{"id":31128,"date":"2022-11-30T07:25:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-30T12:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=31128"},"modified":"2022-11-30T07:27:35","modified_gmt":"2022-11-30T12:27:35","slug":"the-landing-2017-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=31128","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Landing&#8221; (2017) \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2022\/z113022zview_thelanding.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"741\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Landing <\/strong><\/em>(2017)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director:\u00a0 <strong>David Dodson, Mark Dodson<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>David Dodson, Mark Dodson<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Don Hannah, Warren Farina, Jeff McVey, Page Hannah, Robert Pine\u00a0<\/strong>and <strong>Craig Stepp<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline:\u00a0<i>\u00a0<\/i>None.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Plot\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A faux documentary that explores the events leading to the tragic loss of an astronaut&#8217;s life on Apollo 18, the last U.S. mission to the moon.\u00a0 Was it murder?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">There was no Apollo 18 mission.\u00a0 <em>The Landing<\/em> is total fiction, but done so well many folks believe it is an actual documentary.\u00a0 One of the reasons that <em>The Landing<\/em> seems so real (besides great production values, acting, writing, directing and editing) is that the filmmakers came together in 1991 to began filming.\u00a0 They then waited 25 years to film the &#8220;current&#8221; interviews!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The fact that <em>The Landing<\/em> presents as reality upset many reviewers.\u00a0 They felt that an unsuspecting audience would believe that there was an Apollo 18 mission that resulted in a dead astronaut.\u00a0 I say, &#8220;Judge the film on it&#8217;s merits, not what viewers <em>may<\/em> believe.&#8221;\u00a0 Yes, <em>The Landing<\/em> is so well done it appears to be a legit documentary.\u00a0 That is a strength, my friends.\u00a0 Plus <em>The Landing<\/em> has an interesting mystery resulting in a death.\u00a0 Was it an accident or murder?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I give credit to the filmmakers for having the patience and belief in the project to put it on hold for 25 years.\u00a0 No wonder make-up or special effects weren&#8217;t needed to age the actors.\u00a0 Don Hannah, who plays astronaut Bo Cunningham, deserves special mention.\u00a0 Although Mr. Hannah usually works behind the camera as an Assistant Director, he was spot on with his acting.\u00a0 I&#8217;d like to see him in other roles.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em style=\"color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font); font-size: inherit;\"><strong>The Landing <\/strong><\/em><span style=\"color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font); font-size: inherit;\">earns 4 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_b.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2022\/z113022zview_thelanding2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"210\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Landing (2017) Director:\u00a0 David Dodson, Mark Dodson Screenplay: David Dodson, Mark Dodson Stars: Don Hannah, Warren Farina, Jeff McVey,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[51,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime","category-movies","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31128"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31139,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31128\/revisions\/31139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}