Movie Review Type Thing - Apollo 18
We went to see Apollo 18 this weekend. It was a sci-fi horror movie. The movie was filmed in such a way to seem like you're watching a 16mm old fashioned film. Or at least, that's what it seemed like to me. I believe they inserted some actual old film footage of space missions to the moon within the film. It had a Blair Witch Project feel, though not as much shakiness.
It was a pretty good film. We came home and later that night managed to catch Pitch Black on Showtime. I liked Pitch Black better.
There was a lot of 'shock' or 'surprise' factors in the movie, and it did catch a lot of us off guard at times. But, there were a few niggles we had.
So, the 'monster' was a crab-like spider creature. When 'in their shell', they look like moon rocks (big and small, though the small ones are what we mostly see with only jittery-shaky-fuzzy camera shots of the big ones).
Our first niggle - what do they eat for food when there's no readily available human's blood to snack on?
If they easily survive in the cold vacuum of space with very little pressure/gravity, how can they also easily survive in a pressure oxygen-filled environment like inside the Apollo capsule or, as suggested by the film, on Earth (ala the first group of moon rocks brought back by Neil Armstrong and crew)?
How in the world did they manage to have normal Earth-like gravity in their old Apollo 18 space capsule while it was sitting on the moon? If anything, they should have been moving pretty slowly and possibly floating some while in the capsule and out of suit, just like when they are walking on the surface in suit.
Of course, we're probably thinking too hard on all of this. But the creepiness factor of the DOD sending them up there with cameras to watch how they'll get infected and die, along with the totally depressing ending (no happy ever or even hopeful ending here), just left me feeling unsatisfied and morose.
Overall, it was fairly entertaining from a scare-movie point of view, the ending aside. I was ok with spending the extortion admission fee to see it once (especially since we used a gift card - though the $10 for a bottle of water and a coke was another matter), but I probably wouldn't pay to see it again.
For grins, there is a website touted in the movie called www.lunartruth.com that appears to be 'down'. Conspiracy theorists have been having a field day with that. Is the server overloaded? Did 'they' take it down? Does it even exist to begin with? Whether it's a hoax or not is up to you.
It was a pretty good film. We came home and later that night managed to catch Pitch Black on Showtime. I liked Pitch Black better.
There was a lot of 'shock' or 'surprise' factors in the movie, and it did catch a lot of us off guard at times. But, there were a few niggles we had.
So, the 'monster' was a crab-like spider creature. When 'in their shell', they look like moon rocks (big and small, though the small ones are what we mostly see with only jittery-shaky-fuzzy camera shots of the big ones).
Our first niggle - what do they eat for food when there's no readily available human's blood to snack on?
If they easily survive in the cold vacuum of space with very little pressure/gravity, how can they also easily survive in a pressure oxygen-filled environment like inside the Apollo capsule or, as suggested by the film, on Earth (ala the first group of moon rocks brought back by Neil Armstrong and crew)?
How in the world did they manage to have normal Earth-like gravity in their old Apollo 18 space capsule while it was sitting on the moon? If anything, they should have been moving pretty slowly and possibly floating some while in the capsule and out of suit, just like when they are walking on the surface in suit.
Of course, we're probably thinking too hard on all of this. But the creepiness factor of the DOD sending them up there with cameras to watch how they'll get infected and die, along with the totally depressing ending (no happy ever or even hopeful ending here), just left me feeling unsatisfied and morose.
Overall, it was fairly entertaining from a scare-movie point of view, the ending aside. I was ok with spending the extortion admission fee to see it once (especially since we used a gift card - though the $10 for a bottle of water and a coke was another matter), but I probably wouldn't pay to see it again.
For grins, there is a website touted in the movie called www.lunartruth.com that appears to be 'down'. Conspiracy theorists have been having a field day with that. Is the server overloaded? Did 'they' take it down? Does it even exist to begin with? Whether it's a hoax or not is up to you.