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   From: davidjohnston29@yahoo.com   
      
   On 2019-05-11 9:48 p.m., J. Clarke wrote:   
   > Just saw it on Amazon.  I had not heard of this movie before.   
   >   
   > Chinese, big budget apparently, from a story by and executive produced   
   > by Cixin Liu.   
   >   
   >  From a storytelling viewpoint it was a typical blockbuster, one   
   > perilous situation after another.  The characters weren't all that   
   > plausible--they tried too hard to create a situation with a couple of   
   > good looking teenagers whose teenagedness didn't really contribute   
   > much to the story--it did create a whole subplot though.  But it's   
   > Chinese, maybe a couple of teenages scofflaws are edgy or something--I   
   > may ask my Chinese coworkers if they would be willing to give it a   
   > look on Monday--I would be interested in their comments.   
   >   
   >  From a scientific viewpoint, it had the typical moviemaker's   
   > cluelessness concerning such topics as orbital mechanics and the   
   > relative dimensions of Earth and Jupiter but I had the impression that   
   > somebody was _trying_ to keep the thing on track in that regard just   
   > as Kip Thorne tried and failed to keep Interstellar on track.   
   >   
   >  From a science fictional viewpoint, the concept I think has been done   
   > before but it's not a common one--something is going to happen to the   
   > Sun so the whole bleeding Earth is being taken to Alpha Centauri (not   
   > a spoiler--that's the setup for the whole thing).   
   >   
   > FX were decent enough--a sky full of Jupiter is always worth a look   
   > and other visuals were rather nice.   
   >   
   > Anyway, just throwing this out to see if anyone is interesting in   
   > discussion.   
   >   
      
   Cixin Liu's take on orbital mechanics was what turned me off him.   
      
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