Post by PeterB on Sept 4, 2005 23:33:11 GMT -4
My wife bought me the DVD of the movie, knowing me so well!
But when I watched it, I thought that it was actually a pretty poor movie. I wonder how people can use the movie as the basis for a serious hoax discussion.
I'm not talking about the technology or the technobabble - if you don't like the idea of an unstreamlined lunar module landing on Mars, substitute something else in your mind.
Instead, it was the non-technical parts of the conspiracy which made no sense. Here's a sample.
1. Elliot Gould's NASA friend disappears from his flat, and the woman who lives there now has all the evidence that she's been living there for months. Did the neighbours notice nothing? Have they been scared into silence? What about the NASA guy's family? Did they all forget where he lived? Can the bad guys erase all of a person's existence? Didn't he buy petrol for his car?
2. Someone tampers with Elliot's car, so that the engine races, but the brakes, the gearstick and the ignition don't work. This is all achieved in about 10 minutes. Yet they don't make sure he's dead after he crashes his car? And anyway, why not arrange a simpler way of killing him, say later that night when there'd be fewer witnesses?
3. Elliot drives to the Western town where Brolin and his family had their holiday. Someone fires one shot at him, but nothing more. Have they now given up on trying to kill him?
4. When the guys in helicopters are pursuing the astronauts, why do they wait for Sam Waterston to reach the top of the cliff and set his flare off before killing him? They already know that O J Simpson had one, and they should know what survival equipment is in the plane, so they should know that the other astronauts would have one as well.
*sigh*
It's so hard to get good hired help these days - just watch the first Austin Powers movie!
But when I watched it, I thought that it was actually a pretty poor movie. I wonder how people can use the movie as the basis for a serious hoax discussion.
I'm not talking about the technology or the technobabble - if you don't like the idea of an unstreamlined lunar module landing on Mars, substitute something else in your mind.
Instead, it was the non-technical parts of the conspiracy which made no sense. Here's a sample.
1. Elliot Gould's NASA friend disappears from his flat, and the woman who lives there now has all the evidence that she's been living there for months. Did the neighbours notice nothing? Have they been scared into silence? What about the NASA guy's family? Did they all forget where he lived? Can the bad guys erase all of a person's existence? Didn't he buy petrol for his car?
2. Someone tampers with Elliot's car, so that the engine races, but the brakes, the gearstick and the ignition don't work. This is all achieved in about 10 minutes. Yet they don't make sure he's dead after he crashes his car? And anyway, why not arrange a simpler way of killing him, say later that night when there'd be fewer witnesses?
3. Elliot drives to the Western town where Brolin and his family had their holiday. Someone fires one shot at him, but nothing more. Have they now given up on trying to kill him?
4. When the guys in helicopters are pursuing the astronauts, why do they wait for Sam Waterston to reach the top of the cliff and set his flare off before killing him? They already know that O J Simpson had one, and they should know what survival equipment is in the plane, so they should know that the other astronauts would have one as well.
*sigh*
It's so hard to get good hired help these days - just watch the first Austin Powers movie!
