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Conspiracy Theory: Did We Land on the Moon? (2001)
The explanations!!
1. Crosshairs on some photos appear to be behind objects, rather than in front of them where they should be, as if the photos were altered.
* In photography, the light white color (the object behind the crosshair) makes the black object (the crosshair) invisible due to saturation effects in the film emulsion.
2. The quality of the photographs is implausibly high.
* NASA selected only the best photographs for release to the public, and some of the photos were cropped to improve their composition. There are many badly exposed, badly focused and poorly composed images amongst the thousands of photos that were taken by the Apollo Astronauts. Many can be seen at the Apollo Lunar Surface Journal. Photos were taken on high-quality Hasselblad cameras with Zeiss lenses, using 70 mm medium format film.
3. There are no stars in any of the photos, and astronauts never report seeing any stars from the capsule windows.
* There are also no stars seen in Space Shuttle, Mir, International Space Station and Earth observation photos. Cameras used for imaging these things are set for quick shutter speeds in order to prevent overexposing the film for the brightly lit daylight scenes. The dim light of the stars simply does not have a chance to expose the film.
* Believers in the hoax theory contend that the stars were removed from the photographs because they would have looked identical to the stars as seen from the Earth, i.e. no parallax view. However, the distance from the Earth to the Moon is very small compared to the distance to the stars, so no parallax would have been visible anyway. (The nearest star is over 100,000,000 times farther away than the Moon, and most stars are much farther away than that.)
4. The color and angle of shadows and light.
* Shadows on the Moon are complicated because there are several light sources; the Sun, Earth and the Moon itself. Light from these sources is scattered by lunar dust in many different directions, including into shadows. Additionally, the Moon's surface is not flat and shadows falling into craters and hills appear longer, shorter and distorted from the simple expectations of the hoax believers. More significantly, perspective comes into play. This effect leads to non-parallel shadows even on objects which are extremely close to each other, and can be observed easily on Earth wherever fences or trees are found. (Plait 2002:167-72).
5. Identical backgrounds in photos that are listed as taken miles apart.
* Detailed comparison of the backgrounds claimed to be identical in fact show significant changes in the relative positions of the hills that are consistent with the claimed locations that the images were taken from. Parallax effects clearly demonstrate that the images were taken from widely different locations around the landing sites. Claims that the appearance of the background is identical while the foreground changes (for example, from a boulder strewn crater to the Lunar Module) are trivially explained when the images were taken from nearby locations, akin to seeing distant mountains appearing the same on Earth from locations that are hundreds of feet apart showing different foreground items. Furthermore, as there is no atmosphere on the Moon, very distant objects will appear clearer and closer to the human eye. What appears as nearby hills in some photographs, are actually mountains several kilometers high and some 10-20 kilometers away.
6. The number of photographs taken is implausibly high. When the total number of official photographs taken during EVA of all Apollo missions is divided by the total amount of time of all EVAs, one arrives at 1.19 photos per minute. That is one photo per 50 seconds. Discounting time spent on other activities results in one photo per 15 seconds for Apollo 11.
* The astronauts were well trained before the mission in the use of photographic equipment. Since there were no weather effects to contend with and the bright sunlight scenes permitted the use of small apertures with consequent large depth of field, the equipment was generally kept at a single setting for the duration of the mission. All that was required of the astronauts was to open the shutter and wind the film to take a picture.
Monsoon Wedding (2001)
The best bollywood movie I have seen !!
Have you ever seen a film that seems like it was taken at your own sister or brother (or any other family member's) wedding? For those looking forward to a raw piece of cinema that doesn't deal with the world's hardships in connotations of the wrongs this world has done to us, but the reality in each of our lives, Mira Nair gives us Monsoon Wedding, all that and more. Watching Monsoon Wedding will identify an Indian person's NRI lives with at least, at least, one memory of their life. Perhaps one they cherish or one they loath to think of, but certainly Monsoon Wedding affirms the fact that a "raw" real film can be made without having to stoop to run of the mill Bollywood standards, and without leaving the norms of a normal film.
Shah, Shefali and Rajat Kapoor give amazing performances and we see the character and not a single trait of the person in the whole movie.
Ek Duuje Ke Liye (1981)
A heart touching love story : 9/10
A movie in which love knows no color, status or origin. The director does a fantastic job retaining the nuances of both Tamil and Hindi and the movie comes out so well. The locales and the beaches are simply amazing. Set in the coastal town of Visakhapatnam, this remake of a Telugu film with almost the same cast has an unconventional ending leaves the viewers in shock. The songs are gr8 and acting superb. This is definitely a movie that transcends time and the problems that are faced by the protagonists are the same faced by many couples in love today. Watching this movie in 2006, I feel that the screenplay could have been better, the scenes change abruptly and the color combinations are not always correct. But, all said and done, its an wonderful movie all should watch.
The Butterfly Effect (2004)
Wow....I am now thinking what to write..
Itz 4AM and I have just finished the movie after a long day.. But I still cant keep myself from commenting right now..
Amazing movie .. 10/10 in my list ... It was engrossing .. kept me guessing how it would end.. and the ending was gr8... Was reading about the different ending in the directors cut... That would have been a disaster for the whole movie... and could never have a sequel.. Man .. would have hated to see Evin kill himself after all the effort .. Really like the part where his dad asks him to stop doing all this as he might be killing him mom just then...
Whohaa .. This movie .. I am still thinking what he could have done to make things different .. When Kevin warned his frens dad for the first time .. The girl turned out fine but the brother had to face the music.. He went back there a second time too where the girl gets killed.. So if he can revisit memories .. He should tried iterations of the same memory to see different outcomes rather than changing different memories.. If he can go back in not just blackouts ... As in the ending he goes back watching a home video.. I guess in the sequel he can go back just by thinking about what he wants to do...
Gr8 acting by all.... Dying to see part 2 ...