Apollo 18 (2011)

[Starbeast]

Released in August​

 

[J Riff]

Gee, the moon scary after all? I don't know that Moon-spiders are very believable.
Will Apollo 19 be about war with the Moon?

 

[RJM Corbet]

I liked the Southpark movie where America was at war with Canada and the devil was in bed with Saddam Hussein, and the devil was saying: "You just want me for my body."

 

[J Riff]

War with Canada would suit me fine, long as I'm on the winning (USA) team.
I liked the Southpark episode where they asked the kids "What is Canada known for?"
and the answers: "Nothing!" "Gayness!"
To be fair, Hockey is a great game.

 

[Metryq]

Yet Another ShakyCam™ movie with lots of screaming and quarter-of-a-second shots. More often than not, a trailer convinces me I don't want to see a movie.

My only concern is how many public school morons are going to believe this turd is a documentary?

 

[J Riff]

I know. I just watched a documentary on Dragons that had them beating up on T-Rex. But these moon-spiders look like tough cookies.
Unfortunately, it is our duty to watch every SF movie ever made. Maybe it will be OK.

 

[RJM Corbet]

Last night SB's links took me to You Tubes of the real sound of the shuttle launch. Now THAT'S impressive ...

 

[Starbeast]

Moon-spiders

Moon-spiders, why not. It's hard to find a good Moon monster movie, I'll give this one a chance even though I'm not expecting much.

 

[Metryq]

Moon-spiders, why not.

You know, I just might be able to handle moon spiders if it looked like the producers made even the slightest effort with the script. But instead, we're supposed to swallow an absurd premise: an 18th Apollo mission was launched entirely in secret—no one noticed that Saturn V launch. And when the mission went so badly, scared us so spitless that we'd never venture into space again, the whole thing was just covered up.

It's like Capricorn One, a movie dramatizing Kaysing's conspiracy theory that men never set foot on the Moon, only the destination in the movie was Mars. It's obvious that the hardware budget for the film was only $100—all of it in visitor's fees to the NASA museums—as we're to believe that a many-months-long flight was carried out with Apollo equipment. (And even while the ship was between planets, an orbital track around Earth can be seen in the MOCR.) If they had spent maybe $120, or shot in the Skylab model, they would have had something that could pass as an interplanetary ship.

But back to 18—why not an alternate history, instead of this ridiculous patch job about a cover-up? It would have given the writers much greater latitude.

 

[Diggler]

If it's entertaining, then I'm willing to leave my brain parked at the door

 

[Chaoticheart]

I know. I just watched a documentary on Dragons that had them beating up on T-Rex.

Haha I think I've seen that. Is it the one narrated by Patrick Stewart?

 

[Cayal]

I saw the trailer for this, after I saw the trailer for Transformers 3...seeing those two, you'd think they'd plagiarised each other.

 

[Starbeast]

You know, I just might be able to handle moon spiders if it looked like the producers made even the slightest effort with the script..

It's like Capricorn One, a movie dramatizing conspiracy theory, only the destination in the movie was Mars. It's obvious that the hardware budget for the film was only $100.

But back to 18—why not an alternate history, instead of this ridiculous patch job about a cover-up? It would have given the writers much greater latitude.

If the creators of the film would have expanded on the idea of a secret Moon mission without following the current "scare tactic" type movies, then it would have gone beyond being a monster movie.

So until then, I'm going to watch this creature feature. I hope it's not boring.

I didn't care for the movie Capricorn One, good premise, bad film.

If it's entertaining, then I'm willing to leave my brain parked at the door

Same here. Scare me moon monsters!

I saw the trailer for this, after I saw the trailer for Transformers 3...seeing those two, you'd think they'd plagiarised each other.

After I was offered to see the movie with a free ticket, I took a chance.

BIG MISTAKE! Transformers 3 was what I feared, a complete waste of time.

And as for Apollo 18, I'm curious. No cat jokes. (chuckles)

 

[J Riff]

Well, well... turns out it was a real mission, and the movie is the tape that was recovered, and released to cover costs of three astronauts, ship and etc. I believe it. Can't go back to the moon, there are things up there.... though we never quite see them, they make real scary noises and don't like astronauts. They get inside your spacesuit, and.... *

 

[Michel Ponting]

I saw this movie in last night.This is most entertaining movie.
I like all the scene of this movie