NOVA - To the Moon
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Movie Reviews of NOVA - To the Moon
Movie Review: Adequate
Summary: 3 Stars
This DVD is mostly useful to support the more documentary aspects of 'For All Mankind' and dramatic aspects of 'From the Earth to the Moon.'The narration is only adequate, the music awful, but it is still intersting to the buff. Watch both of the above first.
Movie Review: Adequate - but not inspired.
Summary: 2 Stars
This is a decent telling as a documentary with substandard music and production values but great research. It is telling that almost no special interviews for this DVD are provided by the Apollo 11 astronauts...the feuds rage on. Most of the other missions have interviews with the participants.From the Earth to the Moon and For All Mankind are far, far superior. This DVD confirms the accuracy of the research for From the Earth to the Moon, one the the most brilliant examples of television.
The DVD also has no booklet or extras. The chapter list has no numbers, is on the disc (no printed list), and therefore worthless.
This could have been great...and is mediocre.
Movie Review: Script assumes you are unintelligent and unknowing
Summary: 1 Stars
The use of present-tense verbs to describe events from the past is now commonplace in our post-literate age, especially by historians when talking down to lay people. This script does that, and worse. Consider this excerpt: "In the 1950s, travel to the Moon is about to become possible because of the rocket. Long used as a weapon, the rocket is the only engine that can be used in a vacuum." That's not true, and it's the kind of falsehood that sometimes happens when adults over-simplify their subject for children.
Or this one: "But when future generations look back, they may be surprised to learn why men first went to the Moon, because the ancient dream of exploration had almost nothing to do with what was called Project Apollo." The script reveals that the true motive was to beat the Russians. How typical of Nova to be so condescending to its audience as to assume we have no understanding of the political context. And the truth is that Apollo had a great deal to do with the dream of exploration.
Or this one: "In 1968 men first left the Earth for the Moon. Millions of people watched their journey on television, but scarcely a handful knew how it really began." Oh, so fewer than six people knew how Apollo 8 really began. Nonsense.
Or this one: "For an astronaut to survive there [in space], he'll need the protection of a spacecraft, or capsule. Even a small capsule will need a huge rocket to put it in space." Sounds like they are talking to small children.
Or this one: "Lost between the pioneering flights of Mercury and the lunar triumph of Apollo was the program that found the answers. It was called Gemini. Nearly forgotten today, Gemini was the essential step to the Moon." Lost and forgotten by whom? I sure didn't lose it, and I'll never forget it. I wish Nova would stop making things up and stick to the truth. In what sense was Gemini more essential than the other steps?
Nova has it that few people know the true motive behind Apollo, or the true beginnings of Apollo 8, or even the existence of the Gemini phase. But Nova knows. Nova always has the answers, and we are children sitting at their feet, grateful for any bits of knowledge they deem to hand down.
The DVD includes the commercials that air at the start of every episode of Nova. I would say that's an indicator of the low esteem Nova has for its audience.
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Summary: 1 Stars
I have not received this item as of yet so I cannot review it. I am starting to get nervous that it is not going to arrive.