Every science fiction movie should handle technology and special effects this way
This film wasn’t even in my radar and it looks right up my alley. The marketing budget for this film was pretty abysmal.
Forreal. This is my first time hearing about this film… I think I’m gonna give it a whirl.
I’ve seen it. I wish I hadn’t.
It’s REALLY dull.
It’s a great movie and it’s worth a watch. In my opinion it had only one flaw (see major spoiler below):
spoiler
What the fuck was that ending? Did they decide “Oh, let’s ask Roland Emmerich how to improve the movie?”. Why didn’t they make the escape simple, instead of going full Moonfall on it?
I think “great” movie is kinda stretching it. It fails in authenticity from the first scene and proceeds to create more and more silly, unrealistic scenarios.
More spoilers below:
The opening scene is Driver’s ship sounding an alert mere seconds before getting hit by asteroids (as if a ship capable of interstellar travel would be unable to see a cloud of rocks until it’s about to hit), the autopilot is apparently unable to do anything so he climbs out of bed as his ship is disintegrating around him, and it becomes immediately clear he’s about to crash in to the planet right next to his ship (as if the solar system were too crowded to plot any path beside skimming through Earth’s atmosphere). It’s complete nonsense, dramatic theatrical nonsense, but nonsense nonetheless.
There’s plenty more examples of such nonsense, like giant dinosaurs killing a perfectly good meal and then ignoring it to chase two comparatively tiny humans. And other dinosaurs continuing a fruitless attack to their inevitable demise when any real animal would have run away long ago.
