Some ruminations on two films I saw recently but have no intention of
buying on disc.
/The Wandering Earth II/
When I saw this, I was surprised to see that it was a prequel and not
a sequel. I was also disappointed at it.
This basically documents how the Wandering Earth Project (and MOSS)
came to be and traces it through several crises. Including some very
well organized physical attacks. But it simply doesn't match the level
of energy I remember from the first film, although reviewing the
Wikipedia plot summary of the original suggests that seeing this first
make make it more understandable.
OTOH, if you are wondering about the science behind this endeavor, the
film does go into more detail of how they planned to do it. I'm not
sure how well it would actually work, but it isn't as simple as
stopping the Earth and heading off directly away from the Sun. It's
more like expanding the orbit, getting velocity boosts from gravity,
and accelerating/coasting/decelerating to reach their destination.
Whether the time said to be needed is realistic I have no idea.
Among the things Paul S Person wrote:
Some ruminations on two films I saw recently but have no intention of
buying on disc.
/The Wandering Earth II/
When I saw this, I was surprised to see that it was a prequel and not
a sequel. I was also disappointed at it.
This basically documents how the Wandering Earth Project (and MOSS)
came to be and traces it through several crises. Including some very
well organized physical attacks. But it simply doesn't match the level
of energy I remember from the first film, although reviewing the
Wikipedia plot summary of the original suggests that seeing this first
make make it more understandable.
OTOH, if you are wondering about the science behind this endeavor, the
film does go into more detail of how they planned to do it. I'm not
sure how well it would actually work, but it isn't as simple as
stopping the Earth and heading off directly away from the Sun. It's
more like expanding the orbit, getting velocity boosts from gravity,
and accelerating/coasting/decelerating to reach their destination.
Whether the time said to be needed is realistic I have no idea.
I always wonder about movies like this: at what point can I blow up like McCoy at getting conned, "There won't be any damn permits! How can you get a damn permit to do a damned illegal thing?!"
Can we compare it to a caper film? Few people nowadays would expect one to be a blueprint they can copy for a robbery. The audience would grant the plan as given, and watch the personality interactions as the mechanism goes forward.
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