Voyage of Time: The IMAX Experience

As a scientist myself I enjoy this type of documentaries. I have watched plenty of documentary series on the universe and I always search for more bcs my kids like them as well. I can say without any hesitation that this was one of the worst I have ever watched. Very dull and boring Zero explanation.

I have watched youtube videos far more interesting.

I did not watch it on IMAX. Maybe there ,the cinematic experience would be better.

But on TV is is almost unbearable to watch.

I am really disappointed.

How do you condense the story of the universe into just 45 minutes? Well, you need:

• Poetic and vague voiceover narration from Brad Pitt
• Beautiful images
• A keen ear for music to match to said images, and
• To be Terrence Malick

I think this mostly works. It really does aim to encompass as much as it can in less than an hour, all with the patient pacing most Malick films have. It makes for an interesting experience. Sometimes, it feels a little too abstract, but other moments are quite powerful.

Still, it feels like a companion piece to Tree of Life, and almost like an extended version of that film's birth of the universe sequence. I don't think it's nearly as powerful as that sequence in that film, but it scratches a similar itch. Parts near the end reminded me a little of Koyaanisqatsi, too. It's also not nearly as good an exploration of Planet Earth and its inhabitants as that iconic documentary is.

But for any grievances I have, this documentary/art film is still very impressive. I know something would have been lost from having watched it at home, too, instead of an IMAX screen, so I'm willing to be a little more generous when it comes to rating this.

Nothing new, visually or otherwise. It's not even boring, it's just plain dull and unengaging. Watched it on MUBI and the best they could do apparently was 1080p, so I got to see all the artefacts and downsampling that just rendered it practically unwatchable. Just watch BBC's Planet Earth or Cosmos instead.

It's astonishing how fortunate we are to feel the way we do when watching nature unfold. This majestic and ethereal spectacle that warms our hearts. If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, we must feel infinitely thankful for how evolution shaped us in a way that lets us marvel so profoundly at nature.

The more we learn about how humans work, how society works, how civilization works, how biology and physics work, how the collapse of a star will impact distant galaxies, the more we realize that everything is connected. Time and space is one sandbox in which infinitely small events play with other ones of unbounded cosmological proportions, all in a perfectly deterministic manner.

This teaches us that the only way we can feel what we're all truly looking for, which is to be loved, is to show our love to the world. To show it to other people, to animals, to plants, to the wind, to nature. Because nature is everything there is to know, and love. Because you are nature. Because loving nature is loving yourself. And the more you will learn about the world, the more this will all make sense.

This is what this movie is about.

One of the greatest living directors; Terrence Malick.

One of the greatest living cinematographers is Paul Atkins.

And one of the best producer/actress in the world, Brad Pitt...

And our topic is space/time.

I have watched it 2 times already, I will watch this masterpiece at least 20 more times.

My recommendation; Watch with a good TV/Projection and sound system.

Masterpiece.