1. Apollo 18 | Rotten Tomatoes
Apollo 18 is an intriguing, if never enthralling, fusion of period space-flight procedural, conspiracy theory, and monster movie. Content collapsed.
Apollo 17 was the last U.S.-sponsored lunar voyage -- or was it? Hours of found footage, classified for decades, point to a subsequent moon mission -- Apollo 18 -- that ended very badly. Astronauts John Grey (Ryan Robbins), Nathan Walker (Lloyd Owen) and Benjamin Anderson (Warren Christie), on a mission to install radar scanners, discover a Soviet space capsule nearby. The men also discover a dead cosmonaut, and unfortunately for them, learn how he died.
2. 'Apollo 18' Offers Conspiracy Theory, to NASA's Surprise - Space.com
Sep 2, 2011 · The film, purporting to be produced from footage kept secret by NASA and leaked to the media, chronicles a NASA mission to the moon that went awry.
Despite the marketing campaign behind the new film "Apollo 18," the movie is not a documentary from found footage. NASA ended its moon missions after Apollo 17 in 1972, contrary to what conspiracy theorists believe.
3. Apollo 18 | CinemaDope
The new mission takes place in 1974 and concerns eye-in-the-sky Cold War surveillance. It is, therefore, classified Top Secret and overseen by the drones at ...
One Giant Leap for Big Brother by Glenn Lovell Conspiracy theorists who believe the moon landings were a great big, fat government lie should be at least half-pleased with “Apollo 18,” which posits…
4. Apollo 18 Movie Review | Common Sense Media
Aug 3, 2024 · (In real life, 1972's Apollo 17 was the final mission.) There are some intense, frightening sequences, mostly based on sudden movements and ...
Fake moon-landing chiller is no Blair Witch in space. Read Common Sense Media's Apollo 18 review, age rating, and parents guide.
5. Movie Review: Apollo 18 | Escape Pod
Jan 8, 2014 · Apollo 18 is the story of a three-man mission to the moon. Set in 1974, the crew's job is to place missile detectors on the lunar surface.
The last American moon mission was Apollo 17, back in 1972. Or was it? The found-footage film Apollo 18 aims to show why we haven’t been back. And if this film is to be believed, there’s a damn good…
6. Apollo 18 - IGN
Officially, Apollo 17, launched December 17th, 1972 was the last manned mission to the moon. But a year later, in December of 1973, two American astronauts ...
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7. Apollo 18' is one giant leap in the wrong direction for cinema
Set in the middle of the Cold War, this film profiles two men who are ordered to land on the moon, allegedly to set up machines to detect intercontinental ...
Gonzalo López-Gallego's "Apollo 18" (2011) has conquered new frontiers of flopping. Here is a movie of such astoundingly poor quality that it even misses the "so bad it's good" territory, settling instead into the realm of painful, absolute disaster.
8. The Right Stuff… and Some Wrong Stuff: A Review of Apollo 18
Sep 4, 2011 · ... (when the actual final Apollo mission, the Apollo-Soyuz rendezvous, occurred); but why did they have the flight take place on Christmas Day, 1974 ...
by Gary Westfahl As one watches the assemblage of mismatched footage – sometimes sharp, sometimes out of focus, shaky, or inadequately lit – that makes up Apollo 18, and still becomes enthralled by…
9. Sci-Fi Film Review: Apollo 18 (2011) | Let's Get Off This Rock Already!
Sep 23, 2019 · That's when strange things begin to happen. As they plant the listening devices, they hear strange noises, and a rock sample mysteriously ...
In 1970 the final three Apollo flights—18, 19, and 20—were cancelled, victims of the penny-pinching Nixon administration, and their hardware was either shelved or used for the Skylab program. As a result, only twelve humans from six missions have walked on the Moon. Or so the government would have you believe. I’ve recently rewatched Apollo 18,... Continue Reading →
10. REVIEW: “Apollo 18” (2011) | - Keith & the Movies
Feb 8, 2013 · The general idea behind “Apollo 18” goes something like this – In 1974 NASA canceled a planned lunar expedition. At least that is what we were ...
As I’ve said before, the found footage phenomenon has run its course with me. Like many things, Hollywood took an interesting new approach and milked it bone dry. Now it’s impossible to…
11. Apollo 18 in fiction and fact - NBC News
Sep 1, 2011 · After the first moon landing in 1969, Washington began pulling back on NASA's Apollo ambitions, having concluded that the space race was won. By ...
The secret moon mission depicted in the movie "Apollo 18" is a totally bogus Hollywood invention — but if NASA ever wanted to redo the Apollo program, the Cradle of Aviation Museum has just the thing: the lunar lander that would have flown during Apollo 18.
12. Apollo 18 (2011) directed by Gonzalo López-Gallego • Reviews, film + cast
Officially, Apollo 17 was the last manned mission to the moon. But a year later in 1973, three American astronauts were sent on a secret mission to the moon ...
See AlsoTiff Valentine XoxoOfficially, Apollo 17 was the last manned mission to the moon. But a year later in 1973, three American astronauts were sent on a secret mission to the moon funded by the US Department of Defense. What you are about to see is the actual footage which the astronauts captured on that mission. While NASA denies its authenticity, others say it's the real reason we've never gone back to the moon.
13. Apollo 18 (2011) - Roses Have Thoughts
Oct 11, 2023 · The general consensus when Apollo 18 first came out seemed to suggest that this was ... taking place. Apollo 18 review Apollo 18. Seriously ...
There’s a reason we’ve never gone back to the moon – Apollo 18
14. Apollo 18 - Movie Review - The Austin Chronicle
Sep 9, 2011 · The premise is that the real-life canceled Apollo 18 mission to the moon actually took place in 1972 and was documented slavishly by the three- ...
This secretive film's premise is that it reveals suppressed footage of the U.S. government's secret mission to the moon.
15. Apollo 18: the truth about the lost Moon missions - Armagh Planetarium
Apollo 18 is a SF/Horror movie presented as newly-found film footage taken by the fictional crew of a lost 1970s lunar landing mission.
16. Apollo 18 - Variety
Sep 2, 2011 · The pic's basic conceit is that it has been culled from hundreds of hours of long-classified footage pertaining to a top-secret lunar mission ...
Apollo 18 Despite stretches of skillfully sustained suspense, "Apollo 18" ultimately comes across as little more than a modestly clever stunt.
17. Apollo 18 | List of Deaths Wiki - Fandom
A Canadian-American co-production, its premise is that the cancelled Apollo 18 mission actually landed on the Moon in December 1974, but never returned, and as ...
Apollo 18 is a 2011 American-Canadian science fiction horror film written by Brian Miller, directed by Gonzalo López-Gallego, and co-produced by Timur Bekmambetov and Michele Wolkoff. A Canadian-American co-production, its premise is that the cancelled Apollo 18 mission actually landed on the Moon in December 1974, but never returned, and as a result the United States has never launched another expedition to the Moon. The film is shot in found-footage style, supposedly "lost footage" of the Apol
18. Apollo 18 (2011) - The EOFFTV Review - WordPress.com
Jul 20, 2019 · The film suggests that NASA and the American government sent one final, top secret mission to the moon, the eponymous Apollo 18.
“Found footage” went to the moon in Gonzalo López-Gallego’s Apollo 18, another of those films that would have been so much better and more interesting if they’d shot it as a…
19. Apollo 18: A Review | Sci Fi Saturday Night
Sep 7, 2011 · The film is set in 1974, and has some discussion on the space race with Soviet Russia, I feel the significance of this time period lost on a ...
At the start of the viral marketing campaign for Apollo 18, The Dome pointed out that found footage projects were a cheat in storytelling. While the marketing aspect plays a role in the overall exp…
20. Apollo 18 (2011): A Review - Dead Talk News
Jun 6, 2022 · But Apollo 18 uses quick cuts and takes ... Despite the negative reputation it holds, Apollo 18 just hit screens at a time when found footage was ...
Apollo 18 (2011): A Review "Apollo 18" is arguably one of the most frightening found footage space movies of the 21st century so far.
21. Apollo 18 (2011) - Contains Moderate Peril
Jun 26, 2017 · Apollo 18 has a strong start for a movie built around the found footage concept. ... The first thirty minutes where we meet the cast and learn of ...
A fundamental requirement of cinema is that the audience suspends their sense of disbelief. Anything that breaks this will immediately has a negative impact upon the viewing experience. There are many things can severe this connection but the two most common seem to be obvious plot holes and Scooby
22. Spooky action at a distance: "Apollo 18" on DVD - The Space Review
Jan 3, 2012 · In this case the viewer is told that the US government mounted a secret mission to the Moon in the mid-1970s (the Saturn V launch was disguised ...
The attention to detail in the spacecraft and lunar landscapes in Apollo 18 made them look almost idential to the real Apollo spacecraft. (credit: NASA)
23. Apollo 18 - The Moon is Livelier Than You Think - SETI Institute
Oct 20, 2011 · Their ostensible brief was to set up some military radar equipment. The actual purpose was to check out some strange happenings involving alien ...
Ever wonder why no humans have stomped their boots on the moon in nearly 40 years? Well, if you believe the pundits, the answer's simple: Once the race to beat the Soviets to our crater-studded satellite was over, the political will to return (which is to say, the money) evaporated as quickly as tears on a hot griddle.
24. Interview: Apollo 18's real-life NASA flight director - collectSPACE.com
Sep 2, 2011 · Every movie has a director, but for "Apollo 18," opening in theaters today (Sept. 2), a mere film director wasn't enough.
Every movie has a director, but for "Apollo 18," opening in theaters today (Sept. 2), a mere film director wasn't enough. To launch the "found footage" from a secret moon landing gone horrifically awry, "Apollo 18" needed a NASA flight director.