What do you guys think about this new movie Apollo 18 that's coming out tomorrow apparently? http://www.apollo18movie.net/
Funny I haven't heard much about it, guess I haven't been watching enough TV recently
Anyway, I really liked Apollo 13 - stories about space exploration are always kind of fun. Particularly when they approach from a realistic or at least somewhat realistic angle. That really gets the mind running.
From what you guys have heard from it, do you think this would be interesting or is the drama/ghost story thing is going to wash it out?
Imperial528 wrote:I think it would be interesting if they did something other than "ZOMG! Alienz on teh moonz!".
Like Moon Nazi's?
Or evil Soviet Cosmonauts out to erase all evidence of American Lunar landings?
There's no way of really getting a saner premise, unless you do 'Apollo 13 meets Donner Party' where due to a malfunction with the lunar lander the astronauts are marooned on the moon, with oxygen low and no food left they try to kill and eat each other.
At least they didn't take the crazy to the tenth power and give the US Orion and having it "nuke the entire site from orbit" (hence no evidence of Apollo 18 or N1 [243rd times the charm] landing sites)
I was thinking something along the lines of the Apollo 18 crew finding the Soviet lander dormant, sitting there, and then breaking into it to find the cosmonauts dead of asphyxiation due to loss of life support, and a few written documents/tapes the crew made.
Then they finish the mission as planned at return to Earth, where the recovered documents/tapes from the lander are translated and the plight of the cosmonauts is revealed through cinematic flashback: As the cosmonauts prepared to leave the moon, they learn that their lander was damaged somehow during flight or landing, and now they are stuck. It was known that this could happen, so anything they sent back was not released live, and only would be released upon a safe return. There is no second lander to bring them back with, and the USSR is going to cover up their existence as best as they can. The rest of the documents/tapes describes the crew's struggle to come to terms with their fate as they try to stretch their oxygen supply for as long as they can, and during their final hours they write the letters and record the tapes that the Americans find.
That would be a better story, provided the writers were competent. But whoever was in charge of the script wanted something that did not require good writing to make it work, so we get stuck with another lame movie.
Which is the more unlikely event... Finding life on the moon?
Ooorrrr.....
That the Russians got to the Moon First using the N1 Rocket... A Rocket that never lasted more then 5min before blowing up...
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Imperial528 wrote:I was thinking something along the lines of the Apollo 18 crew finding the Soviet lander dormant, sitting there, and then breaking into it to find the cosmonauts dead of asphyxiation due to loss of life support, and a few written documents/tapes the crew made.
Then they finish the mission as planned at return to Earth, where the recovered documents/tapes from the lander are translated and the plight of the cosmonauts is revealed through cinematic flashback: As the cosmonauts prepared to leave the moon, they learn that their lander was damaged somehow during flight or landing, and now they are stuck. It was known that this could happen, so anything they sent back was not released live, and only would be released upon a safe return. There is no second lander to bring them back with, and the USSR is going to cover up their existence as best as they can. The rest of the documents/tapes describes the crew's struggle to come to terms with their fate as they try to stretch their oxygen supply for as long as they can, and during their final hours they write the letters and record the tapes that the Americans find.
That would be a better story, provided the writers were competent. But whoever was in charge of the script wanted something that did not require good writing to make it work, so we get stuck with another lame movie.
If you want a story like that, then check out Pioneer One.
That's an understatement. The level of awfulness in Apollo 18 can only approach that of a Syfy Channel original movie. How we can be expected to think that a mission to the moon would remain secret is beyond me.
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That's an understatement. The level of awfulness in Apollo 18 can only approach that of a Syfy Channel original movie. How we can be expected to think that a mission to the moon would remain secret is beyond me.
I don't know. Some of those movies were quite entertaining. Especially that giant piranha thing. That one was so bad that it made me laugh all the way through it.
The world needs more movies like that one.
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That's an understatement. The level of awfulness in Apollo 18 can only approach that of a Syfy Channel original movie. How we can be expected to think that a mission to the moon would remain secret is beyond me.
If it turned out to be an actually half decent horror movie (which it doesn't sound like) I could pull some suspension of disbelief on this one. An Apollo mission (two guys alone on the Moon) isn't a bad setting for a horror movie.
I'll watch for the technical side when it hits netflix - at least based on the trailers it seems like they did a good job of at least making it look like an Apollo mission.
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