Cosmic Voyage (IMAX)
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Movie Reviews of Cosmic Voyage (IMAX)
Movie Review: Not too detailed but accomplishes (fantastically) its primary goal...
Summary: 5 Stars
and that is to whet the viewer's interest reminiscent of a more detailed mini-series like Carl Sagan's "Cosmos" or Neil deGrasse Tyson's "Origins." The video is concise and, very early, provides an excellent point of reference (literally) for those without any background regarding the universal and atomic scale.
Morgan Freeman comes through, as always, with his narration in a manner that provides an even and well paced presentation of the macro- and microscopic world. And while he doesn't have the trance-inducing voice of James Earl Jones, he skillfully manages to hold your attention even between the segments of the program that are nothing but spellbinding, which brings me to another point.
The images and computer generated sequences are done very well with especial care taken to faithfully represent the true scale and detail of the cosmos. The music fits well and affords a nice emotional complement to the eye candy. I'm sure many will agree with me that the best part of the entire program is the ultra quick zoom-in from the superclusters (largest scale of video) to the quarks comprising the neutrons and protons of the atom's nucleus (smallest scale). My only complaint concerning the zoom-in (and the whole video for that matter) is that the camera seems to "back up" during the zooming. This takes place (33min.5sec. into program) when the camera comes upon a tree, into its leaves, into a leaf's veins, AND SUDDENLY!!, you're coming upon a creek with reeds, into the reeds, into a drop of water on the reed etc... An obvious editing mistake.
The mistake notwithstanding, this is an excellent video that quickly, though not rushing-ly, engages its audience---not with the intention to explicity educate on all the details so much as to introduce the viewer (in a very effective way!!) to what big and small really are.
No pretenses. It is what it says it is. A Cosmic Voyage.
Movie Review: Outstanding picture quality
Summary: 5 Stars
IMAX out does any other DVD's in tranfer of films and picture quality. I haven't gone wrong EVER buying ANY IMAX picture. The closet you'll ever get to High Definition. Like looking through glass. I tried it on an old tv and it made my tv look like new almost. Truley amazing! And most IMAX DVD's include DTS sound.This movie is outstanding in showing pictures of the Earth and outer space. It's vision of going from earth up to the outer regions of space and back is an amazing achivement of special effects. This is one of the older IMAX films and even today it is Top-notch in it's picture quality.The absolut best DVD pcture transfer you can get. Those with big widescreen tv's don't be put off by it's 1:33:1 (standard) format. This is the way it was shot preserving the actual way the film was shot and even if watching in "Full" or "Wide Zoom" the picture is truley awesome and breathtaking. I watch it in "Full" making it feel like I'm at the IMAX theatre. For you widescreen lovers, don't be fooled or put off by the "standard" format the IMAX DVD's are released in. you'll still ove it for the outstanding picture quality. You want High Definition style film then this is a good buy.Movie Review: Great Educational Video
Summary: 5 Stars
I've bought several Imax DVDs over the last year, and I've found all of them impressive. This one is no different in the impression department, but I felt that the overall tone of the video was directed much more towards education than the previous videos. The text or the narration (performed wonderfully by Morgan Freeman) sounds like it was written for one of those old videos we were forced to watch in science class as kids. While I always found those videos to be so poorly produced they became boring - this film has such amazing video that you become engrossed in the movie, even with the educational tone. I would have given it 4 stars because of the educational feel, but after thinking about it for a few minutes, I decided that it still deserved 5. If you have children, I doubt you could find a better movie to inspire them with science. If I were a science teacher today, I'd start the term with this video to motivate students who might otherwise shy away from sceince.Movie Review: Great DVD!
Summary: 5 Stars
I have used this DVD for the past several years in my science classes. After introducing my students to the metric system, and doing labs to reinforce this new concept, I show COSMIC VOYAGE as a culmination to the metric system, and as an introduction to the Astronomy Unit. The metric system is based on Powers of Ten. The scene that starts in Venice and expands outward into space by powers of ten is effective for my students. Conversely, to watch a water droplet and decrease by powers of ten is also important for students to see. After watching this, my students are jazzed and can't wait to learn about the universe. At the end of the school year, many cite COSMIC VOYAGE as one of their favorite DVD's and the Astronomy Unit as one of their favorite units.Movie Review: WOW!
Summary: 5 Stars
I first saw this film in an OMNIMAX theatre at the Vancouver Science centre and was very impressed. When I saw it was available on DVD it was a 'must have' addition to my Home Theatre collection.OK, so 52 inches of TV isn't quite the 52 FEET of IMAX, but one still gets the sensation of feeling very, very small as you virtually travel to the outer reaches of the known universe and then feeling very, very big compared to the quarks inside an atom's nucleus.
Brilliant special effects and computer simulations, educational and enjoyable.
My only quirk is that the sound track could have made more use of the 5.1 channels, and for a short film, a DTS-track would have fitted on easily.