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As Good As It Gets

Absolutely the worst movie.

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

In 1970, Apollo missions 18, 19, 20 were canceled due to the budget. In 1972, Apollo 17 lands on the moon as the final official mission. In 2011, 84 hours of classified footage is revealed. Commander Nathan Walker, Captain Ben Anderson and Lieutenant Colonel John Grey had been sent on a secret mission to the moon but they were not alone.By now, I'm a little tired of the found-footage premise. I imagine this would work much better with a straight forward telling. This could have been something great but it is as lifeless as the moon. Nothing remotely scary happens for the first half. The second half has some marginal body horror, creature horror, and zombie horror. Overall, it is marginal at its best and boring at its worst.

"Apollo 18" is a science fiction/horror film which depicts a top-secret Apollo mission to the moon during the early 1970's. The film is presented in a mock-documentary format, using footage which was designed to appear as old archived NASA footage from the Apollo mission.The film has a number of things in its favor. The footage of the moon landing is fairly realistic-looking, making it relatively easy for members of the audience to suspend their belief for the duration of the movie. The cast consists of relatively unknown actors who provide decent performances during the movie. The film provides a number of genuinely creepy moments as well as enough cliffhanger moments to keep members of the audience on the edge of their seats.The film does have a few logic flaws. Since the film was presented in a mock-documentary format, one has to wonder how the footage from this mission was supposedly recovered when the spacecraft and crew supposedly failed to return to Earth. One also has to wonder why members of the public were not surprised by an unannounced nighttime launch of a Saturn V rocket."Apollo 18" is not a perfect film. It falls short of being as riveting as Ron Howard's film, "Apollo 13." However, "Apollo 18" is still an entertaining "what if" film about a fictional top-secret Apollo mission. The film is definitely worth seeing and would make a good entry for those showing horror movies on Halloween night.

Astronauts on a secret mission to the moon discover the same deadly infestation as their predecessors.Really well produced found footage, but is the story any good? This is my second watch, and I didn't find any more than I got the first time. The set up of the characters is good, the claustrophobia is effective, and the tension is played pretty well.But the menace never makes sense: at one point it seems like evil rock throwing, then something gets inside a helmet. Is it a burrowing parasite? A superior intelligence? A malevolent entity? The '70s detail and atmosphere are excellent, along with the music, and the whole thing felt good. But the story was vaguely paranoid and not all that scary. And it lost pace in the final third.Overall, just OK.

The movie had potential but the camera work throughout the movie was distracting. I understand that the camera work was on purpose but it was just too much distortion to make it easy to follow. Not the same as the "lost footage" from The Blair Witch Project. The concept was sound, though. With more mainstream camera work it would have been more entertaining. Still, I liked it. The actors certainly held the movie together. Spoiler alert: They did a good job acting the slow deterioration into madness. Aliens, paranoia, and secrets. A cool mix! The idea of the plot taking place on the moon was adhered to throughout the movie. I almost felt claustrophobic watching it!