Saturday, 22 June 2013

Day 173: Apollo 18


Footage is found of an unheard of space mission in the ‘70s. The astronauts thought they were delivering some sort of top secret payload to the Moon but there’s something they weren’t told; they’re not alone out there.

I know the film was trying to play the isolation/claustrophobia angle but it just didn’t work as well as it could have done. Rather than have the wee rock-crab-aliens show up every so often, it might’ve been better to have never seen them and to only be able to see the astronauts’ reactions to them. There weren’t many shots of them walking on the moon but it was still too many. It would’ve been more interesting if it was all shot on the one small ship rather than have some outside shots, too. And to top it all off, it was kind of boring.

How amazing would it be to be an astronaut? I’d love to have my own wee space station that I could hang out in and do whatever. Think how relaxing that would be? Well, obviously, so long as there aren’t any murderer-y aliens kicking about.


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