First Man (4K Ultra-HD + Blu-ray) [2018] [Region Free]

Exceptional, revealing story, which focuses on the personal stories and the unglossed reality of being involved in this amazing adventure. This film is a revelation and manages to convey the reality of what they did like no other film I've seen. The lift off scene is spectacular: the sound is used incredibly effectively to tell the story of that experience. Blew me away 10/10

Great movie about Neil Armstrong

Everyone knows who Neil Armstrong was. And why he has such a place in history. But nobody really knows much about Neil Armstrong the man himself. Not least because he was a very private individual.Director Damien Chazelle brings us a biopic movie on the subject, with Ryan Gosling in the lead, that aims to shed some light on the man who was the first to walk on the moon.This is not a biopic that covers his entire life, though. Just the decade before the Apollo eleven mission. During which time Neil Armstrong flew many different craft, often coming very close to catastrophe in some primitive and dangerous experimental machines. When he suffered personal loss. And when he became part of a mission that the whole world would watch. That could very easily have failed. How does some cope with all this?First man has cinematography that makes it look like something from the era. The sound design is incredible, and it really makes you feel as if you are in these machines that are rickety and might come apart at any moment. But it also has human perspective.Ryan Gosling's Neil is a fascinating watch, a man who doesn't seem to be able to articulate his feelings, even though he clearly has them, and a man of incredibly intense focus. Claire Foy also stands out for her portrayal of his wife Janet, who mans the home front under all the pressure while her husband is doing all this.There's a lot of other figures from the history, some of whom you might blink and miss if you don't know the subject. But Corey Stoll [Eph from TV show 'the Strain] does manage to make an impression as Buzz Aldrin. And fans of tv show Gotham watch out for Riddler Corey Michael Smith as astronaut Roger Chaffee.Even though you know how the sequence will go, the lunar landing ends up being one of the tensest bits of cinema you will ever see. And although it doesn't show the flag planting, it doesn't show the difficulties they had in take off either, so it's not as selective as it was accused of being.This is a portrayal of one remarkable man who was at the centre of one remarkable achievement, and it brings it all to life in a manner you will never forget. With a subtle but memorable score as well. Well worth five stars.The dvd has the following language and subtitle options:Languages: English. English audio description.Subtitles; English.It goes into the menu when loaded without trailers or ads to get through.Extras;Deleted scenes. Two of these, which can be watched individually or in a row. One is four minutes long. The other no more than thirty seconds.There's a commentary from the director, the writer, and the editor.Plus a few short featurettes. Which run from two to six minutes.Shooting for the moon. One of those general overview of the movie featurettes.Preparing to launch. About the genesis of the film.Giant leap in one small step. About Neil Armstrong himself. This one is really good.Mission gone wrong. About filming the sequences of flying the machines.Putting you in the seat. More about general filming.Recreating the moon landing. Which speaks for itself.Shooting at NASA. some fascinating film of NASA locations.Astronaut training. more of the above.

Ryan gosling perfect actor to play the role of Neil Armstrong. A movie I could watch over and over again

The film drags. You're waiting for it to get going but it never really does. Dramatic episodes are told as asides and lack either tension or drama. Everyone seems a bit bored. The problem is down to the script, which just lacks zing - there's neither enough depth on the characterisation nor enough action. There are huge leaps in time and the end seems rushed. It's not a terrible film, but it's not a good one either.

Great cinematography.Both Ryan Gosling and Claire Foy play their roles superbly with a great cast around them. The way the various test flights before the Apollo moon flight are shown in such a way that you really wonder how any of the astronauts went on them. It took true heroism

I actually learned quite alot about the whole NASA Apollo missions from this film. It has some great acting but can be a little dark in places

So, it's a film about the first man on the moon, of course, and it's really well done, with a great performance by Ryan Gosling (as Neil Armstrong) in a very difficult role. Judging from this, and also from various other things that I have seen and read on Armstrong, he was a very complex character, very non-showy, introverted in many ways, and not one to communicate much of his feelings or thoughts at all. In short, extremely difficult to play as a character but Gosling completely pulls it off in, as far as I am concerned, his best performance to date. His wife is played by Claire Foy, who does her usual great job as well - again not over the top or showy, just an ordinary woman married to an ordinary man who did an extraordinary thing, the prospect of which terrified her.The supporting cast are all superb, without exception, and the story itself goes into hitherto unknown (to me) depths of each (absolutely terrifying, death-defying, although not always defying) stage in the U.S. space program, which was at that time brand new and no one really had any idea of what they were doing. Things blew up for no jknown reason, people were burned alive in capsules in test launches, no one knew if the instrumentation was any real good, no one knew if they would land safely on the Moon or if they would - or could - get back to Earth even if they did. Extraordinary stuff, and at the heart of it all the great performance of Ryan Gosling.It's an absolute cracker of a film. In fact, I'm going to watch it again now.