Did they show the aliens?
Apollo 18 Delayed to January, 2012
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That wasn't a rocket, it was swamp gas.
So I take it this is the official discussion thread for this movie? Oh well, might as well be now.
Pretty damn terrible, to be honest. Mind you, I had no expectations going in, so I can't say I was disappointed. But damn, it was bad. It committed the one cardinal sin a movie can: it was boring. I was literally trying to hold my eyelids open at certain points to prevent myself from going to sleep.
This movie is literally an hour and a half of astronauts bouncing about on the moon and screaming at each other. I feel I should spoiler code that, as that is pretty much the whole movie.
And I agree, pretending this is actual footage is already a worn-out cliche. But, taking a moment to look at this from the perspective of the movie's world, how did any of the footage get to Earth?
Thank you, I was racking my brain trying to figure out why he looked so familiar. Though I think these days more people are likely to recognize him from Sanctuary.
Pretty damn terrible, to be honest. Mind you, I had no expectations going in, so I can't say I was disappointed. But damn, it was bad. It committed the one cardinal sin a movie can: it was boring. I was literally trying to hold my eyelids open at certain points to prevent myself from going to sleep.
This movie is literally an hour and a half of astronauts bouncing about on the moon and screaming at each other. I feel I should spoiler code that, as that is pretty much the whole movie.
And I agree, pretending this is actual footage is already a worn-out cliche. But, taking a moment to look at this from the perspective of the movie's world, how did any of the footage get to Earth?
At one point in the movie, a Soviet lunar module is discovered, and we learn the Soviets used a cover story of launching a sattellite to cover their mission. Presumably the Americans did something similar.
Especially as the very first shot is an interview with an astronaut who I immediately recognised as the actor who played Connor on nuBSG
Thank you, I was racking my brain trying to figure out why he looked so familiar. Though I think these days more people are likely to recognize him from Sanctuary.
^ I've seen him in a lot of stuff. Yeah, this is supposed to be real footage and then I see him and the guy from Alphas. In fact, I recognized all three of them, but I can't place the guy who got possessed first.
I agree with what's been said so far... Didn't find it terribly exciting or scary, tried not to doze off and looked at my watch every so often. The only reason I picked myself up to go anyway, was because I had a free pass I had to use before the 8th.
I agree with what's been said so far... Didn't find it terribly exciting or scary, tried not to doze off and looked at my watch every so often. The only reason I picked myself up to go anyway, was because I had a free pass I had to use before the 8th.
For the first hour, I literally looked at my watch every 13 minutes. For the final half hour, I lost count of how often I checked the time.
Apollo 19?
Wow, talk about an epically out-of-date thread.
Movie opened today and I read this and was like "WTF? It's open, why are they saying 2012?" until I looked and realized no one had ever bothered to correct/update while somebody *Cough, ETHROS, Cough, LOL* revived this long-dead thread today out of no where... lol.
@ Ethros for confuzzing me!!!
Movie opened today and I read this and was like "WTF? It's open, why are they saying 2012?" until I looked and realized no one had ever bothered to correct/update while somebody *Cough, ETHROS, Cough, LOL* revived this long-dead thread today out of no where... lol.
@ Ethros for confuzzing me!!!
SPOILERS, obviously...
I enjoyed it. Didn't find it boring at all. Was afraid the shaky cam would piss me off, but it didn't. Aliens, conspiracy, panicked isolation, decent sets and sfx - pretty much what I was looking for.
The initial launch was covered as a satellite payload. And I have to assume something like Apollo 19 picked up the tapes, cause there's simply no other way. Unless they were broadcasting the images back to Houston, but then ... why the concern over the physical footage? No, someone else had to have gone up and retrieved them.
The rockspiders were pretty creepy, especially since you only caught glimpses until the finale. Struck the right balance there. Film effects and time period all felt right. Acting was decent. Good build up from "this is going to be awesome, we're landing on the moon" to "oh shit we've gotta get the fuck off the moon" from the astronauts.
Even though it was spoiled in the trailers, I liked the secret cosmonaut stuff and the fact the Soviets were so scared of what was up there they worked with the US DoD to keep it up there.
The bit at the end playing off the actual disappearances of moon rocks gifted by the US Gov to various countries as an oh, shit moment was amusing.
I enjoyed it. Didn't find it boring at all. Was afraid the shaky cam would piss me off, but it didn't. Aliens, conspiracy, panicked isolation, decent sets and sfx - pretty much what I was looking for.
The initial launch was covered as a satellite payload. And I have to assume something like Apollo 19 picked up the tapes, cause there's simply no other way. Unless they were broadcasting the images back to Houston, but then ... why the concern over the physical footage? No, someone else had to have gone up and retrieved them.
The rockspiders were pretty creepy, especially since you only caught glimpses until the finale. Struck the right balance there. Film effects and time period all felt right. Acting was decent. Good build up from "this is going to be awesome, we're landing on the moon" to "oh shit we've gotta get the fuck off the moon" from the astronauts.
Even though it was spoiled in the trailers, I liked the secret cosmonaut stuff and the fact the Soviets were so scared of what was up there they worked with the US DoD to keep it up there.
The bit at the end playing off the actual disappearances of moon rocks gifted by the US Gov to various countries as an oh, shit moment was amusing.
I oh so totally groaned at that point.
SPOILERS.
So that's it? Moving spider like rock beings on the moon? No acknowledgement to the footprints beside the astronaut bootprints? No humanoid monster?
So that's it? Moving spider like rock beings on the moon? No acknowledgement to the footprints beside the astronaut bootprints? No humanoid monster?
Presumably the footprints belonged to the Cosmonauts.
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...
I guess that we will just have to wait to January 2012 to see for ourselves.
The film would have been more stupid if it was a humanoid monster. The silicon spiders actually work nicely with the environment.
Right. Environment. As in the thing that doesn't exist on the moon.
So yeah. Rock spiders made about as much sense as any other form of life on the Moon.
When it comes to aliens, there's no such thing as "realistic." They could have had giant horesemen speaking ebonics and it would have been just as "realistic" as the rock-spiders were.
The Moon does have an environment. There is a very thin atmosphere, its gravity is .17 that of Earth's, there is a large amount of silicate and frozen icewater, and the temperature wildly varies depending on light levels.