I was excited when I first heard that Nasa allowed producers of this documentary unlimited access to their archives and many of the videos would be restored to improve their quality but this documentary doesn't live up to all this hype due to poor editing and sloppy work. At times I felt like I was watching the first rough draft of the documentary and couldn't believe this is actually the "final" version with so many problems.
First problem is the sound. Even though they went through all the trouble of restoring the video quality (and doing a good job) they forgot to restore the sound. The sound quality in this documentary is so bad that half of the dialogue and speech is plain unintelligible and sounds like gibberish. We had to actually turn on subtitles to even understand what people are saying because the sound quality was beyond terrible.
Second, the music gets so loud that it's impossible to hear speeches which were difficult enough to understand without all that blasting music going on at full volume.
Third, NOTHING is explained in the documentary. Half the time the camera zooms into something or focuses on something with no explanation as to what you are looking at. The documentary assumes that you already work at Nasa and already know everything. I understand their choice of not having a narrator but they should have at least added some written notations in the video so that people actually have an idea what's going on.
Fourth, the editing is poorly done, clumsy and feels hurried. Looks like the producers wanted to meet a deadline and they gave up on quality and cut corners in order to get the job done.
If it wasn't for the restored footage and new original footage I'd give this a 4/10 but since it had a few good things going on I will be generous and give this a 7/10 but it absolutely doesn't deserve many of the 10/10 ratings who gave it full ratings for only emotional reasons alone.
First problem is the sound. Even though they went through all the trouble of restoring the video quality (and doing a good job) they forgot to restore the sound. The sound quality in this documentary is so bad that half of the dialogue and speech is plain unintelligible and sounds like gibberish. We had to actually turn on subtitles to even understand what people are saying because the sound quality was beyond terrible.
Second, the music gets so loud that it's impossible to hear speeches which were difficult enough to understand without all that blasting music going on at full volume.
Third, NOTHING is explained in the documentary. Half the time the camera zooms into something or focuses on something with no explanation as to what you are looking at. The documentary assumes that you already work at Nasa and already know everything. I understand their choice of not having a narrator but they should have at least added some written notations in the video so that people actually have an idea what's going on.
Fourth, the editing is poorly done, clumsy and feels hurried. Looks like the producers wanted to meet a deadline and they gave up on quality and cut corners in order to get the job done.
If it wasn't for the restored footage and new original footage I'd give this a 4/10 but since it had a few good things going on I will be generous and give this a 7/10 but it absolutely doesn't deserve many of the 10/10 ratings who gave it full ratings for only emotional reasons alone.