You could ask, why climb the highest mountain? Why fly the Atlantic?
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"You could ask, why climb the highest mountain? Why fly the Atlantic? We choose to go to the moon... We choose to go to the moon... We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things not because they are easy but because they are hard." Who was the man that said this? Was he a man with a dream, a vision, or was it the importance of beating the Russians so we didn't get a Communist moon? One thing is sure: John F. Kennedy's speech about a voyage to the moon was the start of Apollo and ultimately set mankind on the moon.
At the time, America had only had a man in space for sixty minutes and now had less than eight years to put his feet on the surface of the moon. "For All Mankind" is a documentary featuring actual NASA footage of the quarter-of-a- million-mile journey and the astronauts describing how it felt.
Instead of following one specific mission, Al Reinsert (the director) uses footage from various missions and seventy-nine minutes to tell us how such a journey must have felt and looked like, from the powerful liftoff to the space walk on the surface of the moon. I'll admit it, liking space stuff (which I do) is necessary to like this film, but if you do, it's a really great experience.
Criterion once again have created a great DVD. The picture quality is great, or as good as it can be from original NASA footage. Two layers have been used to give us the best possible picture quality; I checked the BIT meter of my DVD player and it was never under 5MBIT, and for most of the film it was between 7 and 10MBIT (which is max). It features a new Dolby Digital 5.1 mix. It sounds great in the front and center speakers but only uses the rear speakers a few times. I guess they didn't record in DD 5.1 in space....
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