First Man (2018) - 🤯📼First Time Film Club📼🤯 - First Time Watching/Movie Reaction & Review

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[@roguedravidan2746]

The moment Ryan Goslings' Armstrong puts his feet on the Moon, the aspect ratio expanded in the IMAX theatre I was watching here in India & had goosebumps while also slightly tearing up. Never expected such an emotion for that scene.

[@stevetheduck1425]

For me, it expanded when they two astronauts opened the hatch on the LM and we saw outside. Silence, too.

[@JayM409]

In 1903, when my grandfather was 9, the Wright brothers made the first controlled flight. Sixty-six years later, when I was 9, I watched Armstrong and Aldrin walk on the Moon on Live TV. I hope to be able to watch the landings on Mars with one of my grandchildren. Get busy, kids.

[@technofilejr3401]

16:34 kids nowadays talk about being social media influencers. But when I was in elementary school being an astronaut was the coolest gig.

[@gingetomassi8153]

The choice to make this film about one man's journey through grief was a touch of absolute genius.

[@rcrawford42]

After the lander separated, Michael Collins took a photo of the lander with Earth in the background. That picture had every human alive in the shot but one -- Collins.

[@stevetheduck1425]

- and the dust of every human who ever lived. Machines made by humans have gone further, but we have yet to leave the Earth-Moon vicinity. Over fifty years now.

[@mxamber]

Emily: I admire how well you are at articulating your feelings and the viewer's feelings. Your specificity is spot-on.

[@MikeS-ur2ql]

One of my favorite 4k discs I own. The incredible sound design of the creaking ships is A+ film making.

[@chrissiegle1065]

Awesome!! No one ever does this one... I love this movie. Great reaction. Thank you. 😊

[@thecapar3845]

This movie is so incredibly underrated! I wish I could have watched that movie in IMAX. What a wonderful piece of art

[@sithlordkaeyl21]

Virgil “Gus” Grissom, one of the astronauts that died in the shuttle when the door wouldn’t open during the preflight test, is from a small town about 5-10 minutes from where I grew up, called Mitchell, Indiana. There’s not much in Mitchell, but he’s understandably a big hero. They have a museum dedicated to him, and his childhood home is still able to be visited, and is on a street that was named after him.

[@Orieni]

The astronauts nicknamed the prototype Gemini capsule the “Gusmobile” because Grissom was so involved in the design, and it was insanely cramped inside, Gus being the shortest of the original astronauts.

[@technofilejr3401]

Gus Grissom didn’t die in a shuttle. He and his crew died in an Apollo capsule.

[@sithlordkaeyl21]

@@technofilejr3401, I’m well aware of how Gus Grissom and the crew died.

[@thepodbaydoorshal]

I think in time, this film will be appreciated more. Damien Chazelle is a very versatile and gifted filmmaker who clearly loves the art of film. I think he suffers somewhat from being born out of time. He would have fit right in during the 60s and 70s. I hope he continues to get opportunities to make original movies on a large scale.

[@actualkarenokboomer3158]

I WATCHED IT WHEN IT HAPPENED. They started filming this in 2017 when Ryan Gosling had daughters who were 1 and 3 at the time. I can't imagine how difficult it was for him to play the part where baby Karen is sick and dying. They divorced in 1994, he died in 2012 and she died right after this movie was released of lung cancer.

[@bobkupi9905]

I was 15 years old when this happened. (Yes, I'm almost 70...) My family was lucky enough to have a very rare color TV in 1969. All the neighbors came over, maybe 12 people. For hours, I sat on the floor glued to our "giant" 23" TV. To this day I can remember every nuance and feeling I had as I watched this live. After that experience, I was hooked on astronomy and space travel for life. I had the same feeling watching the first televised landing on Mars, (on my 55" flat screen HDTV.) Life does move fast. So does NASA. I own this movie on Blu-ray. It had the same effect on me as it did on you. I'm just glad I was blessed to be alive during times like these. Great reaction btw. Thanks.

[@grabtharshammer]

21" was the largest color TV at that time, 15" being the most common. You must have been very rich, they cost around $5,000 back then. All TV signals from the Moon were in black & white. Memory plays tricks at our age :)

[@williambranch4283]

The baby girl's bracelet is the best moment.

[@Orieni]

One of my old friends was a contractor for NASA during the early space program. Other than the zero gravity cat experiment, his favorite story was an astronaut in a simulator, doing some complicated procedure, and the engineers threw a handful of rocks at the metal hull. Jerry said the medical readouts spiked, went immediately back to normal and the astronaut carried on calmly. Until he got out and started blessing out the crew for shocking him.

[@Bhint320610]

The Landing scene is one of my favorite moments in Cinema. They really get the scale plus the music!

[@Thewingkongexchange]

Superb film, didn't get enough credit really. The direction, the score and acting all hit hard. Would make a great double bill with 'Oppenheimer'.

[@eyegouch]

somehow "Free Solo" came to mind, when Emily mentioned the brainscans of "such people"... Alex Honnold had his brain scanned, though climbing isnt exactly the same... but it might be the "same breed of human" :D Maybe that movie would be an interesting reaction :)

[@ph8429]

This movie is crazy underrated. I remember livid that this wasn't nominated for Best picture while a Marvel movie was.

[@dudermcdudeface3674]

You'll definitely want to see "The Right Stuff" also. About the original seven US astronauts (Neil and Buzz weren't involved yet). Brilliant, brilliant film, and exciting despite being lengthy.

[@brandonflorida1092]

An excellent and exciting movie.

[@robertmunroe9635]

I love this movie so much, but man it brings me to tears every time.

[@technofilejr3401]

18:11 I saw this movie in the theaters. When this score kicked in, tears back to roll down my face. One of the greatest moments in human history. But today we have people so jaded, uneducated and cynical that they would rather believe it didn’t happen. I hope to live long enough to see the flights of Artemis II and Artemis III. We are going back to the moon!!

[@jerseyfky]

**Side note to this film, before Neil & Buzz get into the LM, Michael Collins says "Come back, will ya." ..... In another program, it was suggested that if both Neil & Buzz did not survive the trip down to the Moon, Collins would not return to Earth by himself. I dont know if thats true, but it was suggested.

[@LindsayMoore1130]

I read where Michael Collins would have to return home with NASA's orders and understood that he would return as a "marked man."

[@jerseyfky]

**The Score to this film was a masterpiece, not to mention the acting was off the charts. I wish it got a little bit more clout.

[@portland-182]

It may not be apparent viewing on the screen, but the movie starts on 8mm film, and the quality and resolution steps up through the movie to very fine grain IMAX quality for the Moon. If this NASA stuff is what you like I would recommend 'The Right Stuff', the TV show, 'From the Earth to the Moon', 'Apollo 13', and 'Hidden Figures'. The Russian movie 'Space Walker' is also pretty great. Recent fictional space movies worth a look are 'Gravity', and 'Ad Astra'.

[@stevetheduck1425]

The home movies and family memories are on home movie film, and some of the spaceflight is treated to look like 16mm data acquisition film, but the opening happens in the X-15 rocket plane, and are standard format for a movie.

[@portland-182]

I stand corrected. However the early spaceship interiors are shot on Super 16mm, not treated to look like 16mm @@stevetheduck1425

[@oscardiggs246]

This movie portrays a fact that most other movies about the test flight\space program miss: these guys were basically in tin cans that were barely suited to the task, and they just went up in them because they were that kind of crazy/brave.

[@actualkarenokboomer3158]

Some people got upset that they didn't show the ceremony when the put the flag on the moon, but they did show it. Neil got extremely furious when he found out that one of the barbers he used was selling his hair. He made them give the money to charity.

[@DaveF.]

Hey Matthew - if you enjoyed this, you should watch the 90's HBO series ' From the Earth to the Moon' - one of the best things ever made about the Apollo program. Better than Apollo 13, IMO

[@marcus4039]

What he said!

[@Anaaksounamoun]

you guys are the second to react to this amazing movie thanks for doing this !

[@williambranch4283]

X-15, still the fastest controlled vehicle in the atmosphere. But rocket powered, with 1 million hp. SR-71 is fastest jet. A great under-rated movie. Armstrong faced death four times and dodged it four times. Sequel to The Right Stuff another great movie.

[@wiseoldman53]

Great reaction! I love this period in time (the "space race"). Also, I just had to say that Pippin is just so darn cute! 🙂

[@John_Locke_108]

I really enjoyed the heck out of this movie and was shocked that I didn't hear more positive things about it.

[@rowenatulley852]

I was at the beach with my parents watching on TV. The moment Armstrong stepped on the surface, I ran outside to look at the moon . . .

[@Thewingkongexchange]

Gushing about this one sorry, but there's so much to love - the terrifying feel and noise of the cockpit/tan can, the heartbreaking personal side to Neil's life and also the HUGE achievements that NASA made to get to the moon.

[@ashleywetherall]

Buzz Aldrin on paper was more qualified to command Apollo 11. But Neil was chosen because of his cool calm temperament, and as a so called civilian pilot he didn't represent the military interests. Buzz Aldrin real achievement was development the science of Stella cartography while in the space craft.

[@skleroosis]

If Aldrin was more qualified they would've put him in command of his own Apollo mission, like they did with Jim Lovell.

[@knytestorme]

I don't know this movie, had never heard of it, like 2 minutes in to actual reaction and gonna skip out so I can watch the movie and then come back once I have experienced it

[@ladycaruso]

Glad to see you guys did this one! I watched it for the first time last night. We started it after 1AM, saying we’d just watch the opening credits and stop and watch the rest later. Stayed up all night, watched it straight through and then discussed it. This was SO good!! I couldn’t believe how they did it, and it sounds crazy, but I was so invested and immersed that there was a moment during the Apollo 11 mission when I was in the edge of my seat, wondering if Neil was going to make the landing. As if it wasn’t the most famous moment the history of the whole planet. Haven’t had that kind of immersion in a movie if a long time, if ever… Just beautiful.

[@gazorbo.]

20:23 - Buzz Aldrin described the lunar surface as "magnificent desolation."

[@lifeincarnate7304]

Oh man, this one is top tier! Acting, Directing, Sound Design, Score... All A+++. Great Movie, Great Reaction!

[@gazorbo.]

3:00 - North American X-15 is a hypersonic rocket-powered aircraft. First flight in June 1959. Fastest Flight was Flight 188, on 3 October 1967, 4,520 mph (7,274 km/h) (Mach 6.70) by William J. "Pete" Knight. For Neil Armstrong his fastest flight was Flight 64, on 26 July 1962, 3,989 mph (6,420 km/h) (Mach 5.74). Highest Flight was Flight 91, on 22 August 1963, 3,794 mph (6,106 km/h) (Mach 5.58) with a max altitude of 67.1 mi (108.0 km) by Joseph A. Walker.

[@ronaldjeffrey8712]

Anytime some cynic says "When was America ever great" show them this movie and "Apollo 13" and say "BOOM"

[@martinbraun1211]

Can't wait for reactions to the original Star Trek movies. 🖖😌

[@twiff3rino28]

2, 3, 4, and 6 were awesome. 🖖

[@fredfredburger5150]

I love the sound design for the moonshot launch scene, it all sounds so raw, mechanical and powerful. The Saturn V rocket put out the equivalent of *160 million horsepower!* By comparison a quick google search says the sportscar that produces the most horsepower only puts out around 2000. Imagine what that rocket must have sounded like.

[@RedHeadKevin]

Whenever I see something about the Space Race, I'm so sorry that I didn't live through it. I saw the first Space Shuttle, Columbia, launch and land, I watched the Challenger blow up in 2nd grade, and years later I saw the Columbia burn up. But I wish I could have lived through the national pride that came with the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo missions. I'm a geek for space stuff, and I would have loved to learn about that, but I wish I lived through the idea that America was awesome. There aren't many moments in my life that I've felt genuine pride for my country, or the wonder of exploration, and I always regret that I didn't get to see the kind of pride and wonder of the late 50s and 1960s. One of my favorite space-related moments was when 90 year-old William Shatner was launched into space and became a child again. It still brings tears to my eyes to see that kind of wonder on someone.

[@stevenhopwood8195]

I was 18 when man landed on the moon, so to put this into perspective, the sound barrier (in a straight line) was only broken in 1961 about 767 mph. So to break free of earths gravity you require to be travelling at approx 25,000 mph (not exact), which was all accomplished in this time. I would say that is pretty remarkable.

[@TheHoser82]

Chuck Yeager became the first person to break the sound barrier in level flight on 14 October 1947, flying at an altitude of 45,000 ft in the Bell X-1. Yuri Gagarin orbited the earth on April 12, 1961.

[@stevenhopwood8195]

@@TheHoser82thanks for the correction however still makes it pretty impressive regardless of the year.

[@TheHoser82]

@@stevenhopwood8195 It still blows my mind what NASA achieved in 8+ years.

[@GRIMRPR6942]

First time i saw this, it really amazed me that even though most of us knowing the story and the outcome, yet this movie was able to capture the suspense, emotion, and drama in a way that makes the viewer feel like they dont know whats gonna happen next.

[@ph8429]

I saw this one in theaters and you are right. The impact of the scenes was taken to the next level in the theater and somehow felt MORE claustrophobic on the big screen. It felt like I was inside that tiny metal locker. The whole movie was that way but I specifically remember that scene where they are descending to the moons surface and the alarms are going off and you are just fixed on their faces and the rattle of the lander module and then it cuts to that super wide shot of the moons surface with the little lander drifting over it. It was like the breath got sucked out of my chest. One of my top movie theater experiences for sure.

[@stevetheduck1425]

The timeline of events on the surface of the Moon for Apollo 11 shows that towards the end of the walk, there was a time where the experiments had been set up, the camera was pointed to include the LM and the flag, Buzz was getting around and using the camera to take detailed photos, while Niel was away to the edge of the walk area, up a gentle slope, beside a medium-sized crater, he didn't say anything and he was unobserved. He never said what he took as a memento to the Moon (as most astronauts did), but did tell what items he carried back, as part of the extra weight needed to make sure the LM's upper stage flew correctly. There is a little pocket on the left sleeve of each spacesuit, right beside a small checklist book, for personal items. Some astronauts took photos of their families to leave there, and the author of the book upon which this film is based did some detective work, and the leaving of Karen's bracelet seems to be very likely, but as I said, he never said what he left on the Moon.

[@TraynArt]

I’m really glad you guys enjoyed this movie. Technically, it’s very impressive with some suspenseful sequences. But I found this movie to be dreary and joyless. Of course a story like this should have ups and downs, but I didn’t feel any ups, and because the storytelling was intentionally dour, I didn’t feel much emotionally, even when he drops the bracelet into the void. When I think about the moon landing, I feel a sense of adventure and discovery in the face of great peril and risk, which I find very inspirational. But I found nothing inspiring about how this story was told. You could argue that it was less about the mission and more of a character study of Neil Armstrong, which I think Ryan Gosling performs well. Armstrong was the stoic, silent-type and Gosling finds the nuance in his character. But overall, it just left me feeling empty. Since you guys liked it so much, I’m going to give it a second chance. But I watched this around the 50th anniversary of the landing, and I was working on an Apollo display at our library with a coworker who is just as into the space program as I am, and she also thought it was kind of a slog.

[@fortminor85]

Artemis 2 is launching next year….we’re one step closer to rocking the stars again.

[@gazorbo.]

13:25 - You have to watch the mini series "From the Earth to the Moon" produced by Tom Hanks (a space race buff) and Steven Spielberg. There is a scene when Buzz Aldrin is upset that Neil Armstrong has not prepare his words/a speech for the moon landing just a few days before launch. I don't know if it is amplified / romanticized for the series.

[@davidvanriper60]

I watched this live with my family. I willnever forget this.

[@lumare]

when he walked past the swingset and finally mentioned the daughter, that really messed me up in the theatre because it's so true of that generation - my father is the same age range and bottling up emotions and compartmentalising it like that was the same kind of thing he did.

[@pduidesign]

So glad you reacted to this movie. So surprised that more reactors haven’t. Such a great movie.

[@danielbrooks5585]

loved this movie. i felt like i was locked in the can with the astronauts, what a ride!!!

[@jasmineoldham2989]

There's another version of this from the history channel called moonshot less of a budget but still great, loved the commentary and of course this is amazing.

[@DonMachado]

I was about 3 years old when Apollo 11 was broadcast. I can remember watching the launch, but the days travelling was mostly commentary from the astronauts and Walter Cronkite, too boring! I did see the landing though, my dad made sure so I could tell people that I saw it happen. So, now I have. I love this movie. For me it's the sound design. Another great movie, Apollo 13, had great cinematography, but they didn't have any sounds from the ship (except the explosion), no creeks or groans or shudders. First Man had that in spades, throughout the movie. It's one of those things you never knew was missing until you experience it and it increased the realism for me tremendously. You get invested in the characters early on.

[@abrahamsimmons9203]

If ya liked this, check out The Right Stuff show

[@marasmusine]

My go-to film when I want a good cry.

[@IH8YH]

being german and knowing what you mean about us having all the words for well everything....(having the language ability to combine words to create new words etc) i am trying to come up with something you described.... the closest i could image would be something along the lines of "Historyawe" but the german for "awe" "EHRFURCHT" is better as it is itself a combination of "honor" (ehre) and "fear" (furcht). the engish "awe" doesnt tell you about those to two components" combine it with history as the event is something you didnt participate in yourself (thought some people (might)have) . so Historyawe aka "Historienehrfurcht"

[@folkblues4u]

1202 is a temporary overload in the landing radar. Not fatal - so long as it's interment.

[@Curien247]

For a brief moment in time. the official Moon population was: 2.

[@tj_2701]

Missed opportunity, because y'all gave it a ten Pippen should've gave it 11 Apollo Beans. Then he still scores it higher than you and it would be a nod to he moon landing too. 😋

[@snowglass3969]

Absolutely fantastic review. I really, really, enjoyed this movie. The music really was its own character and so evocative. If you're interested, there's a video on youtube called 'Apollo 11 Powered Descent with "The Landing" from First Man soundtrack' that's really amazing. It's the actual audio and images from the moon landing, with the soundtrack from the movie.

[@hendrsb33]

Imagine sitting atop a controlled explosion, heading off to a place hostile to living things, performing operations no one has done before. I wonder if we would already have a colony on the Moon if we didn't slack off from the space program.

[@otisroseboro5613]

Great Reaction On This Great Movie, Guy's 😊

[@jejohnson1982]

If you watch the movie with commentary during that part of him over looking the crater and dropping his daughter’s bracelet in, it talks about a possibility he might have taken something of hers up there. Not 100% but a possibility.

[@LISA75_]

Please watch THE RIGHT STUFF , all star cast telling the story of the space race up till the Apollo missions .

[@j9lorna]

Its a dark fact that a handgun was included in the survival pack. And it wasnt for shooting moon dwellers

[@Thescoot101]

Here’s a fact about Apollo 1 the heat was so bad that they melted to there suits and you can see one of there faces melted to the suit in the autopsy photo of the suits

[@SevenEllen]

Let's never forget the team of absolute mathematical geniuses, black ladies, who were shut away at NASA the entire time, and played a GIANT role getting Neil Armstrong to the moon. Watch the film 'Hidden Figures' for more.

[@ghostsquirrel8739]

This movie should have done much better at the box office. It’s a wonderful film. Thanks for reacting to it.

[@jamesm654]

It was much better in the theater. But what people miss about space travel the tremendous gains in R&D which does filter down to us all. Lasers were a direct product of space travel. Lasers are used in all kinds of surgery. Fuel and propulsion methods. Advancements in air plane flight, chemistry....

[@stevetheduck1425]

This system of computers, satellites, and the internet itself we are using, is the result of the space programme.

[@Thewingkongexchange]

The audio of the Apollo 1 disaster is on YT and it's harrowing.

[@aaresss]

I recommend for you to watch tv show "From the Earth to the Moon" in that one Buzz Aldrin is played by Bryan Cranston, for me this is the best and most complete story of apollo missions in a movie or tv show and it's really good.

[@nigelmacbug6678]

we reach further at the expense of the brave the point was, the moon was the highest hill on the battlefield of the cold war until the demilitarise of space treaty on 27 January 1967,

[@Burt_Fuggin_Reynolds]

will you guys ever do 'The Right Stuff' ?

[@GrunarG]

The "balls" did found their way out the hatch....

[@GrunarG]

You need to see "From earth to the moon" you will love it......

[@gazorbo.]

11:00 - 🫂

[@rybock]

I would love to see your reaction to "Apollo 11", which was a documentary... zero added commentary, just news reports and what NASA filmed. A real-time, uncut shot of the moon landing that is so surprisingly quick. And, yes, Mike Collins, as with other CM pilots, was further from any other human than any in the history of Earth.

[@John_Locke_108]

That documentary is absolutely amazing.

[@TheFioda]

What NASA and the astronauts have done...the Portuguese did something similar, centuries before, about navigation through the oceans. NASA opened the space; Portugal opened the world

[@nlewis]

Because of Richard c hoagland I know that these astronauts were told not to discuss what they saw on the moon Over the years in different Apollo missions . it's just a shame we can't see a movie about that today so that it's no longer considered conspiracy theory

[@drewc981]

Since Ciarán Hinds is in this one I hope you react to and review the movie Belfast.

[@IBTypeR]

now watch the documentary Apollo 11

[@nlewis]

I like the movie Ryan Gosling did a superb job but it doesn't show any of the pain that our astronauts went through when they were told not to speak over the years about what we saw when we went there And that will continue to be left out of movies to come Unfortunately

[@rcrawford42]

Until this year, the Saturn V was the most powerful engine humanity had ever built. SpaceX beat it with Ship/Booster, then beat their own record with the second Ship/Booster launch.

[@VonRichtburg]

He drives.

[@fortminor85]

Apollo 1…🫡🫡🫡🫡🫡🫡

[@johnv6781]

I remember watching this and I came away thinking Armstrong was just such an asshole

[@sbcshorts8732]

3 idiots and PK movies reaction please,please,please,please, 🥺

[@Vito_993]

His wife was all negative like damn he is a pioneer support the man , that’s why he divorced her later

[@ArthurKnight1899]

guys the old style editing was better for reactions, this one is distracting