Slow as a snail and yet wins the race somehow

Rating: 9/10 (19 July 2019)

Here's my review of First man. So 'First man' is directed by Damien Chazelle known for Whiplash and La La land and I loved whiplash which made me look forward to this movie. The movie is a biopic of Neil Armstrong and before watching this I knew very little about him . Cause every other person whose biopic has been made is either a musicisan , an actor or a politician who had eccentric personalities of their own from Howard Hughes to Steve Jobs to Tommy Wiseau. Now Ryan gosling was great as Neil Armstrong and that's how I will remember him from now on. Claire foy as Janet Armstrong was really good too. This movie is a drama more than anything , it's not about mankinds first step , it's not about creating history , it's just about Neil Armstrong . This is a gorgeous , beautiful , amazing ( I've run out of synonymns for good looking ) movie. But despite that it's phasing is very slow , like super slow ! But there are some very intense as well as claustrophobic scenes and the only way to do them well was to do them slow. This movie is shot on film , so even while watching it on imax it has grains on it making it look like how it would be if the current era shot old movies. I thought that was pretty cool. Remember how in the dark Knight rises you couldn't understand a word out of Bane's mouth cause he was wearing a muzzle. In this movie there's a lot of stuff you can't hear over the scattered comms but that didn't really matter cause I wouldn't have understood the rocket science stuff anyway. There are also some scenes where a whole event is shown , like remember how in breaking bad season 2 they would show a whole breakfast table routine right from cutting the egg , adding pepper and eating it without cuts and we went along with it till we got to season 3 ? Well you have to sit through those scenes just like that to get to the good parts in this movie. There are some scenes where it's brilliant acting but no music to top it up . Like honestly I don't think I would've cried to musafa dying in lion king if it wasn't for the music. I don't understand why people only call movies set in the medieval era as epic cause I feel that anything inspiring is an epic and that's why First man is an Epic . In the end it was a great movie with phasing flaws and a lack of an emotional drive unlike whiplash and you'll have a great time unless you're Russian . I don't usually type this much but I felt if I hadn't people would have concluded this as a good / bad movie. But if you did read this much . Thank you . Much appreciated.