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Originally Posted by 6793026
流浪地球 7-8/10
50M budget, 645M outcome. China's first full-scale interstellar spectacular.
吳京 is the dude who made tons of risk an invested in himself in Wolf Worrier etc.
In this movie, he does NOT throw one punch whatsoever which was surprising to see.
1) director had a limited budget, talked to his mentor and while mentor was also filming a space sci-fi movie, decided to lend his protege the gear which helped significantly.
2) zero USA influence in the movie at all, did not show anything US. (funny thing, they had a scene where they had japanese solider commit suicide hahaha)
3) 2 hrs of medium paced action with no bathroom breaks.
4) not a huge climax but decent paced to keep you going = great editing
5) This is 1998 armagaddon but China style, 1st movie for china to do full-scale interstellar / space sci-fi movie.
6) script was ok, typical hollywood ending
7) zero romance whatsoever
8) you gotta be pretty good at mandarin to follow even with subtitles cause some of the dialog goes fast.
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yeah some of my friends hyped this up as some "high budget chinese movie that isnt shit". but they are all chinese so...
so i went in thinking just that... but it was just another super chinese hollywood cheese movie that sticks in as many things as possible. like every epic end of earth movie and fucked in space movie. lots of "homage" or stolen? scenes and ideas. subtle communist propaganda.
the cgi was also pretty sub standard compared to hollywood.
i would give it 6/10... i almost wanna give it a 5. i just seriously felt it was not big screen worthy. maybe top tier straight to DVD/netflix type movie.
Space Odyssey 2001 (disobedient robot) + interstellar (relocates entire population) + sunshine (igniting some mass) + Armageddon (firing machine gun at asteroid in anger) + a buncha epic earth ending stuff like day after tomorrow and 2012
It felt like so many things tried to be packed into one story
And EVERY story has to be epic and immeasurable odds against them. But of course they always find some way lol