Regarding the forgotten thriller Capricorn One, the director Peter Hyams would later joke, “O. J. Simpson was in [Capricorn One], and Robert Blake was in Busting (Hyams’ first feature). I’ve said many times: Some people have AFI Lifetime Achievement awards, some people have multiple Oscars, my bit of trivia is that I’ve made films with two leading men who were subsequently tried for the first-degree murder of their wives.”
I used to listen to old SF radio plays from the 1950's, and I listened to one that was about a trip to Mars, that went wrong, and the crew were killed. But years later, main character bumps into the ship's captain, alive and well living under an assumed name. The old "It was all faked" plot was alive and well, even then. It was even used in an episode of "Shoestring" where a man was supposed to be single handedly sailing around the world, but was really living in a field, just outside Bristol.
We enjoyed it. We went not really knowing anything about it at all and were pleasantly surprised. It won't change your life but it's an entertaining way to spend a couple of hours.
Very little chemistry between the two leads in this one. Not much character either; it was hard for me to say anything about them beyond their work. Also, the Artemis plot felt contrived.
Yeah, it frustrated me to no end how the fake moon landing plot was handled, and it somehow only got dumber as the film went on. From somehow trying to fake the moon landing without any of the 1000+ actually working in NASA(including the Astronauts) finding out to Moe deciding to somehow fake the moon landing through a LIVE visual recording that has to simultaneously sync perfectly with the ACTUAL moon landing's LIVE audio recording, I was really tempted to just walk out of the theater due to how nonsensical the plot was on almost every level.
I went to see this the other day Scarlet Johasson is as watchable as ever she really is that good but there was only 3 people in the cinema including me, I really loved this film, yes Mark your right people are seeing things that aren't there.
I'm just here for the people who agree with Mark about all the bonkers conspiracy theories he laughs at, except for THAT ONE bonkers conspiracy theory they themselves believe in.
Channing Tatum playing NASA’s launch captain? Lol Sorry but no. It’s like Matthew Mcconaughey as a genius engineer pilot. At least this one is supposed to be a comedy.
Double 👍 👍 for calling out the tin-foil-hattists, even if I share such reservations as your critic friend, prior to watching (and I will be watching, but Kinds of Kindness tomorrow night first!)
Given that in this film they ended up faking the faking of the moonlanding using footage from the real moonlanding, I can't help wondering if a certain Mitchell and Webb sketch was a big inspiration behind this story.
Ocean's 12 needs a reappraisal. Sure THAT scene is very cringe. However that aside the gang didn't seem like they knew every solution to every problem giving it way more tension & TWO great/well developed antagonists. It rivals 1 outside of THAT ONE SCENE IMO.
From the trailer, it is a shame that, with a larger budget, the fake moon landing in this film looks worse than the Sam Pilling video for DJ Shadow and De La Soul's Rocket Fuel.
What is this we British man, The United States went to the moon, sure we let all world feel like it was we the human race but when it comes down it America went to the moon. We went to the moon more than once in fact. Sadly we haven't been visited in some years and others want to get there but we were there first.
@@stephennootens916 The Apollo 11 plaque says it best: “Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon July 1969, A.D. We came in peace for all mankind."
America didn't go to the moon, NASA did. NASA didn't go to the moon, the Apollo program did. The Apollo program didn't go to the moon, a handful of astronauts did.
Umm, how does it go again..."One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." It's not about America vs. anyone else. It's about humans, as a species, doing what was thought to be impossible, and a small group of people doing it on behalf of everyone else.
