SnoReptilePlenty Memorable, crazy movie

Spoonatects Am i the only one who thinks........Average?

Plustown A lot of perfectly good film show their cards early, establish a unique premise and let the audience explore a topic at a leisurely pace, without much in terms of surprise. this film is not one of those films.

Kayden This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama

Ian (Flash Review)This was just shy of 3 hours and felt longer. Uff-dah for a silent film. The duration could have easily been hacked in half and been just as effective. The first overly long and forgettable portion is about a scientific professor who has a goal to prove there is a wealth of gold in the moon's rocks and surface ground. His hypothesis is greeted by skeptical laughter by his peers. Fast forward to the actual voyage to the moon. It was rather amusing and had improved creativity and cinematography than the first long portion. There are portrayals of the takeoff, approach, landing and comical moon adventures. And either Fritz believed there was oxygen on the moon or used that as a way to get the helmets off the actors to show their expressions. Will they find gold? Will they be able to get home to prove the professors hypothesis? Overall, the film dragged on and on and it was not a space adventure version of Fritz's masterwork Metropolis that I had hoped it might be.

Michael O'Keefe WOMAN IN THE MOON is director Fritz Lang's film of space travel. And being made in the late 1920's, the special effects are in deed special. A professor(Klaus Pohl)is certain that there is gold on the moon and is convincing enough that an extraterrestrial journey is organized. It is uncanny that there is a countdown before the rocket's lift-off and that the passengers deal with weightlessness aboard the rocket. It is said that the depiction of the rocket in the film made a big impression on one Adolf Hitler. Renewed interest in this subtitled film came to light when excerpts were used in a 1960 TV documentary titled The Race for Space. It is a shame for any science fiction freak to not see and enjoy this.Other players include: Gerda Maurus, Fritz Rasp, Willy Fritsch, Heinrich Gotho, Max Zilzer and Hermann Vallentin.

rkimble-1 One of the coolest things for any silent film buff is to discover a film that they hadn't heard of or known too much about. That's the case with Fritz Lang's restored "Woman in the Moon", in the 2004 KINO DVD release, in which the print quality is excellent and a new piano/synthesizer score has been added. As has been cited by many others here, the pacing of much of the picture is slow and the acting is occasionally melodramatic, but as was occurring with most movies in the latter days of the silents, the acting techniques were moving form the broad stage performances of early film to more controlled and realistic portrayals and most of the actors were of the latter group. In addition to the surprisingly realistic portrayal of many aspects of what would become space flight, it is interesting that the space (science fiction) aspect is not the focus of the movie. The movie deals primarily with six characters and the tensions caused by greed, love, scientific curiosity and boyish hero worship. The fact that they are making a trip to the moon to verify a theory that gold might be mined there is just the vehicle of the story. And the story itself is pretty decent, especially if you have the patience to let the movie tell it. And even though I am a fairly jaded film buff, I found myself genuinely startled and surprised at least twice by plot turns. I love it when that happens.Be patient. Its 169 minutes, but I think it is worth it.

uykusuz Considering its time and conditions, it is very courageous and well designed and often considered to be one of the first "serious" science fiction films. Though some things are out of facts of today it is really an unforgettable sample and pioneer of space films in the history of cinema.It had to be more excited than Star Wars in the beginning of '20s. The types chosen are quite interesting and though it's a silent movie, the explanations are quite satisfactory enabling the movie comprehensible. For the lovers of the art of cinema, it is a film absolutely to bee seen and to be added into their archive.