Journey 3: From The Earth To The Moon Movie 'link' Info

If you watch 2001: A Space Odyssey , you feel awe. If you watch Alien , you feel dread. If you watch From the Earth to the Moon , you feel momentum .

From the Earth to the Moon is a flawed, beautiful fossil. It is the Model T of space movies. It is clunky, dangerous, and probably shouldn't work. But it got us there in our imaginations long before Armstrong left his footprint.

4/5 Moondust Motes

Based on the Jules Verne novel (with a hefty dose of Cold War flair), this film doesn’t feel like science fiction. It feels like a proposal .

A dry martini and a skeptical look at your physics textbook. Join me next week for Journey #4, where we go from the Moon to the Black Hole of Event Horizon . Pack heavier pants. journey 3: from the earth to the moon movie

Post-Civil War America. The War is over, but the arms race has just begun. Victor Barbicane (Joseph Cotten), the head of the Baltimore Gun Club, is bored. He has invented every deadly weapon known to man, and peacetime is bad for business.

His solution? Stop shooting at each other and start shooting at the moon. If you watch 2001: A Space Odyssey , you feel awe

This is pre-NASA. This is pre-Sputnik panic (just barely). This is a film made when we assumed space travel would be an extension of artillery science. The aesthetic is Victorian-industrial. Rivets. Steam. Gunpowder.