Apollo 18

[BAK55]

I will probably see this movie, even though I have some nagging questions about the idea of this as a "found" film.

My main question is, since this was mankind's last mission to the moon, and if the film footage was left behind, who found it?

If the incidents that occured were transmitted to earth, recorded, and this particular mission was a secret, why was it left laying around to be found?

Regardless who had found the "footage" or where, how is it being allowed to be distributed in this manner?

This "found footage" premise is pretty weak, even for a science fiction film.

 

[Larry Young]

You don't think that's going to explained in the first three minutes?

 

[CessnaDriver]

I don't plan to see this, I'm just too well versed in Apollo to enjoy
the concept and would likely be thinking BS every two seconds to enjoy it at all. LOL Plus that era of astronauts are heroes for me, so even watching fictional ones become mince meat wouldn't be fun.
I'd rather have a film about an actual Apollo mission. Boring for most I know.

I want all their mock ups though!

Give me the LEM.

 

[jonny5]

I've never enjoyed horror films or scary suspense genre movies, because I'm a big scaredy cat, but I am itching to see this one and I'll tell you why.

I may someday swim in the ocean, or fall off a boat. I may someday want to rent a cabin in secluded wooded area by a lake, or my car could break down in such a place. I may rent an apartment in a rundown building, or somehow survive a horrible apocalyptic catastrophe, but I can be fairly confident at this stage in my life that I will NEVER have to go to the moon.

 

[Larry Young]

My dad was born in 1935 and lived his entire life without seeing the Red Sox win a World Series. But they finally did it. So I'm confident I'm not going to make it, but my son is going to take my picture with him when he sees the surface of the moon from the inside of a spacesuit.

 

[Wes R]

I'm looking forward to it just for the fact that it looks like they put some effort into making it all look right. Though i think it would be kind of neat if it turned out not to be found footage but shown through the eyes of a controller on earth watching it on a screen in first person as it happened. still I have to see it as the Apollo program was the last real big challenge Nasa had.

 

[CessnaDriver]

How can they explain a Saturn V launch not being noticed??? LOL

Doh, there I go. Stop it, stop it, stop it.

 

[Larry Young]

It's 1973?

 

[CessnaDriver]

It would be like trying to do a secret shuttle launch today.

Only Drax could do that!

 

[Larry Young]

I can see in 1973, where there's no Internet, Twitter, or YouTube, that the government pulls some PR stunt on the Cape at the same time they launch Apollo 18 from Vandenberg. Norad and the media are in on it (pre-Watergate) and when the Russians make a stir about the launch, they just deny everything and everyone goes back to The Mary Tyler Moore Show.

Can solve all this with three lines of dialogue... although I admit based on the trailers I may be giving the flick too much credit. :lol

 

[Colin Droidmilk]

Quite like the look of it. Docu-style is the only way to go for a 70s moon landing story, so the found footage thing is a total plus here.

 

[.:MirrorminD:.]

Actually, there's been several more than that.

Blair Witch
Paranormal Activity
Paranormal Activity 2
Cloverfield
Diary of the Dead
The Last Exorcism
Quarantine
The Ritual
Alien Abduction: Incident in Lake County

And a few more foreign films.

The Blair Witch is probably the only one that was marketed well enough and covered up enough to make people think that it might actually be real. That was probably what made it the most fun and original of all them.

Good list but you left out one of the first shakey cam/real event films. On paper Blair Witch is considered the pioneer of it, but "The Last Broadcast" is what Blair Witch loosely got the idea from.

Plus Ill add to the mix [REC] & [REC]2, Cannibal Holocaust

 

[ShadowX81]

How can they explain a Saturn V launch not being noticed??? LOL

Doh, there I go. Stop it, stop it, stop it.

Well figure people aren't allowed within about 3 miles of the launchpad anyway. If they close off the media/VIP watching box and the beach that the public comes to watch it; and then do it in the middle of the night, it might be possible for it to be far enough away that you can pass it off as a Titan carrying up a satallite or something.

 

[Larry Young]

It's not so much hiding it from bystanders as from the Russians. They're going to know you're going TLI.

 

[Clutch]

I think the cheap look and acting will kill it.

 

[Larry Young]

Well, it only has a 5 mil budget. MOON did 10 mil in 23 weeks on 250 screens, and that was pretty art-house for what it was. This looks like one of those "My first choice was sold out, what else is playing?" things. And I'm with Cessna; give me the LEM!

 

[MooCriket]

I'm looking forward to taking a chance on this one.

 

[Wes R]

I want the soviet lander and spacesuit. With a 5 million budget it should be easy to make that back.

 

[Larry Young]

Check your PM.

 

[88OrBust]

It seems like its been to long since a decent movie about space was made so this could be a good thing.