grimmer

First Man

Interesting story, but extremely boring. To be honest, as much as Ryan Gosling is a great actor, he doesn’t fit this role at all. Feel asleep three times while watching this and had to rewind to catch back up. Extremely slow, not much to really say other than that. Some nice cinematography.

lestrek

First Man

J'ai pas été captivité par le film mais les musiques sont très belles

sweeneytom

First Man

I'll be honest, I was calling Chazelle an incredible director by the end of the last big song in La La Land, now he's just running up the score. Few are comparable when it comes to consistent current beautiful-looking films

breakfastcowl

First Man

Shoot, I just don't think I'm gonna' ever hit that connection point with Chazelle's films. La La Land left me high and dry, I've tried and failed to finish Babylon three times now, and looking back I mostly enjoyed Whiplash for Simmons' full submersion into skull-fuck mode (the added benefit being that the film jettisons everything except basically the two of them). Here we have the strenuous and methodical aspects of space travel, all the glamour and myth-making mostly sidelined, and that's my favorite aspect. I remember an interview with one astronaut stating how they have to be clinically hyper-aware of the 482 ways that space can kill them at step A, and then depending on what happens, be hyper-aware about the subsequent 503 ways space can kill you at step B, and so on and so on until a mission is somehow pulled off. That's the good stuff. The other component, of an engineer trying to problem-solve grief itself has a lot of potential, and the imagery unites with it at times, but feels like there's books worth of inner work that never hits the screen for me outside of a few moments here and there. :(

Licenciado Mxje

First Man

Spec-ta-cular. The ending song of this film feels like a mix between City Of Stars and Hero, so that describes how much this film worked. The cinematography was excellent, the aesthetic it'so right and gorgeous, the score is just great and the acting is top notch, specially Gosling and Foy's performance. Chazelle proven himself again as a versatile and consistent director, so i can wait to see what is coming next from him. Dazzling, powerful and exciting. Definetely one of the best films of the year, and that i consider to watch it again in some point on blu-ray.

Lex

First Man

America stop claiming that Moon Landing was your greatest accomplishment; it's Humanity's too!

bartmanbilly

First Man

65/100 I have to be honest, it’s boring. It’s a well-made film with great acting from Ryan Gosling, Claire Foy and Kyle Chandler but it’s more of a technical film. While it does focus on the personal life of Neil at the beginning, it quickly starts to enter NASA and for quite a while does not leave. The entire second act drags itself to the launch. The music is suppressed most of the time and although the film has great visuals, a lot of it just doesn’t require your attention. I am strictly against skipping films but you could genuinely skip scenes and do yourself a favour. Arguably Damien Chazelle’s weakest film.

leonlordy

First Man

Probably the best looking space movie behind Interstellar. Gosling is great, direction is really good, music is amazing. Loved everything about it.

emma 🐋

First Man

i’m a sucker for a space film. it doesn’t matter what it’s about i eat this shit up. this is no different, however the first 30 minutes and the final 30 minutes seemed to be my favorite. i think this could have been shorter and then it definitely would’ve been better. i understand that lots of this stuff needs to be in here for historical context however, if this film was 90ish minutes, i would be in love.

emma 🐋

First Man

i cried at the end but i think we all did tbh music was great idk i am sad