Best movie ever!

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

The acting in this movie is really good.

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

Its basic virtue - the profound, surprising freshness. and the magic as tool for the return to the childhood spirit. its humor, the ancient stop-motion, the smoke, the lovely script and the naivety are the reasons for see it often. because it is a meet more than a show. because it is between old sensation popular theaters and cinema. because it represents a sort of birth certificate . as slice from our memory. and identity. the magic of it escapes to definitions. but it works in admirable manner.

A Trip to the Moon is the most famous movie by Georges Méliès, who made over hundred films, mostly in theatrical manner, and is pioneer of special effects. This film is considered to be the first SF film and it's one of the most influential films in history. When Méliès retired from movie industry most of his films were lost, but later he was recognized and acknowledged and search for his work has begun. This one was found around 1930. and in 1993. they also found its original hand-coloured print. Even if we ignore how good this was for 1902, and watch it only from today's perspective, this film is still so beautifully imaginative and fun. From me10/10

It's amusing to read so many reviews that praise this silent short film and its maker on so many points. "It's a break through." "It's pioneering." "Georges Melies was a genius." The one that's worth a good laugh is "A film ahead of its time." How many times we see or read that to describe a pioneering, innovative or new something. That always has seemed to be a put-down, however well intended. After all, pioneering, discovering, inventing, trying something new or different that works is worthy of praise outright. Melies was deserving of praise. A French pioneer in cinema, he introduced many new techniques for the craft and in the related science of cinema. But it's more proper to say that he initiated, discovered, started, refined, introduced or began those methods and changes. The time was his and he was in it. How could he be ahead of his own discoveries? So, this is a fine film short of early pioneering, with historical value. But I don't understand ratings that place it with some of the great masterpieces of cinema over the ages."A Trip to the Moon" also is a humorous film that shows how some people thought about what lay in the future of space travel. Did most people at the turn of the 20th century think there was life on the moon? Did scientists then think that a huge gun could shoot a craft into space? Another little humorous aspect is Melies' use of the chorus girls from the Folies Bergere. Even way back then, promoters were using sex appeal to sell things. One would think that the marvel of cinema itself would be enough to draw public interest. On second thought, the chorus girls might have been an addition to please the old men scientists. I'm sure it was all in fun for Melies and his crew and cast, as it must have been for the people who first saw this motion picture.

I surely enjoyed the film even though while I was watching it I kind of had to remind myself that the film was made over 100 years ago. I think that nowadays we're used to see special effects in movies all the time and sometimes we focus on that and we don't really pay attention to the story. In this film though the plot was pretty good it is innovative and funny. I really appreciated the special effects and the colored clips. It's impressive thinking that someone painted by hand all the clips. "A trip to the moon" is a timeless film for sure and the fact that we're still watching it and talking about it 110 years later is the proof of that. I think that the reason why the film is still around is that it's balanced: the plot is innovative, funny and creative, and at the same time there's action and special effects and that makes the film more exiting. In 1902 the century just started and I guess people wanted to see and try new things and I think that the film reflects that desire of progress and innovation both in the plot and in the editing.