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Post by LunarOrbit on Dec 8, 2010 22:08:52 GMT -4
There is so much wrong with this that I wouldn't know where to begin. For those of you who don't watch YouTube videos, it's the teaser trailer for Transformers 3. It is a flashback to "what really happened" on July 20, 1969. You see, Apollo 11 didn't really land at the Sea of Tranquility... not even close. They landed on the far side of the moon (and yet they were still somehow able to communicate with Earth). What did they find? A crashed alien robot of course! It's kind of hard to tell from the video, but they made it sound like they explored the far side of the moon in the short period of time that the normal loss of signal occurred, and then went on to land again as history recorded it. So two landings... with one LM. Ugh.
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Post by AtomicDog on Dec 8, 2010 23:56:41 GMT -4
Not to mention the billowing dust clouds.
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Post by drewid on Dec 9, 2010 4:38:14 GMT -4
A Michael Bay transformers movie in 3D? I'll be avoiding that on all three counts.
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Post by gillianren on Dec 9, 2010 4:43:49 GMT -4
I have heard of one movie that I regret probably never having the opportunity to see in 3D. It is a Werner Herzog documentary about Lascaux. He says that, given that he's planning to talk about things like how the underlying shape of the stone influences what's painted on it, 3D only makes sense. Alas that no one in this area will both play the movie and be equipped for 3D.
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Post by Daggerstab on Dec 9, 2010 5:01:07 GMT -4
I didn't know that Apollo helmets had dramatic internal illumination. Anyway, the sad part is that some people are going to latch on to this movie as some kind of confirmation. Every time a conspiracy theory is mentioned in a work of popular culture, they see it as the author "trying to tell them something", "the elites preparing the sheeple for disclosure" or something like that... Edited to add: I wonder if we are going to see screenshots from this movie as "proof". Has it happened with some other movie?
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Post by capricorn1 on Dec 9, 2010 6:21:19 GMT -4
Anyway, the sad part is that some people are going to latch on to this movie as some kind of confirmation. Every time a conspiracy theory is mentioned in a work of popular culture, they see it as the author "trying to tell them something", "the elites preparing the sheeple for disclosure" or something like that... I can't see how......surely whichever way you look at it, it is confirmation Apollo 11 landed? No wonder they nearly ran out of fuel ;D
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Post by Mr Gorsky on Dec 9, 2010 9:24:11 GMT -4
There is so much wrong with this that I wouldn't know where to begin. For those of you who don't watch YouTube videos, it's the teaser trailer for Transformers 3. It is a flashback to "what really happened" on July 20, 1969. You see, Apollo 11 didn't really land at the Sea of Tranquility... not even close. They landed on the far side of the moon (and yet they were still somehow able to communicate with Earth). What did they find? A crashed alien robot of course! It's kind of hard to tell from the video, but they made it sound like they explored the far side of the moon in the short period of time that the normal loss of signal occurred, and then went on to land again as history recorded it. So two landings... with one LM. Ugh. Surely anyone who has watched the scientific train wreck otherwise known as Armageddon will expect nothing less (more?) from the explosionmeister.
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Post by Count Zero on Dec 9, 2010 12:45:24 GMT -4
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Post by kallewirsch on Dec 9, 2010 15:00:01 GMT -4
They landed on the far side of the moon (and yet they were still somehow able to communicate with Earth). What did they find? A crashed alien robot of course! Hmm. At 1:48 it looks is if there is an earth hanging in the darkness of space. So its not on the far side. More on the egde.
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Post by LunarOrbit on Dec 9, 2010 16:12:42 GMT -4
They landed on the far side of the moon (and yet they were still somehow able to communicate with Earth). What did they find? A crashed alien robot of course! Hmm. At 1:48 it looks is if there is an earth hanging in the darkness of space. So its not on the far side. More on the egde. Ah, you're right. I was going by Walter Cronkite's comment that they were on the far side of the moon.
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Post by BertL on Dec 9, 2010 16:19:53 GMT -4
I think the trailer is trying to say that the LM secretly landed on the edge and that the astronauts have to be back in the LM in order to fake the transmissions as if they are still inside the CSM when the CSM is back on the near side of the Moon. Of course, the science behind this is still laughably bad; I actually laughed out loud at several points in this trailer. Seriously considering seeing this in cinema just so I can laugh at the terrible science (and Shia LeBeauf) in this film.
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Post by blackstar on Dec 9, 2010 18:16:37 GMT -4
It's appalling the way Michael Bay is trashing a piece of our cultural heritage; and he isn't doing Apollo any favours either...
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Post by supermeerkat on Dec 10, 2010 5:28:41 GMT -4
How long will it be before Jarrah White and the rest of the crazies start using stills from this film / trailer as proof of whatever BS theory they're using to trash Apollo?
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Post by supermeerkat on Dec 10, 2010 5:32:02 GMT -4
Just noticed that the CSM at the start of the trailer, which is flying towards the moon, doesn't have a LM attached.
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Post by scooter on Dec 10, 2010 8:07:46 GMT -4
Just noticed that the CSM at the start of the trailer, which is flying towards the moon, doesn't have a LM attached. "Uhhh, Flight, did we miss a step here...??"
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