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Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1 Audience Rating: Unrated Binding: DVD Brand: Warner Brothers EAN: 0026359332128 Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC Label: Hbo Home Video Manufacturer: Hbo Home Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Hbo Home Video Region Code: 1 Release Date: November 06, 2007 Running Time: 40 minutes Studio: Hbo Home Video Theatrical Release Date: September 23, 2005 Sales Rank: 6750 MPN: HBOD93321D
Description: Only 12 have walked on the moon. You're next! Presented and narrated by Tom Hanks, Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon is an IMAX documentary film that transports the viewer to lunar surface, where they can walk alongside the 12 extraordinary astronauts who have been there, experiencing what they saw, heard, and felt.
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Amazon.com: Tom Hanks continues his love affair with space that began with Apollo 13 and his miniseries From Earth to the Moon with this compelling IMAX adventure, Magnificent Desolation. Fans of space fact and fantasy will not want to miss this engaging docudrama, which combines actual footage of lunar walks and interviews of the few men who've trod there with dramatizations of scenarios both exciting and terrifying.
The true way to experience this film, of course, is in its IMAX splendor, but home-theater buffs won't be disappointed. The footage takes the "lunar visitor" along moon's craters and potholes, with nothing but the vastness of space all around. Unseen film shows close-ups of terrain as well as technical infrastructure that may well be models for future moon-living. One particularly scary scene thankfully has never happened on a moon mission, and involves the sudden loss of breathing apparatus. Scuba divers will recognize the "buddy system" of sharing a single air source--and viewers with any kind of claustrophobic issues may want to fast-forward. But overall, the thrills of space travel are made as real as possible for us mere mortals who will only experience it from our comfy chairs. Roger that.--A.T. Hurley
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - 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 ... Read More
Rating: - 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 ... Read More
Rating: - 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 ... Read More
Rating: - 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 ... Read More
Rating: - Glad to see it available on DVD
I went to see this movie at the pink palace IMAX in memphis and it was fantastic, I remember commenting after the show how it would be great on dvd and worthy of purchase. It was educational and had some great ... Read More
- Worst "Film" Ever
- Cursory, IMAX-Formatted Look at the Apollo Lunar Missions Designed to Inspire the Next Generation
- The closest I have come to actually being on the Moon! 