Damien Chazelle is good at making movies.

***This First Man Review Has a Spoiler Section***

We give you your $$$’s worth in the non-spoiler review. Then we break down the plot in a spoiler filled section after a musical interlude.

Intro / Our Theater Going Story - :50

What Is An Oscar Sprint Profile - 2:08

The Sausage Fest that is this Cast & Crew - 3:30

Production Notes & The American Flag Controversy - 12:12

Movie Specs & What’s with the scores? - 17:13

Plot Synopsis/Expectations - 22:52

Our Non-Spoiler Review Complete With a Full Oscar Lens

Best Picture & Director - 25:58

Production Values - 31:08

Adapted Screenplay, Cinematography, Film Editing, Production Design, Sound Mixing & Editing, Visual Effects, and Original Score.

Best Actor / Ryan Gosling - 38:14

Best Supporting Actress / Claire Foy - 39:39

Final Thoughts / Watch or Don’t - 41:32

Spoiler Music - 45:46

Spoiler-Filled Review

Immediate Carryovers + Our Immediate Emotional Involvement into this Story - 47:11

THAT Opening Sequence - 50:38

Best Non-Flight Scenes - 53:02

Dueling Interpretations of a Mutual Favorite - 55:55

A Racial Divide - 1:00:43

The Gemini Mission + Chazelle’s Crazy Cameras - 1:04:05

Ending Drama - 1:06:02

Grades - 1:09:05

Social Media and Important Information for Your Ears - 1:11:50

This felt like watching history on screen. Those were the words of Mike 1 during our episode, and it’s our main takeaway after seeing First Man. We got goosebumps from the historic implications of the events on several occasions, and the unexpected emotional wallop of story blew us away. We discuss how and why that happened in this Oscars Sprint Profile.

The cast & crew segment is quite the sausage fest. But these dudes can act, and so, for the record, can Claire Foy. The movie specs include some critical reception numbers and box office projections that are not trending upward, but we theorize as to why. Then we chronicle the timeline of the American Flag controversy, discussing quotes from astronauts, senators and sitting presidents.

We also give you your money’s worth in the rest of our non-spoiler review by covering the highlights of each and every Oscar category where this film is getting buzz. From Best Picture & Director through 7 other production values all the way to the Oscar chances of Gosling & Foye, we update you on what all the experts are saying and drop our non-spoiler reviews before the dance music.

In the spoiler section, we break down why this plot works so well, a plot which we ironically can’t spoil all that much because of the historic nature of the events. But where the film does surprise us, where we can discuss spoilers, that’s where some of the greatness lies, and we breakdown both the dramatic and set-piece driven pay-offs in the script.

First Man marks our 20th Oscars Sprint Profile / Movie Event review of 2018. Go back, catch up, & check out all the following full episode film reviews including other major contenders like A Star Is Born & BlacKkKlansman to crossover hits like Hereditary & Mission: Impossible - Fallout to feel good films like Eighth Grade & Won’t You Be My Neighbor. There’s 20 reviews in all plus Netflix, Oscar previews and updates, and a litany of retrospectives and MMO series on Best Original Songs, the MCU, Mission: Impossible, The Conjuring Universe, & most recently, the Halloween Franchise. Do go back and scour that catalog cuz it’s all there.

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