Moonfall (Roland Emmerich)

So when is this out then and no I did not look at the trailer as that would ruin the film?

I like the name if it not because its a disaster movie but it has a cool name.

I thought Patrick Wilson was Chris Pratt

It's on airplane mode! 😁

This looks like solid leave-brain-at-door fun! 🙂

Is this as bad as Independence Day 2? That was shocking.

That review was hilarious! 😁

Makes geostorm look like a hard hitting documentary on climate change!!!! Lol!! 😂

Another bomb

After wacthing the video you posted about Bruce Willis getting paid a millions to be fed lines throught an ear peice and look bored for two days work and those movies all turn a profit. I'm sure this will eventually break even with deals made to streaming platforms.

I liked the look of this when I saw the trailer recently but about halfway through I said to myself "oh wait, it's not Roland Emmerich is it?!" 😁 The man has made some unbelievable tosh - 2012 being the worst that I've seen; I really like 'The Day After Tomorrow' but everything else is the worst kind of cliched Hollywood garbage imo (and I include Independence Day 1 in that - which I liked when it came out, but I was young and impressionable then 😛).

I have no problems with Big Dumb Movies. As long as they are fun, well-made Big Dumb Movies. It's why I cannot stand the Transformers movies. I don't mind plot-holes in blockbusters but the transformers movies in particular has no through-line consistency. There is no reason for X to happen to Y at Z location other than it looks cool..... The last Transformers film I saw in the movies was, I don't know, the one with the Pyramid? I was in the cinema in Blanchardstown. My gut sinking as I watched those horrific Googly-eyes, big-lipped, gold-toothed, illiterate "urban" stereotypes straight from the 40's surrounded by families of all colours (There was more than one or two angry faces let me tell you).

But on to ID2. I never thought much of ID but that's just me. But, again, there was no flow to the story. Oh. They are on the moon. Understood. OK. Now they are in London.. OK.. Now on the... On the moon? Oh no, it's him on the moon. But isn't he on another spaceship. OK. Now in the desert.. And in Space again?

Big Dumb Movies are just as much part of the cinema as the latest Lars Von Trier mope-fest (Regardless of Scorsese's ill-judged statement - And I think he was taken slightly out of context. But anyway). They have their place as much as any other film. In fairness to them, they are a VITAL part of the industry. Sure, one may complain about Marvel movies hoovering up billions of dollars for Disney but for your local cinema this means multiple screens full. Lots of food/drink sales. This also means that other larger movies tend to stay away from these tentpole movies. Which frees up space for smaller movies for the smaller screens in the same cinema. Last week I went to see Belle. Sure, it was a pretty major release in Japan but there is no denying that there is not really a huge demand for subtitled Japanese animation on a Wednesday night in West Dublin :) They were showing it on their large screen.

TLDR: BDMs have their place. I LIKE BDMs...I just hate poorly constructed Big Dumb Movies which is what Emerich makes... again... and again... and again... And them complains about Superhero movies being all the same.

So, in this day of "Cancel Culture" where someone can be "Cancelled" (Yawn) for spur-of-the moment, out of context comments (I'm not justifying these comments, just saying we have all posted stuff without thinking about them from time to time 😀), look at this below.

• Someone wrote those lines
• Someone performed those lines
• Someone....... someone DESIGNED those characters to look EXACTLY like that
• Some APPROVED those character designs.
• Someone spent months animating those characters.

And EVERYONE was OK with this... (Same could be said of course for the Me So Solly aliens in Star Wars Episode one.... Or... y'know... Episode one :) )

But to your point regarding making intentionally bad movies. I can understand that from the likes of those Asylum-type studios. But Moonfall is 150 million. Assuming the same again for marketing. That's a LOT of money to be made back. It's strange to think how dated it actually seems. Disaster Movies? So 2000s. Pffft.