Watched both the Evangelion movies, back to back. I didn't have a lot of sympathy for the endless psychobabble, but damn, it's all put together so well... Excuse my obscure motion graphics trainspotting, but the "DNA spiral" of the end credits made me laugh and clap out loud.
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I found Donald Rumsfeld and Henry Kissinger's appearances in that moon hoax mocumentary quite surreal (in the more banal usage of the word). I admit it was interesting, but all that funny stuff about them offhandedly getting Stanely Kubrick to fake the moon landing on a weekend, and then eliminating everyone involved, made them appear even more ghoulish, because in the real world Rumsfeld's very carefully and deliberately trying to bomb a people into the fucking stone age, and Kissinger did the same a few years back. I wonder what they were actually talking about in their interviews (the selected quotes that survived the editing process are excellently vague).
In a way (and Arthur C. Clarke is the obscure link here), they reminded me of right-wing science fiction authors Jerry Pournelle and Larry Niven (authors of "Third World commie hordes" paranoia sf novel, The Mote in God's Eye) boasting in a documentary about how they'd gotten Ronald Reagan to pursue the Strategic Defense Initiative. Clarke was snubbed by their geeky group for opposing their militarist fantasies (apparently, Robert Heinlein told him to "never set foot in this fucking country again", or words to that effect), and in the moon hoax film, it's the "lunar surface" set of 2001 that's used as the staging ground for the Apollo 11 landing. Only, Pournelle and Niven were utterly serious. Meanwhile, Rumsfeld and Kissinger have a tradition of writing a different, more immediately genocidal kind of science fiction called "US foreign policy".
