The movies I believe were overlooked by the Oscars always age well. Damien Chazelle’s blazingly brilliant First Man will join the list of the best films that didn’t make it in. Apollo 11 looks great.
“From director Todd Douglas Miller (Dinosaur 13) comes a cinematic event fifty years in the making. Crafted from a newly discovered trove of 65mm footage, and more than 11,000 hours of uncatalogued audio recordings, Apollo 11 takes us straight to the heart of NASA’s most celebrated mission—the one that first put men on the moon, and forever made Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin into household names. Immersed in the perspectives of the astronauts, the team in Mission Control, and the millions of spectators on the ground, we vividly experience those momentous days and hours in 1969 when humankind took a giant leap into the future.”
If you were to recast this, who would you get to play Armstrong?
I feel Gosling was just too bland and joyless in the role. Hell, if I had to go to the moon, I would be EXCITED! He made it look like he was forced to do it, a chore.
By the way, Alexander Saarsgard looks like Armstrong in that photo.
Hot. A perfect companion piece to the equally hot ‘First Man’.
I can’t wait!
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It’s her website and she writes whatever the hell she wants.
Pls, be less nervous and have a little more sense of humor.
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Thanks for buttering our muffin. You can go shave your back now. Bye, Jason.
hahaha #lol love this!
I admired FIRST MAN, too. (it’s certainly superior to most of the movies nominated for Best Picture). But, the one missing ingredient it lacks is spirit. It made going into space look more like a chore than an adventure. A little more energy would have made it soar even higher – and, not gone against the nature of Neil Armstrong himself, either.
Not the movie you wanted to see, huh? Not the type of moonlanding/space exploration story you’ve been spoon-fed your entire life? It’s tough, I know.
I’m a hardcore NASA follower. I have rebeled against stuff that Hollywood has been “spoon-feeding” for decades. I know the literature on the subject. I’ve seen hundreds of hours of documentary footage of Armstrong et al.
My comment stands.
Sorry man, but by writing about NASA and documentary footage of Armstrong you’ve kinda proven my point. The movie isn’t about NASA or let me be so bold, not even about the the mission to the moon, Not in a deeper sense anyway. It’s about a man’s journey, also outward, but mostly inward. So it happens, that this particular man is Neil Armstrong. And you don’t need to be a “hardcore NASA follower” to get it. Moreso, I think being heavily into the subject makes it hard to enjoy the movie in a pure cinematic sense. It’s better to watch this movie without expectations or a fixed opinion on how it should look like. It’s hard, I know.
I also don’t think that NASA’s narrative isn’t all that different from Hollywood’s. Sure, Hollywood focuses more on the adventure and the bravery, NASA focuses more on the scientific challenge that the programme was. But the general vibe of the narrative is exacly the same, and also very different from the one in First Man.
And finally – how does one become a “hardcore NASA follower”? I wonder.
Well the incredible amounts of research, the top Neil Armstrong biographer and Armstrong’s own children suggest it reflects his nature rather well… and that the hype was necessary to sell a batshit crazy mission to Government & tax payers…
It’s probably my contrarian streak, but I love First Man even *more* now that it’s an Oscar miss.
I agree. The parcity of emotion in FM, the focus on determination and technology, and the sheer terror of it all made me connect with it even more. I was relieved not to have wade through a swampy John Williams-ish score or watch a bunch of cocky red-blooded astronauts slap butts and take names. Sasha’s been right all along to champion this move. Real people doing really, really hard things.