I suppose it has come to this. We have no manned space program anymore, Muslim outreach is a NASA priority according to NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, and a recent paper from a NASA postdoc suggests aliens will kill us because they can detect our global warming from light years away and think we are a threat.
After watching this video trailer for the movie, Plan 9 From Outer Space seems almost plausible now.
Plot fail – I suppose nobody in Florida noticed nor any of the thousands of NASA employees and contractors said a peep when the Saturn 5 rocket lifted off for Apollo 18. Yeah stuff like that is easy to keep under wraps. Though I haven’t seen the full movie, the trailer makes it pretty clear that I’d never want to. Originally scheduled for release in the spring, it has been delayed and now has a planned release Sept 2nd.
Hollywood, like NASA, has lost its mojo.
I feel for the crew of Apollo 17, including my friend and fellow skeptic Dr. Harrison Schmitt. This film makes a mockery of the the Apollo program and the true final mission.
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A rather rotund fellow with a low IQ gets stuck in a hole and suffers the indignity of being used as a clothes prop by his friends.
True or false?
Winnie the Pooh or Michael Mann?
Is it true because Winnie the Pooh is “real” or is it false because they didn’t hang clothes on Mann?
I don’t want to spoil the ending but they find out the aliens were here because the aliens found out we were pumping too much CO2 into the atmosphere so they are going to destroy the earth to save it.
Oh wait! That’s not the plot of this movie. That ‘s a peer reviewed climate science paper.
Never mind…
(I’m going to see it. It ought to be a fun flick and I’ll definitely LOL when they sneak the rocket up into space. It’ll be interesting to see how many others in the theater “get it.”)
Hey, “The Core” and “Volcano” are great . . . when watched with a bunch of geologists and their students in a room where one is allowed to throw popcorn and you get extra credit for each geologic error you can identify correctly!
Headley says:
August 24, 2011 at 3:54 am
Lighten up, it’s just a film. I didn’t see you commenting on Pirates of the Caribbean III – which is also an unbelievable film.
You’re kidding right? Captain Jack Sparrow was so a real pirate. So was the Dread Pirate Roberts.
I have discovered a major flaw in the Iron Sky movie plot. They have been living in 1/6 th earth gravity for over half a century, their legs will feel like jelly once they get to earth.
Presumably the space Nazi anti-gravity drive allows them to generate 1G on the moon?
Seeing how people have allergic reactions from pets like cats, people diying from a single bee-sting, one can only wonder how people react when introduced to a really alien life form. That’s going be to nasty i think.
I guess a real scenario would be that the Astronaut who gets that creature inside its suit would die very quickly because his suit is decompressing very rapidly, but not fast enough so he can experience the mother of all allergic reactions, about everything at the same time, increased by a factor of 10 most likely.
Not a doubt in my mind that it’s a perfectly dreadful movie. But the worst that Hollywood can do given a whole Century to work with? I believe that you are greatly underestimating the capability of the entertainment industry to generate lousy films.
“Plot fail – I suppose nobody in Florida noticed nor any of the thousands of NASA employees and contractors said a peep when the Saturn 5 rocket lifted off for Apollo 18. ”
A) it is a work of science FICTION.
B) If it was a secret launch, the NASA employees would have kept it secret. They do manage to keep things secret you know. Not everything they do is public knowledge.
C) It is a work of science FICTION.
C) People in Florida had lost interest in the Saturn missions by the mid 1970s and would not have cared whether a rocket went up or not and not even given a second thought about whether it was a secret mission or not.
D) it is a work of science fiction.
E) The mainstream media are able to maintain a lie for years, or refuse to cover a real story at all. So a secret launch of a rocket that the public had lost interest in could have easily have been ignored by the mainstream media.
F) it is a work of science fiction.
It is just a film!
REPLY: Yes I noted it was SCIENCE FICTION in the title, the plot fail is the issue. For science fiction to work, it has to be plausible-believable. This isn’t. Anthony
I have to agree that movies which are unrealistic make me angry.
When 1 man with a pistol kills 6 men with machine guns and 1 ton of explosives are blown up per hour I leave the theater.
Bad guy bad shooting school is a family joke !
For a movie to be enjoyable it must be plausible.
The Aliens hate global warming plot is a joke. I love it when the alarmists make a joke of themselves unintentionally.
Two questions:
1) Don’t you people care about your children and grandchildren?
b) Was it peer-reviewed?
I thought “The Day after Tomorrow” was the worst Sci-Fi flick of all time.
While it may qualify as a worst science fiction movie, it has all of the requisites for an Oscar Winning Documentary.
It would not be, as we’re all aware, the first time.
Launching a Saturn Five without having anyone notice is simple. Just launch it at night and don’t turn on the headlights until it is already past the end of the driveway.
Problem solved!
🙂
Tamara,
I believe that you forgot ‘Sunlight’ (iirc) the one where the sun was going ‘out’ and needed some nuclear help to start it up again.
No list of dodgy sci-fi films is complete wihout it
I’ve always wondered what happened to plans 1 through 8 .
It’s not really a science fiction movie, it’s a horror movie.
The whole point is that it’s on the moon on a secret mission is to make it scarier for the characters, because they are completely cut off. It’s cheesy horror movie tropes, because it’s not a science fiction movie. It’s a horror movie set in space.
I think Tor Johnson sat on them.
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P Walker says:
August 24, 2011 at 8:22 am
I’ve always wondered what happened to plans 1 through 8 .
I’m glad NASA’s out of business. Will see this movie cause unlike you, I actually like to be entertained
“Event Horizon” was by far the worst.
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Most of the audience for Apollo 18 will never have seen an Apollo launch. They might imagine all the older adults are keeping a terrible secret from them. I could ruin many entertaining movies by being too crtiical of the bad science. It’s supposed to be fun. For example, what the hell is “red matter”?
“Plot fail – I suppose nobody in Florida noticed nor any of the thousands of NASA employees and contractors said a peep when the Saturn 5 rocket lifted off for Apollo 18. ”
I don’t know, I have odd dreams where a couple of guys in black suits are getting out of a black sedan, holding up a pen, and there was this flash. That’s all I can seem to recall. They looked like they’d been driving all over the state.
John Carter says:
August 24, 2011 at 3:14 am
“Good grief – chill out – it’s a movie.
It’s entertainment, not history!”
No. Entertainment does not mean to lead people astray.
History? What are history facts besides stones?
On a broken stone it is written “If a man put out the eye of another man, his eye shall be put out. [ An eye for an eye ] If a man knock out the teeth of his equal, his teeth shall be knocked out. [ A tooth for a tooth ]”- Some ‘entertainer’ have that covert into a book and many people take the cover version as history until today.
Neither leading astray nor claiming history for truth fit the methods of science. Recognized truth is the only real entertainment, and I think this includes the Phythagorean tuning all people and scientists agree with.
I was very impressed in 1963 scientists from Litton have developed an inertial navigation system for the German air force, when I was working for Litton. A similar technique was used in the Apollo program.
V.
Bo Science Fiction but hard reality: Russian cargo flight to space station crashes
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/24/us-russia-space-idUSTRE77N4F520110824?feedType=RSS&feedName=scienceNews
There was an Apollo 18 mission, although it was not officially numbered.
This was the Apollo/Soyuz mission in July 1975
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo%E2%80%93Soyuz_Test_Project
Isn’t this a christian science movie release.