Oh noes!
Oh yes. Well, maybe.
Capricorn 2. You heard me: Capricorn 2.
In fact, Capricorn 1 is an enjoyable movie, but if I have to keep telling Moon Hoax twinkies it was just a movie and not reality I may go insane.
Sigh.
As Rodney Dangerfield once said, "Always look out for number one, and be careful not to step in number two."
Tip o’ the faked spacesuit visor to Jim Oberg for filling my weekend with woe.
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February 10th, 2007 at 4:04 pm
Ugh.
February 10th, 2007 at 4:46 pm
What Donnie said. At least your morning radio dance card will be filled.
February 10th, 2007 at 4:51 pm
I was praying that getting to Mars would shut up most of the HB crowd.
But this movie is going to just add fuel to the fire when we do get there.
February 10th, 2007 at 5:01 pm
Hello Phil.
Your link to Jim Oberg’s site is broken. Pretty obvious what it should be though. Oops! Fixed, and thanks. — The BA
February 10th, 2007 at 5:19 pm
Sigh.
Yes, Capricorn One was enjoyable; the action in the 2nd half well done. But it’s rocket science was just ludicrous. I never could take anyone seriously who used this as a template for the hoaxing, cause it simply could not work as depicted (just slowmo is enough to simulate low gravity? Slow motion in a live broadcast? Live broadcast from Mars? Why do online editing on something that can easily be taped? I saw the movie first as a teenager, but this scene made me shout “THIS cannot work. Are they serious?”).
One of the best things about the movie was Jerry Goldsmith’s score. He sadly passed away. He was one the few things that could have made the remake interesting for me, if he still could be hired.
February 10th, 2007 at 6:00 pm
With todays photoshop tricks one could put a human on any planet they want.
I do remember seeing that old sci-fi flick in the movie theater. Of course I did not really think that NASA faked the Apollo lunar landing missions. I must admit though: it did plant a tiny seed of doubt into my reason.
February 10th, 2007 at 6:16 pm
I’m waiting for someone to claim that Spirit and Opportunity have been buggying around Utah for the last 5 years.
Better yet- George Bush is a simulacra designed to promote Fox news, which is itself a spoof.
Someone call PKD.
February 10th, 2007 at 9:11 pm
Oh, for the love of humanity, NNNOOOOOOO!!!!
God, why in the HECK are they remaking this tripe? I suppose they’ve got a built-in audience, though, with all the HBs around.
I saw the original when I was 8 or 9, and thought it was good then. I saw it again as a young adult, and couldn’t understand why I ever thought it was good at all. (Except for the music. Fantastic, dramatic score by Goldsmith!)
I’ll grant that it’s tightly directed, and thus the viewer gets ’sucked in’ to the events as they unfold. Hey, just like any HB ‘documentary!’ As long as you just go along for the ride & don’t actually think about what you’re watching, it’s entertaining!
February 10th, 2007 at 11:33 pm
I suspect they will go to the HBers to do their research for this. I have ben predicting for some time that HBers could gain the upper hand as people no longer trust the evil US gubment.
I am waiting for the first teacher or education authority to say that the moon landings are a belief or matter of opinion and not fact, just like Rene says it is like the Easter Bunny and the tooth fairy.
Capricorn 2 has given the HBers a new lease of life.
Anyway we can stop this atrocity from being filmed?
February 11th, 2007 at 2:27 am
Let’s put all this moon landing hoax cr*p behind us and get working on exposing the REAL NASA CONSPIRACY!!!!!!
http://elvisandthebluemoonconspiracy.com/
Hey, it was a fun and goofy novel.
February 11th, 2007 at 6:48 am
Sticks, it’s a movie, fiction, made for entertainment. You give the HBers way too much credit.
February 11th, 2007 at 7:29 am
But some of the HBers, like that Fox programme used the producers of the original film to make their case, thus giving them an air of authority that they are not entitled to.
February 11th, 2007 at 7:52 am
It’s the casual mention of an I, Robot 2 in that Moviehole article which really freaks me out.
February 11th, 2007 at 8:05 am
In a litiginous society society such as ours, every time something falls from the sky, there’s someone yelling,”I’ll SUE!!!”.
Makes it kinda iffy for an individual to launch anything into space. Remember Heinliens The Man Who Sold the Moon?
Space travel/development requires a very large social infrastructure. It’s a macro engineering project and the efforts of a single individual are insignificant in that regard.
Having said that, I still dream of the backyard inventor who invents anti gravity and goes out to lay claim to the moon,,,Gee, I wish!
Gary 7
February 11th, 2007 at 10:30 am
Peter Hyams is the sadsack that directed 2010 which was one of the biggest SF movies disappointments ever produced. I have not and never will forgive him for that.
I didn’t realize he did Capicorn 1, but that is also an ugly scar of a movie.
Ugh.
February 11th, 2007 at 5:24 pm
I can’t wait for this one to come out!
If only so that I can see you tear it apart in a “Bad Movie Review”
February 11th, 2007 at 6:54 pm
More importantly! Why remake Outland????
just re-release the wonderful original.
next thing you know the will re-make ‘Taxi’ only in english and not funny.
oh, wait….
February 11th, 2007 at 11:51 pm
You are all missing the important question.
Will OJ be in the remake?
February 12th, 2007 at 8:20 am
Hey, you want conspiracies? Some people say the government framed OJ because his role in this movie exposed the truth that the moon landings were faked.
If that’s the case, they took a heck of a long time to get around to it.
February 12th, 2007 at 9:41 am
We so do NOT need a remake of ‘Capricorn One’.
I’d rather Hyams remake ‘2010′ (which I liked, mostly for depicting the real Jupiter (’2001′ was a pre-Voyager Jupiter) and it’s moons).
February 12th, 2007 at 6:39 pm
Hyams also directed Time Cop, which was execrable. One example of its idiocy: The time cops’ time capsule is accelerated by a rail-gun-like device into the time gate. Only sometimes the gate fails and the capsule goes through the gate and smashes into a concrete block placed on the other side of the gate. Not a water-tank, not a safety net, not a decelerating rail-gun, but a concrete block. Wuh?