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Wandering Earth: 6/10
Long analysis but meh.
Almost definitely won't hit the big screens in the west, because it was Made In China so is in the wrong language for dumb folk who don't like subtitles.
China's first big budget sci-fi film.
Story goes like this:
- Sun starts to rapidly expand
- Humans come together to form the United Earth Agency (almost entirely fronted by Chinese people)
- 10,000 land-based fusion reactor rocket booster things are created on earth, turning it into a giant maneuverable space rock.
- Plan is to fly earth to Andromeda and live there instead
- Someone got the calculations wrong, Earth is going to hit Jupiter
- Chinese people save the day
Overall it's a worthy action film. Good effects etc. Absolutely on par with Holywood.
The problem is in how utterly badly it breaks away from the realm of physical possibility. There's just too much to mention. The scenes are all fine and realistic, but the logic they attempt to apply to the storyis all bollocks. Sun rapidly expanding? 10,000 fusion space engines? Accidentally falling into the largest planet in the solar system?!
As well as this, the social/political undertones are great.
On the United Earth space station, the lead character is Chinese and his best mate onboard is Russian. The funny thing is, the decision to make him Russian was done in post-production. The guy's mouth moves and then a Russian voice happens. They must have used a different nationality at first.
Also on the space station there's an AI which goes rogue (stolen firectly from 2001: A Space Odyssey...). When the AI is functioning normally, it talks in Chinese. When it goes rogue, it talks American.
Highest grossing film in Chinese history, anyway. $3 billion so far.
Needless to say, it has sent Chinese nationalism through the roof. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7605074/ - High ratings on here are thanks to it being completely swamped by happy Chinese viewers. |
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I switched over the telly last night in the middle of one of the innumerable Star Wars thingies, I could tell it was quite recent cos Han Solo was looking fairly grizzled. Nonetheless, Harrison Ford ... so I commenced to watch it.
But I'd not been watching it half an hour when some apparently Darth Vader wannabe stuck my hero with a whomping great handful of laser beam and he fell off a bridge, into what was quite clearly a very deep chasm, with a look on his face that could only depict mortal injury.
So -100/10 to that edition.
*sulking now* ____________________ Not nearly as interesting in real life.
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Green Book, 9.5/10. Superb. ____________________ "There's the horizon! Ride hard, ride fast and cut down all who stand in your way!" |
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 5 years, 52 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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