Apollo 11

Strap yourself in to be bored senseless. Just indecipherable comms between control centre and the guys..no feeling of the incredible achievement unfolding no info us lay persons can make use of ...no focus really couldn't stand any more once the very poor vision of NA on ladder and the famous words utteref i could not stand it any longer and left. The best bit was seeing rocket being transported to launch pad !!

Let's get this out of the way: Yes, this film is remarkable historical archive of the first space flight. It shows the hard work, the human ingenuity, and the sheer bravery of the people who went to the moon. This film is valuable if only as a look at what, in my opinion, might be the human race's greatest achievement. That being said, the film is also really, really really boring. Technical competency aside, it is just incredibly tedious to watch all the shots of people looking concerned at computer panels. I, at least, thought the film could have done with closed captioning as I could not understand half of what anyone was saying and thus missed important context. Being unable to follow the dialogue, I actually found myself drifting off in the theater (which almost never happens to me). This movie is great for history buffs but most people would be better off and get just as much watching the original film of the moon landing.

Whenever a NASA / space movie comes around, I usually give it the side-eye. We all know the story (but we really don't) about the complexities , risks, and triumphs. We all know who Tom Hanks is Apollo 13, Ed Harris is in the Right Stuff, and who Ryan Gosling tried to be (and failed miserably) is in First Man. But this movie is fantastic, because there are no actors, no narration, and most refreshing of all: no political commentary jammed down our throats. The movie opens with this menacing crunching and squeaking sound----like tank tracks. So, we all know what that is.....the Crawler: The ultimate slow, low-tech machine transporting the very front edge of engineering marvel. The liftoff sequence had me riveted, as though not only was this the first time I was seeing it, but that I was there. The cast is NASA, the stars are the engineers, and I have to thank Statement films, Douglas Todd Miller, and even CNN (ugh). This is the best movie I've seen in years. Don't miss it. It has to be seen in the theater.

After FIrst Man won the oscar for Best VFX upsetting Avengers 3 on Sunday night, interest in the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11 is at an all time high. This weekend marks a wide IMAX release of Apollo 11, a documentary composed of unseen 70mm footage of the moon landing and the work it took to make the event happen for billions of people watching on TV. I plan on seeing this movie soon as the release is only for one week only until Captain Marvel brings moviegoers back to theatres.

The film presents the story of the 1st moon landing in the most earnest straight forward way imaginable. Stitching together some admittedly impressive footage, the film presents the in-the-room view of the mission. Little or not effort is made to put the footage in broad political-social context or even scientific context. NASA is utterly glorified and none of the hard questions about the resources spent are raised. This is little more than propaganda. And not very entertaining at that.

This is the story of apollo 11's moonshot program in documentary style as filmed at the time. the saturn V rocket that took apollo 11 to the moon was designed by german rocket engineers from the second world war (see nasa official website). I remember watching the apollo program on tv and stayed up very late when they landed on the moon. cant wait for a blue-ray release when i can watch at home as well.

This movie just took my breath away. We have all seen the Apollo 11 mission... But this movie just does it in a way where you feel like you were there. No sit down interviews.. just actual footage from the day and the mission. The footage looked so amazing. The launch sequence just blew me away! So amazing in IMAX! I feel like we get a real view at the emotions of the people from the actual day. So amazing how the whole team succeeded with the entire Apollo program! This movie is really powerful and a wonderful new take on the moon landing. Highly recommended!

This film took me back to a time I'll never forget. I can vividly remember almost everything I did during those days in July, 1969. I loved the fact that the narration was handled by using the recordings of the Public Affairs Officers during the mission. I think that's critical to the immersion factor of this film/documentary. Much of the footage at the launch pad was simply amazing and has never been seen before. The only visual NOT from 1969 is the occasional graphic illustrating an upcoming flight maneuver. I was privileged to witness the Apollo 15 launch in 1971 and I will simply never forget the shock waves pulsating off my chest and column of liquid sunshine from those mighty F-1 engines as the Saturn V muscled its way into the Florida sky. The inclusion of President Kennedy's moon challenge at the end was the absolutely perfect way to wrap up the story of "Apollo 11" and the satisfaction of a goal accomplished and a door opened to the future. This is what America is capable of achieving when we have the focus and the will to persevere and follow through. The question I'm left with is: "Do we still have the will to dream big and the courage to finish the course?"