The Landing

I love sci fi in general, but not this tripe.

I knew there was no Apollo 18 mission so I was curious what they were doing with this movie. It seemed to be mostly a series of boring interviews of unattractive people telling stories written by third rate hack writers which were not funny, not interesting and not even factual.

A documentary about a REAL Apollo mission with interviews of ordinary people who knew real historical details would have been a lot better.

Or an exciting movie like the fictional "Apollo 18" movie with the rock monsters.

This movie appears to have been very low budget.

It's worse than a waste of time. You might absorb a fake story about a real astronaut that some no-talent hack writer made up.

Don't waste your time or risk polluting your memory with this garbage.

I have a big problem with this faux documentary. People younger than 60 don't know Apollo ended in 1972 with Apollo 17 so this would be believable to them. It also furthers conspiracy theories about the Apollo manned missions being faked; that no one ever landed on the moon. It was all done on a soundstage in an abandoned plane hanger. There is no disclaimer or other indication it's fake.

Imagine an amazing apple pie sitting on the dinner table. If someone described all the artificial ingredients, the food coloring, and the calories it contains, you're not likely enjoy it as much as if you just dove in imagining the main ingredient is "Grandma's love".

If you're lucky enough to not have seen any spoilers about this film, if you know nothing about Apollo 18, you enjoy documentaries, and you think this is just another NASA or Apollo documentary, I highly recommend that you STOP READING REVIEWS and watch it! This film was meant to be one of those that you walk into without expectations and completely unspoiled.

If the story is already spoiled for you, I'm sad for you. You'll probably only enjoy this 0-50% as much as it was intended. Those who rate it low are likely in the group that already had the main story spoiled for them. They're part of the population for whom this is NOT intended.

This was bad from the start. The play acting, the photoshopping of the images, it was all just bad. I suppose after you see the real thing, a recreation will never be any good.

I like movies like this or should I say I liked movies like this that was until people started to think a movie just like this was real. Capricorn 1 or one I'm not sure witch was the film that made the fake moon landing explode. Sure some people immediately after they noticed things that have absolutely been explained were always around but that movie is supposed to be someone within NASA way of exposing the conspiracy but it's as much fiction as Stones piece of garbage JFK. If you like alternate history books or movies you will like this. I do have a huge problem with one thing and its my only complaint. You need to hold onto your remote because nearly every time they show stills of the moon the or the astronauts and music plays it is very loud but the loudest is around the 8:30 minute mark when you reach that point you will have to turn you way down or you will wake the dead then when the music is over at about 9:30 you need to turn it up some but when you see a slide that says "the Return of Apollo18 it's almost silent so if you don't want to rewind turn it up but then keep that remote in your hand because the horrible sound mixing continues through out. I realize this sounds odd but you will thank when it happens. That it's entertaining but horrible horrible sound mixing