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 .
4/5 Moondust Motes
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. journey 3: from the earth to the moon movie
For Journey #3 of our cinematic odyssey, we strapped ourselves into a rickety metal tube and aimed directly at our celestial neighbor via the 1958 classic, . Based on the Jules Verne novel (with a
Let’s be honest. You cannot shoot a capsule full of people out of a cannon and survive. The G-force would turn the crew into jam. The filmmakers knew this. They didn't care. This is pre-Sputnik panic (just barely)
Journey #3: Shooting the Moon – The Guts and Glory of From the Earth to the Moon (1958)
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 .