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Apollo 18 Delayed to January, 2012

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From April 22, 2011 to January 6, 2012. I was really looking forward to this film. I wonder what in the world happened.

A found footage-style film about a post-Apollo 17 mission to the Moon that takes on a premise of why NASA discontinued the Apollo moon missions. The plot involves a government coverup of the Apollo 18 mission after aliens on the Moon discovered the crew and began to kill them off one by one. Much of the back-story remains unknown, however the one trailer shows a Soviet LK Lander on the lunar surface, suggesting a plot connection with the canceled Soviet Moonshot.
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Certain scenes are being altered for national security purposes. The men in black work really hard to keep this under wraps and won't allow it to be ruined by some popcorn movie...
 
That's really the whole January to April time frame usually - 4 months full of the shittiest movies you ever will see. Emphasis is usually on March for the really low confidence ones.
 
But the first Friday on the new year is literally when the worst rated movies (according to the rating system at RT) come out, and a lot of them are dumbed there from previous timeframes. I should find the article on Cinemablend.com talknig about it.
 
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But the first Friday on the new year is literally when the worst rated movies (according to the rating system at RT) come out, and a lot of them are dumbed there from previous timeframes. I should find the article on Cinemablend.com talknig about it.
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If you find it, post it - I'd love to read it - I always assumed they still had a decent flick or two in that release window because the kids were still off from school and people love seeing movies around Christmas and New Years.
 
Yeah every now and then you'll see a halfway decent genre movie released in March or April... but not in January or February. At least not that I can recall.
 
The article is just about the first Friday of the year having the worst rated movies, it's not about January / February, it's just about how the one day is where studios dump bad movies that they already wasted too much money into.

EDIT - I can't find the article, it was interesting that the last several years the worse rated movies came out on the first Friday. I'm talking 2-4% on RT.

The article is on Cinema Blend if anyoen there sees it.
 
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so this movie is going to be about a cancelled moon flight or the skylab project ?

I realy did'nt understand the hole skylab project that much .
 
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From April 22, 2011 to January 6, 2012. I was really looking forward to this film. I wonder what in the world happened.

A found footage-style film about a post-Apollo 17 mission to the Moon that takes on a premise of why NASA discontinued the Apollo moon missions. The plot involves a government coverup of the Apollo 18 mission after aliens on the Moon discovered the crew and began to kill them off one by one. Much of the back-story remains unknown, however the one trailer shows a Soviet LK Lander on the lunar surface, suggesting a plot connection with the canceled Soviet Moonshot.
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:rolleyes:
 
This is the latest thread I could find about this movie, as I couldn't be bothered making a new one.

Anyway, looks like it wasn't delayed untill January 2012 as it comes out today in most places. I saw it this afternoon as I had nothing else planned.

Yeah, basically its Paranormal Activity on the Moon. It was ok, a few jumps, but nothing amazing. It doesn't really go anywhere towards the end, I was hoping for something big to be revealed about the "threat" but alas. Also seen as its a "lost footage of a secret moon mission" its not hard to guess what's gonna happen to the crew of said mission.
Some people will probably slam, just as they always seem to, but its an ok enough little watch in my opinion.


And as for it for proclaiming to be "real footage", that gag may have worked back for Blair Witch, the first Paranormal A, maybe. But not anymore. Especially as the very first shot is an interview with an astronaut who I immediately recognised as the actor who played Connor on nuBSG :lol:
 
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