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Fly Me To The Moon | Average Guy Movie Review

Ad-Exec Kelly Jones (Scarlett Johansson) is hired by the US government to reignite the public's interest in NASA, and their battle to beat the Soviets to the moon. Her attempts to market the space race cause her to bump heads with Launch Director, Cole Davis (Channing Tatum). But her successes please those in Washington so much they give her a slightly bigger task; fake the Apollo 11 moon landing... or at least film a fake landing just in case the real one fails. Fly Me To The Moon  is a movie of two halves. On the one hand it's a quirky rom-com about an Ad-Exec working for NASA, and on the other it's a kind of history/conspiracy drama about filming a fake moon landing. Unsurprisingly, the results are rather inconsistent. As the movie jumps between the two narratives it becomes painfully clear that the two halves just don't marry up - certainly when it comes to the movie's tone. In fact, it's like the ideas for two very different movies have been forced together...

Apollo 11 | Average Guy Movie Review

On 16th July 1969, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins were launched into space on what is undoubtedly the most famous mission in the history of space exploration. Their destination, the moon, where Armstrong and Aldrin would become the first humans to set foot on another world. Thanks to the discovery of previously unseen footage, director Todd Douglas Miller and his team have been able to bring this incredible feat of human achievement back to life. Charting events from the hours prior to launch, through their flight to the moon, the landing, the return to Earth and the aftermath, Miller is able to provide whole new perspectives on the mission. Not just from the point of view of the astronauts, but from all those who worked to get them to the moon, and the millions of people who watched from around the world. In many ways it's like you're actually witnessing these events as they take place, rather than watching a documentary. And the lack of a narrator de...