Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay

A Masterpiece!

Very interesting film. Was caught on the premise when seeing the trailer but unsure as to what the outcome would be for the showing. As it turns out, it was a very good film.

It's funny watching the elements come together in this complicated scam. On one hand, the set-up isn't quite as complex as it seems, but there's an easy sense of fun in every exchange.

Directed in 1929 by famed, German film-maker, Fritz Lang - This silent-era, SyFy story (with an unbelievable running time of nearly 3 hours - Phew!!) was, unfortunately, more sappy soap opera than it was anything else.With the release of Lang's beloved "Metropolis" just 2 years earlier - I (like most viewers, I'm sure) was certainly expecting this offering to be a truly spectacular follow-up to said film - But, nope - "Woman In The Moon" just wasn't in the same innovative league as was its notable predecessor.Yes. Visually speaking - There were some choice moments in this over-long story where it actually showed some promising potential - But, sorry to say - Any awesome visuals got themselves repeatedly set on the back-burner while irksome personal dramas became almost the entire focus of this particular trip to the moon.(*P.S.*) - Wait till you see the rocket-ship's "state-of-the-art" control panel of 90 years ago. Believe me - It'll absolutely kill you.

Not quite awful, but extremely slow and melodramatic in the worst sense. For anyone expecting something like Metropolis, with the same director and writer, forget about it. I feel like I just wasted 3 hours to learn little or nothing. Surprised so many liked it. I'm generally good for anything science fiction but at the moment I'd rather see Zsa Zsa as the Queen of Venus than this (not available, unfortunately). I don't applaud Filmstruck for making this available to waste my precious time. Music was execrable, which didn't help. A few technological points for multistage rockets. A few extreme negative scientific points for, like, not knowing that the Moon doesn't have a breathable atmosphere. And that, for sure, was certainly known in 1929.

AKA "Woman in the Moon" This is a fun film about a journey to the dark side of the moon to see whether there is gold in them thar hills. It's one of those movies where you talk to the screen throughout, laughing about some of the ideas about space exploration. I was particularly taken with two of the astronauts' matching sweaters. At the same time, the conception of the rocket and rocket launch were eerily prescient. The film also contains a nifty subplot about how international bankers will stop at nothing to gain control of the moon's gold. The chief thug employed by cartel is portrayed by Fritz Rasp who played the pharmacist's assistant in "Diary of a Lost Girl". He is rapidly becoming one of my very favorite screen badies.Unfortunately, this movie runs almost 3 hours. Trimming an hour could only have improved it. I found myself editing in my head as the movie played on and on.

The new Kino DVD release of 'Woman In The Moon' is a great addition to anyone's Fritz Lang collection. Once again, the new music composed for the film adds tremendously to the experience. I was astounded by how ahead of its time this movie was in terms of its science, and it was no surprise to read that Ufa had a team of science consultants working with Lang to supply realistic details. The use of the rotation of the Earth to provide extra impetus to the rocket, the way the booster rockets were discarded as the spaceship moved further out of the Earth's atmosphere - having grown up watching real moon launches in the 60s, it was astonishing to see the actuality echoed by fiction decades earlier. There was clearly a lot of attention to detail; they even figured out ways of conveying weightlessness in space, which were pretty advanced for the time. The special effect of trying to pour a bottle of wine without gravity was both funny and impressive. The movie is not one of Lang's great masterpieces, and I agree with other comments that point out that it tends to slow down in places. Lang always did like making long, long movies, and when he settled down to tell a story, he could really take his time getting everything perfect. When this involves people just sitting or standing in a room talking, it can get a little tiresome - in one scene, Helius is trying to get through on the phone to his partner Windegger, and it takes so long he has time to snip to pieces a big bouquet of flowers on the table in front of him. I swear, it seems to be happening in real time; if there were something exciting happening in the meantime somewhere else it might have passed more quickly, but we just keep cutting between a scene of a man impatiently holding a phone to his ear and snipping at flowers, and a scene of people sitting at a dinner table listening to a speech. Not even Lang can make this gripping, though I think he was defiantly determined to try. On the other hand, there are places where it works well. The long buildup to the rocket launch is terrific - I would have enjoyed it if it were even longer. The hangar in the darkening scene, lit with jumpy spotlights as the moon begins to rise, the slow, smooth monumental sliding of that massive machinery as the rocket glides forward to its launch position, dwarfing the human beings walking alongside it, and all the beautiful changes of camera angle to draw in the viewer, are very moving. I can see why the Nazis liked Lang and wanted to get their claws into him; if they could have harnessed him to make THEIR kind of movies, he'd have been a real prize for them, another Riefenstahl. 'Woman In The Moon' wasn't a hit at the time, mainly because Lang (as usual) wouldn't listen to the studio heads who wanted some concessions to the coming of sound technology, so it was a dinosaur silent movie when the public was engrossed with something new. But it is definitely worth watching, and its strong points are worth sitting through some tedious slow patches to enjoy.