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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8LAwozrXPo&hd=1 Screw you Jupiter!   Our sun will go supernova in just a century. The solution? Build 10,000 world engines and move that sucker to a new solar system, Planetary Annihilation style.  The journey will be long and cold, with the earth's surface long frozen over, the only source of warmth being the colossal world engines themselves.  When tectonic instability causes the systemic failure of thousands of world engines, a ragtag group of survivors and a lone astronaut aboard the ISS must race against the clock--and defy the world government that intends to leave them for dead--to pull off a desperate plan to restart the engines before the earth is pulled into the Roche limit of Jupiter.  Get ready for some golden era sci-fi on a scale that has rarely been attempted on the silver screen before.  Armageddon? Deep Impact? The Day After Tomorrow? The Martian? They ain't got poo poo on this.  Based on the short story by Cixin Liu, author of The Three Body Problem  Directed by Frant Gwo, director of My Old Classmate According to The Hollywood Reporter, "Beijing-based distributor CMC Pictures has secured the international rights and is planning a sizable North American release on Feb. 8. The company will open the film in 22 cities in the U.S. and three in Canada, as well as throughout Australia." Cities:  Since this is a short notice release by a Chinese distributor, expect less-than-perfect English subtitles, but you should be able to get the gist of it. Reviews: ‘The Wandering Earth’ Is China’s First Breathtaking Sci-Fi Success China’s Film Industry Finally Joins the Space Race The Wandering Earth has made a giant leap for China’s science fiction cinema but not for the genre itself It’s a massive, exciting concept and a solid tension-building story that will keep you on the edge of your seat Assepoester fucked around with this message at 09:28 on Feb 7, 2019 |
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Really glad this has better distribution than Wolf Warrior 2. It was a pain in the rear end to find that in theaters but there's a few in the area showing this.
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Feb 7, 2019 21:52
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This film is a preview of how incomprehensibly stupid Hollywood will get - even more than they currently are - once China indisputably becomes the world's largest movie market. It's like Battlefield Earth, Transformers, and an Uwe Boll film put in a blender.
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Feb 7, 2019 22:15
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Slutitution posted:It's like Battlefield Earth, Transformers, and an Uwe Boll film put in a blender.
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Feb 8, 2019 04:45
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The United States posted:Screw you Jupiter! Terminator 2 helicopter pilot posted:That's a drat minigun!
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Feb 8, 2019 15:54
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Cant wait to see black science mans take on this dumb bullshit
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banned from Starbucks posted:Cant wait to see black science mans take on this dumb bullshit Turns out it all checks out
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The United States posted:
Some top-class photoshop skills here on the heads in the right half of this poster
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Slutitution posted:This film is a preview of how incomprehensibly stupid Hollywood will get - even more than they currently are - once China indisputably becomes the world's largest movie market. It's like Battlefield Earth, Transformers, and an Uwe Boll film put in a blender. Disagree, it was more a combo of 2001 and Over the Top. But not as good as either. I was pretty disappointed in this. It's way, way too long and just really boring. I expected some of the stupidity, like the really bad comic relief characters but it just dragged. The trailer had enough wacky stuff in it that I thought they could fill two hours, but it really couldn't. Instead you are left with a movie that thinks trucking is way more exciting than it comes off in the movie. Highlight of the movie was the anti corruption/bribery message early on. I enjoyed that.
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Feb 24, 2019 17:27
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Mainstream Chinese cinema is really bad and I'm speaking as somebody who can actually understand the movies in their original language (and original badness).
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Feb 24, 2019 17:46
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Is the story this is based on any good? I know the author won a Hugo for another novel.
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Al Cu Ad Solte posted:Is the story this is based on any good? I know the author won a Hugo for another novel.
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Vegetable posted:Mainstream Chinese cinema is really bad and I'm speaking as somebody who can actually understand the movies in their original language (and original badness). Wolf Warrior 2 is some of the most fun I've had at an action movie in years and Wolf Warrior 1 is pretty good. I knew going in this would likely be stupid and resemble a 90s/aughts sci fi blockbuster... but I forgot how long and boring those could be. Ah well!
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My favorite thing about this movie is how the end credits appear over an animation of the earth flying through the pages of a book. Because the movie is based on a book. Just amazing thought processes in action here
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TDII5IkI3Y
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Ughhh, so this movie does suck? I hate that the trailer looks good and the premise is cool.
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Apr 29, 2019 18:29
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I was vaguely looking forward to this. Oh well
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Hedenius posted:The story is wonderful and is pretty much nothing like the film aside from the basic premise. I was really looking forward to this film but holy poo poo it's bad. The directing is terrible with missing scenes in between set pieces, the two main actors are just terrible and the dialogue is almost garbage (which is made worse if you understand mandarin). They basically took the setting in the story and pasted a dumb YA - like Day After Tomorrow combined with 2001 A Space Odyssey plot on top, and made the nationalism so on the nose there's a plot point that only the Chinese have the willpower to save the planet from being destroyed.
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If you want a more serious take on the human ark type story, this one is making the arthouse rounds https://youtu.be/3MIlE9R00ik
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This movie is awesome. Yes, everything about it is terrible but if you go into it expecting a disaster movie so over the top it makes Day After Tomorrow look like a corporate training film you will enjoy yourself. I cackled for a good 10 minutes at the final solution to blow up Jupiter How can you not enjoy a movie where an angry Chinese Marine shoots a chaingun at Jupiter? You're a boring person if you can't find enjoyment in this completely bonkers film.
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I watched this last night and made it about an hour before I had to turn it off. It was just...bad. I wish it was just subtitles because the dubbing is terrible. It was super boring and I really had no idea what was happening.
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This was kinda cheesy, but it was big stupid fun with pretty good production values and it had an interesting setting. I for one welcome our new Chinese overlords and look forward to their becoming the next superpower.
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Started this cause it looked and read like it was interesting (went in without any spoilers) and stopped halfway(? It was at the part where the guy on the space station got out of the hibernation thing and started waking people in the room up presumably to go save his kid or something) to go to bed. Not really sure if I want to finish it. That’s my story.
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I got high as poo poo and made it through this. It felt kinda like if a roland emerich/michael bay movie was actually literally written by a five year old instead of thousands of highly paid writers and focus groups. Some of the effects were pretty good but it mostly looked like a (pricey) TV show, especially since about 70% of the movie just takes place inside this big truck thing:
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Phenotype posted:This was kinda cheesy, but it was big stupid fun with pretty good production values and it had an interesting setting. I for one welcome our new Chinese overlords and look forward to their becoming the next superpower. West Korea appreciates your support for The Great Leader Pooh Bear
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the dub of this is like 1970s speed racer quality
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Saw this movie in the theater... guess what? It’s terrible!
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Watched it last night. Wow, they go full absurdity on this. Wholesale spoilers below: They basically have to mine and burn half of earth to feed the engines for 2500 years. And the whole time the atmosphere is basically drifting off into space. It will never be habitable after that. And they aren’t even one percent into the trip and their guide space station is now gone, the hibernation pods were ejected to probably fall into Jupiter, and they didn’t even take into account that stopping the earth’s rotation stops the protective magnetosphere that protects us from stellar radiation (you can pretend the core keeps rotating I guess). Everyone just got a lethal dose from Jupiter basically. Also, I thoroughly enjoyed the Mach 1000 (that’s over 70,000mph) shockwave that didn’t flatten half of earth.
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The synopsis of this movie looks dumb, but also batshit insane in a good way. Is it worth watching for the set pieces? Or is it so bad it's irredeemable?
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It's really not a goofy fun movie, instead I would say it's mostly humorous. It's a perfect candidate for a MST3K/Rifftrax/Bad movie night film because it is so incompetent.
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smoobles posted:The synopsis of this movie looks dumb, but also batshit insane in a good way. Is it worth watching for the set pieces? Mostly no. All the cool parts are in the trailer.
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I came for two hours of bad decision making and actors screaming at each other while they're crying and explosions are also happening and it delivered. Farm Frenzy posted:It felt kinda like if a roland emerich/michael bay movie was actually literally written by a five year old is as succinct a summary as you can get. This is a great candidate for a second monitor Netflix tab or a movie party where folks can pause the movie and argue about the science, and have the movie offer an even more ridiculous answer five seconds later. Subbed is definitely the way to go.
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Farm Frenzy posted:I got high as poo poo and made it through this. It felt kinda like if a roland emerich/michael bay movie was actually literally written by a five year old instead of thousands of highly paid writers and focus groups.
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You know that scene in geostorm where there's a huge flashing monitor screaming "geostorm imminent: 59 minutes"? In this movie they have the same thing except even more amazing, where a computer tells you the whole earth will be destroyed and urges you to go home and hug your family members and tell them you love them
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I saw it with subtitles and wish I kept the corny dubbing on instead, because my eyes hurt pretty bad after two hours of simultaneously speed-reading and trying to watch the frenetically-edited shaky cam visual mess.
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Oddly enough the last movie that I saw previous to watch The Wandering Earth was... Geostorm. Those two movies have a lot in common. I seriously wonder though, what exactly is the market for science fiction movies with bad science? I get it, atsome point you have to tell a story, and it has to look good, so liberties are going to be taken somewhere. But the plot of these two movies revolve entirely around a lack of understanding of some pretty basic principles.
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Most people don't understand or care about science, and screenwriters are a subset of people. The best Venn intersection is "screenwriters who think they understand science but don't" and "actual scientists in that particular field", leading to things like the writer of The Core getting very angry indeed when the movie was critiqued by a geologist.
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Simplex posted:Oddly enough the last movie that I saw previous to watch The Wandering Earth was... Geostorm. Those two movies have a lot in common. They’re the last two movies you saw, I think you may have found the market
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I can be pretty forgiving about scientific accuracy if the product is good on the artistic end. The film had a few interesting questions to explore about the results of being born into a culture of extreme collectivist sacrifice. The spectacle and insanity was good in some ways for me to enjoy on a popcorn level. However, it was a cinematic mess. Near the end I only had the vaguest idea of what was happening and where people were in relation to one another because the movie had zero cinematic connective tissue. It's like they didn't even storyboard it, they seemed to just shoot one scene after the next and patch them together with no regard to helping the audience make sense of the frenetic action. The only things I looked forward to seeing after a point were the space station exteriors because I could rest my eyes and enjoy an establishing shot for a change.
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