Perfection in the genre: Stuffs What Blows Up Right Gud.
Man that's the ID4 Enhanced Package you got there.
There was a decent novel a few years ago called Seveneves by Neal Stephenson that started with the moon being randomly yeeted by what is suspected to be a naked singularity and about a third of the resulting debris ends up thrown at earth ending all life a few years later. First half of the story is basically about the effort to get some people into space to start a colony in an extremely short period of time with near current technology. Last half of the book is just dwelling on the more or less post human results millennium later after they manage to terraform earth back into something livable.
Reminds me of how the Phil Plait orbit of space nerds used to hold up Deep Impact as 'good' because it was 2.5% more scientifically plausible than Armageddon. Like they're both in 'lmfao no' land science-wise but this one's more serious!
I guess some people think that the cinematic equivalent of a big Mac is also good for you, rather than something delicious but will ultimately clog your arteries
It has great moments but too many dull parts that drags it down from it being a great flick for me. Really should have been a 2 hour or less movie.
I think an Alien using MacOS is the most realistic part of that movie.
There's a reason why no one ever calls you over to watch movies with them you insufferable faggot.
Not gonna disagree with that
It's more likely than africans managing to down one of their ships, I'm gonna give you that.
Taken on it's own it's a good movie, but it did start a bad trend by dumbing down the summer blockbuster and marked the end of the golden age of that type of movie that started with Jaws and Star Wars.
It is rumored NASA uses Armageddon to test the general scientific literacy of some applicants. If they can't find enough errors, they're out.
I'd rather they stick to reviewing stuff they are passionate about or stuff they really hate instead of just reviewing some generic superhero film they think is OK. I really liked this episode because they had so many axes to grind with the movie and so many ways to make fun of it by pointing out the junk innacurate science or comparing it to The Asylum and saying the Asylum was better than Moonfall at times. We even got a science lesson on stars and why having a white dwarf star in the center of the moon is impossible. I don't understand why some of the fans want them to watch The Batman or the new MCU film and go "it was OK". Only one i really would want them to review would be the new Spider Man but only to compare it to the Rami trilogy and they've already given their thoughts on it here and in the Darkman review.
I watched it when I was younger and even though I liked dumb stupid movies as a teenager even I had trouble liking it. I saw it during lockdown and was in stitches the whole time because, like you said, you don't see those kinds of comedy anymore. Just good old fashioned fat jokes.
Yeah I don't get why they can't just leave ID4 at "we don't like it and think its dumb, but we get why people like it so whatever". People can like dumb stupid crap for valid reasons.
You think the people at NASA have their own version of MST3K or BOTW where they watch terrible space movies, get drunk, and laugh at all the inaccurate portrayals of space travel in the film? Like they put on a 50s B movie where everyone is wearing silver jumpsuits on a moon colony set in the year 1997 and just laugh at how silly it is?
Could be, but those 50s B movies often did better at depicting space travel then the stuff being made now.
You say that but I don't recall any negro astronauts back then!
If you think that the downward spiral of American culture only started in the last handful of decades, you really haven't watched a lot of 30s-40s-50s movies. The very late 60s and early 70s is when it really started to go to shit.
Not gonna argue with the fact that it lead to a hilarious bad trend of things getting more and more over the top.
Hahahaha yes, cope and seethe you little bitch.
In some ways yes, in some ways no.
A lot of 90s trends were like that, they may have started off ok but wound up really obnoxious as people just kept pushing the envelope.
I think restricting ourselves to one specific genre doesn't help.
That's because, unlike in previous generations, we entered a mood for 'If 1 is good, two is better! Like a big mac? Here's a double big mac? Like Jurassic Park? How about Jurassic Worlds!' Spiderman? How about THREEEEEEEE SPIDERMAN?!?!
I know classic, pre-60s era Hollywood has a big following, but for me personally live action filmmaking doesn't start to get really interesting until 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Indeed, that's a big part of today's problem, we never show any restraint, it's always bigger and bigger, but there comes a point where if everything is big, nothing is.