Space Station (2002) (AKA Space Station
IMAX)
I was teary eyed all through "Space Station." The
film just got to me. An IMAX documentary projected in
3D, the film features much footage shot in space by
astronauts and cosmonauts.
The images are startling. Although the 3D often
reminds one of the pop-up book from childhood, where
3D images were really 2D images in a sort of 3D mock-up,
it is nonetheless fascinating. And the bottom line is
this: The film is just about the closest thing to being
in space that we mere mortals will ever experience.
It is the closest the average person will come to slipping
the surely bonds of Earth and experiencing deep space.
The images here will overwhelm you. At times, because
space is so unknown to us, they actually look phony.
We have no context in which to process the visuals we
see here. This film is simply like nothing we've ever
seen before.
And the idea of the International Space Station
is so overwhelming as well. As a child of the 60's and
70's, I never thought a day would come when Russians
would be considered our allies. To watch Soviet and
American astronauts working and living together is heartwarming.
This is important and groundbreaking stuff. It makes
one proud to be alive on the planet. It inspires such
hope. For all the naysayers of the space program, the
massive program has achieved an overwhelming ideal.
We have all come closer as a planet, as a society of
humans, due to this project. That makes it worth more
than the billions of dollars it has cost.
Tom Cruise, who provides a stately and reverent
air, narrates "Space Station". He may occasionally get
a little too majestic in his voiceover but the subject
matter more than deserves such kindness. This is an
amazing film and one that proves how valuable cinema
is to us as a society. With "Space Station" the average
guy gets to go to space. It is the closest we may ever
come to being there. And its probably less than 10 bucks
to do so. Not bad when others are paying $15 million
for the experience.
Seek out an IMAX theater in your surrounding area
showing this film. Even if you have to travel a few
hundred miles to get there, the journey you will experience
is out of this world.
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Content:
A
Completeness: A
Cinematography\Lighting: A+
Special Effects\Make Up: A+
Music: A+
Final
Grade: A+
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