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Is The Shining Stanley Kubrick's secret admission he faked the moon landing?

Discussion in 'Anything goes' started by Double Down, Oct 19, 2012.

  1. imjustagirl

    imjustagirl Active Member

    That was the most fucked up thing in a really fucked up movie.
     
  2. dixiehack

    dixiehack Well-Known Member

    Anyone else suspect Care Bear's mom would take poster of the year in a runaway?
     
  3. Inky_Wretch

    Inky_Wretch Well-Known Member

    The Mythbusters have debunked most of the "proof" offered by the faked moon landing folks. I trust Jamie and Adam.
     
  4. TrooperBari

    TrooperBari Well-Known Member

    I'll see your Jamie and Adam and raise you a Bad Astronomer:
    http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/tv/foxapollo.html
     
  5. Bubbler

    Bubbler Well-Known Member

    Barf? Nice!

    IJAG and I have discussed it before. It's either the most disturbing scene, most hilarious scene or both in The Shining. I think it happens so quick that most people don't remember it.

    I don't know what it says about IJAG and myself that it's burned into our memory banks.
     
  6. imjustagirl

    imjustagirl Active Member

    It's honestly all I remember. Like I couldn't tell you much about that movie aside from "Do you want some ice cream" and that scene. I could describe that one four-second snippet by memory after one viewing.
     
  7. Inky_Wretch

    Inky_Wretch Well-Known Member

    Plus, if you've got a really high-dollar telescope you can actually see the stuff we left behind. Unless, of course, it's all some sort of hologram beamed onto the moon from the CIA headquarters or something.
     
  8. Double Down

    Double Down Well-Known Member

    That is what people actually believe. After watching that video, I googled "Fake Moon Landing" just for fun and found a 40 page thread on a message board where people were going batshit nuts about how we are bouncing light off mirrors on the moon or something. They are really, really big on the supposed lack of tracks the dune buggy made in the soil on the moon. There are hundreds of angry people posting photos, saying "This is the mountain range that Armstrong and Aldrin are standing in front of, and it's in NEVADA!"
     
  9. Inky_Wretch

    Inky_Wretch Well-Known Member

    Years ago, I used to listen to Coast-to-Coast quite a bit. It took me down the rabbit hole in terms of conspiracy theories about UFOs, Area 51, contrails, crop circles and faked moon landings, so I wound up reading a lot about them.

    The Kubrick deal has floated around for years. Arthur C. Clarke was also allegedly involved. And Disney.
     
  10. Uncle.Ruckus

    Uncle.Ruckus Guest

    Definitely most disturbing. To me, the hilarity comes from Jack's constant condescension and mocking of Wendy. Eventual craziness or not, that was not a healthy marriage.
     
  11. 3OctaveFart

    3OctaveFart Guest

    Who could blame him?
    Is there an uglier woman than Shelly Duvall?
     
  12. Bubbler

    Bubbler Well-Known Member

    I just watched the Moon Landing Youtube clip. Dude is batshit, and there are contradictions within his own theory, but its entertaining for about 20 minutes or so.
     
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