First Man

[Gargamel]

Saw this trailer today on YouTube.   Given the subject matter, I figure it deserves it's own thread.

I 'm going to see this, just because I love the subject matter, but I'm not sure how much I'm going to like it. 

Given the time frames covered, and the normal length of a movie, there seems they will have to gloss over a lot of the nitty gritty stuff I love about these movies.  Maybe too much drama in there for me too.  I hope I'm wrong in this, and it ends up in the pantheon of Apollo 13 and From the Earth to the Moon as really good historical space flight movies/shows. 

 

And, oh boy, I peeked at the comments section.... never look at yt comments..... I knew that going in...

[Scotius]

From the trailer it looks like most of Neil Armstrong's astronaut career will be crammed into one movie. And in true Hollywood manner it will be overdramatised a bit Still, potential is there.

[NSEP]

The Trailer is too BWAAAH DUN DUN DUN BWAAAHH BOOM BAM BWAAAH DUN DUN DUN, but im still looking forward to it.

[Shpaget]

Is it a Michael Bay movie?

[Gargamel]

6 minutes ago, Shpaget said:

Is it a Michael Bay movie?

Oh god I hope not.... Checking IMDB now...

Director:

Damien Chazelle

 

Well, he Wrote and directed La La Land, so there's that, and he also wrote 10 Cloverfield Lane, which I liked.   Both of those credits give me hope this will be an interesting movie at the least, even if it turns out to not be very sciency/spacy.

And looking at the character list, it seems to have most of the major players in the apollo program represented, and I recognize a lot of the actors.

And the guy who did the screenplay has worked on some really good stuff, West Wing and Fringe (two of my favorites).  I have The Post on a queue somwhere, think I'll go watch that today. 

 

Edited June 10, 2018 by Gargamel