First Man
S E E D E D C O N T E N T
Well, I took the Wife to see it, she's not that much of a movie watcher and knows next to nothing about the space program in fact she asked me after we left the theater "How many times did they go to the moon" of course my instant answer was nine times with six landings.
Well her opinion was that it was a tragic story of a man that lost his daughter and had a hard time dealing with that loss with the space program and landing on the moon draped around it...
It wasn't particularly tragic, they missed the mark there and it was halting and wooden. Me, I'm also a movie nut so I look at things like performances of the actors which I agree with the wife wooden (they gave Neil the personality of a fridge) in places occasionally being as stiff as steel.
And there were a number of historical lapses and cinematic mistakes. For example,
watching Eagle descend to the lunar surface you see the landing from the perspective of the external LEM camera. We have this footage from the actual landing to compare to. you watch the shadow descending to meet the LEM and at about six feet it drops on the surface and stops. THEN, about 15 seconds later we here Aldrin proclaiming "Contact Light!" the engine off order then silence. Too much silence. then a plaintive call from Houston "Eagle/Houston, we show you down" and another too long pause before the "Tranquility Base" response. They had the Eagle down on the surface 15 seconds before the audio even gets them close.
And then there was the usual misquote " One small step for (a) man, One giant leap for mankind" I mean not even getting that correct?
You would think they get minor details correct. I mean details are what separate an average movie from a great one. This unfortunately was an average movie.
And the more I think about it I have to agree with the wife, it was a story of great personal tragedy with the space program, no, one of the greatest achievements of man draped around it.
Unfortunately by doing that they irreparably damaged both story lines, the immensely tragic one and the great achievement one. Unfortunately, a poor to average movie.
Your opinions are welcome....
NWM
"First Man" Official Trailer
Have you seen it?
No.
Armstrong made his statement well before the Ultra-PC social justice warriors took over the USA, or he would have said "One small step for [a] person, a giant leap for personkind."