Welcome to Thunderdome

Netflix.

A Chinese movie with the crazy sci-fi idea that since the sun is collapsing, let's build 10k giant thrusters and move the Earth to the next star over.

Hilarity ensues around Jupiter.

I'm not sure what to say about this one. The science is "wut?" but it's so out there that it's... almost enjoyable? I dunno. But at least a couple teenagers save the world.

Tough call.

This made Armageddon look like a documentary.

I was entertained, but barely.

That's a perfect review.

It actually took me three sittings to get through it.

DO you think if global humanity banded together, they could build even one of those giant thrusters/cities, much less ten thousand of them?

I think they could, yes.

I don't think there was even remotely enough mass on the planet to fuel them for 2500 years. Not at the rate they were digging.

And how the hell do you burn rocks?

And how are they picking up that habitat ring?

Leisher wrote: I think they could, yes.

I don't think there was even remotely enough mass on the planet to fuel them for 2500 years. Not at the rate they were digging.

And how the hell do you burn rocks?

And how are they picking up that habitat ring?

Rock burn rate... yeah. I was picturing like a baseball-sized cinder arriving at the next star.

I heard this movie was a monster in China, making almost a billion in theaters.

GORDON wrote: I heard this movie was a monster in China, making almost a billion in theaters.

Haven't seen this yet but the original novella was written by the guy who wrote the 3 Body Problem trilogy, Liu Cixin.

Seems like this one follows the rest of his science fiction:

Grand scale
Way darker than its science fiction peers
Characters and society make really weird decisions (as viewed through the Western lens, anyway)
Huuuuge human body counts

China will ruin our movies.

These guys make fun of it for ten minutes.