Apollo 18

I am/was so excited that this finally came out. I first heard about it forever ago, and was very excited then, but the release date kept getting pushed back. I think it was originally supposed to have a summer release, but here we are in September, and it’s just now coming out. I wasn’t even sure it was coming out last Friday. I went to see the Guillermo Del Toro movie the week before last, and the preview for Apollo 18 said it was coming out in March. Very strange. But anyway, never mind. It came out…finally.

           

            Apollo 18 is a very Paranormal Activity-esque movie about the supposed mission to the moon after Apollo 17. All the footage is supposed to be discovered footage of the mission. I thought this was cool. It is a shame, though, that this has become sort of a genre in its own, because you know it’s not real. When I first saw Paranormal Activity, it was right after it came out, so everyone still thought it was real. Maybe it was naïve to think it was real, but it sure made it terrifying. Apollo 18, I’m sure, would have been just as scary if it were the first of its kind.

            All that being said, this movie was just okay. Maybe I built it up too much in my head, but the more I think about it, the less I like it. Which is never good. When I was watching it, it was really creepy, and I jumped a few times. But now looking back…not much happened. It seemed like the movie was like 90% suspense, but the payoff wasn’t nearly scary enough. Like, Paranormal Activity is probably just as much suspense, but when the action happens, it’s really scary. Also, maybe my scared-ness during the movie probably had a lot to do with my personal fear of creepy-crawly things. So the fact that the aliens were spider-like was actually scary to me. I will say that the aliens were very original, which was good. And who doesn’t love a good government conspiracy movie?

            I don’t want anyone to think that I’m completely knocking this movie. Because I’m not. It was entertaining, and at the end of the day, that’s what movies are about.