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[Gopher]

[Bulsajo]

See, I can't live with that- I demand that people use the brains god gave them (whichever god that may be), I demand a separation betweeen entertaining fiction and reality, I demand that people use common sense and seek answers to real problems that plague us instead of inventing problems and then throwing themselves quixotically at them.

I'm sure these demands are the cause of the bitterness that I sometimes feel these days; the kooks that hang out here I can live with, but the apathy that I daily find in my friends, family and co-workers towards important political events (domestic as well as int'l.) makes me want to smash my head against the nearest wall sometimes.

But of course, on the plus side- that's the fire in my belly, the caffeine in my coffee, the issue that drives me- just wind me up and watch me go.

[well, that was probably far too much info to be sharing on this board, but anyway- I solemnly promise not post my turn-ons and turn-offs here]

[Rteacher]

I still don't follow the logic that a film of this nature would have any probative value (I took a lot of legal courses...) regarding the issue at hand... Here's from the first review of it off "Bulsajo's" link:

"IMAX's latest film, Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon 3D, pays tribute to the 12 men who walked the moon while delivering beautiful impressions of what it may have been like to have been there. Produced, co-written and narrated by Tom Hanks, the film's raison d'etre is to give the audience the uncanny illusion that they are participating in an actual moonwalk, which the film in fact does successfully. But other than the fancy tricks of CGI and wired actors, the film offers little depth or even educational value..."
http://www.bigmoviezone.com/filmsearch/movies/movie_reviews/bmz_reviews.html?uniq=149

And this second review makes it clear that the only things new are some higher tech reenactments (than the original possible simulations ...) and other technical wizardry by the movie producers...

"Twelve astronauts spent a total of 299 hours on the moon, and as we watch reenactments of their adventures interspersed with news footage and recordings of conversations with NASA in Houston, we come as close to a moonwalk as any movie could take us..."
http://www.nypost.com/movies/53029.htm

As I noted before, I personally lived in Titusville, Florida for a couple years, and I worked as a movie extra/background character actor in Armageddon and HBO's From the Earth to the Moon. En route to shooting scenes at Kennedy Space Center I sat directly behind the chief technical advisor (to one of the films - I forget which) and - although he evidently had been a prominent techie working with NASA he matter-of-factly disclosed that many Gruman workers back then were convinced that what the world was shown on TV had been filmed at a simulation chamber on the roof of one of their hangars...(BTW, I played astronaut Frank Borman's uncle in a scene with Tom Hanks' real-life wife, Rita Wilson...)
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[Bulsajo]

You know RT, I never read the at big Movie Zone review before posting, and now that I have, I'd say that you are right in as much as this film is not what I had originally thought it was (a collection of actual footage displayed in Imax format).
It adds nothing to the 'debate' here.
Nor does it take anything away either.

I do still wonder about the 'previously unreleased footage' it claims to show.

But maybe we'll be seeing "Kilimanjaro: Top of the World" at the IMAX theatre this weekend instead of this one.

[Len8]

Maybe all we have seen was rehearsed and played back as footage, because they couldn't do it on the moon. Equipment , and what have you to do the filming was to big to stick in the lunar module. So when Neil Armstrong was actually doing his moon landing and stuff we got pre recordered footage.

Just a thought.

On the other hand why is Armstrong so against giving interviews, and dealing with the public. Is it his personality or is it something else.

[Gopher]

[igotthisguitar]

[Gopher]

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[igotthisguitar]

[Bulsajo]

Wow! A Google search! Take THAT, Gopher!

[Gopher]

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[SPINOZA]

Astronauts shown to be faking an earth shot (use full screen mode):

http://youtube.com/watch?v=vgk1TQinLoA&search=%20moon%2Bhoax

Astronauts appear to be aided by puppet-style strings:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=5JyJf3lA5TA&search=%20moon%2Bhoax

[Zulu]

Poll Question:

Do those big metal birds in the sky actually carry people? I mean, everyone knows that's impossible.

[Rteacher]

It wouldn't surprise me much at all if the journey to the moon were conclusively found to be staged as critics allege. Big government /big business/ big scientists, and the people for a time hailed as the biggest heroes in the end may turn out to be the biggest cheaters...

[igotthisguitar]