Apollo exploitation movies

[Michel Van]

so Hollywood get Apollo Program in there claws

after Michael "Armageddon" Bay, Transformer3 give Apollo 11 a treatment :
http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/paramount/transformersdarkofthemoon/
comes now Apollo 18 Thriller ala Alien
were a US Military lunar mission look at manned Soviet landing site
http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/weinstein/apollo18/


personally i have mix feelings about this
i like Apollo Movies and Apollo 18 look good made
but for me Manned Lunar landing is something "sacred"
and not to be Hollywood exploitation
so Wat next, a Hustler Apollo porn Movie ?

 

[shedofdread]

I'm sure I read (I say 'read' what i really mean is glance at and collapse laughing...) a novel that had a plot line VERY similar to the above mentioned Apollo 18. Anyone else remember that one? Or should I not have reminded you of it?

S

 

[XP67_Moonbat]

FREEFALL by Judith & Garfield Reeves-Stevens dealt with a a cover-up of a secret Apollo mission to examine a Soviet lunar landing site and a shadow space program as well. No aliens in this book. But it's still a good read nonetheless.

http://www.amazon.com/Freefall-Judith-Reeves-Stevens/dp/0743406079

 

[Firefly 2]

It's just fiction. As long as they get some technical facts rightI'm happy.
I can get so cranky when airplanes or weapons are misslabeled in movies.
There's a bit of a Cloverfield vibe going on in this movie, it seems.

 

[Orionblamblam]

I'm sure I read (I say 'read' what i really mean is glance at and collapse laughing...) a novel that had a plot line VERY similar to the above mentioned Apollo 18. Anyone else remember that one?

Maybe thinking of the Walter Koenig ("Pavel Chekov") movie "Moontrap."
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097911/

 

[sublight]

Dont forget Space Nazi's on the Moooooooooooon.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeAfoiN5SDw

 

[Graham1973]

How about Stowaway to the Moon (TV, 1975), a space crazy kid stows away on Apollo 20.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073752/

 

[shedofdread]

I'm sure I read (I say 'read' what i really mean is glance at and collapse laughing...) a novel that had a plot line VERY similar to the above mentioned Apollo 18. Anyone else remember that one?

Maybe thinking of the Walter Koenig ("Pavel Chekov") movie "Moontrap."
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097911/

No, thankfully I wasn't thinking of that one. I've a feeling the plot had some element of - new astronauts pitch up on the moon and find some other astronaut living in a cave / capsule / something and they all shoot it out with some other lot. You can probably tell how much of an impression it made... Right up there with the one Matthew Reilly novel, I once accidentally bought.

S

 

[Michel Van]

Don't forget Space Nazi's on the Moooooooooooon.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeAfoiN5SDw

they finish shotting the Movie IronSky
now comes SFX, edit and final cut

 

[Firefly 2]

Don't forget Space Nazi's on the Moooooooooooon.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeAfoiN5SDw

they finish shotting the Movie IronSky
now comes SFX, edit and final cut

Sweet, a mate of mine ( expat in Finland, working for Nokia) knows the team behind this movie. Jolly fellows, so it seems.

 

[Lauge]

I'm sure I read (I say 'read' what i really mean is glance at and collapse laughing...) a novel that had a plot line VERY similar to the above mentioned Apollo 18. Anyone else remember that one?

Maybe thinking of the Walter Koenig ("Pavel Chekov") movie "Moontrap."
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097911/

No, thankfully I wasn't thinking of that one. I've a feeling the plot had some element of - new astronauts pitch up on the moon and find some other astronaut living in a cave / capsule / something and they all shoot it out with some other lot. You can probably tell how much of an impression it made... Right up there with the one Matthew Reilly novel, I once accidentally bought.

S

"Cyclops" by Clive Cussler, possibly?

http://www.amazon.com/Cyclops-ebook/dp/B002TXZR6I/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1298487565&sr=8-2

From the above link: "....this latest Cussler suspense caper features, and ingeniously connects, a maverick American colony on the Moon, a fabulous sunken treasure sought by an unscrupulous, blimp-owning financier, and two cunningly devised Soviet schemes, one to steal U.S. space secrets, the other to replace Fidel Castro with a Kremlin puppet....".

Regards & all,

Thomas L. Nielsen
Luxembourg

 

[Michel Van]

Sweet, a mate of mine ( expat in Finland, working for Nokia) knows the team behind this movie. Jolly fellows, so it seems.

the jolly fellows are Timo Vuorensola & Samuli Torssonen
the brains behind "Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning"
The best Star Trek & Babylon 5 spoof of all times ;D

in Iron Sky top Nazi escape to the Moon in 1945 (via Antarctic)
2018 their descendants return with FLUGSCHEIBEN.
with
Udo Kier as Nazi Moon base commander Wolfgang Höss.
Götz Otto as the intelligence officer Klaus Adler
Julia Dietze as Moon Nazi officer Renate Richter
Tilo Prückner as the Nazi scientist Doktor Richter.

the Movie is schedule to be finish June 2011
and release end of year

 

[Firefly 2]

I love Star Wreck. Great spoof ;D

 

[Nick]

Freefall... the plot sounds familiar.... ???

The story I am recalling had the Soviets secretly landing first on a one-way mission with the intention of discrediting the Americans by shooting down the Eagle lander with a modified SAM launcher. That would then give the Soviets the opportunity to send their man to the moon and bring him back again.
Is this the same book?

 

[Michel Van]

Freefall... the plot sounds familiar.... ???

The story I am recalling had the Soviets secretly landing first on a one-way mission with the intention of discrediting the Americans by shooting down the Eagle lander with a modified SAM launcher. That would then give the Soviets the opportunity to send their man to the moon and bring him back again.
Is this the same book?

that must be "Red Moon - A Novel" by David s. Michaels
http://www.amazon.com/Red-Moon-David-S-Michaels/dp/0979692946/ref=pd_sim_b_1

not to confuse with
"Red Moon" by Michael Cassutt
were a engineering student, Yuri Ribko discover a murder scheme inside soviet Lunar program
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0312874405/encyclopedi0b-20

 

[Hammer Birchgrove]

so Hollywood get Apollo Program in there claws

after Michael "Armageddon" Bay, Transformer3 give Apollo 11 a treatment :
http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/paramount/transformersdarkofthemoon/
comes now Apollo 18 Thriller ala Alien
were a US Military lunar mission look at manned Soviet landing site
http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/weinstein/apollo18/


personally i have mix feelings about this
i like Apollo Movies and Apollo 18 look good made
but for me Manned Lunar landing is something "sacred"
and not to be Hollywood exploitation
so Wat next, a Hustler Apollo porn Movie ?

(My bolds in the quote.)

Your last sentence is actually quite probable; since nearly all new Hustler films are spoofs of popular films and with travesty titles, for example "This is not Star Trek". If I re-call correctly they even made a version of their Adam West Batman spoof with the porn parts edited out. :-\

Lets pretend I only know this through comic book forums... :

 

[The Artist]

Apollo 18 was the mission number of the moon landing mission in James Mitchner's Space - in both the book and the miniseries. A side note. An Apollo 18 patch from the miniseries can be seen on Data's jacket in the movie Goonies.

While this is a novel - not a movie - I'd like to also point out that the Apollo 19 mission comes to a tragic end after a series of switch failures in the first chapter of Kit Pedler and Gerry Davis' Mutant 59: The Plastic Eaters.

Marooned and Capricorn One were two movies that exploited the public's interest in the moon program even though these movies didn't deal with moon landings.

 

[Graham1973]

Another novel featuring Apollo 19 is Edwin Corleys' Sargasso. Apollo 19 is a follow-on to the ASTP, this time it's a Apollo/Salyut/Soyuz Project (ASSTP).

For some reason the Russians let the Americans dock with a military Saluyt (Armed with nukes!). After the joint mission the Apollo crew send their capsule back empty and sneak back on board, dying when their attempt to disarm the weapons instead triggers them.

What I always loved about this one was the author's idea about what NASA does when a mission goes really wrong:

When Jakes pulled the red switch, he set several events into motion. First he disconnected all radio and video feeds from downrange. They could not be reconnected without a complicated rewiring procedure. Second he destroyed both the endless tape loop and the video disc inside the console, wiping out any information that might have been recorded on them before he hit the panic button.

Finally, he had activated monstrous jamming transmitters located on Merritt Island in Florida, which blanketed the microwave frequencies from downrange to prevent any unauthorized receivers from picking them up.

Sargasso: Edwin Corley, Sphere Books, 1978

 

[OM]

While this is a novel - not a movie - I'd like to also point out that the Apollo 19 mission comes to a tragic end after a series of switch failures in the first chapter of Kit Pedler and Gerry Davis' Mutant 59: The Plastic Eaters.

...The basic plot of which was recycled from the first episode of Doomwatch.

Lets pretend I only know this through comic book forums... :

...Actually, word has it that after Apollo 13 at least two pr0n producers looked at doing XXX flicks involving scenes shot in the Vomit Comet so that they could actually show the answer of whether or not sex is possible in zero-g. The only problem was that they couldn't get anyone providing VC services to accept the contract because they didn't want to be associated with pr0n. Can't say I blame them, but on the other hand even the quickest triggers take longer than the ~30 seconds it takes to complete a freefall loop in the Comet.

That being said, word has it that Ron Jeremy's up...er, coming performance as the Penguin rivals the Late Burgess Meredith's. Go figger...

 

[Lauge]

....Ron Jeremy's up...er, coming performance as the Penguin rivals the Late Burgess Meredith's....."

OK, there's a mental image I could definitely have done without :-X

Regards & all,

Thomas L. Nielsen
Luxembourg

 

[Hammer Birchgrove]

While this is a novel - not a movie - I'd like to also point out that the Apollo 19 mission comes to a tragic end after a series of switch failures in the first chapter of Kit Pedler and Gerry Davis' Mutant 59: The Plastic Eaters.

...The basic plot of which was recycled from the first episode of Doomwatch.

Lets pretend I only know this through comic book forums... :

...Actually, word has it that after Apollo 13 at least two pr0n producers looked at doing XXX flicks involving scenes shot in the Vomit Comet so that they could actually show the answer of whether or not sex is possible in zero-g. The only problem was that they couldn't get anyone providing VC services to accept the contract because they didn't want to be associated with pr0n. Can't say I blame them, but on the other hand even the quickest triggers take longer than the ~30 seconds it takes to complete a freefall loop in the Comet.

That being said, word has it that Ron Jeremy's up...er, coming performance as the Penguin rivals the Late Burgess Meredith's. Go figger...

Poor Ron has wanted to be a real actor for years, if not decades, and gets proud for acting as a clerk who is in a film for a minute and gets shot to death by bank robbers in a C-movie.

 

[Michel Van]

Poor Ron has wanted to be a real actor for years, if not decades, and gets proud for acting as a clerk who is in a film for a minute and gets shot to death by bank robbers in a C-movie.

...or bitten by Vampire in a Rodriguez movie or almost run over by Chev Chelios in stolen police car in Crank: High Voltage...

 

[Lauge]

...or bitten by Vampire in a Rodriguez movie...

My feelings go out to the vampire's family

Regards & all,

Thomas L. Nielsen
Luxembourg