I can't believe how inaccurate First Man was. They completely left out the part where Neil and Buzz find the Transformers on the dark side of the moon! WTF?
Hearing that gloriously ear rapey intro of yours warms my eternal heart and pumps copious amounts of endorphins and oxytocin into my heavenly brains... EVERY. TIME. Instant happiness, kinda like drugs, but without the bad stuff. Thank you for that. With that said, I skipped 22 July... suffering is really not my thing anymore. Yeah, I went through a faze where that was like my crack cocaine, but those days are LONG gone. However, LOVED First Man! By far the best film about humankind's greatest accomplishment. Some mortals will argue Apollo 13 was a "better film", those mortals are wrong. The film's focus wasn't the success of the Apollo 11 mission, it was about a test pilot dealing with the loss of his daughter. It just happens to be the best film that accurately and compellingly tells a story about any astronaut, period. Not trashing Ron Howard, I'm just glad there is finally a decent film that accurately depicts mortal man's greatest technological feat. Good job Saint Adam, keep up the great reviews. I love you more than the vast majority of mortals, you're like in the 1% of Christ's love, but don't let it go to your head... that could all come crashing down if you ever stop uploading. Stay blessed. 😇🙏
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Im from norway. a movie about the tragedy was made earlier this year(in norwegian) called, utøya 22 juli. and that captuerd the true essance and terror of the event much better in my opinion. i highly recomend.
Murcia doxial it is sort of a joke. But he’s the thing, much of the bad ratings came before the movie was even released. If that was some patriotic old men complaining about not showing the American flag much, how would they know? The trailer didn’t show it. They would have had to see the whole movie before complaining about “not enough patriotism”. It makes more sense to be flat earthers.
@@Ravi-xf8dw Saying that the controversy is just because there was no flag isn't the whole story. It's that they said they intentionally left out the flag planting as a political statement that getting to the moon wasn't an American accomplishment, but rather a world accomplishment. Which is bullshit because going to the moon was an entirely political maneuver and America did it first. If it was just a scene that they happened not to include, fine, but it wasn't. It was a retarded statement about how "the world" did it somehow even though it was exclusively America and Russia.
@@mrvideogamevideos It wasn't about America or Russia Accomplishing it, so much as it was an accomplishment for humans, something that benefited all of us and increased the boundaries that we knew of, touching down on another planet and increasing the potential for all of us. Yeah, they probably does get bonus mileage from word of mouth because of the controversy, but even then, if people are going to flame the movie just for that, it's obvious that they don't really care about the quality
To those interested in a (possibly) more interesting take on the Utøya attack, there was a Norwegian film released earlier this year titled "Utøya 22. juli" which has received some praise here in Norway
It's interesting that you had issues with the musical score in First Man. Something I wasn't aware of during the movie and only learned after the fact was that parts of the score was a slowed down version of the record he plays for his wife in the movie, which is also the same song they play on the cassette in space. I thought that was a really neat detail.
Before the film came out the Flag thing sounded dumb to me. My first reaction was that it was just some sort of political correctness issue. But after seeing the film I can say it didn't even cross my mind throughout the entire run time. They DO show the flag on the moon, they just don't show it being planted. Whoooooooooooooo cares
@@ThreadBomb Right and being a materialistic pig who follows an ideology with no meaning is far better than having pride in a symbol that transcends through our blood.
My biggest gripe with First Man was actually the cinematography. I mean, it was competently shot, but the handheld was really distracting in parts for me, and that's 100% a preference thing. Great movie though.
I agree with you. The cockpit scene during the Gemini launch was waaaaay too shaky. I almost had to step out of the theater. Plus, it was kind of hard to tell exactly what was going on in there. I would've liked to see at least a few exterior shots of the rocket to break some of that up.
It put's you into the mind of the astronauts, it's not a Kubrick cinematic movie, there's no wide angles in those scenes. It gives you a POV of what it was like to be in the cockpit.
Okay, but maybe it makes more sense to have the POV shots of something that can literally take your breath away, like the lunar surface, instead of a shaky cockpit with a tiny window.
My critique of the handheld has a lot less to do with the cockpit scenes, and more to do with the lack of variety/execution. I don't have an inherent bias against films shot this way, but a lot of the scenes that I found to be distracting in First Man had to do with the camera just bouncing around in mundane moments, or in scenes featuring a lot of character movement, in which someone's position would change slightly and they'd be way out of focus. It's weird though, because I thought the mix of 16mm and 35-65mm was absolutely brilliant and inspired, and some of the shot composition was artfully done, so I LOVED some of the cinematography, but the other, seemingly less inspired moments were just pretty disappointing, considering how much I loved everything else.
100% agree with you. Especially with the cinematographer doing La La Land, I was hoping for something similar to that. Granted hand held really worked well for the space parts.
First Man actually felt different. Like you know it's a true story but unlike other biopics it felt unique and personal. For that alone it's one of my top movies of the year.
The that my with fire man was the sounds and atmosphere, like when they launched in rockets the camera stayed in the cockpit like it really was for him. It was realistic and Amazing
PLEASE check out "Utøya 22 july" from earlier this year. It focuses on the Utøya shooting from the teenagers' point of view, and it's all done in one single take. It's intense, horrifying and not cheesy, and they actually speak Norwegian, instead of English with an ugly Norwegian accent. Probably the best Norwegian movie ever in my opinion.
Skipping the flag planting was just dumb. My grandmother and some other older relatives didn't notice at first but felt like a something really important was missing. It was such an iconic moment for the entire country that skipping it feels wrong.
THANK YOU for making the point about distractedly flashy SFX. Nobody seem to grasp that you shouldn't NOTICE SFX AS SFX. They should meld seamlessly into the action at an emotional level.
Please watch the Norwegian version called Utøya, it's a much more respectable take on the event. It's also in one shot, and focuses on the event and the victims, and not the killer.
As a Norwegian it infuriates me a little that 22 July was all in English. It's such an insulting way of trying to "sell" the film to large foreign audiences when it should be a personal and authentic portrayal of what happened. The performances are diminished by the actors trying to speak fluent English. I know people affected by the attack who really feel offended by how it turned out
Agree they could have done something like society of the snow where it’s in the natural language and people who speak English can just watch the dubbed version that way when the people who speak the language the film is in it will feel more personal because it happens In their country but I watch foreign films with the dubbed version anyway because I’m not that mad about the dubbing quality I just want to watch and understand the film
Adam, you should see 22 July, a Norwegian film, it's filmed in one continuous shot (looks that way, at least) and it's about the 72 minutes while Brevik was on the island from the point of view of one of the students. Really great movie
I also thought the soundtrack on First Man was very minimal but I viewed it as the audiological embodiment of the idea that the film presents as being driven by the characters and their decisions and emotions as opposed to the spectacle of space and the grandness of space travel. I love the use of the theremin in many of the tracks and I think it was very evident in many of the songs featured that the score had felt a lot more personal than Hurwitz' previous works did, including both Whiplash and La La Land.
I assume you apply that same logic to Mein Kampf right? Obviously one doesn't have to go through something to disagree with the agenda. If the symbolism of Fist Man is that of globalism I don't have to see it to not agree with it. If you do you still have to be willfully ignorant to the actually History of the Space Race and intentionally letting lies get away because you think you're somehow above those who actually partake in the culture war while you continue to be a materialistic NPC.
First man just won best original score at the golden globes. i enjoyed the music overall and had the piano theme stuck in my head for days. why didnt you like the score Adam?
Really good review of 22 July, I actually know the guy that played the Little brother in the film, and its pretty AMAZING that you talked about it. Noice
The song that you play during the first man segment is Armstrong cabin, which I had to look up after seeing the movie because I couldn't help but notice how great the song was.
I got First Man so me and my roommate could watch it since he's a Damien Chazelle fanboy (I love his movies, but my roommates favourite movie ever is La La Land) and he fell asleep within the first 10 minutes and still has yet to watch it. That being said, I loved it and was caught off guard by all the quiet somber moments. The thud of the explosion within the shuttle hitting the hatch and then resting on it for a good 15 seconds in complete silence made my chest feel cold
1:05 It isn't The death of his daughter was not some major sub plot in his life, he didn't drop her bracelet in a moon crater, he wasn't an emotionless robot. They really fucked with him as a character in order to pidgeon hole him into a specific archetype
Fun fact: the first flag planted on the moon fell over when the astronauts left. Because NASA wasn’t sure how durable the space suits would be if an astronaut fell onto the moon surface they weren’t allowed to go too far from the ship that brought them there. This had them planting the flag next to the ship, and when they left the exhaust from the lift off caused the flag to fall over.
I agree with you about the score of First Man but I'm also glad they didn't overdo it. I really enjoyed some of the scenes with nearly no sound at all. Did you see Mid 90s? I'm interested to hear your thoughts
Maybe we should organize a debate between the people who gave First Man a negative grade because their precious flag moment was cut and the people who gave it a negative grade because they think the moon landings are fake (I assume both groups are largely made of Americans). Then maybe we could seal the door of the debate chamber and push it into a black hole.
if you didnt know already there is a norwegian movie that came out like a year before the netflix one about the terror attack that is honestly a masterpiece, it focuses all its time on the attack itself and on the children being murdered and is filmed to make you feel like youre a part of it so ones who werent there can start to imagine the stress and horror of being there on the island that day. they dont even show the attacker except for one of two times because the intent was to not give him any more attention and focus on the actual victims. compared to the original 22 july movie the netflix one just felt disrespectful and as if the director just wanted to cash grab while the subject matter was still hot in the air. so yeah I recommend that you watch the original movie if youre interested and want a better movie about this event to review !
I was upset when I heard the famous line in the trailer for First Man and it hadn’t been corrected to the actual line. “One small step for A man, one giant leap for mankind”
I’ve seen “First Man” and it was good. I do enjoy few bits of the movie is where they focus Neil Armstrong’s perspective story about a first astronaut planning to take every strategy so that many people can go travel to space and landing at the first moon which can be an academic experience for most viewers who wanted to understand of Neil Armstrong. The only issue is that they couldn’t focus Neil Armstrong more focus then cutting away few scenes than showing more development that I wanted to see his own perspective bio character. I would wanted to see Armstrong more focus than having few scenes just don’t give much time and some can be serious some point which kind of distracting. The good parts are two main leads of Ryan Gosling and Claire Foy were good as best, the music is really nice, visual looks good for seeing a rocket goes floating around the space, and it’s quite good space experience. I guess people didn’t refer movie until and it’s not amazing like two of one of my favorite films of “Whiplash” and “La La Land.” I can see the director wanted to do his own experiences than making a good movie and it worked out fine. 7/10
I'm really, really glad to hear that First Man is good. I'm a huge mark for space, and I'm hoping I can put it in the same set of greats as Apollo 13 and The Right Stuff. It's also nice to have an actually good astronaut story, since the last one I can think of is the book of The Martian, and I don't even know when the last movie was.
i really wasn’t expecting for you to rate First Man so high! but at the same time that’s probably bcs what has been said about it, even if i don’t pay much attention to it, it probably got stuck in my mind. but now i really wanna check it out
Much of First Man's scenes in space were shot with gimbal-mounted replica spacecraft on sound stages with giant projector screens. This gave the film's depiction of space and spacecraft a very authentic and realistic look that is sadly missing from a lot of movies set in space. You can tell the film used minimal CGI, because there are two shots during the Apollo 11 Saturn V launch that did use CGI and they looked absolutely horrible, unlike the rest of the film.
A correction on the prison thing. Norway and Sweden does not have a maximum sentence length at all. What we do have is a maximum length (21 years) of time before a parole hearing has to be held. So what we do not have is life without the *chance of parole*. They do not randomly decide to extend his sentence length for 5 years, a parole hearing will be held every 5 years where they decide if he can reasonably be deemed to be rehabilitated. This guy is too sick in the head. He will not get out, ever.
Did you see Utoya? Apparently it's a much more respectable take on the massacre, and focuses on the attack in one long shot, it sounds very interesting!
First man isn’t even close to historically accurate. It is mainly speculation based on a few lines in a book by an Armstrong relative. Also, it wasn’t just flag planting that triggered people, it was also removing the flag patches on their suits etc etc. May not justify poor reviews but over simplifying their objections isn’t helpful either
Wait... I think I remember the controversy about First Man. It wasn't because the movie didn't focus on the flag being planted, It was because the movie and the character of Niel regarded it as a human achievement when in reality Buzz, Niel, and everyone at the time very much regarded it as a American achievement over the Russians. I think Buzz or Niel's son even made tweets about how he always regarded it foremost as American before human.
+Ian Except their wouldn't even be any space race since the Russians stole all they knew from Braun's project and gave it to Sergei to continue. Wasn't taking any sides, just pointing out shit.
Either way, if people actually saw the movie they would realize that it's super patriotic. I mean, after they make it to the moon it shows a french girl saying "i knew the americans would do it." Also there's a line in the movie saying the soviets can go screw off or something. definitely not presented as a world achievement.
Trust me, I've read all of those articles. If you look at the full interview you can tell that quotes have been taken very out of context to fit a "Hollywood is anti American" narrative. I am yet to see someone who has actually seen the movie think it is anything but patriotic.
Wow I'm surprised someone in the comments actually has it right on the money and sees the issue with it. The movie clearly is trying to push a global agenda when in reality it was an American achievement. Just another attempt to take away value from white achievements like always.
I don't think First Man is too far removed from the other two films Chazelle made. He seems to love taking formulaic script structures and subverting them to tell a functional story. Whiplash has a traditional 3 act structure but without a point of attack which makes it feel more holistic as a film. La La Land takes a musical as its disguise and then slowly chips away at it as the central character relationship deteriorates until the songs almost disappear in the second half. First Man takes a formulaic biopic and withholds all emotional engagement for the first half and then suddenly makes us feel everything in the third act. I think all three films are excellent in their own way.
I think on a technical level First man is better than La La land and whiplash which isn't saying much but I fucking adored everything about First Man. Time will tell which one I love more but for the time being Damien Chazelle is 3 for 3. Glad you liked it too Adum.
My thoughts on "First Man" we're very similar to yours in that I found the sound track to be the weakest part. Besides that the only reason issue I had were the Tite cards that I found unnecessary.
I listened to a podcast that was talking about a movie about the July 22 Norway tragedy, and they were talking about a single shot movie, entirely from the kids perpective on the island who were trying to survive. And they didn't even know what was happening. They don't show the killer, only in sillouettes. Anybody know the title of that one?
My problem with 22 July isn’t the prism sentence thing it was that Anders brevik s background was a lot more interesting like the relationship with his mother but the film doesn’t even mention that a little bit there is a lot of good story to touch their they could have had more scenes with his mother talking about it but she only appears in 2 scenes
I've deliberately avoided all these _Netflix terrorist attack movies_ out of pure disgust. Yeah tell the world and all, but the documentary about the 2015 Paris attack was like, less than 2 yrs after(?) the attack. Maybe wait a bit, and feel the vibe? Show some respect. There is set to be released 3 movies about the 22 july attack, and neither one is something I (and i guess a lot of other people too) want to see. A shit ton of people were gunned down by a white supremacist - please don't give them any attention. *Stop this shit Hollywood and make something original*
Yeah I mean if news broadcasts can create copycats, Hollywood movies sure will. Imagine having a movie being made about you, when you're still alive to see it and take in all the glory from your fanatic fans.
I think it is somewhat exploitative, but personally I think the first movie that was released was really good and showcased the true horror of this atrocity. The Netflix movie however was really average and I don't really see the intentions with it except cashing in on the attack. The third movie looks really good and it was made with actual Utøya-survivors iirc. But I haven't seen it yet so I cant really say much about it. Personally I don't really see the point of having to relive this atrocity. But as a Norwegian I don't think it is that big of a deal as long as they handle the topic with respect and make it with Utøya survivors by and large
@Eaxl People think you're a genocidal racist because you're defending the actions of a genocidal racist who murdered sixty children by deflecting to some mostly manufactured and overinflated bullshit that implicitly sides with said genocidal racist. Don't defend genocidal racists. It ain't hard.
Eaxl And it's not a strawman or propaganda if its stuff that casually comes out of their own mouths out of their own free will. Have you ever been on an alt-right forum? Talked to any of them? Have you read or listened to any of Milo or Richard Spencer's etc speeches? Do you know any alt-righters? Cus I do. And I dated one. TOO MANY of them do believe in genocide or at least white supremacy/eugenics of some kind. Or "humane genocide" as Richard would say. How come its a strawman when it comes to the alt-right? How come it's all "stop using labels!!!" when it comes to calling alt-righters nazis"? But anyone who even suggests that POC, gays, children, women and EVEN MEN should be treated better, they are instantly labelled as a sjw libtard? But if someone advocates genocide and ignorance, advocating we should treat people according to their stereotypes, not by who they are individually, we should "hear them out before labelling them?" But they can label everyone else? Calling people "cucks", "ni**er lovers etc and shaming people, especially men for showing empathy? Please.
@Eaxl Are you aware that Norway and Sweden are different countries? It really displays your priorities when rather than condemning a norwegian terrorist (which is the topic at hand) you talk about rape in Sweden as if to divert attention.
Adam you have to watch the Norwegian film Utøya 22 juli. I think It’s one of the best movies of the year. And I was so disappointed to see that they refused to release it on Netflix.
Personally I passed on watching 22 July. It looked like a well-made movie, and I don't think we should refrain from making films about tragedies as a whole, but I do agree that it looked more like a cash grab than anything else. Namely I was a bit put off by the fact that on the day of release, the trailer was on auto play at the top of Netflix whenever you got on the site; not necessarily a bad thing on its own, but as someone who lost close friends on that island, it was kind of jarring and uncomfortable to be met with that when I just went on Netflix to watch some dumb comedies. It really spoke to the creator's (and Netflix's) intentions, in my opinion. It's obvious that this movie is targeted more at the international crowd than at the locals here in Norway (what with using Norwegian actors but making the movie English and all), but I would've appreciated an option to not have the trailer playing at the top, even if it was just for that one day. There are so many stories to be told about that day and the subsequent trial, but from what I've heard -- and what you're saying in this video -- it looks like the director wasn't sure what he wanted to say, or that he didn't particularly care about the finer details. With the political climate right now, I guess making a 22. July movie is more trendy than ever, but that really isn't enough on its own for a good movie. I get that it must be hard for someone not native to Norway to really get how much this tragedy affected our country, but perhaps Paul should've taken that into consideration before making the movie. There's a reason our directors aren't going around making 911 movies, I suppose. From what I've heard there are some overly Hollywood-y lines and inaccurate details as well (in particular some people are complaining that the movie makes it look like the police responded quickly and efficiently to the shooting, which is DEFINITELY not the case at all), but I can't really speak to that not having seen it myself. It would've been interesting to have a more in depth take on the trial and the prison system, considering ABB seems to constantly complain about not being allowed to play Call of Duty in his cell, his lawyer getting so much shit and the whole maximum sentence debate, but obviously that's not the story Paul wanted to tell and that's his prerogative as a film maker, so whatever. I hadn't heard any good things about it from my friends/Norwegians who watched it, so it didn't feel like I missed out on much anyways; your review seems to say much the same, so I'll just stay away from it. From what I've heard there's a Norway-made movie as well titled "Utøya 22. Juli" that got a mostly positive reception, so I'm guessing that's a better movie if you're actually interested in the tragedy.
I saw a different film about the Utoya terror attack at Berlin Film Festival called "Utoya 22" and it's a much better film. The presentation and sound design are incredible, along with the acting and pacing, the film is a full reinactment of the attack, even lasting as long as the attack itself and it's filmed as one long continuous shot. The presentation really puts you into the action. It has some issues but I highly recommend it.
I liked this review, but I wish you went into more detail about your criticism of First Man's score. You mention that "the film deserved so much more" and that there was "wasted potential," but I don't know what that means. What is "so much more?" You don't really provide any evidence into why this score didn't work as well as it could have and what could have been done to have a stronger soundtrack. That being said like most of your reviews, I like how you articulate your opinion on these two films from a filmmaking perspective. Looking forward to seeing more reviews of the stuff you saw at TIFF.
Adam is a great living example of why it's much easier to criticize something than suggest how to improve it. He's never made a film so in the end his insights often aren't that useful or relevant.
Hi Adam, I had a hopefully modest request. I hear you often talk about music in films. For instance in this video you talk about it as "exploitative". I have heard you mention music and scores in the same way. I've also noted you saying scores or music were distracting etc... Is it possible you could make a quickie about the examples of quality music as contrasted with music that missed it's mark? Thanks.
I really wanted to like First Man. I love the subject matter, I love the director, I love the lead actor, and I saw it on opening night. The film opens with an intense, shaky test flight mission, but the camera shaking never stopped after that scene. It pervades the film to the point of madness. I'm not even sure if Gosling's performance was good because the vast majority of the film after that is either spent in far away shots that are mercifully stable or in overly-shaky close-ups for too long. There are some genuine laugh-out-loud moments in this film when completely benign actions are taking place and the camera shakes as if the cameraman is suffering from an intense seizure. Maybe this is a motif attempting to show how unstable elements of his life are, if so then what a truly terrible and ham-fisted way of expressing this. Also, as far as accuracy goes, certain elements of this story are either rumor or outright fabrication. I didn't know this beforehand, but when certain aspects of the film cropped up and bordered on me being unable to suspend my disbelief, some cursory research afterwards proved that they were fictitious. Ironically, of the two films in this review, First Man *wasn't* the one directed by Paul Greengrass, one of the earliest perpetrators of this abhorrent use of shaky-cam.
Breivik got a life sentence for all intents and purposes. Norwegians consider the 21 year sentence an issue, because he will be locked away for the rest of his life anyways. The dynamic wasn't as interesting as you mentioned it to be, the actual controversy was around wether or not he would be deemed insane.
I guess I can see why the American audience got mad, I mean the whole thing is the culmination of the space race. To ignore this part of it and focus strictly on the science side of things was a bit strange. We could’ve even used the flag planting as a critique of the fact that it was about beating Russia, not about pure science.
I liked the score in First Man but I did think I could have been more memorable. There are only a few tracks I can think of that stuck with me, or maybe I just loved that theremin a little too much.
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I can't believe how inaccurate First Man was. They completely left out the part where Neil and Buzz find the Transformers on the dark side of the moon! WTF?
Yeah they also forget to put in Stanley kubrick smh
You expected an Stan lee camino? But it was ME DIO
ALSO THE MOON WAS A FUCKING ALIEN MECHA THAT WANTS TO KILL THE HUMAN RACE.
WHAT THE FUCK.
Where are the aliens man? Also your profile pic is r/mildlyvagina
i literally joked about that the whole time i was watching it.
First Man is actually about youtube comment sections
You sir won the comment section.
This comment definitely deserves to be at the top.
@@cinemacola6398 just like the movie😎
Hearing that gloriously ear rapey intro of yours warms my eternal heart and pumps copious amounts of endorphins and oxytocin into my heavenly brains... EVERY. TIME. Instant happiness, kinda like drugs, but without the bad stuff. Thank you for that. With that said, I skipped 22 July... suffering is really not my thing anymore. Yeah, I went through a faze where that was like my crack cocaine, but those days are LONG gone. However, LOVED First Man! By far the best film about humankind's greatest accomplishment. Some mortals will argue Apollo 13 was a "better film", those mortals are wrong. The film's focus wasn't the success of the Apollo 11 mission, it was about a test pilot dealing with the loss of his daughter. It just happens to be the best film that accurately and compellingly tells a story about any astronaut, period. Not trashing Ron Howard, I'm just glad there is finally a decent film that accurately depicts mortal man's greatest technological feat. Good job Saint Adam, keep up the great reviews. I love you more than the vast majority of mortals, you're like in the 1% of Christ's love, but don't let it go to your head... that could all come crashing down if you ever stop uploading. Stay blessed. 😇🙏
Thanks Neil Breen for your insight
Amen
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Instead of seeing First Man, I'll be singing the Star-Spangled Banner for 2 hours.
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And God save the Queeeeeeeeeen!
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I'll be shooting my igloo cooler with a 21 gun salute.
Im from norway. a movie about the tragedy was made earlier this year(in norwegian) called, utøya 22 juli. and that captuerd the true essance and terror of the event much better in my opinion. i highly recomend.
Likte at de ihvertfall ikke prøvde å smige seg unna Anders sin sak, glad for det.
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Actually the low rating was from flat earthers.
For real_, It makes sense if this is a joke, but it also makes perfect sense if you are being dead serious.
Murcia doxial it is sort of a joke.
But he’s the thing, much of the bad ratings came before the movie was even released. If that was some patriotic old men complaining about not showing the American flag much, how would they know? The trailer didn’t show it. They would have had to see the whole movie before complaining about “not enough patriotism”.
It makes more sense to be flat earthers.
@@fontunetheteller410 no. Reviews from festivals revealed it that there was no flag. It was big controversy even before the trailer came out.
@@Ravi-xf8dw Saying that the controversy is just because there was no flag isn't the whole story. It's that they said they intentionally left out the flag planting as a political statement that getting to the moon wasn't an American accomplishment, but rather a world accomplishment. Which is bullshit because going to the moon was an entirely political maneuver and America did it first. If it was just a scene that they happened not to include, fine, but it wasn't. It was a retarded statement about how "the world" did it somehow even though it was exclusively America and Russia.
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It wasn't about America or Russia Accomplishing it, so much as it was an accomplishment for humans, something that benefited all of us and increased the boundaries that we knew of, touching down on another planet and increasing the potential for all of us.
Yeah, they probably does get bonus mileage from word of mouth because of the controversy, but even then, if people are going to flame the movie just for that, it's obvious that they don't really care about the quality
To those interested in a (possibly) more interesting take on the Utøya attack, there was a Norwegian film released earlier this year titled "Utøya 22. juli" which has received some praise here in Norway
It's interesting that you had issues with the musical score in First Man. Something I wasn't aware of during the movie and only learned after the fact was that parts of the score was a slowed down version of the record he plays for his wife in the movie, which is also the same song they play on the cassette in space. I thought that was a really neat detail.
man it sounded like a slightly more epic version of the La La Land sountrack to me lol. still a cool film
I felt like that used that song way too much, personally. They should have limited it to 3 times
I won't lie, the part where he left his daughter's bracelet on the moon made me tear up.
No worries about the timing of this video. It's just good to hear your thoughts.
I mean we're used to his film of the year award things being literally a year late. This is nothing.
Adum probably thought he was getting tickets for Fist Man, I'll be here all week.
Before the film came out the Flag thing sounded dumb to me. My first reaction was that it was just some sort of political correctness issue. But after seeing the film I can say it didn't even cross my mind throughout the entire run time. They DO show the flag on the moon, they just don't show it being planted. Whoooooooooooooo cares
They filmed the moon landing perfectly. All this controversy is complete BULLSHIT.
RESPECT THE FLAG
A flag is just a piece of cloth. Venerating the flag is idolatry.
@@ThreadBomb Right and being a materialistic pig who follows an ideology with no meaning is far better than having pride in a symbol that transcends through our blood.
Rightists care, that's why they boycotted the film. Pathetic I know.
My biggest gripe with First Man was actually the cinematography. I mean, it was competently shot, but the handheld was really distracting in parts for me, and that's 100% a preference thing.
Great movie though.
I agree with you. The cockpit scene during the Gemini launch was waaaaay too shaky. I almost had to step out of the theater. Plus, it was kind of hard to tell exactly what was going on in there. I would've liked to see at least a few exterior shots of the rocket to break some of that up.
It put's you into the mind of the astronauts, it's not a Kubrick cinematic movie, there's no wide angles in those scenes. It gives you a POV of what it was like to be in the cockpit.
Okay, but maybe it makes more sense to have the POV shots of something that can literally take your breath away, like the lunar surface, instead of a shaky cockpit with a tiny window.
My critique of the handheld has a lot less to do with the cockpit scenes, and more to do with the lack of variety/execution. I don't have an inherent bias against films shot this way, but a lot of the scenes that I found to be distracting in First Man had to do with the camera just bouncing around in mundane moments, or in scenes featuring a lot of character movement, in which someone's position would change slightly and they'd be way out of focus.
It's weird though, because I thought the mix of 16mm and 35-65mm was absolutely brilliant and inspired, and some of the shot composition was artfully done, so I LOVED some of the cinematography, but the other, seemingly less inspired moments were just pretty disappointing, considering how much I loved everything else.
100% agree with you. Especially with the cinematographer doing La La Land, I was hoping for something similar to that. Granted hand held really worked well for the space parts.
Adum is real life bojack horseman
Big Boi back in the 90s I was on a very famous youuuutube channel
How?
Bojack is his fursona
First Man actually felt different. Like you know it's a true story but unlike other biopics it felt unique and personal. For that alone it's one of my top movies of the year.
I like how Adam acts surprised over idiots on our planet.
WE FORGIVE YOU
Did you know they filmed First Man on the same soundstage Kubrick used when filming the real moon landing? Rlly makes u think 🤔
The that my with fire man was the sounds and atmosphere, like when they launched in rockets the camera stayed in the cockpit like it really was for him. It was realistic and Amazing
I swear with all of these acronyms I’m waiting on a Yellowstone International Film Festival.
PLEASE check out "Utøya 22 july" from earlier this year. It focuses on the Utøya shooting from the teenagers' point of view, and it's all done in one single take. It's intense, horrifying and not cheesy, and they actually speak Norwegian, instead of English with an ugly Norwegian accent. Probably the best Norwegian movie ever in my opinion.
both were pretty good
Wow , I didn’t expect you to make fun of Neil Armstrong’s dead daughter. I thought you were a professional gay furry.
Oh God, the anthony fantano comment sections are spreading
@Logan Pixler quality bait
@Logan Pixler oh oof
His July 22 review wasn't much better, i was taken by surprise when he said "I could've done a better job, and I don't mean the movie!"
no he fucks young norwegian leftists
Skipping the flag planting was just dumb. My grandmother and some other older relatives didn't notice at first but felt like a something really important was missing. It was such an iconic moment for the entire country that skipping it feels wrong.
THANK YOU for making the point about distractedly flashy SFX. Nobody seem to grasp that you shouldn't NOTICE SFX AS SFX. They should meld seamlessly into the action at an emotional level.
Please watch the Norwegian version called Utøya, it's a much more respectable take on the event. It's also in one shot, and focuses on the event and the victims, and not the killer.
A 10 and a 1 in a single video? How do you do it Adam!? You are watching the movies no one could or would. A true hero.
As a Norwegian it infuriates me a little that 22 July was all in English. It's such an insulting way of trying to "sell" the film to large foreign audiences when it should be a personal and authentic portrayal of what happened. The performances are diminished by the actors trying to speak fluent English. I know people affected by the attack who really feel offended by how it turned out
At least,norwegian actors were paid. Also,we are used to movies that are all in english. Last Emperor was all in english instead of Chinese.
Agree they could have done something like society of the snow where it’s in the natural language and people who speak English can just watch the dubbed version that way when the people who speak the language the film is in it will feel more personal because it happens In their country but I watch foreign films with the dubbed version anyway because I’m not that mad about the dubbing quality I just want to watch and understand the film
Adam, you should see 22 July, a Norwegian film, it's filmed in one continuous shot (looks that way, at least) and it's about the 72 minutes while Brevik was on the island from the point of view of one of the students. Really great movie
I also thought the soundtrack on First Man was very minimal but I viewed it as the audiological embodiment of the idea that the film presents as being driven by the characters and their decisions and emotions as opposed to the spectacle of space and the grandness of space travel. I love the use of the theremin in many of the tracks and I think it was very evident in many of the songs featured that the score had felt a lot more personal than Hurwitz' previous works did, including both Whiplash and La La Land.
Idiots getting upset about a film "not being patriotic enough" without having watched it...
*who would've thunk*
For some people, getting angry about stuff they know nothing about is the essence of patriotism.
“WE’RE NUMBER ONE! WE’RE NUMBER ONE!”
I assume you apply that same logic to Mein Kampf right?
Obviously one doesn't have to go through something to disagree with the agenda.
If the symbolism of Fist Man is that of globalism I don't have to see it to not agree with it.
If you do you still have to be willfully ignorant to the actually History of the Space Race and intentionally letting lies get away because you think you're somehow above those who actually partake in the culture war while you continue to be a materialistic NPC.
@@johnwills1748 Your Nazi profile picture says more than your retarded comment.
John Wills take a seat, you're embarrassing yourself.
Utøya 22 Juli (Poppe) > 22 July (Greengrass) > Utøya Island (Vitaly Versace)
Not even really worth mentioning the other two in the same breath as the first one.
Art > Exploitation
First man just won best original score at the golden globes. i enjoyed the music overall and had the piano theme stuck in my head for days. why didnt you like the score Adam?
Really good review of 22 July, I actually know the guy that played the Little brother in the film, and its pretty AMAZING that you talked about it. Noice
The last time they made a Neil Armstrong movie that good was in the 1960s
There's a couple shots in this movie where the whole theater gasped
@@alex-ie8tp one of the first space shots and the first wide shot of the moon when the music swells
@@alex-ie8tp its First Man lol
“I feel like a f**king yeti”
You should’ve reviewed Small Foot then XD
The guy in 22 July (Jonas Strand Gravli) kinda looks like Eric from The Walking Dead (Jordan Woods-Robinson) from a certain angle.
The song that you play during the first man segment is Armstrong cabin, which I had to look up after seeing the movie because I couldn't help but notice how great the song was.
I got First Man so me and my roommate could watch it since he's a Damien Chazelle fanboy (I love his movies, but my roommates favourite movie ever is La La Land) and he fell asleep within the first 10 minutes and still has yet to watch it.
That being said, I loved it and was caught off guard by all the quiet somber moments. The thud of the explosion within the shuttle hitting the hatch and then resting on it for a good 15 seconds in complete silence made my chest feel cold
When I hear words like "tragedy porn" and "manipulative" I think of John Green.
1:05
It isn't
The death of his daughter was not some major sub plot in his life, he didn't drop her bracelet in a moon crater, he wasn't an emotionless robot. They really fucked with him as a character in order to pidgeon hole him into a specific archetype
Fun fact: the first flag planted on the moon fell over when the astronauts left. Because NASA wasn’t sure how durable the space suits would be if an astronaut fell onto the moon surface they weren’t allowed to go too far from the ship that brought them there. This had them planting the flag next to the ship, and when they left the exhaust from the lift off caused the flag to fall over.
My biggest problem with 22 July is that it seemed to inadvertently make Brevek look like a badass, which completely contradicts the purpose
The soundtrack of first man is beautiful, loved the film
"It's kinda just like tragedy porn...
which is just unfortunate."
Ba Doom Ching
I agree with you about the score of First Man but I'm also glad they didn't overdo it. I really enjoyed some of the scenes with nearly no sound at all.
Did you see Mid 90s? I'm interested to hear your thoughts
First Man was really good
Maybe we should organize a debate between the people who gave First Man a negative grade because their precious flag moment was cut and the people who gave it a negative grade because they think the moon landings are fake (I assume both groups are largely made of Americans). Then maybe we could seal the door of the debate chamber and push it into a black hole.
if you didnt know already there is a norwegian movie that came out like a year before the netflix one about the terror attack that is honestly a masterpiece, it focuses all its time on the attack itself and on the children being murdered and is filmed to make you feel like youre a part of it so ones who werent there can start to imagine the stress and horror of being there on the island that day. they dont even show the attacker except for one of two times because the intent was to not give him any more attention and focus on the actual victims. compared to the original 22 july movie the netflix one just felt disrespectful and as if the director just wanted to cash grab while the subject matter was still hot in the air. so yeah I recommend that you watch the original movie if youre interested and want a better movie about this event to review !
I was upset when I heard the famous line in the trailer for First Man and it hadn’t been corrected to the actual line. “One small step for A man, one giant leap for mankind”
I’ve seen “First Man” and it was good. I do enjoy few bits of the movie is where they focus Neil Armstrong’s perspective story about a first astronaut planning to take every strategy so that many people can go travel to space and landing at the first moon which can be an academic experience for most viewers who wanted to understand of Neil Armstrong. The only issue is that they couldn’t focus Neil Armstrong more focus then cutting away few scenes than showing more development that I wanted to see his own perspective bio character. I would wanted to see Armstrong more focus than having few scenes just don’t give much time and some can be serious some point which kind of distracting. The good parts are two main leads of Ryan Gosling and Claire Foy were good as best, the music is really nice, visual looks good for seeing a rocket goes floating around the space, and it’s quite good space experience. I guess people didn’t refer movie until and it’s not amazing like two of one of my favorite films of “Whiplash” and “La La Land.” I can see the director wanted to do his own experiences than making a good movie and it worked out fine. 7/10
Yes! Love that First Man score! It better win best original score at the Academy Awards!
I'm really, really glad to hear that First Man is good. I'm a huge mark for space, and I'm hoping I can put it in the same set of greats as Apollo 13 and The Right Stuff. It's also nice to have an actually good astronaut story, since the last one I can think of is the book of The Martian, and I don't even know when the last movie was.
Can't wait to see Adum hate the new Lars von Trier movie.
Well he gave it a 2* on Letterboxd so he probably did lol
Badr Mans He give it a 4.
@@thecinematicmind 2 on Letterboxd = 4 on IMDb
i really wasn’t expecting for you to rate First Man so high! but at the same time that’s probably bcs what has been said about it, even if i don’t pay much attention to it, it probably got stuck in my mind. but now i really wanna check it out
Much of First Man's scenes in space were shot with gimbal-mounted replica spacecraft on sound stages with giant projector screens. This gave the film's depiction of space and spacecraft a very authentic and realistic look that is sadly missing from a lot of movies set in space. You can tell the film used minimal CGI, because there are two shots during the Apollo 11 Saturn V launch that did use CGI and they looked absolutely horrible, unlike the rest of the film.
I really like these festival reviews gg
Your voice is like pompus sand paper.
trush0t1 What grit?
Then don't watch?
Spoilers: Neil Armstrong makes it to the moon
Adum? More like ADUMB!
I love you, Adum ❤️
I though it was cool Armstrongs sons were involved with the making of the movie
A correction on the prison thing. Norway and Sweden does not have a maximum sentence length at all. What we do have is a maximum length (21 years) of time before a parole hearing has to be held. So what we do not have is life without the *chance of parole*. They do not randomly decide to extend his sentence length for 5 years, a parole hearing will be held every 5 years where they decide if he can reasonably be deemed to be rehabilitated. This guy is too sick in the head. He will not get out, ever.
Agree w everything you said on the First Man.
But i ADORED the score
Did you see Utoya? Apparently it's a much more respectable take on the massacre, and focuses on the attack in one long shot, it sounds very interesting!
Literally had a stroke there adam, because I thought you said neil breen and you showed an image of the director and i still saw neil breen? WTF
My reaction to the "controversy":
AAAAAAAAAAAAGH! WHYYYY DO YOU CARE?
First man isn’t even close to historically accurate. It is mainly speculation based on a few lines in a book by an Armstrong relative. Also, it wasn’t just flag planting that triggered people, it was also removing the flag patches on their suits etc etc. May not justify poor reviews but over simplifying their objections isn’t helpful either
Wait... I think I remember the controversy about First Man. It wasn't because the movie didn't focus on the flag being planted, It was because the movie and the character of Niel regarded it as a human achievement when in reality Buzz, Niel, and everyone at the time very much regarded it as a American achievement over the Russians. I think Buzz or Niel's son even made tweets about how he always regarded it foremost as American before human.
+Ian Except their wouldn't even be any space race since the Russians stole all they knew from Braun's project and gave it to Sergei to continue. Wasn't taking any sides, just pointing out shit.
Either way, if people actually saw the movie they would realize that it's super patriotic. I mean, after they make it to the moon it shows a french girl saying "i knew the americans would do it." Also there's a line in the movie saying the soviets can go screw off or something. definitely not presented as a world achievement.
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Trust me, I've read all of those articles. If you look at the full interview you can tell that quotes have been taken very out of context to fit a "Hollywood is anti American" narrative. I am yet to see someone who has actually seen the movie think it is anything but patriotic.
Wow I'm surprised someone in the comments actually has it right on the money and sees the issue with it.
The movie clearly is trying to push a global agenda when in reality it was an American achievement.
Just another attempt to take away value from white achievements like always.
Damien Chazelle really is a stunning director
"muh flag" why are Americans so obsessed with a piece of fabric lmao
As an American, I have no fucking clue. It's really depressing thinking about some of the people in this country
A country's flag is more than just a piece of fabric.
Its called pride, try putting the first man on the man on the moon and then years later see part of the reason be ignored ex. USA vs Russia!
Dude. They literally mention how they're trying to beat the Russians MULTIPLE TIMES in the movie.
Plus Americas flag is pretty ugly too
I have check this 22 July movie on Netflix so I guess you find it okay or a bit meh. So I’ll check this out later...
And here I thought First man was TOO American in its presentation.
I don't think First Man is too far removed from the other two films Chazelle made. He seems to love taking formulaic script structures and subverting them to tell a functional story. Whiplash has a traditional 3 act structure but without a point of attack which makes it feel more holistic as a film. La La Land takes a musical as its disguise and then slowly chips away at it as the central character relationship deteriorates until the songs almost disappear in the second half. First Man takes a formulaic biopic and withholds all emotional engagement for the first half and then suddenly makes us feel everything in the third act. I think all three films are excellent in their own way.
I think on a technical level First man is better than La La land and whiplash which isn't saying much but I fucking adored everything about First Man. Time will tell which one I love more but for the time being Damien Chazelle is 3 for 3. Glad you liked it too Adum.
Wow I really disagree on the soundtrack part. if your talking about the same music you have playing over the quike then I really disagree
My thoughts on "First Man" we're very similar to yours in that I found the sound track to be the weakest part. Besides that the only reason issue I had were the Tite cards that I found unnecessary.
I listened to a podcast that was talking about a movie about the July 22 Norway tragedy, and they were talking about a single shot movie, entirely from the kids perpective on the island who were trying to survive. And they didn't even know what was happening. They don't show the killer, only in sillouettes. Anybody know the title of that one?
Utoya 22 I think it still looks poorly done tho from a technical level and it looks a bit boring I think it looks the same as this film just meh
Sound in first man is incredible!
22 July is my birthday. I remember the Norway attacks.
My problem with 22 July isn’t the prism sentence thing it was that Anders brevik s background was a lot more interesting like the relationship with his mother but the film doesn’t even mention that a little bit there is a lot of good story to touch their they could have had more scenes with his mother talking about it but she only appears in 2 scenes
I've deliberately avoided all these _Netflix terrorist attack movies_ out of pure disgust. Yeah tell the world and all, but the documentary about the 2015 Paris attack was like, less than 2 yrs after(?) the attack. Maybe wait a bit, and feel the vibe? Show some respect.
There is set to be released 3 movies about the 22 july attack, and neither one is something I (and i guess a lot of other people too) want to see. A shit ton of people were gunned down by a white supremacist - please don't give them any attention.
*Stop this shit Hollywood and make something original*
Yeah I mean if news broadcasts can create copycats, Hollywood movies sure will. Imagine having a movie being made about you, when you're still alive to see it and take in all the glory from your fanatic fans.
Preach. So strange to me that of all things, the majority of people (on the internet at least) don't really seem too bothered by this.
Simon Torres it’s not WW2 lmao a year is enough, in France we talked about it for 2 mounth
So what’s the 3rd one? Haven’t heard about that one..
I think it is somewhat exploitative, but personally I think the first movie that was released was really good and showcased the true horror of this atrocity. The Netflix movie however was really average and I don't really see the intentions with it except cashing in on the attack. The third movie looks really good and it was made with actual Utøya-survivors iirc. But I haven't seen it yet so I cant really say much about it.
Personally I don't really see the point of having to relive this atrocity. But as a Norwegian I don't think it is that big of a deal as long as they handle the topic with respect and make it with Utøya survivors by and large
Pretty disturbing how there's altrighters that will defend brevik said actions
Eaxl There's this thing called balance. You can still be for tighter border control without advocating genocide.
It's almost as the alt-right are just nazis. Or something.
@Eaxl People think you're a genocidal racist because you're defending the actions of a genocidal racist who murdered sixty children by deflecting to some mostly manufactured and overinflated bullshit that implicitly sides with said genocidal racist. Don't defend genocidal racists. It ain't hard.
Eaxl And it's not a strawman or propaganda if its stuff that casually comes out of their own mouths out of their own free will. Have you ever been on an alt-right forum? Talked to any of them? Have you read or listened to any of Milo or Richard Spencer's etc speeches? Do you know any alt-righters? Cus I do. And I dated one. TOO MANY of them do believe in genocide or at least white supremacy/eugenics of some kind. Or "humane genocide" as Richard would say. How come its a strawman when it comes to the alt-right? How come it's all "stop using labels!!!" when it comes to calling alt-righters nazis"? But anyone who even suggests that POC, gays, children, women and EVEN MEN should be treated better, they are instantly labelled as a sjw libtard? But if someone advocates genocide and ignorance, advocating we should treat people according to their stereotypes, not by who they are individually, we should "hear them out before labelling them?" But they can label everyone else? Calling people "cucks", "ni**er lovers etc and shaming people, especially men for showing empathy? Please.
@Eaxl Are you aware that Norway and Sweden are different countries? It really displays your priorities when rather than condemning a norwegian terrorist (which is the topic at hand) you talk about rape in Sweden as if to divert attention.
First Man was very inaccurate. They didn't even include the part where Stanley Kubrick films the moon landing
Adam you have to watch the Norwegian film Utøya 22 juli. I think It’s one of the best movies of the year. And I was so disappointed to see that they refused to release it on Netflix.
First Man's score was okay but i thought that when it got to the moon at the end that part of the score was fantastic
I thought the camerawork in First Man was a bit too shaky.
T is one key away from Y, which means that if you aren't careful you were at YIFF18, Adam.
Personally I passed on watching 22 July. It looked like a well-made movie, and I don't think we should refrain from making films about tragedies as a whole, but I do agree that it looked more like a cash grab than anything else. Namely I was a bit put off by the fact that on the day of release, the trailer was on auto play at the top of Netflix whenever you got on the site; not necessarily a bad thing on its own, but as someone who lost close friends on that island, it was kind of jarring and uncomfortable to be met with that when I just went on Netflix to watch some dumb comedies. It really spoke to the creator's (and Netflix's) intentions, in my opinion. It's obvious that this movie is targeted more at the international crowd than at the locals here in Norway (what with using Norwegian actors but making the movie English and all), but I would've appreciated an option to not have the trailer playing at the top, even if it was just for that one day.
There are so many stories to be told about that day and the subsequent trial, but from what I've heard -- and what you're saying in this video -- it looks like the director wasn't sure what he wanted to say, or that he didn't particularly care about the finer details. With the political climate right now, I guess making a 22. July movie is more trendy than ever, but that really isn't enough on its own for a good movie. I get that it must be hard for someone not native to Norway to really get how much this tragedy affected our country, but perhaps Paul should've taken that into consideration before making the movie. There's a reason our directors aren't going around making 911 movies, I suppose. From what I've heard there are some overly Hollywood-y lines and inaccurate details as well (in particular some people are complaining that the movie makes it look like the police responded quickly and efficiently to the shooting, which is DEFINITELY not the case at all), but I can't really speak to that not having seen it myself. It would've been interesting to have a more in depth take on the trial and the prison system, considering ABB seems to constantly complain about not being allowed to play Call of Duty in his cell, his lawyer getting so much shit and the whole maximum sentence debate, but obviously that's not the story Paul wanted to tell and that's his prerogative as a film maker, so whatever.
I hadn't heard any good things about it from my friends/Norwegians who watched it, so it didn't feel like I missed out on much anyways; your review seems to say much the same, so I'll just stay away from it. From what I've heard there's a Norway-made movie as well titled "Utøya 22. Juli" that got a mostly positive reception, so I'm guessing that's a better movie if you're actually interested in the tragedy.
I saw a different film about the Utoya terror attack at Berlin Film Festival called "Utoya 22" and it's a much better film. The presentation and sound design are incredible, along with the acting and pacing, the film is a full reinactment of the attack, even lasting as long as the attack itself and it's filmed as one long continuous shot. The presentation really puts you into the action. It has some issues but I highly recommend it.
They don't want you to think
I actually really enjoyed the music from First Man.
I liked this review, but I wish you went into more detail about your criticism of First Man's score. You mention that "the film deserved so much more" and that there was "wasted potential," but I don't know what that means. What is "so much more?" You don't really provide any evidence into why this score didn't work as well as it could have and what could have been done to have a stronger soundtrack. That being said like most of your reviews, I like how you articulate your opinion on these two films from a filmmaking perspective. Looking forward to seeing more reviews of the stuff you saw at TIFF.
Adam is a great living example of why it's much easier to criticize something than suggest how to improve it. He's never made a film so in the end his insights often aren't that useful or relevant.
I love your reviews but I gotta disagree and say that First man's score was great
Gosling gave a good performance.
Hi Adam, I had a hopefully modest request. I hear you often talk about music in films. For instance in this video you talk about it as "exploitative". I have heard you mention music and scores in the same way. I've also noted you saying scores or music were distracting etc... Is it possible you could make a quickie about the examples of quality music as contrasted with music that missed it's mark? Thanks.
The music over the 22 July review...Binging with Adum?
I really wanted to like First Man. I love the subject matter, I love the director, I love the lead actor, and I saw it on opening night. The film opens with an intense, shaky test flight mission, but the camera shaking never stopped after that scene. It pervades the film to the point of madness. I'm not even sure if Gosling's performance was good because the vast majority of the film after that is either spent in far away shots that are mercifully stable or in overly-shaky close-ups for too long. There are some genuine laugh-out-loud moments in this film when completely benign actions are taking place and the camera shakes as if the cameraman is suffering from an intense seizure. Maybe this is a motif attempting to show how unstable elements of his life are, if so then what a truly terrible and ham-fisted way of expressing this.
Also, as far as accuracy goes, certain elements of this story are either rumor or outright fabrication. I didn't know this beforehand, but when certain aspects of the film cropped up and bordered on me being unable to suspend my disbelief, some cursory research afterwards proved that they were fictitious.
Ironically, of the two films in this review, First Man *wasn't* the one directed by Paul Greengrass, one of the earliest perpetrators of this abhorrent use of shaky-cam.
Breivik got a life sentence for all intents and purposes. Norwegians consider the 21 year sentence an issue, because he will be locked away for the rest of his life anyways. The dynamic wasn't as interesting as you mentioned it to be, the actual controversy was around wether or not he would be deemed insane.
I guess I can see why the American audience got mad, I mean the whole thing is the culmination of the space race. To ignore this part of it and focus strictly on the science side of things was a bit strange. We could’ve even used the flag planting as a critique of the fact that it was about beating Russia, not about pure science.
I liked the score in First Man but I did think I could have been more memorable. There are only a few tracks I can think of that stuck with me, or maybe I just loved that theremin a little too much.