Journey 3: From The Earth To The Moon Movie -

The most fascinating part of the journey is the moral ambiguity. Barbicane isn't a peaceful explorer; he is a weapons manufacturer pivoting to exploration because the war ended. It raises a question the film doesn't bother to answer: Can you build paradise with the tools of hell?

4/5 Moondust Motes

Post-Civil War America. The War is over, but the arms race has just begun. Victor Barbicane (Joseph Cotten), the head of the Baltimore Gun Club, is bored. He has invented every deadly weapon known to man, and peacetime is bad for business. journey 3: from the earth to the moon movie

From the Earth to the Moon is a flawed, beautiful fossil. It is the Model T of space movies. It is clunky, dangerous, and probably shouldn't work. But it got us there in our imaginations long before Armstrong left his footprint. The most fascinating part of the journey is

What struck me most during this journey was the silence. When the cannon fires, it’s loud. But once they leave the atmosphere, the film goes quiet. The hiss of oxygen. The hum of the hull. In 1958, they imagined space as a library, not an ocean. 4/5 Moondust Motes Post-Civil War America