Fly Me To the Moon movie trailer

[Blackstar]

Let the sparks fly.

[Blackstar]

[Star One]

I was quite enthused when I first started watching the trailer but as it went onto the Moon hoax stuff, my reaction became more ugh.

[Eric Hedman]

Looks even worse than Ad Astra.  I'll pass.  Hollywood is a lost cause.  Ricky Gervais was right about everything he said to their faces at the Golden Globes:

[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJOb9xHggS4/url]

[tea monster]

I'm going to assume, having seen only the trailer, that it is a light-hearted assumption that they filmed a fake landing "Just in case".

If it wasn't for the last few years of science denying and crazy, I'd be much more able to laugh along with the film.

It's great to see some more quality space orientated stuff from Apple.

[Oersted]

F*ck Apple for going with this crass stupidity.

[Blackstar]

http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-041124a-fly-me-to-the-moon-trailer-johansson-tatum.html

[joek]

Don't see the the issue. Looks like it might be a fun romp and worth a look. This does not appear to be a "They faked it" tale, but something of an alt-history where plans were put in place to fake it as a backup if needed. Have to watch it or wait for additional reviews, but expect the punch line is: No, they did not fake it and the backup plan was not executed.

[Blackstar]

[spacenut]

I never saw it because it was about a fake moon landing.  I can't support stuff like this. 

[Blackstar]

I never saw it because it was about a fake moon landing.  I can't support stuff like this. 

You realize it's supposed to be funny, right? Watching something doesn't mean that you "support" it.

[Oersted]

Don't see the the issue. Looks like it might be a fun romp and worth a look. This does not appear to be a "They faked it" tale, but something of an alt-history where plans were put in place to fake it as a backup if needed. Have to watch it or wait for additional reviews, but expect the punch line is: No, they did not fake it and the backup plan was not executed.

But please understand that many people are going to believe there was a back-up plan to fake it, which is almost as damaging as saying that the actual Moon landing was faked. This is Hollywood big ticket names validating a crazy conspiracy theory.

[yg1968]

Don't see the the issue. Looks like it might be a fun romp and worth a look. This does not appear to be a "They faked it" tale, but something of an alt-history where plans were put in place to fake it as a backup if needed. Have to watch it or wait for additional reviews, but expect the punch line is: No, they did not fake it and the backup plan was not executed.

But please understand that many people are going to believe there was a back-up plan to fake it, which is almost as damaging as saying that the actual Moon landing was faked. This is Hollywood big ticket names validating a crazy conspiracy theory.

A lot of people think that Oliver's Stone's movies are documentaries. This movie isn't by Oliver Stone but they may still think that it validates their crazy theories.

In any event, this movie doesn't seem funny either.

[Blackstar]

https://gizmodo.com/fly-me-to-the-moon-review-scarlett-johansson-tatum-2000378206

Fly Me to the Moon Is, Somehow, Just Black Widow Again
Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum star in the space race rom-com that is just an absolute mess.
By Germain Lussier Published July 9, 2024

Remember the movie where Scarlett Johansson played this incredibly confident badass who did accents to become different characters and accepted a super-secret government job in order to wipe her mysterious record clean? Yes, that’s the plot of Black Widow—but it’s also, improbably, the plot of Fly Me to the Moon, a romantic comedy posing as a spy movie posing as a thriller posing as an aspirational drama, all at the same time. It has no idea what it wants to be or say, so that it sprinkles some Marvel in there too is as logical as anything else.

[laszlo]

I'm still waiting for the Apple movie where we see that Steve Jobs stole all his ideas from his partners and employees, put contact transfer cocaine into the iphone screens so that just handling them addicted you and destroyed your critical thinking skills and that he ended up murdered by escaped Asian slave laborers who convinced him to use "traditional" non-western medicine to treat his cancer in revenge for all the family members they had lost in the electronic labor camps.

Now that would be a hilarious romp!

[Blackstar]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/movies/2024/07/11/fly-me-moon-tatum-johansson/

‘Fly Me to the Moon’ is saved by the stars
Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum light up an earthbound romantic comedy.
Review by Ty Burr
July 11, 2024 at 6:00 a.m. EDT

What do you get when you cross “Apollo 13” with a Rock Hudson/Doris Day romantic comedy? Wait, why would you even try? “Fly Me to the Moon” is a platypus of a movie, and while it definitely has its charms, bizarro and otherwise, you may be more fascinated by the baling wire holding it together than what’s actually in it.

Still, Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum at odds and in love — how can that not be a good deal in the on-screen chemistry department? And it is, even if the two stars have to swim upriver against contrived dialogue and some unflattering costume and hairstyling choices. The year is 1969, and NASA is fighting a rearguard action to launch the Apollo 11 spaceflight in an America exhausted by war, assassinations and protest. Why spend money to send men to the moon when everything on Earth is about to collapse?

Harried mission director Cole Davis (Tatum) rouses his team to press ahead, but someone high up the food chain in Washington decides a PR campaign is in order and dispatches a gleefully sinister government spook (Woody Harrelson) to hire Kelly Jones (Johansson), a Madison Avenue ad whiz first seen confounding a conference room full of piggish Ford executives. Kelly is flown down to Cocoa Beach, Fla., with her sassy young assistant (comedian/actress Anna Garcia) and sets about selling the moon landing to America while driving Cole crazy.



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Director Greg Berlanti (“Love, Simon”) gets some healthy slapstick out of the soundstage sequences, but the whole subplot has a queasy feeling, as if even pretending the hoax really happened is enough to reawaken the crazies. But all of “Fly Me to the Moon” is like that: broad farce, serious historical drama (there’s more than one visit to the memorial for the fallen astronauts of Apollo 1), light romantic comedy, suspense and more, all wrapped up in two hours and 12 minutes of lumpy entertainment. (Resolved: A good rom-com should last no longer than 90 minutes.)

[Spiceman]

https://slate.com/culture/2024/07/fly-me-to-the-moon-scarlett-johansson-channing-tatum.html

Slate didn't liked it...

[Blackstar]

We should not draw too many conclusions from a movie trailer, but I have often found that if a trailer makes a movie look hard to understand and messy, the movie often has problems telling a story.

[laszlo]

I wonder if the producers of this movie would consider making a romcom about the January 6th Insurrection in which operatives at the Biden campaign are shown preparing vote fraud just in case their candidate doesn't win (but when he does they cancel their plan)?

If they wouldn't make that one, why would they have made this?

[Blackstar]

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/11/business/media/fly-me-to-the-moon-greg-berlanti.html

Can Movies for Grown-Ups Still Sell Tickets? ‘Fly Me to the Moon’ Is a Test.
Directed by Greg Berlanti, the film amounts to a Hollywood experiment: Is there still room at the multiplexes for original movies aimed at grown-ups.
By Brooks Barnes

Reporting from Los Angeles
Published July 11, 2024Updated July 12, 2024, 10:54 a.m. ET

“Fly Me to the Moon” is the kind of movie that isn’t supposed to succeed in theaters anymore, at least if you listen to franchise-obsessed studio executives.

The story is a period piece and completely original: In 1968, a government operative (Woody Harrelson) hires a marketing virtuoso (Scarlett Johansson) to convince the public — and Congress — that a troubled NASA can pull off its scheduled Apollo 11 moon landing. Stylish and devious, she clashes with the rigid launch director (Channing Tatum) and secretly — as a backup, to be used only in an emergency — arranges for a fake landing to be filmed on a soundstage. What’s the harm?

Hollywood marketers will tell you that ticket buyers eschew movies that mash together genres. And “Fly Me to the Moon” is part drama, part comedic caper, part romance, part fiction and part true story. Particularly in the summer, studios prefer to serve up mindless popcorn movies aimed at teenagers. “Fly Me to the Moon” is entertainment for thinking adults, the kind that Mike Nichols (“Working Girl”) and James L. Brooks (“Broadcast News”) made in the 1980s.

So the question must be asked: How on earth did “Fly Me to the Moon” manage to score a wide release in theaters at the height of blockbuster season? The film rolls into 3,300 theaters in the United States and Canada on Friday.

[TrevorMonty]

Saw it yesterday with wife who isn't space fan. Both of us enjoyed it, definitely worth seeing.

[Oersted]

Obviously the movie industry has brilliantly concluded that in an era of fake news they should be able to pocket good earnings from a disinformation  movie premise.

[ZachS09]

I also enjoyed "Fly Me to the Moon", which I just saw earlier this afternoon.

As I'm pretty meticulous, I was caught off guard by certain details shown throughout the movie.

First off, when the Apollo 1 fire happened at the beginning and during Cole's flashback, the Saturn IB was shown out in the open and atop the milkstool platform built for Pad 39B, which wasn't constructed until the last couple Apollo missions. The rocket was actually enclosed in the Mobile Service Gantry throughout the whole plugs-out test leading up to the fire. It was also night out at that time.

Next, the Apollo 10 launch happened just after sunset rather than at high noon (12:49 PM). Wonder how the film crew got the inspiration to do a night launch that early in the timeline.

And during the last two-thirds of the Apollo 11 mission from lunar landing to splashdown, the Launch Control team was shown watching the action from their consoles. Did that ever happen in real life?

Other than those details, it was a good movie. And it's pretty ironic that they wanted to film a movie about faking the Apollo 11 Moon landing when those conspiracy theories are still out there.

[TrevorMonty]

Obviously the movie industry has brilliantly concluded that in an era of fake news they should be able to pocket good earnings from a disinformation  movie premise.

Its a fictional movie not a documentary.

[jimothytones]

Horizontally integrated Saturn V is a good one lol

[CameronD]

Horizontally integrated Saturn V is a good one lol

You mean to say they didn't do that back then?? 

Saw it last night with the wife and a couple of friends.. yes, enjoyable and definitely worth seeing.  And yes, they were a bit loose with the details in places to improve the look of the movie (as a pilot I found the scenes in that beautiful Mustang horribly cringeworthy even if mercifully short!).  The way they wove historical newsreel footage all the way through was very clever and very well done.  Top marks. 

[Blackstar]

Horizontally integrated Saturn V is a good one lol

I view that less as a mistake than an artistic choice. Movie screens are horizontal, so it is easier to show horizontal objects with people in front of them than it is to show vertical objects with people in front. Think of showing somebody standing in front of a building, you're only going to see the first few levels of the building, unless you put the camera at their feet and shoot upwards. Also, I don't know if they took any opportunity to film next to a real Saturn V, but they are all horizontal now.

I once knew a guy who was a science and technical advisor for TV and he said that the thing we always need to keep in mind is that it's entertainment, not factual, and that the people who write and film it barely understand the facts or care about them. They are more concerned with visuals and mood. We're lucky that there is any technical accuracy at all.