Wandering Earth Part 2

Okay its not part two. It's just that I was not able to watch the movie in more tan one sitting. I still have like 40 minutes left. This movie was like an EVENT, which is exactly what a movie needs to be nowadays. Because its mostly action.... I guess even though you have to pay attention if you really want to understand what's going on, in reality, you can enjoy the movie without understanding anything. In order to Justify paying the money to see it on a big screen, this is how movies like this, Jupiter Rising, Avengers Endgame,.. have to be.


There are a ton of plot twists, so much so that this is like 10 movies in one. One complaint my wife had was that it had the same excited Mandarin tone throughout the movie... like it's too much to take. I noticed that there are sections to the movie with different characters. In that sense I think it could be compared to an Epic movie like the American, "How the West was Won." Also... "Wandering Earth" is kind of a propaganda film (one could argue that most films have some level of propaganda)


I think that it got a ton of bad reviews because it is a non Hollywood film that is really able to compete with Hollywood internationally, especially with a platform like Netflix. Not only that but even though the aim of the movie is not to make Americans look bad, you can see that yes... this is from a different perspective, from the Mainland Chinese perspective, and this movie is not whack, it has the budget and the graphics to really compete if not out compete a James Cameron Film. And at the same time you can see references to all these American movies and novels. Its weird how HAL has an American voice in the beginning (or excuse me, the proper name in this movie is MOSS, but the robot is obviously HAL) but switches to Mandarin Chinese when explaining another plot twist.

I think even if you don't like this type of movie, you have to watch it. Just like for Chinese movies there was a pre Crouching Tiger era and a post Crouching Tiger Era, I think for Sci Fi movies there is going to be a Pre- Wandering earth era and a post.

I mean historians and current events people should study this movie because it is kind of showing what is already true that China and Russia are coming into their own and able to compete. We already knew this, but to see it in popular culture is another matter.