His solution? Stop shooting at each other and start shooting at the moon.
Based on the Jules Verne novel (with a hefty dose of Cold War flair), this film doesn’t feel like science fiction. It feels like a proposal .
A dry martini and a skeptical look at your physics textbook. Join me next week for Journey #4, where we go from the Moon to the Black Hole of Event Horizon . Pack heavier pants. journey 3: from the earth to the moon movie
If you need your sci-fi fast and loud, skip this. But if you want to see the moment humanity fell in love with the idea of going to the moon—before we knew how to do it—this is essential.
What struck me most during this journey was the silence. When the cannon fires, it’s loud. But once they leave the atmosphere, the film goes quiet. The hiss of oxygen. The hum of the hull. In 1958, they imagined space as a library, not an ocean. His solution
For Journey #3 of our cinematic odyssey, we strapped ourselves into a rickety metal tube and aimed directly at our celestial neighbor via the 1958 classic, .
He builds a massive "Columbiad" cannon in Florida. But when a swashbuckling rival, Captain Nicholl (George Sanders), tries to sabotage the project, they make a bet. Instead of a duel, they decide to ride the bullet together, taking a stowaway (a plucky French chemist) along for the ride. It feels like a proposal
April 14, 2026