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Post by twik on Sept 5, 2011 10:19:50 GMT -4
I hate this film already. Not becuase of anything wrong with the film itself, but simply because of the number of people now surfacing who don't understand the basic concept of a FICTIONAL movie. I have lost count of the number of people in the past week asking why this mission was kept secret and what the government is hiding from us and so on. This is a strange phenomenon. I once read about a study, that indicated that people were much more likely to believe unreasonable or supernatural things if they had recently been exposed to a movie or other fictional work on that subject. So, people would, say, be more likely to believe in space lizards after watching "V", even though they will admit knowing it is a network tv production with actors.Apparently, everything is really a documentary. In a way, it's a great insult to the imaginations of writers and moviemakers everywhere.
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Post by randombloke on Sept 5, 2011 12:57:24 GMT -4
Wait, where are these people? I could use a laugh.
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Post by drewid on Sept 5, 2011 13:27:55 GMT -4
I hate this film already. Not becuase of anything wrong with the film itself, but simply because of the number of people now surfacing who don't understand the basic concept of a FICTIONAL movie. I have lost count of the number of people in the past week asking why this mission was kept secret and what the government is hiding from us and so on. This is a strange phenomenon. I once read about a study, that indicated that people were much more likely to believe unreasonable or supernatural things if they had recently been exposed to a movie or other fictional work on that subject. So, people would, say, be more likely to believe in space lizards after watching "V", even though they will admit knowing it is a network tv production with actors.Apparently, everything is really a documentary. In a way, it's a great insult to the imaginations of writers and moviemakers everywhere. That's how advertising works. Link your product to something happy and people will subconsciously associate your product with happiness, even though they know it's just a stupid advert. That's also why you have to be incredibly careful with product placement, as a negative effect is just as strong if not stronger.
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Post by fiveonit on Sept 5, 2011 20:35:47 GMT -4
I hate this film already. Not becuase of anything wrong with the film itself, but simply because of the number of people now surfacing who don't understand the basic concept of a FICTIONAL movie. I have lost count of the number of people in the past week asking why this mission was kept secret and what the government is hiding from us and so on. But it's true... IT'S TRUE!!! Don't you find it strange that in the 70's right after the last Apollo Mission, stores starting selling... gulp... PET ROCKS!!!I say it's too convenient to be just a coincidence.
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Post by supermeerkat on Sept 6, 2011 2:47:49 GMT -4
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Post by drewid on Sept 6, 2011 13:33:45 GMT -4
The funniest thing about that scene: the astronaunts carry on moving in pseudo slow motion even as Connery sprints past them.
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Post by chew on Sept 6, 2011 16:13:03 GMT -4
Yeah, even as a kid I remembering thinking that was so stupid.
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Post by supermeerkat on Sept 6, 2011 17:20:58 GMT -4
(Even assuming someone who demonstrably couldn't understand Russian could get the LK off the Moon in the first place ;D) You have a problem with THAT, in a movie where the US made a secret launch of an Saturn V Rocket AND the Soviet Union had a working N1 AND could make a moon shot / landing?
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Post by Apollo Gnomon on Sept 6, 2011 18:07:55 GMT -4
Difficult to decide which is more ridiculous.
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Post by coelacanth on Sept 6, 2011 19:20:02 GMT -4
Yeah, even as a kid I remembering thinking that was so stupid. Look at him go, when all the cars chasing him crash. These NASA guys build good stuff!
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Post by Al Johnston on Sept 7, 2011 4:52:08 GMT -4
(Even assuming someone who demonstrably couldn't understand Russian could get the LK off the Moon in the first place ;D) You have a problem with THAT, in a movie where the US made a secret launch of an Saturn V Rocket AND the Soviet Union had a working N1 AND could make a moon shot / landing? Well, it's well-known that repeated exposure to very loud noises causes hearing loss - clearly everyone in Florida was deafened by the first ten launches... ;D
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Post by JayUtah on Sept 7, 2011 11:15:09 GMT -4
The funniest thing about that scene: the astronaunts carry on moving in pseudo slow motion even as Connery sprints past them. Indeed. Harry would have caught him if he hadn't been so concerned about staying in character.
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Post by rick on Sept 7, 2011 17:50:53 GMT -4
According to Apollo 18, the reason why we never went back to the moon was because there was a secret Soviet mission to the south pole of the moon because water might be there and they were going to trump us.
But they also found life. Here is the fun part. Some of the moon rocks were alive.
So the DoD stepped in and decided to send on more Apollo mission to check things out. The Astronauts families were told that they were going to go to Japan on a special mission to get Japan set up for manned space exploration.
None of the astronauts were told that the rocks were alive in some dark cool areas on the moon.
The mission was going along nice and smoothly until they picked up some samples and the next morning one of the rocks was found outside the plastic baggie inside the LM.
"hey, did you take this rock out"
"no, you must have"
"I didn't"
"well, this is a mystery. Label this one as contaminated"
Of course it not long until all hell breaks out.
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Post by gillianren on Sept 7, 2011 22:54:50 GMT -4
So?
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Post by abaddon on Sept 8, 2011 4:34:04 GMT -4
Dunno. Either rick is just quoting the movie, or thinks it has some other significance.
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