WOW! Both barrels blasting here! I don't need to watch any such tripe. ChiCom Hollyweird infiltration at its finest.

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‘Moonfall’ Review: Sexless, Mindless Disaster Movie Made By China Appeasers

Watching Roland Emmerich’s latest disaster epic Moonfall is like entering an alternate universe where Jerry Falwell Sr. and the Moral Majority won the culture wars.

Moonfall is as sexless as Leave it to Beaver. It is so sterile, such a violation of human nature, and self-consciously so, it feels awkward.

Why plop an actress as jaw-droppingly gorgeous as Halle Berry into a piece of disaster-epic cheese and waste her in this way? Berry is a solid actress, no question, but WTF?

We get nothing from Moonfall that resembles even the smallest acknowledgment of human sexuality. No one acknowledges Berry’s stunning looks. No one does a double-take. Even though she and co-star (Patrick Wilson) both play characters who are divorced, there are no sparks, no banter, no nothing, even with all the heightened emotions around the end of the world.

John Bradley plays K.C. Houseman, an overweight, lonely nerd, and you’d think Berry was his sister.

There’s no cleavage, no leg shot, no shot of an underwear-clad Berry stepping into a spacesuit, and no wish-fulfillment romance between her and Wilson.

What the hell are we doing to ourselves? I’ll tell you what we’re doing. We’re censoring and destroying our own art to appease the sexless Nazis in China. Hollywood and its artists are eagerly whoring out their artistic integrity, hoping China will accept ready-made propaganda into their theaters.

The China appeasing doesn’t even stop there…

After the American government has pretty much given up on saving the world, a bizarre piece of exposition informs us that China is sending help. Oh, and then there’s Chinese actress Kelly Yu who teaches Berry’s young son to speak Chinese in-between all of her brave heroics.

Good heavens, even in the heightened days of the Production Code, movies were not sexless and sterile. I kid you not… This is not hyperbole… Abbott and Costello never made a movie as weirdly sexless as Moonfall.

An industry that once took great (and deserved) pride in ridding itself of the Production Code is now bending over as quislings for the Nazis in China.

What a humiliation for all involved.

And the sad thing is that other than his hermetically sealed world where no one has hormones, Moonfall isn’t half bad. It’s dumber than Joy Behar and saddled with some of the worst dialogue you’ll hear outside of a 19-year-old playwright, but the story zips along, offers a few surprises, and a whole lot of money shots: floods, fires, flaming comets, etc. There’s even something called a “gravity wave,” which was pretty cool.

The moon goes out of orbit. K.C. Houseman, a conspiracy theorist who believes the moon is a mega-structure built by aliens, is the first to discover this. Naturally, no one will listen to him, including disgraced astronaut Brian Harper (Wilson). Eventually, NASA catches on and it’s up to Deputy Director Berry to save the day. But she’s blocked at every turn. What’s going on? How can this be?

Well, in a one-shot role that harkens back to his unforgettable work in Oliver Stone’s JFK, Donald Sutherland wheels in to explain the conspiracy, which sends Berry off to get the job done.

On the ground, Berry’s and Wilson’s loved ones struggle through exploding comets and rednecks to find safety.

At the halfway mark, the movie manages to just barely avoid shitting the bed with a ludicrous plot turn… But ludicrous is half the fun.

Everything is green-screened to death. Everything is CGI’d to death. The relationships are just as artificial. Nevertheless, Moonfall is never boring and manages to do a whole lot in just 130 minutes.

If only Moonfall had been made by human beings and artists instead of Nazi appeasers.

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That's a bummer. The brief trailers I'd seen looked interesting.

The trailers made it look like the space version of that piece of shit 2012 movie, same director so it’s going to be the same old BS.

Pass

Jesus, what Cheeto-stained basement dweller wrote this review? Seriously, he spends half his time bitching that he doesn't get to see any of Halle's naughty bits? Dude, there is this thing called the internet. Don't act like you've never heard of it. If freeze frame Berry boobies are your thing, try Swordfish or The Last Boy Scout.

I have not seen this movie yet, but I'm planning on it. Not because I want intellectual content or deep character development. I want to see gratuitous, global destruction. I've been wondering since Space: 1999 what the moon shifting its orbit (does it matter what direction?) would do. I want to see the inside of a moon-structure and what might have built it. If I need some "wish-fulfilment" between anyone, it'll be me and some Eastern European chick on Pornhub.

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I think the point he was trying to make went riiiiiight over your head.

It’s very true that Hollywood has sold out to the Chicoms, hence the prevalence of these shitty movies with cartoon violence like the 8,0000 superhero movies a year and zero sexual anything because they have to cater to Chinese audiences who are forbidden by their Communist masters from seeing movies with actual violence and anything sexual in nature.

If you can’t see that, you’re blind.

I guess so.

Or maybe I'm just watching non-Hollywood TV/movies because I still see plenty of the good ol' sex n' violence.

I saw this movie Friday night. Leaving the theater, it never once crossed my mind that there was no sex and China was being appeased by Hollywood.

I don't typically get movie review information from uber conservative websites, but instead try to go into the movies as a clean unbiased slate. I don't like it when the trailer gives away the entire movie or every one of the exciting or comedic scenes.

The trailer I had seen for this movie is this one:


From that trailer, I wasn't entirely sure what to expect. It seemed there was some sort of alien on the moon that they needed to fight. My son wanted to go see it so we went. There were suprises and plot twists that I didn't expect.

I am going to try to address the review without spoilers. The review has several.

For the sexless comments, there was a very small "romantic" vibe between the nanny and the astronaut's son. The vibe that exists between two late teen or early 20s people when curious and attracted seemed to be present.

Based on the characters, and storyline there weren't a lot of opportunities to put sex into the movie. It would have been forced at best and at that point even more odd.

As for the complaint that the nanny taught the boy Chinese, I guess my language skills are lacking and I can't specifically say what language was being spoken. It was of Asian origin, but how am I to tell if it was Chinese, Mandarin, Vietnamese, Japanese, Cantonese, or Lao?

Then there is the complaint that China is offering help to put something in space. Say it ain't so that one of the super powers with space capability offers assistance to the US. Damn, that's just too far fetched and has to be Hollywood bowing down to appease China. You know, if the only tool in your toolbox is a hammer, then EVERYTHING is a nail....

All too often lately it seems like people seek out things that frustrate or annoy them. It's a movie, go see it or don't. Here's an idea, instead of glomming on to someone else's opinion (review) have your own. It's okay to not be assimilated into the borg. Go see it for yourself and walk away with your opinion of it. I didn't go in expecting a highly intellectual thriller. I set my expectations according to what I got out of the trailer and was pleasantly surprised. Are there things that could have been better or worse? You bet. Did I leave disappointed? No.

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This post is not intended as an attack on other members. It is my opinion and commentary on something that is easily observable in almost any scenario. Differences in perception can be polarizing. One should seek multiple view points to better understand the larger picture. Think about the five blind men describing an elephant. Were any of them wrong?

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Originally posted by PASig:
I think the point he was trying to make went riiiiiight over your head.

It’s very true that Hollywood has sold out to the Chicoms, hence the prevalence of these shitty movies with cartoon violence like the 8,0000 superhero movies a year and zero sexual anything because they have to cater to Chinese audiences who are forbidden by their Communist masters from seeing movies with actual violence and anything sexual in nature.

If you can’t see that, you’re blind.

A lot of violent and/or sexual R-rated movies were released in 2021 and none of the four Marvel movies released in 2021 have even had a theatrical release in China.

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