Lambcast #739 Fly Me to the Moon

by Richard Kirkham · July 16, 2024 · Featured, LAMBcast · No Comments

It’s 1969, the World is awaiting the first human landing on the moon, and apparently NASA needs some sponsorships. In the years before corporations paid to have their names on the football field/stadium/arena/parking space, they sold products associated with the event they wanted to associate with. Apparently Scarlett Johannsson is responsible for TANG! being the official breakfast drink of the astronauts and Omega being the watches worn on the moon.  

The conceit of the film is that a fast talking manipulator from Manhattan is plugged into the high pressure tech world of Cape Canaveral and Coco beach in the midst of public relations problems suffered by NASA on the brink of mankind’s greatest accomplishment. Of course she will cross swords with the stodgy, much too serious director of the Moon launch, himself, a former candidate for the astronaut program and the sparks will fly. This is a rom-com formula if ever there was one. How do you spice it up, the third act obstacle to their romance of a fake moon landing, being developed by our leading lady under threat by sinister government forces. Channing Tatum is the perfectly cast flight director and Woody Harrelson is the mystery operative who has a plan that even the President doesn’t know about.

Howard Casner of “Pop Art” and James Wilson from “Blogging by Cinema Light” are two Lambs, who along with your shepherd, can actually remember the period of the Moon Landing and they all have some thoughts about how it it being used in this movie.

You will get their reviews of the film, but also some space history and speculation as well as an Exit Question that reminds us that space was a frequent subject of 60s film making. So come find out if you should see the movie or believe the conspiracy theories. Maybe you will show up for the story, but we bet you stay for the haircuts.

Introductions

Opening Thoughts 3:22

Conspiracy Theory 13:04

Space Exploration Today 25:00

Spoilery Stuff 31:05

EXIT Question 44:30

Plugs 55:22

Howard Pop Art

James Blogging By Cinema Light

Richard KAMAD

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