But his work didn’t end there as we see, the former astronaut attends conventions (lots of handshakes and photos), does radio interviews, and travels the world in an effort to re-ignite the dying embers of the US space program, a task that would wear down men half his age. Then we’re with Cernan aboard Apollo 17 for that final flight. Retired mission commanders and techs talks of the wonders and the dangers. Cernan examines the space modules and capsules now on display at different museums. His former wife speaks of the his many hours, stretching into weeks, away from their home. Then we hear of Cernan’s entry into the space program with footage of the grueling training exercises with nausea inducing contraptions. Color photos and home movie footage of their younger days flash past. An old fighter pilot pal joins him for a barbecue. Photos are displayed of Cernan growing up and entering the Navy. He talks of his on upbringing, working on his grandfather’s meager farm. Soon he’s back at his ranch, setting out feed for his own cattle, his two dogs always at his side. We soon learn that this cowboy is actually Captain Eugene Cernan, as he then walks about the near-deserted Johnson Space Center. This new feature-length doc gives us another look at that time, one from the perspective of one of the still living heroes of exploration: Eugene Cernan, perhaps best known as THE LAST MAN ON THE MOON.Īs the film begins, we observe an octogenarian (a very spry one) looking over prized steers and then taking in a bull-riding competition.
MAN ON THE MOON MOVIE MIX FULL
TV cable channels along with PBS have presented many interesting documentaries about the space race, but few have gotten the full theatrical treatment.
The great majority of these films are fictitious, with a couple of notable exceptions being the overlooked gem from the 80’s, THE RIGHT STUFF, and the 90’s nail-biter APOLLO 13 (and its HBO companion mini-series “From the Earth to the Moon”). The studios have mined the stars since the beginnings of movies over a 100 years ago. And of course there’s that space fantasy, STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS, that smashed several records and is still in the box office top ten nearly ten weeks after its release. We’ll see if it takes home some Oscar gold this Sunday night. THE MARTIAN, a fairly fact-based film (though we’ve not gone to the “red planet”) won critical praise and was a box office smash. 2015 may just be noted in the annals of cinema history as the year that Hollywood really went “space happy” (a more benign term for “space madness” I suppose).
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