SPOILERS - DON'T READ IF YOU INTEND TO WATCH IT
Before watching it I didn't know what exactly it was; opinions seemed to differ. But having watched it, I'd say this documentary is also a good test of how easily you can be fooled into believing anything you told that seems logical on the surface.
Right from the start I couldn't believe what I was hearing from the narrator. That the Apollo program was to become Star Wars. That the moon landing was to cover up a money laundry agenda with funds going missing. That the public really needed some warm up with the help of Hollywood to greet the moon landing with enthusiasm. That NASA used lots of ideas from 2001 Odyssey. That Hollywood changed the spacesuits, changed the rocket, they even moved the launch pad to get better shot angle. By any stretch of imagination this was just a line of stupid suggestion, however convincingly told.
Then come these interviews with top US officials who never mention the subject they are discussing, not a single word from the four people in the room about the Moon, or any names dropped, let alone mentioning faking the landing in a studio. That's why you don't hear the questions from the interviewer. You film a conversation on one subject and then use the words to make it look like they talk about another. You can then insert these bits of the interview into any narrative you want. They might as well all be talking about their fishing trips or some covert op in Korea in the 50's or a movie they watched.
END OF SPOILERS
Oh, boy, they really did take the Mickey out of those Moon-hoax Kubrick-did-it-all theorists. Nice effort. Particularly was important to have Kubrick's wife on the screen. She must be tired of all this moon-hoax rubbish herself. Oh, and you do have to watch the film right through to the end of the credits.
On a side note to those Moon-hoax believers. You really need to get out of the box and look at the bigger picture, and most importantly read about space exploration history. And here's freebie for you to get you going. If you know anything about the Russian space program of the 60's and the Moon race that Soviet Union was part of you must have heard of Alexei Leonov - the first person to walk in outer space back in March 1965. He was soon made the lead cosmonaut of a group of cosmonauts that were scheduled to walk on the Moon.
When the Americans first walked on the Moon in July 1969, the Soviet deep space receiving station at Eupatoria (on the Black Sea) was receiving all transmissions from those Apollo flights including the surface of the Moon and they were specialists and they knew for a fact these were coming from the Moon and not Hollywood, California via some remote satellite. When the whole world was watching those live TV images from the Moon only two countries in the world were not televising them - Soviet Union and China. And so Alexei Leonov with other cosmonauts were sitting in a locked room in Ostankino television centre, Moscow, watching those live picture coming from the Moon surface as it was the only place where they could. Leonov, a smart man, trust me, confirmed it in his interviews and If there was even a shade of doubt this wasn't for real the Soviets would be the first to expose it as they would be the most interested party in it.
And one the final note. When some years from now, and that time will come for sure, when astronauts land on the moon again, and we will see a flag waving again in 1/6 of Earth gravity and in zero air resistance where inertia is a lot higher than that on Earth, these moon-hoax theory supporters will feel incredibly stupid. Definitely worth watching.
Before watching it I didn't know what exactly it was; opinions seemed to differ. But having watched it, I'd say this documentary is also a good test of how easily you can be fooled into believing anything you told that seems logical on the surface.
Right from the start I couldn't believe what I was hearing from the narrator. That the Apollo program was to become Star Wars. That the moon landing was to cover up a money laundry agenda with funds going missing. That the public really needed some warm up with the help of Hollywood to greet the moon landing with enthusiasm. That NASA used lots of ideas from 2001 Odyssey. That Hollywood changed the spacesuits, changed the rocket, they even moved the launch pad to get better shot angle. By any stretch of imagination this was just a line of stupid suggestion, however convincingly told.
Then come these interviews with top US officials who never mention the subject they are discussing, not a single word from the four people in the room about the Moon, or any names dropped, let alone mentioning faking the landing in a studio. That's why you don't hear the questions from the interviewer. You film a conversation on one subject and then use the words to make it look like they talk about another. You can then insert these bits of the interview into any narrative you want. They might as well all be talking about their fishing trips or some covert op in Korea in the 50's or a movie they watched.
END OF SPOILERS
Oh, boy, they really did take the Mickey out of those Moon-hoax Kubrick-did-it-all theorists. Nice effort. Particularly was important to have Kubrick's wife on the screen. She must be tired of all this moon-hoax rubbish herself. Oh, and you do have to watch the film right through to the end of the credits.
On a side note to those Moon-hoax believers. You really need to get out of the box and look at the bigger picture, and most importantly read about space exploration history. And here's freebie for you to get you going. If you know anything about the Russian space program of the 60's and the Moon race that Soviet Union was part of you must have heard of Alexei Leonov - the first person to walk in outer space back in March 1965. He was soon made the lead cosmonaut of a group of cosmonauts that were scheduled to walk on the Moon.
When the Americans first walked on the Moon in July 1969, the Soviet deep space receiving station at Eupatoria (on the Black Sea) was receiving all transmissions from those Apollo flights including the surface of the Moon and they were specialists and they knew for a fact these were coming from the Moon and not Hollywood, California via some remote satellite. When the whole world was watching those live TV images from the Moon only two countries in the world were not televising them - Soviet Union and China. And so Alexei Leonov with other cosmonauts were sitting in a locked room in Ostankino television centre, Moscow, watching those live picture coming from the Moon surface as it was the only place where they could. Leonov, a smart man, trust me, confirmed it in his interviews and If there was even a shade of doubt this wasn't for real the Soviets would be the first to expose it as they would be the most interested party in it.
And one the final note. When some years from now, and that time will come for sure, when astronauts land on the moon again, and we will see a flag waving again in 1/6 of Earth gravity and in zero air resistance where inertia is a lot higher than that on Earth, these moon-hoax theory supporters will feel incredibly stupid. Definitely worth watching.