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Undescribable Perfection

Blistering performances.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Watching it is like watching the spectacle of a class clown at their best: you laugh at their jokes, instigate their defiance, and "ooooh" when they get in trouble.

This film thrilled and moved me like nothing before it. If I had to choose between owning this film and owning every other movie in the world, I'd choose this film.Every movie or TV show about space claims to convey "the wonder of space." But this film manages to actually DO that.Spectacular shots! "The best views a rocketman has ever seen."The film is immensely entertaining, down to the tense moments before the moon landing, which had its own real-life version of the bomb-on-a- timer device used in lesser movies.I wish I were alive in the 60s, so that I could have seen all this as it happened.

I saw this documentary off Netflix the other day, and I hope this is the right one, since there were several options on IMDb for "Rocket Men". Just a coincidence that I watched this only a couple days before seeing the recent premiere of the mini-series, "The Astronaut Wives Club", which I referred to as "The Right Stuff: The Feminist Revisionist Version"- basically that same story from the perspectives of the women in the various different astronauts' wives in the Mercury and Apollo (and Gemini perhaps??) space programs. "Rocket Men" is also a good companion piece to TRS, basically showing a lot of the same events in documentary format of course. The film even goes into the Challenger and Columbia disasters a bit. I especially liked the narration by actor, Michael J. Reynolds. Like Levon Helm's narration in TRS, it provided a very down-to-earth homey feel to a literally out of this world subject. But I definitely enjoyed this- found it quite mesmerizing in fact. Again, I hope this is the right movie I'm reviewing-?? LOL

I'm not seeing any reviews blasting this film for conveniently forgetting the Apollo 13 mishap. I was watching the film and I had to rewind because I thought I blacked out and missed it. Nope, they just chose to not even mention it. They left out one of the biggest events in the exploration of space. I'm still trying to understand why any editor would think that the Apollo 13 mission would be something deserving of the cutting room floor. The only thing I can think is that the geniuses at the BBC think that Apollo 13 was some sort of embarrassment. I watched the first 2 parts of this film but then turned it off when I realized the filmmakers weren't too concerned with telling an accurate story.

Very seldom do I want to buy and own a movie.This is one of them. My girlfriend and I stumbled upon this film when my internet (and thereby Netflix) went down last night. KCET just so happened to be airing this "documentary" about the first 50 years of American manned spaceflight. And I hesitate to call it a documentary because it's not what you'd consider a traditional one. There was no agenda, no call to action, no extended interviews.It was a "film" in the grandest sense, as art. The combination of the cinematography, much of it from NASA's own cameras, some of it previously unseen, the music with original scores made just for this film, and the pacing of these snapshots in time - all culminated in a surreal experience. I literally sat at the edge of my seat, holding my breath. I have never been so enthralled.The only real negative about the film is the distribution. I couldn't find it easily. I had to go all the way to Amazon.de (Germany) to find it and get it shipped internationally. But that's not necessarily a fault of the film, just its limited distribution.This is not the film to learn about the American space program. There are plenty of documentaries and books that cover the details. This is a film to experience with your total attention. Turn down the lights, turn up the sound - because you're in for a ride.