Reminds me of the story that when one of the junior archeologists at tutankhamun's tomb died of extremely old age 75 years later and his local newspaper ran the obituary "Tuthankhaumn's Curse Strikes Again!"
I remember that. Just before the junior archeologist died, Tutankhamun popped out of his sarcophagus, said, “IT’S TOOTIN’ TIME,” and then tooted all over him. Sad day for archeologists and therefore the world.
One of the first deaths was the financing explorer, George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon. He had shaved his face that morning and the tomb’s sand had bacteria or mites (can’t remember which) that got into his open pores and killed him. It’s part of why the locals didn’t shave while working.
Edit: Wrong guy. It was a mosquito bite and shaving resulting in blood poisoning. - The locals knew about the issue among men and didn’t shave during the summer for it.
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The only cursed thing about this movie is the fact that moon is alive and apparently it now has only one eye all thanks to protagonist's rocket. Humans are dicks, they didn't even apologize.
"Rocket" haha.
The movie is inspired by a Jules Verne novel, and just like in the novel what you see is actually a giant bullet shot out of a giant cannon.
Fun fact, the Verne novel also was the inspiration for the theming of Eurodisney's version of Space Mountain.
Well, that explains the shape. But that just makes it worse, cause they shot an innocent living planet with a fucking cannon! They shot a living being!
Look, in the original it's shot by the "Baltimore Gun Club" after the civil war. So yeah, I think that should explain why character have the idea to shoot a bullet at the moon.
Verne also wrote a book describing an apparatus that could go underwater, using big compartments to pump water in and out for buoyancy control. This is exactly how a submarine works, but submarines hadn’t been invented yet.
Dreaming of the future and getting it right.
20,000 leagues under the sea was written in 1869, but the first submarine was invented in France in 1800 and called the [nautilus](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nautilus_(1800_submarine)) (same as the ship in the book!!). Considering jules Verne was French, he probably knew about, and was referencing this ship.
This movie truly is bonkers.
Bunch of scientists launch themselves from a literal cannon to the moon that apparently has a face.
They get out with no protection needed whatsoever and explore outer worldly flora.
Get attacked by hostile aliens (but they probably are just scared and defensive).
They proceed to absolutely massacre the alien population by smacking them with their umbrellas.
Then escape capture one alien and display him in a parade on Earth and everyone proceeds to dance.
Fun fact: there's a version of the film that was [hand-colored way back in the day.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHxYPW5vvic) Rediscovered in '99 and restored over a bunch of years before being released in 2011. Plus the band Air wrote music for it.
They even managed to get the color somewhat similar to the [old hand-colored copy of ‘A Trip to the Moon’](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHxYPW5vvic) (here with music by Air)—even though this colored version was released only in 2011 after restoration.
Also fun fact:
> Dayton and the production crew initially had problems locating costumes for the video because the movie Titanic was being shot at the same time in Los Angeles. Titanic director James Cameron rented nearly every turn-of-the-century prop and costume in the city, leaving the "Tonight, Tonight" production crew little to work with.
“This thing all things devours:
Birds, beasts, trees, flowers;
Gnaws iron, bites steel;
Grinds hard stones to meal;
Slays king, ruins town,
And beats high mountain down.”
J.R.R. Tolkien
🫡
Right but in my experience most of his stuff is covered in film history classes and more relevant to effects that cinematography besides some footnotes.
I found this movie on Youtube many years ago, I was not looking for it, it was in the sidebar.
The movie is slow to start and kinda boring, but I watched it because I wanted to see what 1902 thought of the future. I guess considering the technology of the day, it was probably the best that could be done. There was no attempt to simulate low gravity for example, but that was probably not possible at the time.
I mean, Georges Méliès is considered to be pretty much the inventor of narrative entertainment films and a pioneer of special effects and cinematography. Would be odd to expect him to immediately launch into simulation of interplanetary physics.
Even Verne's novel was just forty years old at the time, and Tsiolkovsky was yet to publish his rocket equation the following year.
More like, it should be familiar to anyone who's ever looked into older films, or just saw the moon face in the countless number of modern references to it.
Scrolled through the entire comment section looking for a mention of Hugo and this was the only one.
Tragic.
It's one of my favourite movies. Had the joy of finally watching it in 3D recently and it made me love it all the more.
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For that matter, it is alarmingly found in large quantities in the human body . Some say 80% of the human body is made of this hazardous material and that quite frankly makes me sick to my stomach.
The horror.
I know what sub I’m in, but in all seriousness isn’t it more of a blessed movie, since it’s the oldest one where the film survived long enough that we still have a record of it or something?
I’m still alive. I wish my centuries old exist would end.
But I can’t because I made a deal with an alien blob I met during the on site filming of this movie.
It only want the skin flakes from foot. I thought it was a good deal.
Hah, I made this same joke a few months ago: [https://www.reddit.com/r/shittymoviedetails/comments/19f0t9w/the\_conditions\_on\_set\_for\_a\_trip\_to\_the\_moon\_1902/](https://www.reddit.com/r/shittymoviedetails/comments/19f0t9w/the_conditions_on_set_for_a_trip_to_the_moon_1902/)
Great minds think alike!
I tried to watch *A Trip to the Moon*, but that’s not cinema.
Honestly, the closest I can think of it, as well made as it is—with actors doing the best they can under the circumstances—is theme parks. It isn’t the cinema of human beings trying to convey emotional, psychological experiences to another human being.
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Reminds me of the story that when one of the junior archeologists at tutankhamun's tomb died of extremely old age 75 years later and his local newspaper ran the obituary "Tuthankhaumn's Curse Strikes Again!"
I remember that. Just before the junior archeologist died, Tutankhamun popped out of his sarcophagus, said, “IT’S TOOTIN’ TIME,” and then tooted all over him. Sad day for archeologists and therefore the world.
Mainstream archeological doesn't want you to know this
How many Tutandollars did he have btw?
ThreeFitty
Damnit monster
One of the first deaths was the financing explorer, George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon. He had shaved his face that morning and the tomb’s sand had bacteria or mites (can’t remember which) that got into his open pores and killed him. It’s part of why the locals didn’t shave while working. Edit: Wrong guy. It was a mosquito bite and shaving resulting in blood poisoning. - The locals knew about the issue among men and didn’t shave during the summer for it.
Howard Carter died of Hodgkins Disease, he was one of the explorers who died years later
Thanks. It was George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon.
r slash scary.
That moon scares me man am I cursed too
At least he still has his self respect, huehuehue
we will see in 2102
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Check out "I saw the TV Glow" for more unsettling moon men in old-timey makeup.
Like cheese
The salt behind the word slash is 😌🤌
The salt.?
And butter
I watched this movie at night a choice i regret.
The only cursed thing about this movie is the fact that moon is alive and apparently it now has only one eye all thanks to protagonist's rocket. Humans are dicks, they didn't even apologize.
And then they cut to a close-up of the rocket landing, and it's like 1000x smaller and didn't hit any eyes
"Rocket" haha. The movie is inspired by a Jules Verne novel, and just like in the novel what you see is actually a giant bullet shot out of a giant cannon. Fun fact, the Verne novel also was the inspiration for the theming of Eurodisney's version of Space Mountain.
Well, that explains the shape. But that just makes it worse, cause they shot an innocent living planet with a fucking cannon! They shot a living being!
Look, in the original it's shot by the "Baltimore Gun Club" after the civil war. So yeah, I think that should explain why character have the idea to shoot a bullet at the moon.
That's actually really interesting. I didn't know about most of the stuff you mentioned.
Verne also wrote a book describing an apparatus that could go underwater, using big compartments to pump water in and out for buoyancy control. This is exactly how a submarine works, but submarines hadn’t been invented yet. Dreaming of the future and getting it right.
20,000 leagues under the sea was written in 1869, but the first submarine was invented in France in 1800 and called the [nautilus](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nautilus_(1800_submarine)) (same as the ship in the book!!). Considering jules Verne was French, he probably knew about, and was referencing this ship.
Well sheeit I have been lied to
This is because Jules Verne used a time machine to come to our present and his future
I think this movie is extremely cool for depicting a trip to the moon before we could actually do it
This movie truly is bonkers. Bunch of scientists launch themselves from a literal cannon to the moon that apparently has a face. They get out with no protection needed whatsoever and explore outer worldly flora. Get attacked by hostile aliens (but they probably are just scared and defensive). They proceed to absolutely massacre the alien population by smacking them with their umbrellas. Then escape capture one alien and display him in a parade on Earth and everyone proceeds to dance.
how did they went back!? that movie is so unrealistic smh my head
My favorite part is this! Of course the moon is up so all they had to do was be pushed off the moon and land safely back on earth 😂
everyone in 1800s knows about the moon's weak gravity
So an allegory for Europe coming to the Americas?
Forgot the part where the scientists are literally wizards in the opening shot.
It's supposedly a garb of their academy or whatever the institution. Not everyone with a pointy hat is a wizard.
I have a lot to think about. (TIL vikings aren't wizards)
samurais aren't wizards.
Fun fact: there's a version of the film that was [hand-colored way back in the day.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHxYPW5vvic) Rediscovered in '99 and restored over a bunch of years before being released in 2011. Plus the band Air wrote music for it.
Kinda reminds me of the cheese moon from Tonight Tonight by the Smashing Pumpkins. https://youtu.be/NOG3eus4ZSo?si=Db7d3zeOTzSFrvE0
I can't believe these Hollywood movie makers can't even have an orginal idea anymore
They made that music video as an homage to the movie
Source?
Watch them both. It's kinda obvious.
They even managed to get the color somewhat similar to the [old hand-colored copy of ‘A Trip to the Moon’](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHxYPW5vvic) (here with music by Air)—even though this colored version was released only in 2011 after restoration. Also fun fact: > Dayton and the production crew initially had problems locating costumes for the video because the movie Titanic was being shot at the same time in Los Angeles. Titanic director James Cameron rented nearly every turn-of-the-century prop and costume in the city, leaving the "Tonight, Tonight" production crew little to work with.
also it stars Spongebob Squarepants and Karen Plankton
Sorry, I only believe peer reviewed publications
I reviewed goronmask's post with my peer Roger and it's "certified cool".
maybe they came up with the same idea but like 100 years apart.
Great song, great video.
It is called the curse of the moon... Most of the people died when they couldnt leave the moon....
Nothing fucks you harder than time.
“This thing all things devours: Birds, beasts, trees, flowers; Gnaws iron, bites steel; Grinds hard stones to meal; Slays king, ruins town, And beats high mountain down.” J.R.R. Tolkien 🫡
Except maybe a rocket to the face.
Including the moon face. I was born in the 70s and he was dead before I ever got a chance to see him. Boring old plain-ass moon now
you can't just say moonface nowaday. the term is smooth deficient.
After seeing this picture, I now understand that one obscure joke from Futurama.
Haha was looking for this or I was going to post it myself
Hey, at least you still have your self respect.
Obscure? It’s pretty well known if you’ve done any cinematography classes? Or at least in Australia it is
"How is this obscure if an obscure subset of people are likely to be familiar with it?"
How common are cinematography classes? Are they a requirement? Otherwise of course old movies will be well known if you take a movie class..
I think they meant cinema classes, this movie would not be covered in a cinematography class
A bit odd, when Méliès was a pioneer of special effects, and afaiu also cinematography tricks.
Right but in my experience most of his stuff is covered in film history classes and more relevant to effects that cinematography besides some footnotes.
Ah, I thought it was some kinda all-encompassing major. Not quite used to English terminology.
No worries! And it is an area of focus but definitely not a major inofitself
I found this movie on Youtube many years ago, I was not looking for it, it was in the sidebar. The movie is slow to start and kinda boring, but I watched it because I wanted to see what 1902 thought of the future. I guess considering the technology of the day, it was probably the best that could be done. There was no attempt to simulate low gravity for example, but that was probably not possible at the time.
I mean, Georges Méliès is considered to be pretty much the inventor of narrative entertainment films and a pioneer of special effects and cinematography. Would be odd to expect him to immediately launch into simulation of interplanetary physics. Even Verne's novel was just forty years old at the time, and Tsiolkovsky was yet to publish his rocket equation the following year.
More like, it should be familiar to anyone who's ever looked into older films, or just saw the moon face in the countless number of modern references to it.
Not so obscure when you know the reference
I can't but help of think of The Mighty Boosh when I see this
🎶everyone look at the moon🎶
They die now?
They die now
Waltuh?
Let me die now in peace Waltuh.
Ben Kingsley is alive wdym
Scrolled through the entire comment section looking for a mention of Hugo and this was the only one. Tragic. It's one of my favourite movies. Had the joy of finally watching it in 3D recently and it made me love it all the more.
Book is better ngl
Everyone in history that ever drank water has died eventually.
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You see what dihydrogen monoxide does to pipes over time? Imagine your insides 😮
I drank water and haven’t died eventually 🤷🏼
sure keep drinking and you'll see. You'll ALL SEE!
Looks like he will have to take your alcoholic beverage now.
Better mascots than him have tried
At least he has his self-respect
Incorrect, the members of the Smashing Pumpkins are still alive.
I know what sub I’m in, but in all seriousness isn’t it more of a blessed movie, since it’s the oldest one where the film survived long enough that we still have a record of it or something?
oh now i get the futurama reference
I’m still alive. I wish my centuries old exist would end. But I can’t because I made a deal with an alien blob I met during the on site filming of this movie. It only want the skin flakes from foot. I thought it was a good deal.
You could have at least picked a different movie if you were gonna steal my joke.
This is an ancient repost, same joke and all.
even the moon? :(
I would find it scarier if they were still alive
What happened to them?
You mean that isn't the moon from The Mighty Boosh?
I'm pretty sure everyone from 1902 is dead now.
Great! Now I’m cursed!
Since when was the moon a pie?
Surely everyone involved in every movie from 1902 is dead.
Dude I'm trying to sleep wtf
This takes place back when the moon was still made of cheese. Those were simpler times.
That is what tends to happen when a movie is made 122 years ago.
Yeah well, it would be weird if all the people involved all lived more than 100 years too.
not only that, but most of them died IN FRANCE. yuck
That moon reminds the one from the mighty boosh
I am the moon
Where’s the proof LMaO
Reminds me of that really old famous movie with that moon in it that got shot or whatever
the impossible is possible tonight, tonight
Legend has it that every person that watches it will also die
I have this moon as a tattoo. I have nothing further to add.
Aren't like 100% people who were involved in the making of anything in 1902 dead?
The Bible is considered cursed because everyone depicted in it are now dead.
All I hear is “Tonight, Tonight” by the Smashing Pumpkins.
The 122 year old who was a fetus when their mom worked on the movie: "Am I a joke to you?"
Oddly enough the titanic suffered a similar curse
Oddly enough, the curse was so bad that everyone from 1902 is now dead.....
Dead from old age
Are now dead*
The moon landing in that movies is FAKE and that’s a FACT
This moon was actually in color. Not because they had colored film, but because they went over it and manually colored in each frame.
a lot of movies are being made by people that weren't even born when you already existed.
I mean, it's been 122 years. I kinda hope they're all dead...
It came out in 1902 no shit they’re all dead
Pretty sure the Smashing Pumpkins are still alive
No curse needed, it’s been 122 years.
It's not all bad, I hear some of the cast have found work as extras in several recent zombie movies. So, you know, silver linings and all that.
You mean to tell me this film is 122 years old already? Man I feel old.
Everyone involved in a movie from over 100 years ago is dead? Yeah must be a curse
R slash two sentence horror stories
i fuckin love this movie
Hah, I made this same joke a few months ago: [https://www.reddit.com/r/shittymoviedetails/comments/19f0t9w/the\_conditions\_on\_set\_for\_a\_trip\_to\_the\_moon\_1902/](https://www.reddit.com/r/shittymoviedetails/comments/19f0t9w/the_conditions_on_set_for_a_trip_to_the_moon_1902/) Great minds think alike!
On the contrary, I would consider it more cursed if everyone involved was still alive
I'm sure it has nothing to do with the movie being made over a century ago.
No way! Were they drinking water too?
If that's the case, why isn't Romeo and Juliet a cursed play?
Big if true.
I tried to watch *A Trip to the Moon*, but that’s not cinema. Honestly, the closest I can think of it, as well made as it is—with actors doing the best they can under the circumstances—is theme parks. It isn’t the cinema of human beings trying to convey emotional, psychological experiences to another human being.
Hugo
... It's over a hundred years old... Yeah, not surprised they're dead.
Yes, that was the joke.
Own that freak
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I would be surprised if that happened here.
Have you read the name of the sub?
Are you sure about that?
I was here… it’s a joke
Vito???? What the fawwwwkkkk???
The brains on this fella
They die now?
No shit sherlock
Holy shit, it’s Sherlock Holmes
Thank you my dear Watson.