Apollo 18

[ShadowX81]

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

Maybe the Russian's know about it? Possibly the plot of the movie could be that Russia strikes a deal with the US to investigate the dissapearance of it's lunar lander and cosmonauts.

 

[Larry Young]

I'll let you know on Friday.

 

[Colin Droidmilk]

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

What about Moon? Maybe you didn't catch that. Moon was good to space. It treated space with a bit of respect.

This one looks like it might do the same thing. And being done on the cheap will help; looks like they haven't been able to afford the showy phoney cgi unrealism that marred Apollo 13.

 

[StevenRogers84]

What about Moon? Maybe you didn't catch that. Moon was good to space. It treated space with a bit of respect.

This one looks like it might do the same thing. And being done on the cheap will help; looks like they haven't been able to afford the showy phoney cgi unrealism that marred Apollo 13.

MOON WAS AWESOME! I seriously love that movie.

 

[Goonie]

So I see they moved the release date for this one to Sept 2 now, rather than January.

 

[micdavis]

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.

Can my daughter go with him? We already have the space suits.

Wouldn't that be amazing?

 

[Larry Young]

It sure would!

In related news, that pic of you and Randy and Nicksdad and nickytea I took at the show this year fills me with warm fuzzies, and then I get an extra awesome laugh when I realize your daughter photo-bombed it. I always seem to forget that until I see it again, and it makes the laugh funnier realizing I keep forgetting that. :lol

 

[micdavis]

When we got back from the con. She started watching some recorded shows and suddenly squealled out "We're on TV at Comic-Con."

We walked through a Cartoon Network commercial bump. She was thrilled.

ComicConVideo - YouTube

 

[Larry Young]

Ha! How cool is that?

 

[lmgill]

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

In 1989 there was "84 Charlie Mopic" about a Vietnam military camera crew, also first person, as I remember it was pretty good.

Global Effects provided all of the Apollo hardware for "Apollo 18" (suits, props, LM interior/ exterior, LRV)

 

[CessnaDriver]

I actually saw 84 Charlie Mopic in theaters, it was good if I recall, But I think I would have been happy if shaky cam ended there. It's hard to watch when an entire film is done like that.


Apollo 18: Could NASA Launch a Secret Moon Mission? | Apollo 18 Film Claims NASA Launched a Secret Spaceflight | Secret Space Travel | Space.com


"Almost definitely not."

 

[darthgordon]

There's an article on how this would be unlikely? Does that mean that there are people that don't believe that this is made up?

 

[CessnaDriver]

There's an article on how this would be unlikely? Does that mean that there are people that don't believe that this is made up?

Idiots abound of course.

Many films of a fantastic sciency nature get the could it happen treatment write ups.

Probably a good thing.

One of my editor friends dealt with writers and director and struggled to explain why an astronomical threat to earth they had cooked up was massively innaccurate. Of course they didn't give a flying rats ass about that and went with the idiot idea anyway.

 

[feek61]

Opens tomorrow. This should be interesting.

 

[darthgordon]

You know... I was thinking the other day, as I reading it on a plane... I think the first of this genre (telling a story from "edited found accounts of the protagonists" angle) would be Dracula. As the story is told from "edited journal entries, letters, a ship's log and newspaper articles."

So it's not an entirely new thing. But I find it laughable to compare Paranormal Activity to Dracula.

 

[corranhornjje]

I heard a review said the last 10 minutes were the best part of the movie. I turned to my buddy and said, "The credits?".

 

[Larry Young]

I just got back.

And this is me, saying this.

I was bored out of my mind. If I was watching that on TV, I would have changed the channel.

 

[CessnaDriver]

The should have done the Pete Conrad story instead.

Rated R just for language!

 

[TK1625]

I didnt look through the whole thread, but who is making the movie? I saw the preview the other day and got really excited. Love the Paranormal Activity style, really hope they dont mess it up...

 

[JiminSTLouis]

Seeing it tonight at 7:30