Is there any actual connection to the real canceled apollo 18? That's a pretty small budget. As long as it's better than that old stinker Moontrap.

Hey! Capricorn One wasn't that bad (well, when i was 14.) Elliot Gould, James Brolin, Sam Waterston did a great job. OJ Simpson dies in the desert. A great 4 aircraft chase. It looked like Peter Hyams was going to be a great director.

It's interesting how the action is split between Gould (doing All The President's Men-type snooping) and Brolin (doing the hero stuff). Kind of like a transition period from The Long Goodbye to Die Hard.

edit: Oh. It just dawned on me that Invid meant respect-wise. Never mind.

Last edited by beldar (2011-01-31 17:53:58)

I've never heard of Capricorn One, but going from the IMDB tagline, at least that was about something hasn't happened at all. This (as well as Transformers) are making their buck on ACTUAL Apollo events.

As a sidenote I should should say, when I posted this I had just spent 45 mins trolling the IMDB list of movies coming out in 2011 and was feeling particularly bitter towards the entire industry. Still am actually.

EDIT: I should also say that regarding this paticualar movie, I was disgusted by the fact that it's listed as a horror/thriller. I have nothing against making movies about the apollo/Nasa missions (Ala From The Earth To The Moon or Apollo 13), as long as it isn't doing it as a cheap structure for a stupid B-movie plot thereby disgracing the memories of the people actual involved.

Last edited by BigDamnArtist (2011-01-31 18:07:47)

[replying to Maul2]
Oh, come on. It's been 40 years. Are you against all non-serious books/movies set around historical events? Making up a hidden history behind the headlines is probably its own genre.

Hell, if someone did an Apollo 13 movie where it turns out they were attacked by aliens and had to fight their way back to Earth Lovell himself would probably approve.

Last edited by Invid (2011-01-31 18:34:45)

My opinion is the same as Brian's, he just worded it better than I would have.

Same here. However, as a history buff one of the most interesting things is asking "what if?" This is what actually happened, but what if x happened instead of y, how would the rest of the events have been affected? This can be done badly (as a number of books in the sci fi section will show you), but when you try and work out the alternative history logically you can have lots of fun. Pre-finding out this movie sucks, I'm no more against it then I would be a movie about the US invasion of Japan when the Atom Bomb didn't work.

All I'd ask is that they made clear what the POD (point of departure) was from our timeline. It can even be subtle, so long as its there.

Even if not done all that well, it still may be enjoyable We do have the good historical NASA movies/series so it's not like the alien fantasy stuff was all there was.

(the alien and paranormal stuff on the History channel, on the other hand...)

I too love revisionist/what-if history when it's handled well (which I don't think Inglourious Basterds did). But most screenwriters just trample history, give it a new coat of paint, and call it good. Why did Disney have to do the legend of Pocahontas instead of doing the story of Pocahontas? The real story is really interesting. Why did 10,000 BC and 300 have to be rock-and-roll, Boris-Vallejo, weed-high fantasies?

Meanwhile, I wait patiently for an American-Revolution-with-swords-and-armor movie. Or a Nazis-conquered-America movie.

Wait.... 1776 BC. Oh, man, new Asylum screenplay comin' up! "Timequake"...! American heraldry...! Bison-drawn chariots...! George Washington fights a dragon...! Somebody, get me Barry Bostwick's phone number!!

EDIT: Wait, wait! He fights a gigantic snake that he has to cut into 13 pieces! DON'T TREAD ON ME, YOU SON OF A BITCH!

Last edited by Zarban (2011-01-31 22:06:45)

Oh brother...