Synopsis
The inspirational rise of SpaceX as well as Elon Musk's two-decade effort to resurrect America’s space travel ambitions.
Return to Space
2022 Directed by Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin
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Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi Kyle Schember Jean Lane Jimmy Chin Rhonda L. Moore Anna Chai Daniel Koehler Kelsie Collins Anna Barnes Joan Adkison Travis Macritchie Martha Eidsness Mitchell Brette Ragland
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Rick Alexander Doug Dunderdale Mariusz Glabinski Aaron Webster Tom Fleischman Deborah Wallach Kristin Catuogno Ryan Kelly Caleb Mose Jay Fisher Theresa Radka Brian Albritton T. Michael Coleman Wesley Reis John Vardas
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回到太空, Tilbake til verdensrommet, คืนสู่อวกาศ, Návrat do vesmíru, Rückkehr ins Weltall, Επιστροφή στο Διάστημα, Regreso al espacio, Retour dans l'espace, בחזרה לחלל, Povratak u svemir, Visszatérés az űrbe, Ritorno allo spazio, リターン・トゥ・スペース, 리턴 투 스페이스, Powrót w kosmos, De Volta ao Espaço, Возвращение в космос, Uzaya Dönüş, Повернення в космос, 回歸太空, 重返太空
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A dull and airless Netflix documentary by an Oscar-winning duo whose brilliant films about the highs and lows of human exploration (“Meru,” “Free Solo,” and “The Rescue”) have rattled with the heart-in-your-throat intensity of riding a rickety wooden roller-coaster, Jimmy Chin and E. Chai Vasarhelyi’s “Return to Space” renders Elon Musk’s mission to Mars with all the rigor and excitement of a two-hour infomercial for SpaceX. While I can’t speak to how this project came about or what purpose it hoped to serve, “Return to Earth” so pungently reeks of sponsored content that it doesn’t matter who actually footed the bill for it.
Which isn’t to suggest that Chin and Vasarhelyi wouldn’t be compelled to Musk on their own accord,…
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This begins strong and quite compelling, but soon sort of teeters off, becoming largely unfocused for most of the second half. Love space docs and the first half of this is a pretty solid one.
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I'd rather be waterboarded than watch an hagiography of an asshole like Elon Musk.
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☆"Really we just can't fuck it up. That's the most important thing from today: no fucking up."☆
A thoroughly disappointing effort from the Oscar-winning duo Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin, inexplicably following up three sensational documentaries including the aforementioned acclaimed Free Solo with a masturbatory portrait of the brilliant but repugnant Elon Musk, the new Netflix feature Return to Space may have some nice visuals for science nerds but it reeks of corporate sponsorship and dubious authenticity that it's an exhausting watch.
This is of course the story of SpaceX and its two-decade-long mission to take NASA astronauts to the International Space Station, a first-of-its-kind endeavor from a private company. Beginning first with the historic launch of the SpaceX…
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Weird 50 year old weeblord dickhead hurls hot exploding metal shit into the sky over and over again in order to appease private investors. A big commercial for nothing you should care about. Don’t watch this.
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It's sad that the average rating for this will be brought down by people who see a picture of Elon and review bomb it without watching it, not knowing it mostly doesn't even focus on him.
I can see why some people would find this relatively boring or empty compared to the directors' other works, but I think that mostly comes down to taste. I don't think a documentary on space flight is ever going to be quite as personal or emotional on a human scale as something like Free Solo, due to the huge scale of the teams that are involved and the relativey small impact each individual has.Things like this don't really have a single personal, emotional…
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Even in a SpaceX propaganda documentary made by accomplished directors, Elon Musk can’t help but come off as an unlikeable twat who shouldn’t be trusted with the future of the American space program.
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Was suprised to see how many one star reviews this documentary has - going through the comments I realized that a huge majority of reviews are simply from people who despise Musk.
I understand (although generally dont ascribe to) the hate for billionaires, but I do not understand how anyone with an open mind could watch this documentary and not realize that this guy is nothing less than a revolutionairy and titan of industry that genuinely believes that what he is doing is for the advancement of mankind. Whether or not you agree with Musks ideology for what human advancement really looks like is a separate matter (I for one truly believe that he is pushing us in the right direction),… -
This is a Netflix documentary directed by two Oscar winning documentarians that seems to be completely bought and sponsored by SpaceX. This film is so far up Elon Musk's ass that the directors probably Free Soloed their way up his small and large intestines. I don't really understand parasocial relationships people have with famous people, but the ones so many have with billionaires, Musk in particular, are baffling to me. Musk has so many fanboys who will go to any length to stick up and defend their idol, a clearly horrible and narcissistic human being, as though they actually have stock in his businesses succeeding, as though maybe someday they can be invited to his house to dinner, meet whatever…