Astronauts Gone Wild: An Investigation Into the Authenticity of the Moon Landings
Astronauts Gone Wild: An Investigation Into the Authenticity of the Moon Landings is a 2004 documentary film produced and directed by Bart Winfield Sibrel, a Nashville, Tennessee-based filmmaker who charges that the six Apollo Moon landings in the 1960s and 1970s were elaborate hoaxes. Sibrel made this film as a follow-up to his 2001 video A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Moon, which accuses NASA of falsifying the Apollo 11 mission photography. The title of the film is a wordplay on the Girls Gone Wild video series.
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12 years ago
Astronauts Gone Wild" is the latest crockumentary (One can't call this film a documentary) from producer/director Bart Sibrel where he again tries to prove that no one has ever walked on the moon and that NASA faked all of the moon landings. Similar to his previous offering "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Moon," where he misinterprets data, lies to the viewer and hides facts, in this offering he stalks the Apollo moonwalkers and tries to get them to answer some questions, but he first deceives them into giving him an interview. Specifically, he sneaks up of each one then asks them to swear on the Bible that they walked on the Moon and then calls them liars, cheats and frauds. As one would expect the responses are varied. Some astronauts curse him, some just laugh and call him an idiot and others resort to a physical attack. Of course the viewer is treated to the famous Buzz Aldrin's punch to the jaw of Bart Sibrel. As usual he again misinterprets data, lies to the viewer and hides facts, sometimes with editing and sometimes with not showing the viewer the entire story.
The film opens with selected short clips from his encounters with various astronauts and this was the only part of the entire DVD that I found even remotely enjoyable. In this section, the viewer sees Bart get punched by Buzz Aldrin, kicked in the rear by Edgar Mitchell, threatened by John Young, called a liar by Neil Armstrong and cursed by Alan Bean, Gene Cernan and a host of others (Mike Collins, Al Worden, Frank Borman). It was so nice to see a man in his 30's get pummeled by 70 year old men.
In this extremely cheap production quality video, there are three different types of interviews. In the first type of interview which lasts for several minutes, four astronauts are asked a series of questions about their missions. He then he asks them about his "secret, classified, footage" from NASA showing the "Apollo 11 astronauts faking the moon landings." After Bart springs this footage t...
