Review: A Fun, Chaotic Moon Landing Conspiracy

Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum star in a movie about government incompetence.

What if Scarlett Johansson was Mad Men's Don Draper, but her job was to help NASA secure funding for Apollo 11? And what if, halfway through a feel-good enemies-to-lovers rom-com about that mission, we pivot to a conspiracy caper in which Johansson's character is blackmailed into staging a fake moon landing?

These are questions asked and only partially answered by Fly Me to the Moon. The fun, chaotic film boasts a Swiss cheese plot and weird antigravity between Johansson and co-star Channing Tatum. The will-they-or-won't-they tension is more palpable around the actual moon landing than between the two romantic leads. Fly Me to the Moon is nonetheless worth a watch if you enjoy rockets, comedies about government incompetence, or debates over congressional appropriations.

Comments

[MasterThief]

I don't care about this movie and even less about your review. I'm just here to tell you to resign. Under your leadership, Reason has become a shill for democrats and Marxists and a corrupt establishment. It's rare to see your writers actually make arguments from a libertarian perspective. Most arguments made here are logically weak, fraudulently framed, and malevolently dishonest. Your best defense is to claim extreme ignorance and stupidity.
Even when writers change their views of the facts (especially regarding covid) they lack the integrity to acknowledge and explain the flip. Your dishonesty and manipulative framing turns people away from the libertarian movement. You have become Marxist apologists akin to VOX but with fewer readers.
If you had a vaguely balanced newsroom it wouldn't be so bad, but all your staff seem to be urban liberals steeped in left-wing cultural enclaves. Most libertarian-leaning voters lean to the right and yet you staff nobody who represents that or can argue and appreciate that perspective.
Fire 95+% of your writers and editorial staff. Resign from your position and admit that you have no journalistic integrity nor an affinity for the core founding principles of this magazine.

Most of all, just FUCK OFF

[SRG2]

Alternatively, you fuck off and let the market decide.

Does Reason advocate for workers to own the means of production, or for a centralised economy? Nope. Then shut up with your "Marxist" whining bullshit.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

What market is that? Who do you think pays the bills at Reason?

If you mean the readers overall, their opinions about Reason's political spin is harder to judge. But the comments (overall more interesting and valuable than Reason articles) align much more with MT than with M-W (or with you).

[SRG2]

The comments here are dominated by right-wingers, mostly Trump supporters, clearly at best asymmetric libertarians ("freedom for me but not for thee") and generally lacking in intelligent content, unless you regard demonstrations of tribal fealty as intelligent.

[But SkyNet is a Private Company]

The writers here are dominated by urban hipsters awash in the most culturally progressive enclaves in the country, not in the same universe as the exurban landowning food raising rugged individualists, much less child-raising gray and white collar normies in suburban flyover country.

And there is no free market, Reason has failed by market standards, and is kept afloat by a large donor who had a Libertarian brother who passed away, and who the urban hipsters cater to, when not catering to progressive “thought” leaders at Vox and TechDirt(?!)

[mad.casual]

I don’t care about this movie and even less about your review. I’m just here to tell you to resign.

GET THE HELL OUT OF MY HEAD!

[Ersatz]

ha!

[But SkyNet is a Private Company]

Seconded.

Plus, the movie has already been panned

[But SkyNet is a Private Company]

It won’t let me link the review from a P Suderman in something called Reason Magazine

[Ersatz]

I can sympathize with you but this comes across as a workplace non sequitur that one gives just before they quit.
Well it more accurately would have, without your brief preamble...

[Dillinger]

who's coming with me?!?!

[Dillinger]

>>The will-they-or-won't-they tension is more palpable around the actual moon landing than between the two romantic leads.

they're not stars.