I'm looking forward to it. Sounds like a fun movie and interesting storyline. And any moon-based movie with today's special effects I'm all in for. And it has an fictional Apollo angle taboot!

I've never seen "Unknown" (had to Google it to figure out what it was) so I have no idea what you're talking about.

My apologies, my memory is going - I thought you had made a comment about it, but now see that I was mistaken. Again, sorry for the confusion.

LOL This nitpicking debate reminds me about a comment Peter Jackson made during the commentary for Fellowship of the Ring. He mentioned that some hardcore LOTR fans complained about the mentioning of tomatoes in the film because the tomato was a food that only existed in the New World and thus could not have existed in the Old World which LOTR was based on. So they have a problem accepting that but no problem at all accepting hobbits, wizards, magic, orcs, etc.

LOL!
Remember Battlezone? Pretty cool game set around the time of the moon landing. Alternate timeline etc. If it's in a game it must be possible, right?

Believe it or not there was some dumba*s whinging in the UK by tree-hugging fluffy liberal colonial-guilt ridden do-gooders who were complaining that Hobbiton was, well, a little too white. And that there were no black, wheelchair-bound or transgendered Hobbits.

You have to wonder about some people.

Oh my, just Googled it and it's still ongoing with The Hobbit. Sigh. Seriously.

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The difference is Star Wars doesn't take place in our world. Apollo 18 supposedly does.

The thing with any fantasy is there's no reality to base it on, and despite some claims to the contrary, SW is fantasy, not SF. There's no scientific basis for the Force, lightsabers, laser "bolts", any of it. Star Trek is the one that made the effort to be possible (if not actually real), SW never bothered because it's a fantasy.

So if I see a film with elves, dwarves, and hobbits and it has a dragon in it, I'm fine with that. If I see a film about the US space program and then there's a dragon attacking the Cape prior to a launch, I'm NOT fine with that. It's the context, not absolutes. If you stick with absolutes, well, pretty much no film is worthwhile because even those based on real events, like Apollo 13, have a lot of fictionalized events and dialogue as filler.


The Jedi Master

Conceivably though (not knowing the story of the movie in advance) it's perfectly possibly that it won't be suggested "no-one noticed the rocket".

It could have been explained away as a test of a new unmanned module, a heavy satellite launch using the Saturn-V, any number of feasible constructs.

While in some cases that would work, the truth is the Saturn 5 was such a high-profile rocket that everyone ever built has been accounted for, as seen here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn_V#Saturn_V_vehicles_and_launches



The Jedi Master

whoa! Looks like it could be an entertaining film! thanks for sharing.