Shamefully, on the hottest day of the year so far, I'be been indoors watching this. One for the completists I'd suggest. The use of archive footage and no voices except the cap com and the capsule along with (I think Walter Cronkite's news commentary) adds a real sense of "being there". The tension when they are on the way back and there's radio blackout as they come through the atmosphere is genuinely tense - even though you know what happens. Oh, actually, there is one other voice - Richard Nixon.
Honourable mention for the score as well.
For anyone who wants even more, the 13 minutes to the moon podcast on BBC Sounds is worth a listen.
*Coming out of the cinema, I heard a middle aged woman saying to her friend that "of course it's all fake, and we never actually went to the moon" I asked her if she was a flat earther as well. She looked at me like I was some kind of idiot! "Of course not, that's just nonsense" she said
Honourable mention for the score as well.
For anyone who wants even more, the 13 minutes to the moon podcast on BBC Sounds is worth a listen.
*Coming out of the cinema, I heard a middle aged woman saying to her friend that "of course it's all fake, and we never actually went to the moon" I asked her if she was a flat earther as well. She looked at me like I was some kind of idiot! "Of course not, that's just nonsense" she said
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