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Post by AtomicDog on Feb 28, 2007 14:44:29 GMT -4
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Post by LunarOrbit on Feb 28, 2007 14:48:45 GMT -4
What's that noise I hear? Oh... it's the sound of Hollywood scraping the bottom of the barrel. Not only are they remaking good movies, they've now resorted to remaking bad ones.  |
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Post by Apollo Gnomon on Feb 28, 2007 15:52:46 GMT -4
"Certainly some people will go see the remake and determine that, yes, the Moon landings were probably hoaxes. . .
But should we be all that concerned about this? A certain percentage of the American population will always believe nonsensical things, such as that horoscopes are real, the CIA killed Kennedy, aliens crashed at Roswell, or that Adam Sandler is a comedic genius. Does it matter more that some people believe the Moon landings were faked than it does that a much larger percentage of the population believes that the Earth is only 6,000 years old? After all, the fundamental problem is illogic, not whatever dumb thing that people believe."
emphasis added.
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Post by AtomicDog on Feb 28, 2007 16:01:18 GMT -4
I know, I know. People are going to believe what they want to believe.
It's just that that damn movie has been a burr under my saddle for thirty years now (a Mars landing with Apollo equipment?), and to see it remade! I just get choked up with rage.
I think that this movie is where the meme of "Evil Killer NASA" that certain HBs spout comes from, and there is no gurantee that this new movie is going to portray NASA in any fairer light.
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Post by HeadLikeARock (was postbaguk) on Feb 28, 2007 16:07:00 GMT -4
I nearly choked on my Yorkshire pudding when I saw who the author of the article was. Dwayne Day? Not a pseudonym of our old friend and my current sparring partner, straydog? |
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Post by AtomicDog on Feb 28, 2007 16:11:18 GMT -4
I nearly choked on my Yorkshire pudding when I saw who the author of the article was. Dwayne Day? Not a pseudonym of our old friend and my current sparring partner, straydog? I don't think so. I don't see the foam-flecked rabidness in Day's writing that I see in straydog's. |
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Post by Grand Lunar on Feb 28, 2007 19:46:57 GMT -4
What's that noise I hear? Oh... it's the sound of Hollywood scraping the bottom of the barrel. Not only are they remaking good movies, they've now resorted to remaking bad ones. Paging Mike Nelson, Bill Corbet, and Kevin Murphy!  We certainly do not need this movie. In fact, no one does. |
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Post by HeadLikeARock (was postbaguk) on Feb 28, 2007 19:53:37 GMT -4
I nearly choked on my Yorkshire pudding when I saw who the author of the article was. Dwayne Day? Not a pseudonym of our old friend and my current sparring partner, straydog? I don't think so. I don't see the foam-flecked rabidness in Day's writing that I see in straydog's. Indeed. But straydog = Duane Daman ... not quite Dwayne Day, but you can see where my initial consternation came from! |
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Post by james on Feb 28, 2007 21:25:31 GMT -4
It will be interesting to see if todays special effects can make it look believable / realistic enough to be compared to the Apollo footage. Like simulating .38 gravity and all that stuff. I'm going to go out on a limb and say, no. Being Hollywood, I think they will fail at getting it right or even believable. But we'll see I guess.
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Post by BertL on Feb 28, 2007 22:55:52 GMT -4
It's a conspiracy. Look at the last two parts of the link:
811/1
Now add the one from the last part to the 8 from the firstpart. What do you get?
911/
Now put the slash at the right place.
9/11
Shocking, yet undeniable proof of a conspiracy.
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Post by reynoldbot on Feb 28, 2007 23:02:09 GMT -4
What's that noise I hear? Oh... it's the sound of Hollywood scraping the bottom of the barrel. Not only are they remaking good movies, they've now resorted to remaking bad ones. Since when have they been remaking good movies? Last I checked, most of them are remakes of bad or obscure movies (the hitcher) or campy television shows (dukes of hazzard). Although, they did remake Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. God, that was a disaster. The original is scary enough. |
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Post by gillianren on Mar 1, 2007 1:01:46 GMT -4
I like the remake better. For one, they got the name of the thing right.
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Post by PhantomWolf on Mar 1, 2007 4:06:32 GMT -4
It will be interesting to see if todays special effects can make it look believable / realistic enough to be compared to the Apollo footage.
They tried to do it in Magnificent Desolation and failed. That was only a few years ago.
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Post by rodionh on Mar 1, 2007 4:14:23 GMT -4
In my own humble/naive opinion, I think remaking Capricorn One will actually be a good thing for the hoax debunking community. It can serve as a good exercise on sharpening explanation skills in trying to show why it's actually difficult for someone to stage a hoax as elaborate and complex as the Apollo or any other major space-based project. Yes it will be a very "involved" discussion, but I think it could serve as a "grinding stone" for people who want to hone their skills in trying to highlight basic problems/issues in hoax theories.
-RODION
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Post by gwiz on Mar 1, 2007 16:20:11 GMT -4
Dwayne Day? Not a pseudonym of our old friend and my current sparring partner, straydog? Dwayne Day is one of the good guys, an academic who writes space history articles for Spaceflight and other magazines. He's specialised lately in uncovering the early history of military space systems, all the stuff going on in the 1960s that we weren't told about at the time. |
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