Destination Moon (1950) Destination Moon, 1950 ©Eagle-Lion Classics Inc. A joke at first they soon come to see that their wine makes for a fine rocket propellent and to everyone’s astonishment, they achieve space flight and reach the Moon before anyone else. The Mouse on the Moon (1963) The Mouse on the Moon, 1963 ©United Artists DIRECTOR: Richard Lester STARS: Margaret Rutherford, Bernard CribbinsĪ sequel to the Peter Sellers classic The Mouse That Roared, though sans Sellers, this one sees the same tiny European (fictional) country of Grand Fenwick entering the space race between the Soviets and the United States when their wine exports start blowing up in people’s faces. Hilariously, he out wits a pair of ‘astronauts’ still acting in slow motion before jumping in a bizarre moon buggy and barreling through a stage wall and driving out in to the Nevada desert. Okay, so technically not the moon but still a great ‘moon’ moment as our hero James Bond ( Sean Connery) stumbles onto the set of the ‘faked moon landing’ and has to escape as armed thugs give chase. Diamonds are Forever (1971) Diamonds are Forever, 1971 ©United Artists DIRECTOR: Guy Hamilton STARS: Sean Connery, Jill St.
There, I’ve just revealed the one single best clever idea ever in the series. The third in the Transformer’s film franchise that has come to define excess and over-indulgence, this one spends a good deal of time on the Moon, most especially, as you can guess, on the dark side where a mysterious Cybertronian ship has crash landed and becomes the real reason why President Kennedy initiated the space program’s fast-track plan to get a man to the moon. Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011) Transformers: Dark of the Moon, 2011, ©Paramount Pictures DIRECTOR: Michael Bay STARS: Shia LaBeouf, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley A wildly cheesy CGI movie, when the American astronauts first come upon the Nazis is markedly the best Moon moment. With the technology taken and learned from the American space mission, they complete their massive attack ship and make plans to conquer Earth. In the year 2018, we go back to the Moon, or as the film promotes, “Black to the Moon” as a two-man team led by black astronaut James Washington (Kirby) journeys to the lunar surface and crosses over to the dark side, only to encounter a huge base of Nazis, who have been living there since the 1940s. Iron Sky (2012) Iron Sky, 2012 ©Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures Finland DIRECTOR: Timo Vuorensola STARS: Julia Dietze, Christopher Kirby It’s a compelling image and is repeated several times on many famous landmarks on the planet, but it’s the first on the moon that sets the tone and is most memorable. Boasting some impressive visual effects and a rousing popcorn movie action spectacle, this highly influential film takes place almost entirely on Earth, but there is a very powerful moment at the start of the film when the alien mothership approaches the blue planet, casting a long ominous shadow over the famous first landing site on the moon. “Welcome to Earth,” says Captain Miller (Smith) after he punches a fallen alien in the face in this summer movie classic about an invading army from space that are looking to destroy the planet. TMI Remembers: All Is Lost (2013) DIRECTOR: Roland Emmerich STARS: Will Smith, Jeff Goldblum
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