Have You Seen - First Man?

[ToraToraTora]

watched it last night, what should have been a wonderful watch was ruined by terrible direction, omission, and irrelevance. Armstrong's Mrs was portrayed as a miserable sour faced **** even after he got back she could not raise a smile? ....and where was the great man? Gene Kranz not even in it. Gosling did his best with a poor script but the whole thing should have been so much better. They should have got Ron Howard to do it, look at Apollo 13, that's how you do a spaceflight movie.

[Arrods]

I agree. Saw it a couple of years ago, after all the hype. One of the most disappointing films I've ever seen.

[Ken4155]

Time must really fly at your place, Arrods. It was only released in late 2018:-)

[Arrods]

Ken. I go to Malaysia every March and saw it there. I don't recall seeing it March 2019 and assumed it must have been in March 2018. Obviously memory playing tricks - as it does at my time of life!

[Tuvok]

I gave up watching it.

[Mozz71]

I wasn't impressed either. There were some amazing effects, but the film itself was lacking. Buzz Aldrin really got a bum deal, he was depicted as a completely unlikeable ***.

[ToraToraTora]

the director mainly does musicals. This sort of film needs Ron Howard's touch. A travesty, IMDB gives it over 7, I gave it 4 and I was being generous at that.

[Tuvok]

What I found was it assumed you knew who everybody was. It was case of "oh he's supposed to be xxx"

[ChillDoubt]

I thought it was fantastic, but each to their own.
Went to see Ad Astra last night.....now THAT was dire!
Gravity and Interstellar are probably the two best space/sci fi films I’ve had the pleasure to watch, but First Man is up there IMHO.

[ToraToraTora]

tuvok: "What I found was it assumed you knew who everybody was. It was case of "oh he's supposed to be xxx" " - TBF this is the sort of film that fans of the space program like me would nerd out on so I more or less knew who everyone was meant to be but I take your point.