Houston, Ryan Gosling And 'First Man' Have A Problem

Eventually the entertainers will realize people don’t have to spend money watching their product. There’s plenty of other options.

Who the hell thinks making a moving regarding a stable patriotic symbol in American history while ostercisizing American patriots would be a good idea? No flaming fairy is lining up to see this movie regardless if you show the flag or not. What an astronomical miss on your audience

It's amazing how dumb they are. This should have been the biggest movie of the year.

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We aren't going to see it specifically because the movie looks brooding and dull.

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Unfortunately I went to see it without doing any research. It was indeed boring and dull

When I found out the movie was not about the space race but was, instead, a 2 hour long constant reminder that he lost a young daughter to cancer, I did a full 180 on it.

First Man is a propaganda piece to reinforce the myth of the moon landing on a new generation. Say what you will about these younger generations but they are more distrusting of government than the previous few.

I'll watch it..... when I can stream it for free on Kodi.

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It looks like a bunch of made up shite to make Apollo 11 look more exciting than it was.

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You really cannot make Apollo 11 look more exciting than it was. That was a nail biter in real life.

If you followed Neil Armstrongs life, you'd not find anything exciting aside from his performance in the space program. That man was cool as ice water and had his life on the edge a number of times during his astronaut years. And in every case it was his coolness under pressure and his outstanding understanding of the situation that saved his life - he wasn't just there and got saved by luck.

- During the Gemini program to practice rendezvous, soon after he docked the Gemini with the Agena target vehicle, the whole configuration began to roll uncontrollably. Obviously the thought was that the Agenda vehicle had malfunctioned, so he undocked from it. It turned out that the Agena had been fighting the instability and when they undocked the roll rate began to accelerate - one of the Gemini roll control thrusters was stuck in the ON condition. The vehicle was rolling at a rate close to human unconsciousness about 3 rotations per second, when he decided to activate the re-entry system to fight the instability - and finally brought the system under control, but the activation of the re-entry meant they had to actually perform the re-entry so the mission was cut short. Outstanding example of thinking and working under extreme pressure and extraordinary physical stress.

- while practicing the lunar landing at Ellington AF the trainer became unstable and started an uncontrollable roll. He wa less than 150 ft off the ground and had to wait until the roll had the ejection path pointed in a safe direction to activate or he would have crashed into the ground.

- on Apollo 11, during the landing the computer began activating the MASTER ALARM light indicating that it was overloaded and began shedding uncritical tasks, but Mission Control instructed him to ignore and continue. He soon noticed the onboard guidance system was going to set the craft down in a rocky landscape which would have been catastrophic, so he took over manual control to fly over the rock field and began searching for a safe location. He flew the LM until he set it down with less than 20 seconds of fuel remaining. My best friend was the Mission Controller in charge of monitoring the LM fuel and was calling out fuel remaining every 30 seconds. He told me later that they had never run a training session with less than 5 minutes of fuel remaining.

That was one cool and competent man. I would not like to play poker with him.

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Houston, Ryan Gosling And 'First Man' Have A Problem

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Yeah, Stanley Kubrich already made this film back in '69.

fricking reboots