Fly Me To the Moon movie trailer

[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.