even though the movie takes a lot of time before the moon mission, like Gemini 8 which it is pretty intense to see. Even if the subplot is a bit too much for the family and the shaky camera is probably annoying for intensity from plane incident to space mission. don't give me wrong, its pretty cool how it looks, but i don't want it too much for anyone with motion sickness.
If you're pretty curious where did Neil Armstrong began before Apollo 11, maybe this one is for you.
Il give this movie a 7/10. It may not be my favorite film based on true story, but its really nice to see how it depicts.
So this ends of my movie review, if you guys have your opinion or any suggestions, let me know at comment bellow and support me on KO-FI.com/blackevil.
Thanks for reading, and im Anthony, signing out.
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