Moonwalkers Film Analysis

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If a solid story, and am favorable with the subject content, I tend to enjoy a good period piece film. In a way it's the closest thing we have to a machine that can go back in time, that we can actually see events unfold for ourselves. Researched thoroughly, it's contents can not only be entertaining, but a learning experience as well. Unless if based on a conspiracy theory, then all bets are off. And this is where the film, Moonwalkers, comes in. The premise being that the American Government had a Plan B just in case the 1969 Apollo Eleven mission was not successful landing on the Earth's only natural satellite.

Debuted in 2015, and released to the masses in the beginning of 2016, the indie adult comedy 'Moonwalkers' which goes bank in
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Here it's established in a top secret military meeting that Kidman has just returned from doing three years in Vietnam (Special Ops). Before this we witnessed he's strung out, suffering flashbacks / seeing spooky hallucinations, and suffers from high anxiety. Yet the government thinks he's the right man for the job. His new assignment is to go to London, England, seek out famous film director Stanley Kubrick, and persuade him with a briefcase full of cash, to secretly make a movie of a successful moon Apollo 11 moon landing. This would also include of course, getting out of the lunar module, and walking around on the surface. In case the real mission screws up, in which the odds of actually doing so according to those giving orders to Kidman, are not in their favor. As I said, ten days. Sounds simple enough. What could go wrong? In this cinematic farce, the answer to that question, would be; everything. Take my word, it's really fun watching the events unfold from here.

As I said in the first paragraph, Moonwalkers is an comedy. Not for children. It contains cursing, consumption of alcohol, cigarette smoking, and drug use, but nothing really super hardcore, or anything I didn't do back in the 1970's myself. Except for opium. If around, I suppose I would have done that too. Oh, and I wasn't into huffing. Not my thing. I once saw a female do that, and then shortly thereafter proceed to piss herself. Speaking for myself, when it comes to urination, I'd rather use the toilet, or go

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