I feel the need to blog. I'm not sure of the point or message I want to get out, but I feel something stirring in me and it's activating my fingers to type, while my brain is on auto pilot and a commercial for Joe's new fashion line is on Teletoon.
Alright some thought. I saw Apollo 18 tonight after work. What made me want to see it is that when technology fails me I let out... "They put a man on the moon forty years ago, but they can't make a <BLANK> that can do <BLANK>". I've wondered why after the US landed on the moon and brought some rocks back why Russia stopped. On top of that, why China, India and Japan still can't get to the moon. Japan especially as they are considered the most high tech country in the world. Did countries just give up? Did they think since the US did it, there's no point and should focus somewhere else or did they try everything and found it impossible?
I'd like to see the US go up one more time, just to prove to the rest of the world it still can be done. Mind you it won't happen anytime soon thanks to the economy.
I like to think that you view me as someone that's not insane and has a decent head on his shoulders. That said these observations raise questions in the back of my mind. I also wonder how the US could afford the war in Vietnam, the war against Russia and waiting for tanks to roll into Eastern Europe in World War III, take care of the Continental US at home and spend so much to go from a mach 3 flying aircraft to space travel to landing on another planet with a live crew, take samples and pictures, then take said live crew back off the moon and lands back on earth safe and sound MORE than once!
It boggles my mind and I think it would be easier to fake the whole damn thing to spook the Russians and call it a day. The movie "Capricorn One" has the same concept except OJ Simpson was faking landing on Mars. The reason was NASA couldn't afford one more screw up or else it would be shut down. Makes sense to me. I won't spoil the rest for you.
So why haven't we gone back to the moon? Apollo 18 shows their thoughts and I really enjoyed how it was shot, documentary style and what you see is footage from their cameras in and around the ship. The good thing is they had plenty of close shots making you feel how small the small ship is. You feel like you are in the ship with them. I think they did a good job in the style of scary moments, the kind where you know something is going to happen, the only question is when, like right.................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. NOW!!!!!!!!!!!
What I did like was a scene where Anderson is in a crater, and he can't see anything as it's below the sun's light. He has to rely on the flash of his camera and flash by flash you see what he eventually sees. What I feel it fails to do is keeps fear in the movie. There are scary scenes don't get me wrong but to me I hold no fear of the creature. It's on the moon, if I even believe it's real haha. Also since there were limited trips to the moon (Anderson mentions they are only of twelve men to step on the moon), how is the danger still apparent?
Secretly deep inside I always hope that every movie where you never see the space alien that it turns out to be a new chapter in the Alien movie series which set the pace of every alien movie ever made in my opinion.
So the point in all this? Does there need to be? Really the movie opened a part of my brain that hasn't been visited in a while, and fed on my imagination and my quest for answers that I'll never likely know in my lifetime. Only time can tell...
PS: I love blogging and writing, it's an outlet I need to take advantage of. That said I somewhat regret about opening my brain and letting everyone online have access to it. Nothing has come back to bite me in the ass, but realizing it I'm comfortable with myself, but not comfortable with everyone knowing what I think and feel, especially at a time in which I wasn't sure what I thought or felt. I'm glad to be able to use this, but I think in the future I'll reserve it for pieces like this where I'm not spilling out feelings and emotions. Anyways feels and emotions should be suppressed and hated right? You know I'm right :P
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