After the United States, Russia, China and India, Japan has entered space history this Friday, January 19, 2024. By landing the Moon Sniper unmanned ship on the moon 16:20 France time (12:20 Japan time) on lunar soil. JAXA’s (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) major breakthrough that will allow Japanese scientists to conduct research and analysis on the moon… but they might find some cinematic oddities there!
Minions
It’s one of the latest cinematic forays into the moon: That Moon, an animated short from Illumination studios that hit theaters as a preview of Migration. Or how Vector, Gru’s rival in the Despicable Me, finds himself stranded on lunar soil trying to find a way back to Earth. In his hapless adventure, he encounters a group of minions that are as funny as they are invasive…
Mysterious structures
What if the moon isn’t what we think it is? The Day After Tomorrow and 2012 director Roland Emmerich signs with Moonfall for a new disaster film (in every sense of the word, with an audience rating of 2 out of 5), in which Halle Berry, Patrick Wilson and John Bradley find out. The incredible and unimaginable truth beneath the surface of the moon…
space projectile
This is undoubtedly one of the most famous pictures in the history of 7th art. Georges Méliès’ Voyage to the Moon (1902), or the lunar expedition of Professor Barbenfouille, who was sent to the surface of the moon with his fellow astronomers by means of a giant cannon, and which then landed directly in the eye of the satellite.
Amusement park
Under a pressurized dome that breathes air and offers the same atmospheric pressure as on Earth, giant attractions await guests of the Futurama series. Among them, scary marmots, a visit to the surface of the moon and a boat trip that tells the story of “Whales to the Moon”.
little fisherman
Kid fishing in the moon for dreams: the logo that became iconic, born from the pencils of Steven Spielberg (co-founder of DreamWorks studios with Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen) and artist Robert Hunt.
black monolith
In his cult film 2001: A Space Odyssey, adapted from Arthur Clerk, Stanley Kubrick introduces us to the moon via the Clavius science base, and then discovering a mysterious black monolith in the heart of Tychos Crater.
cheese
In the short film The Great Excursion, inventor Wallace and his loyal dog Gromit run out of cheese! They decide to go to the moon, which everyone knows is made entirely of him.
Autobot ship
What did Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin discover on the moon? According to Michael Bay and Transformers 3, the true purpose of the Apollo 11 mission was to investigate the wreckage of an unknown ship, Sentinel Prime’s Ark, which contained, in particular, the pillars needed to manufacture a space bridge.
Stars in thousands
In the short film La Luna, the geniuses at Pixar tell through the eyes of a child how the moon changes shape every night thanks to the clever work of the moon sweepers. Poetic and magical.
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While traveling to the Axiom space station, the little robot WALL-E sees lunar soil and the remains of the Apollo missions, watched by a giant advertising panel of Buy’N’Large fame, a chain store we frequent. Found in Pixar (Buzz Lightyear is powered by BnL batteries, for example).
First pillar of the Terran Federation
A 6,400-kilometer-long ring orbiting 300 kilometers above the surface of the moon: it is the first line of defense for the Federation of Starships on Earth. A space base with cannons aimed at the Arachnid Quarantine Zone is lined with ships ready to take off. Will it be enough in the war against insects? I’m not sure…
dislocated surface
In The Time Machine – In The Time Machine, Alexander Hartdegen (Guy Pearce) stops time on August 20, 2037 to mark the dislocation of the moon, the result of a change in orbit due to explosions to form a colony on its surface.
Nazi base
In Iron Sky, in 2018, a drilling mission accidentally discovers a fortress on the far side of the moon, whose occupants plan to attack and retake Earth after more than 70 years of preparation.
living rocks
What is really happening on the surface of the moon? Why did the Soviet ship land there? Who killed the astronauts whose bodies were found in the dust of the moon? So many questions were answered by the found footage of Apollo 18.
Doctor Hale’s Moon Base
From this fortress, Austin Powers’ best enemy is planning the “Alan Parsons Project”, a “giga-laser” hidden in this “black star” that can destroy the city of Washington (demonic laughter and little finger raised and quotes. mime with middle and index fingers).
A giant egg
It’s a discovery by Dr. Huey during an expedition to the moon in 2049, which turns out to be a giant egg over 100 million years old and containing a mysterious creature ready to hatch… (Season 8, Episode 7)
Colonies of Little America and Luna Beach
In 2087, the Moon has become an independent and great playground for party people and gamblers, and Pluto Nash, aka Eddie Murphy, the successful owner of the nightclub “Club Pluto”.
gold
In Fritz Lang’s Woman in the Moon, a scientist discovers that there is gold on the moon. He builds a rocket to get there, but too much rivalry within the team complicates the expedition…
Alpha Beta Station (and tourists)
Infested with cicadas and frogs and the “shhh” of its automatic doors, this base, led by a completely incompetent William Shatner, tries to land the Mayflower shuttle safely at the point, is there a pilot on the plane after all? .
Flagship of ESD
In the Independence Day revival, twenty years after the first alien invasion, the moon has become an advanced defensive outpost for Earth’s Space Defense (ESD)…which, however, is quickly being eroded by an increasingly belligerent and highly vengeful alien response.
Lunarmax Castle
A maximum security prison that houses the world’s worst criminals. Among them, Bory the Beast (Jemaine Clement), a formidable bogeyman who dreams of revenge on Agent K, one of the best in black.
Loss from “Raptors”
A moon destroyed by this warlike alien race has caused a cataclysm on Earth, forcing humanity to seek refuge on Titan, Saturn’s largest moon. At least that’s what Tom Cruise thought he knew about the Oblivion World…
Sam Rockwell
You don’t need a budget to make a great sci-fi movie. Evidence with the Moon sends Sam Rockwell alone to the Selene Moon Station, where he manages to mine Helium-3, the only way out of Earth’s energy crisis… until a strange discovery turns his everyday life upside down.
alpha base
In the Cosmos 1999 series, after a violent explosion at the end of the 20th century, the Moon is tilted from its orbit and drifts to the edge of space. The inhabitants of Alpha Base will have to face many dangers that this infinite world hides. Will they see the earth again?
The body of a space cowboy
Warning, spoilers… In the moving finale of Clint Eastwood’s “Space Cowboys,” William “Hawk” Hawkins (Tommy Lee Jones), suffering from a serious illness, sacrifices himself for this mission and heals the moment he’s always dreamed of. From the surface of the Moon facing the Earth.
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