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A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Moon

A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Moon

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Rating: 1 stars
Summary: These same stupid "arguments" have been around for decades
Review: There is no need to see this. There is nothing new here at all. These same stupid "arguments" about shadows (perspective issues inherent to 2D photographs), radiation belts (like the producers know anything about them), Hollywood props (hey that cloud in the sky looks like it has a "C" carved in it, so it must be fake), etc. have been around for decades. The rest of the rhetorical questions posed here are less than illuminating (yes Nixon was a liar, but what does that have to do with the price of beans in Somalia?)

I saw some crackpot on TV discuss the hypothesis that the lunar missions were all fakes way back in the 70's. I was about eight at the time and I recall that I bought into it somewhat. My parents (both scientists) laughed at me, but I just thought they were ignorant because they didn't catch this incredibly enlightening bit on the idiot box!

I hate to burst the bubbles of those who are drawn to these same paranoid fantasies some thirty years later, but life is full of little disappointments. I remember as a gullible teenager being fascinated by the omnipresent "no money down real estate" guys on late-night TV. That seemed like a really fresh idea to me until I saw a dim-witted character in a forty-odd-year-old movie gushing about the exact same con. He was all ready to send them his money too!

I can't say with absolute certainty what happened on these missions, but I CAN tell you with absolute certainty that there is no proof of anything here (except that some things never change.)

Someone should put the crooks who recycled this thirty-year-old tripe into a rocket and send THEM to the moon. Watch out for that radiation belt guys!

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: A great comedy for the ages.
Review: Now I'm not one to completely throw out conspiracy theories. I will listen to any, but they have to at least stand up to scrutiny. For instance the fine series "The Men Who Killed Kennedy" is actually scary in that after watching all the episodes, and seeing the fair descriptions and presentations of all the theories, witnesses, and evidence, the only Kennedy assassination theory that DOESN'T make any sense is the official one given by our government. Now with this film we get a possible concept (that we didn't actually go to the moon), concieved from some (but not all) reasonable ideas as to why and how such a thing could be faked. The problem is that the "evidence" given to "prove" this is so laughably bad that it couldn't hold up the weight of a butterfly, let alone such a huge claim. I particularly like the flag waving in the wind idea. What the film maker fails to notice is that every single shot of the flag "waving" in the "wind" also involves an astronaught actively fumbling and handling the flagpole. So this person thinks that the position of a cloth flag wouldn't be drastically effected by an astronaught, who is effectively six times as strong as usual moving the pole? Now footage of the flag waving when no astronaught is even in sight would be convincing. This footage just convinces you that the person making the claims can't grasp simple concepts of physics that even a child could comprehend. Another favorite bit of "evidence" is the shadows that are suposedly cast from different light sources. All these pictures do is convince me that the person making the claims can't grasp the simple concept of perspective. When viewing a landscape from an angle with a single light source, the shadows DO NOT run parallel to each other as is claimed, but rather they will all appear to converge towards a single spot on the horizon. That is exactly what these images show. Also the claim of shots of supposed different areas of the moon that are fakes because they have the same backgrounds are easily explained by perspective, when you take into consideration that you could move five miles to the east or west of your position, but that enormous mountain fifty miles to the north isn't going to change position much in the background of your images.

Probably the most laughable bit of evidence was something that was actually on the website for the movie. It shows the Lander and claims that it couldn't possibly have launched from the surface of the moon back into lunar orbit because it's fuel tanks would have to be one sixth the size of those on the space shuttle, and they were not. This is somewhat true. If the space shuttle requires a certain amount of fuel to reach earth orbit, then with one sixth gravity on the moon you would need one sixth of that fuel to reach lunar orbit. Of course this is only if the lunar lander was the same mass as the space shuttle, which it wasn't. In fact it was extremely small compared to the shuttle. So it would take one sixth of the fuel it takes to get the shuttle off the earth to get the SHUTTLE off the moon. And noe of this takes into account that it wouldn't even take that much fuel as the shuttle leaving Earth must travel through the atmosphere to do so, and the moon has no atmosphere. This would also drastically cut the fuel needed to get the lander pod off the surface.

This "film", or "documentary" is a sloppy joke that couldn't convince anyone who wasn't looking to be convinced. Any intelligent person who looks at the "evidence" and draws their own conclusion from it will see that there is nothing behind this arguement. Not that the calims made are impossible, just that this arguement made to back up the claims has no weight, and proves nothing but the ineptitude of the person making the arguement, and anyone who would be convinced by it. In this way the film is a total failure. It sets out to do something specific, and fails in every possible way. For it's entertainment value though it is high. You can examine it, and pick it apart, and experience it crumble in front of you. It's a wreck. I suppose that is what makes it such fun to watch.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Stop the bad reviews
Review: I came across this movie 2 years ago and I decided to see it. Before that it never crossed my mind that it was clear that man has never touched the moon. If you want facts, you got them here. This is a way to give everyone a wake up call and not only show that the U.S. has never accomplished moonlanding, but to prove how strong American propaganda is. Anyone who has given this movie a bad review just doesn't wanna see the truth. People hear what they wanna hear. Don't be stupid and give this movie a chance. It will change the way you see your government.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Bart Sibrel is an Alien Agent!
Review: I have uncovered previously unseen, government documents that prove Bart Sibrel is actually a secret agent from the planet Andromeda IV! Just kidding, of course, but if you seriously thought that I wasn't kidding, then you are probably part of the target audience for this delusional Sibrel documentary.

Certifiable credulity is an essential prerequisite condition for viewing this video without bursting into laughter. Don't waste your money on this one. I have met Bart personally. He needs to spend more time with his child instead of trapsing around the globe peddling his ludicrous fantasy.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: we didnt land on the moon, come on now
Review: I was just wondering if we landed on the moon 34 years ago, why havent we or any other country for that matter ever go there again. I mean we go into space to hatch chicken eggs, come on we would be up there taking samples or something!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: The American Way
Review: Think about it - if Americans had really landed on the moon, they would certainly have exploited it.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: did any of the reviewers actually see the movie?
Review: damn- i can' t believe so many reviewers gave this movie anything less than 5 stars. the evidence presented in the dvd is overwhelming. i wanted to believe that the u.s. did go to the moon. but with undisputable facts- wow. the evidence on the van alan belts should be enough to quiet all nay sayers. Are you guys saying that the same gov't(U.S.) who lied about Pearl Harbor, help support the nazi's in germany, lied about 9-11, iraq, and several other things- would ever never lie ??????
face facts and review them. they are undisputable. open your eyes to the truth.

this movie changed the way i see how our gov't works. through this movie- i opened up to books that spoke of nothing but truths about our great gov't. to read more about how this gov't is lying to us, read books by david icke(children of the matrix) william cooper (behold a pale horse)

read those books before this movie. you'll understand it much better.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: An insult to anybody with an IQ over 10
Review: This video is one of the biggest pieces of trash that I have ever seen! The only people who would believe the garbage spewed in this cheesy video are those who believe that The Wizard of Oz is a documentary. Please remember that spending any money on this video puts money in the pockets of a lunatic "filmmaker" who harasses astronauts so much that a 70+ year old Buzz Aldrin, in order to protect himself, decks the obnoxious filmmaker with a punch to the snout!

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: A piece of S---, Don't waste your money
Review: The only thing that this guy is trying to do is make money by discrediting the brave heros who actually flew to the moon. Also don't be fooled by the reviewers who believe this garbage. They're backwards, uneducated, and have no intelligence whatsoever.

We did go to the moon and brilliant Americans are the one's that put us there (with a little German help).

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Silly video doesn't prove anything
Review: It's hard to believe how anyone could take this ridiculous video seriously. Its premise-that the Apollo moon landings were faked-is preposterous. But, stranger things have happened. And the government has been known to be less than forthcoming from time to time. So it's good to approach such a notion with an open mind.

But your open mind will be rewarded only with nonsensical arguments, misinformation, and absolutely no supporting evidence. The "proof" consists of wild claims made up by the producers, which they then pass along as facts, without bothering to back them up.

The video claims that the trip would have been too hazardous for humans to make (because of "killer electrons"), and that the Russians knew this, which is why they didn't go. Then why did they congratulate the USA when we landed on the moon? The two countries were locked in a political space race at the time; surely, if the Russians thought that the USA was faking, it would have been splashed over the front page of Pravda. And of course the movie does not produce a single bit of evidence that Russia thought moon travel was too dangerous-it's just one of the many created "facts" in this movie.

Even if you're curious to see how silly something like this can be, I'd not waste my time and money with this video. Somebody ought to tell the producers that if they want to rewrite the history books, it will take more than a camcorder and ludicrous, unsupported arguments.


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