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Magnificent Desolation - Walking on the Moon (IMAX)
from Hbo Home Video
starring Tom Hanks, John Corbett, Bryan Cranston, Matt Damon, Morgan Freeman
directed by Mark Cowen

Features:

• AC-3
• Closed-captioned
• Color
• Dolby

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• Worst "Film" Ever
  Usually, IMAX films are a disappointing (and expensive) 40 minutes of droning narration interspersed with a few spectacular wide-angle shots of stunning scenery and spacious vistas. This film is even WORSE than most because all of the wide-frame scenery is CGI. The few clips of actual moon footage are framed and superimposed on less than 1/4 of the full screen, and total less than 15% of the entire film.
  The production values and voice-over work are excellent, of course. But this DVD should be... more info

• Cursory, IMAX-Formatted Look at the Apollo Lunar Missions Designed to Inspire the Next Generation
  If you saw the superb 2007 documentary, In the Shadow of the Moon, I am not certain what the point would be in viewing this forty-minute 2005 IMAX film - at least if you are old enough to remember the television coverage of the Apollo missions. The former film includes spectacular archival footage of those missions and insightful on-camera interviews with ten of the surviving astronauts. This one is aimed more directly as a motivational film for a youthful audience as it seeks to reignite the pioneering... more info

• The closest I have come to actually being on the Moon!
  I have dreamed about space travel and going to the Moon for much of my life. This film is quite imaginative and exhilirating.
  I took my kids to see the IMAX version- we all were stunned silent by the drama that unfolded. You can read about this story many times, but actually feeling it is different.
  -Tahir Rahman, author of We Came in Peace for all Mankind: the untold story of the Apollo 11 silicon disc

• Disappointing
  I saw this at an IMAX theater. I was hoping for real film of real astronauts. But it is almost all computer graphics which are not even all that good in a rather contrived 'docudrama' format. In addition the science is 'gradeschool' level stuff. You would be better off spending your money on 'Full Moon'. Its a book but the images are the real deal.

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