Moonwalk One

[MartG]

I think I'll start a conspiracy theory here - NASA deliberately lost their copy of this film.....because it was embarrassingly crap !

And in the version shown on Discovery, not helped by the inserted bits with some guy gushingly praising every second of it, and adverts every 10 minutes. I reckon it could have been edited down from 2 1/2 hours to about 25 minutes without losing any meaningful content.

And as for the soundtrack

[Eric Mc]

Not impressed - but I expect that it was a victim of the times in which it was made. The picture quality was good but everything else did not stand the test of time very well.

What it lacked was a decent narrative and ANY interviews or voices from the actual personnel who took part in the missions - no astronauts, flight controllers, spaceship/rocket designers etc. As for the soundtrack - I think it was played on that other 70s icon, a Stylophone.

I gave up and watched the drama doc on ITV 1 which was surprisingly well made and moving. Is it available on DVD?

[Lord Pikey]

Shall i just delete it from sky plus now and save myself the bother?

[Eric Mc]

Im almost tempted to say yes. Much better documentaries have been made since. I really like "For All Mankind" (1989) and, of course, the recent "In the Shadow of the Moon".

[Lord Pikey]

I think i will then. I might try the Fred and Rose West doc that was on saturday night instead

[Eric Mc]

Lord Pikey said:

I think i will then. I might try the Fred and Rose West doc that was on saturday night instead

Much more inspirational

I'd certainly prefer to watch Moonwalk One compared to that.

[Russ35]

Eric Mc said:

Not impressed - but I expect that it was a victim of the times in which it was made. The picture quality was good but everything else did not stand the test of time very well.

What it lacked was a decent narrative and ANY interviews or voices from the actual personnel who took part in the missions - no astronauts, flight controllers, spaceship/rocket designers etc. As for the soundtrack - I think it was played on that other 70s icon, a Stylophone.

I gave up and watched the drama doc on ITV 1 which was surprisingly well made and moving. Is it available on DVD?

I bought the DVD of it last weekend before realising it was on TV. It was a toss up of either Moonwalk One or In the Shadow Of The Moon. Already have a TV copy of Shadow so bought Moonwalk instead.

[hornetrider]

I watched the one on ITV1 last night and thought it was pretty good. Great to see the genuine footage interlaced with the drama.

[Eric Mc]

They also interlaced the actual radio transmissions with the actors' speaking voices very cleverly. All in all, a very good effort at keeping close to the facts and being fair to the people involved.