From the Earth to the Moon

Call me old-fashioned, but I'll take the Georges Méliès adaptation of silly French wizards battling moon demons in "A Trip to the Moon"(1902) over this boring more faithful adaptation of the Jules Verne novel. Instead of the dry space travel sci-fi, I was far more interested in the alternate history of President Ulysses S. Grant dealing with the invention of the not-nuclear weapon, "Power X", where the U.S. enters an 19th century atomic age...imagine "duck-and-cover" but hiding under a horse.

Fairly boring, there really isn't much about this movie to complain about since it's so dull. I do know that by 1958 entertainment was invented, but this doesn't have it.

Cool cast but it's so fuckin boring. Wonder if a Jules Verne adaptation has ever been good?

Dumb

You'd think a production with both Cotten and Sanders would have at least a fair amount to recommend it. Unfortunately though, after a long (and not terribly necessary) prologue, this one goes into Lost In Space mode once it leaves Earth, where pretty much anything is possible and all logic gets thrown out the window/portal.

ger; [Von der Erde zum Mond]; nach dem amerikanischen nord-süd konflikt erfindet ein wissenschaftler ein neue energiequelle, welche er für eine rakete zum mond nutzen will.;

Passes the time.

The action is turgid, the characterization wan. It grinds along without a pulse, enlivened only by the unintentional amusement that comes from watching old Hollywood pros like Joseph Cotten and George Sanders interacting awkwardly with the special effects, looking like they're marking off time in their heads, the ticking away of minutes until they can salve their mortification with a couple tumblers of brown liquor at the nearby watering hole the only countdown that particularly concerns th