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The Wandering Earth is a terrible film. If my wife wasn’t Chinese and really wanted to see it through I would have stopped it 30 minutes into it and that is som

by evo_9 7y ago

The Wandering Earth is a terrible film. If my wife wasn’t Chinese and really wanted to see it through I would have stopped it 30 minutes into it and that is something I’ve only done a few times ever. The Three-Body Problem Is a pretty good book at times and could translate well with a big budget. Looking forward to seeing it.

salutonmundo 7y ago
A Chinese production of 3Body has been "postponed": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Three-Body_Problem_(film) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Three-Body_Problem_(film) Though personally I don't see how certain parts (like the VR sequences) would translate to screen.
- dpau 7y ago
  While the film version was cancelled, apparently a TV series is in the works: A TV adaptation of Chinese sci-fi novel The Three-Body Problem is in development https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/21/18700675/chinese-science-fiction-three-body-problem-tv-series-cixin-liu https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/21/18700675/chinese-science-...
CannisterFlux 7y ago
Maybe I'm easily pleased, but I quite liked Wandering Earth. It's extremely far fetched and a bit cheesy, but the story races along, there are loads of good set pieces, the characters are alright (watching with subtitles I think I missed out here) and the special effects are well done. It has a few Liu "tropes" in there that reminded me of 3 Body, like "Project X has now become Project Y", authority is surprisingly organised and has a grand plan, while in the end the job depends on the brilliance and self sacrifice of individuals.
rqs 7y ago
About The Wandering Earth, I didn't watch the film except the trailer, but many years ago one of my classmate in school read the book, so I still vaguely remember the story. In my memory, it's an epic, big, huge and vast story, and Cool. But it's just that, cool and empty. The story itself I think is targeting high schoolers, so the storyline does not run very deep and logical. And it's very hard to build an inspiring story on such shallow background. I'm expecting this movie at the same level with something like The Avengers: A fine movie, but in the end, nothing new. No new thinking, no enlightenment, you'll probably learn nothing from it if you're already a Scifi fan. Good for time killing, not a good for sink yourself in. However, Scifi in China is really a dead desert, the level of success Liu has reached as a Chinese scifi author could inspire other authors to create better stories in the future. Maybe himself could write some better stories when he's world view got deeper[0]. [0] https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/06/24/liu-cixins-war-of-the-worlds https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/06/24/liu-cixins-war...
- em-bee 7y ago
  indeed, it was a fine movie, good action, drama and all that. not hard science-fiction, and i don't remember learning anything new either. but my hope is that the commercial success of the movie will attract more chinese science-fiction, so that this won't be the pinnacle of what chinese science-fiction films can achieve, but only the beginning.

by evo_9 7y ago

salutonmundo 7y ago

A Chinese production of 3Body has been "postponed": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Three-Body_Problem_(film) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Three-Body_Problem_(film) Though personally I don't see how certain parts (like the VR sequences) would translate to screen.

dpau 7y ago
While the film version was cancelled, apparently a TV series is in the works: A TV adaptation of Chinese sci-fi novel The Three-Body Problem is in development https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/21/18700675/chinese-science-fiction-three-body-problem-tv-series-cixin-liu https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/21/18700675/chinese-science-...

CannisterFlux 7y ago

Maybe I'm easily pleased, but I quite liked Wandering Earth. It's extremely far fetched and a bit cheesy, but the story races along, there are loads of good set pieces, the characters are alright (watching with subtitles I think I missed out here) and the special effects are well done. It has a few Liu "tropes" in there that reminded me of 3 Body, like "Project X has now become Project Y", authority is surprisingly organised and has a grand plan, while in the end the job depends on the brilliance and self sacrifice of individuals.

rqs 7y ago

About The Wandering Earth, I didn't watch the film except the trailer, but many years ago one of my classmate in school read the book, so I still vaguely remember the story. In my memory, it's an epic, big, huge and vast story, and Cool. But it's just that, cool and empty. The story itself I think is targeting high schoolers, so the storyline does not run very deep and logical. And it's very hard to build an inspiring story on such shallow background. I'm expecting this movie at the same level with something like The Avengers: A fine movie, but in the end, nothing new. No new thinking, no enlightenment, you'll probably learn nothing from it if you're already a Scifi fan. Good for time killing, not a good for sink yourself in. However, Scifi in China is really a dead desert, the level of success Liu has reached as a Chinese scifi author could inspire other authors to create better stories in the future. Maybe himself could write some better stories when he's world view got deeper[0]. [0] https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/06/24/liu-cixins-war-of-the-worlds https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/06/24/liu-cixins-war...

em-bee 7y ago
indeed, it was a fine movie, good action, drama and all that. not hard science-fiction, and i don't remember learning anything new either. but my hope is that the commercial success of the movie will attract more chinese science-fiction, so that this won't be the pinnacle of what chinese science-fiction films can achieve, but only the beginning.