Cosmic Voyage (IMAX)
by Bayley Silleck
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Actor: Morgan FreemanDirector: Bayley Silleck
Brand: Warner Brothers
Producer: Bayley Silleck
Writer: Bayley Silleck
Editor: Miroslav Janek
Producer: Gwendolyn K. Crider
Producer: Jeffrey Marvin
Writer: Michael Miner
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: IMAX, 1.33:1
Running Time: 35 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-04-30
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Imax
Movie Reviews of Cosmic Voyage (IMAX)
Movie Review: Great science; great entertainment.
Summary: 5 Stars
Science is about everybody understanding phenomena. It is a tough ask when these range from the smallest objects known to whole the observable universe. The DVD succeeds brilliantly in bringing them all together.
The universe is a big place, of that there is no doubt. If you think of it in terms of distances appropriate to the living room, or even the journeys of the fastest airplanes, you are going to get your mind boggled. But astronomers do not think like that, they think in distances appropriate to the objects they are studying. Now as the distances become bigger you see different objects; close up you see only the trees but further away you see the whole wood. It is an old idea.
The DVD demonstrates how the phenomena unfold as the distances get larger without getting lost in the math. It takes you from a one meter hula hoop ring, to the earth, then onto the solar system, out to the stars, the galaxy, the local group and then onto the large scale structure of the universe. Once you do that you have to get to grips with the expanding universe, and then the inevitable conclusion that it all started very small at the big bang. So now the DVD takes you to the very small and how the latest experiments tie the very small up with the very large.
To present these fundamental scientific ideas, and be entertaining as well, requires all the tricks of theater. Superlative narration by Morgan Freeman, stunning photography from the various space telescopes, never before created special effects and appropriate music to set the mood are but a few of the techniques employed. It is not the only approach. If you want to know about the objects watch "The Universe", if you want to be mind boggled look at "Journey to the Edge of the Universe" but if you want an accessible and fun explanation of your place in the universe "Cosmic Voyage" is far and away the best offering to date. The DVD is great, on IMAX it must have been truly stunning.
Summary of Cosmic Voyage (IMAX)
Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 07/31/2007 Run time: 35 minutes Rating: NrSimilar DVD Movies
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