You know the whole Apollo 11 thing with 400,000 people working on it? That's the part that convinced me too. All those engineers and scientists keeping quiet for 50 years is just impossible. I think the crazy theories actually make NASA look way more competent than they really are. People just don't realize how much work goes into faking something giant like that.
250,000 miles is a REAL long way to fake a landing. You gotta think about the radio delay alone, that would be a nightmare to pull off in real time. And if NASA was THAT good at special effects in 1969, why did movies still look so fake back then?