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| Space Movie, The |
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  (8/10)
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Runtime: 80 m |
| Public Rating: 7.00 (1 votes) |
Director: Tony Palmer |
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| Genre: Documentary |
Year: 1980 |
| Writer(s): Tony Palmer |
| Reviewed by: Friday and Saturday Night Critic |
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Documentary footage of the US space program, from its inception to about 1980, set to an ambient and minimalist score by Mike Oldfield, bookended by speeches by JFK. Don’t let the silly title fool you, it’s a good movie. The take-off sequence of the first Saturn 5 is seen from about twenty different angles, an exhilarating celebration of technology, human ambition, and fire. Equally breathtaking but in a different way are Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong cavorting like idiots on the surface of the moon and making stupid puns, but why not? They have the right to be two happiest people who’ve ever lived and “The Space Movie” captures that. Two other things also occurred to me: 1) JFK’s voice is actually MORE ridiculous than JFK imitator Diamond Joe Quimby on “The Simpsons,” and 2) do we want footage of the early space program digitally remastered? Or do the scratches, grain, and focus issues play along with the analog quality of early space program? Think about it.
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