Product: For All Mankind [VHS] (1989)
Rating: 3.0
Awesome content almost overcomes NASA marketing
I saw "For All Mankind" in its IMAX incarnation at the Smithsonian. I hate to be a party pooper, but it struck me as more a NASA marketing piece than the awesome piece of space trip I had expected. Admittedly, I am biassed, having seen Spaceborne many years ago. The latter was a short assembled from public-domain footage, and had a much more spontaneous, closer-to-the-moment feeling than "For All Mankind". Still, space footage is space footage: hard to screw it up, especially with a score by Brian Eno. If only Criterion had included Spaceborne (otherwise unavailable) on this disk.