Apollo 18

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Just saw it. Not bad. Not terribly great. Just good.

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No alien robots voiced by Leonard Nimoy hiding on the moon this time around? Pass.

Just saw it today, and my verdict is that it was pretty good, falling short of great. It managed to build up this great atmosphere... and then didn't adequately capitalize on it. Still, I applaud them for sticking to their guns with the "found footage" style; they did alright with it.

Also, according to a cursory conversation with a friend who is an amateur astronomer and NASA buff, both the US and Soviet Union toyed with secret moon landings disguised as satellite launches, but both believed the other side would be able to see through their bluff.

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Yeah, someone already pointed this out, but when I saw the trailer for this movie, I laughed to myself. "It's got the same name as a They Might Be Giants album!" It killed any last chances of me taking the movie seriously, which the trailer had already exterminated most of.

edited 4th Sep '11 8:31:19 PM by Sporkaganza

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I was thinking of seeing either this or the debt? which would be better for a group outing?

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The Debt would probably be the better movie but for a group outing? Apollo 18.

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Well given the shear size of the launch vehicles required, Saturn vs. N-1, there's little else they could be. Then you add in how public the U.S. is there's little chance you could assemble a Apollo/Saturn and keep it a secret and have people believe that it was a satellite. Then there's the tracking issue because as soon as the ship lit off for the moon it would be blindingly obvious what was going on.

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^ That said, it's a little more believable that the Soviets might be able to pull it off. Baikonur Cosmodrome is pretty much in the ass end of nowhere, and the Soviet Union wasn't exactly the model of a free and open society.

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This sums up my overall view of it.

I was conflicted on the found footage aspect of Apollo 18.

On one hand, they managed to use it to good effect in places to build suspense.

On the other, the poor quality of film footage, which you would expect for a found footage movie set in the 70s, kept pulling me out of the film via annoyance.

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Well, it does take place in the 1970's.

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Right, I already said it's something you would expect from a film set in that era, it just didn't work for me unfortunately.

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Saw it. Not the best film ever, but memorable.

Hope none of you have evergotten too close to moon rocks.

So to anyone who's already seen it, would you say the scares manage to be effective at least while you're watching it?

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Not really, the rock spiders are predictable once you figure out what they are. You could tell how it was going to end long before it happens Everyone Dies. Granted I did get a scare when the guy I thought was dead showed up at the Russian lander.

Afterwards, the movie left me asking myself why I even bothered to watch it. In effect, nothing was accomplished, since all three astronauts die, the third one most pointlessly.

If there's any consolation, there's the WMG that ties this movie in with the Transformers movies. Clearly NASA asked Optimus Prime to recover the tapes on his way back from finding Sentinel Prime. The moon spiders could even be Transformer insects with moon rock alt-modes, released onto the moon from the Ark.

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The moon spiders could even be Transformer insects with moon rock alt-modes, released onto the moon from the Ark.

So would that make them Go-Bot Rocklords?

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You know....i actually like this movie