A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Moon

This film is utter trash not worth viewing under any circumstances. None of it is accurate nor contains a shred of anything even close to the truth. The person behind this garbage is a small little person that needs to tear others down to feel good about himself. Basically screaming "Look how great I am I uncovered the biggest hoax" its not worth viewing at all, utter contrived trash not worthy of being left for the collection bin. I wont even give it one star its not worth even that much. Better to watch a video of grass growing it would make more sense and be far more entertaining to the viewer.

I am a 11th grader at my high school. In my Current World Affairs class a kid in my class had this video and suggested we watch. So we did. I am firm believer that we went to the moon, being that my father works for NASA. Even though I think this movie is the biggest piece of crap I have ever watched, the guy who created it has some serious balls. First of all did he have to show JFK getting shot? And how dare he use all those biblical quotes. The only good thing about this movie is it sparks debates, which is good b/c in my class we have weekly debates. This movie did nothing to change my mind. I think he and Michael Moore should be working together and make another movie. Michael Moore next movie could be called "A Funny Thing Happened on Spetember 11th" or "A Funny thing happened on the way to the white house".

My boyfriend's room mate brought this movie home from his uncle's house and suggested we all watch it with him. At first, I didn't know what to expect, I mean how could the government POSSIBLY have staged a mission to the moon and a lunar landing! Think of all the people who would be involved and having to have them sworn to secrecy about the whole thing or else they may be eliminated? Sounds crazy, right? Well this movie is really fun to watch - it makes you re-think one of the greatest moments in American history. It gives your brain a workout and sparks some interesting debates as to whether or not Apollo 11 actually landed on the moon, let alone with people inside it who were able to walk out of the craft. It raises such topics as shadows on the videos, interesting never publicized video footage, interviews (or lack thereof), lighting on the space craft, photographs (or lack thereof), video *oops*'s, Russia, the cold war, China, future missions to the moon, staged conversations between the astronauts and mission control, the strength and construction of the space craft itself, and things of that nature. Definitely worth a viewing. Keep in mind it's a pretty cheaply made documentary so you can't expect much along the lines of video quality.

The Great Old Myth! Did we ever land on the moon? First of all, this is a MUCH better documentary then Fox's "Did we really land on the moon", especially because of some of the footage you're presented. For example; How does NASA explain the clip were Armstrong tells ground control that they're 130,000 miles away from earth, and by holding the camera up against the window they get this perfect shot of the earth. Then seconds later turning on the cockpit light and removing a cardboard cutout of earth in a shadow, showing the earth being right outside their window?

I would like to hear the explanation for that!

The views of Earth that are claimed in this film to have been faked by NASA have recently been compared with the historical weather data for the time of Apollo 11, and show a good match between the cloud patterns in the video sequence and the actual rainfall records on the day.

This would seem to undermine the entire argument put forward in the film that the "whole Earth" picture is actually a small part of the planet framed by the spacecraft window.

I am waiting for Bart Sibrel to now claim that the historical weather data has been faked by NASA, though that would no doubt involve them in also replacing every archived newspaper copy with a weather map, and the ones in private hands would still be a problem.

Ah, a response: "Trying to discredit this movie by referring to NASA weather data I'd say is a charming, but weak and gullible argument. What about the rest of the footage and proofs in the movie? A certain wise man once said something about sifting mosquitoes and swallowing camels. Do you in any way feel that maybe this could apply to what you are trying to do here? :-) This movie is just packed with irrefutable evidence against the claim once made by U.S. government that the moon-missions were a success, and that man now are true masters of the universe. Things are nearly never quite what they seem.. Just watch the movie, and I dear say you'll see things a bit different than before."

First off, weather data doesn't come from NASA, it comes for met agencies around the world. Second, the weather data undermines a major claim in the film. Third, far from being "packed with irrefutable evidence", the remaining claims in the film have been thoroughly debunked. Sibrel thought he had a previously secret piece of film, so he edited it and added his own interpretation. Unfortunately for him, his source film is public domain, and the bits Sibrel edited out contradict his claims.