Apollo 18 film

DCFC79

I wouldnt have paid £8.40 odd to see it, i would have been a bit peeved if id paid. I would have demanded my money back as it was so poor.

annasoper

SCO wrote: »

To be honest never thought there was going to be ailiens etc.

However we have been told there was 80 odd hours of real footage realeased so where is it? none of it looked real to me.

The real reason we never went back to the moon, well i would imagine its because the money ran out!

Oooh! The moon landings will always be debated and there's always going to be questions and conspiracies. Did they really land there? I would like to think so. But do I want to believe what the Government wants me to believe? I think not. Money running out is a convenient excuse. Possibly the money ran out for the USSR and they couldn't commit resources to finding out if the USA did in fact land there.

The last landing took place in 1972. Are they trying to tell us that in almost 40 years they haven't put together enough money to go back when they used to do it pretty much on a regular basis? Bah! And with the advance of technology, they have an even better advantage now.
The moon landings were a bit like those WMD's in Iraq me thinks.

DCFC79

goater78 wrote: »

yeah I don't mean the actual filming looks awful. I mean the whole premise behind the movie looks bad!

i get ya

Gingernutty

SCO wrote: »

Quite simpley not just the worst film of 2011, possibly one of the worst films ever!

We were led to believe that we would see real footage, there was one view of the earth that appeared real.
The rest looked fake as if it had been filmed in a studio.

They have hyped this film up very well however the film does not match the hype or expectations.

I'll see your "Apollo 18" and raise you - "Encounter at Raven's Gate", "Society" (in fact, any film where the make-up man is called 'Screaming George' - give it a wide berth) and "Meet The Feebles".

I've actually paid money to see those films.

fluffnutter

I've just watched One Day. It was shit.

NiallB

Gingernutty wrote: »

I'll see your "Apollo 18" and raise you - "Encounter at Raven's Gate", "Society" (in fact, any film where the make-up man is called 'Screaming George' - give it a wide berth) and "Meet The Feebles".

I've actually paid money to see those films.

Oh come on, Feebles is Peter Jackson's best film ever

2sides2everystory

annasoper wrote: »

The moon landings were a bit like those WMD's in Iraq me thinks.

Ouch! That's a a little dismissive! And so hurtful on the day that NASA released some new (real HD!) photos to show the equipment, lunar rover tracks and even footprints that were left behind: Moon landing sites shown in higher definition

I have happly lived all my adult life with this marvellous engineering achievement as background fact without harbouring even the slightest doubt. If those of you disbelievers who carry iphones around, and who nonchalantly place your trust several times a year in a Ryanair cigar tube to take you 11 kilometres high to a place and at speeds where you would freeze solid and/or suffocate in less than a minute if the lid came off just thought a teenzy bit more deeply about the power in your pockets, alongside all the other challenges that aerospace engineers have overcome and mastered since the Wright Brothers, you might realise that you could probably plan and control a simple Apollo mission on that Apple at your fingertips (given a little engineering and computing prowess and some degree of open-mindedness )

It happened. Be amazed - you should be :j

PS I was really looking forward to watching the Apollo 18 movie but I guess that since Tom Hanks isn't in it then it was always going to be a bit of a gamble after Apollo 13

annasoper

2sides2everystory wrote: »

Ouch! That's a a little dismissive! And so hurtful on the day that NASA released some new (real HD!) photos to show the equipment, lunar rover tracks and even footprints that were left behind: Moon landing sites shown in higher definition

I have happly lived all my adult life with this marvellous engineering achievement as background fact without harbouring even the slightest doubt. If those of you disbelievers who carry iphones around, and who nonchalantly place your trust several times a year in a Ryanair cigar tube to take you 11 kilometres high to a place and at speeds where you would freeze solid and/or suffocate in less than a minute if the lid came off just thought a teenzy bit more deeply about the power in your pockets, alongside all the other challenges that aerospace engineers have overcome and mastered since the Wright Brothers, you might realise that you could probably plan and control a simple Apollo mission on that Apple at your fingertips (given a little engineering and computing prowess and some degree of open-mindedness )

It happened. Be amazed - you should be :j

PS I was really looking forward to watching the Apollo 18 movie but I guess that since Tom Hanks isn't in it then it was always going to be a bit of a gamble after Apollo 13

I wasn't being entirely dismissive. For most of my life I believed the moon landings, and as I said earlier, I would like to think that they did land. But what good is belief or faith if you can't question it? I believe that humans are capable of unimaginable engineering feats. If they could build the lockheed SR-71 in 1966, yes I believe they could have sent man to the moon. I'm sure they sent a lot of unmanned rovers to the moon. However, I cannot accept it without questioning it. NASA after all is a governmental organisation with a lot of dark secrets. Also, I find it hard to believe that the Moon has not been a focus of interest for NASA since 1972. There are a lot of secrets around and I'm afraid not even the staunchest of believers can be 100% sure of anything a secretive governmental organisation says.

annasoper

Oh! And I really think you should watch Apollo 18. Don't always believe what others tell you, you know

fluffnutter

annasoper wrote: »

I wasn't being entirely dismissive. For most of my life I believed the moon landings, and as I said earlier, I would like to think that they did land. But what good is belief or faith if you can't question it? I believe that humans are capable of unimaginable engineering feats. If they could build the lockheed SR-71 in 1966, yes I believe they could have sent man to the moon. I'm sure they sent a lot of unmanned rovers to the moon. However, I cannot accept it without questioning it. NASA after all is a governmental organisation with a lot of dark secrets. Also, I find it hard to believe that the Moon has not been a focus of interest for NASA since 1972. There are a lot of secrets around and I'm afraid not even the staunchest of believers can be 100% sure of anything a secretive governmental organisation says.

Of course you should question things. You say 'for most of my life...'. What's changed your mind?