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Castro
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"The Wandering Earth (Frant Gwo, 2019)"


  

          

Netflix is now streaming the third highest grossing film of 2019 (700 Million worldwide!), a Chinese blockbuster based on the Hugo award winning novel "The Three Body Problem" by Lui Cixin.

https://youtu.be/_lsOwtKNsAA

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This is a hard scifi/action disaster blockbuster
May 09th 2019
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It's based on a novella called "The Wandering Earth,"
May 09th 2019
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I was so confused!
May 09th 2019
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RE: I was so confused!
May 09th 2019
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      Same. loved the books though
May 10th 2019
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      Yeah.
May 10th 2019
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MY BAD.
May 09th 2019
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it’s a damn good novella.
May 10th 2019
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This ain't Three Body.
May 09th 2019
3
My BAD.
May 09th 2019
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saw it in theaters earlier this year
May 10th 2019
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Watched yesterday, that Dad is a traitor to humanity
May 12th 2019
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so was Burke
May 12th 2019
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Castro
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1. "This is a hard scifi/action disaster blockbuster "
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This is beautifully shot. It plods along a bit but the payoff is great.

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Thu May-09-19 12:43 PM

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2. "It's based on a novella called "The Wandering Earth,""
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also written by Liu Cixin.

I'm really looking forward to watching this one.

>Netflix is now streaming the third highest grossing film of
>2019 (700 Million worldwide!), a Chinese blockbuster based on
>the Hugo award winning novel "The Three Body Problem" by Lui
>Cixin.
>
>https://youtu.be/_lsOwtKNsAA

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stravinskian
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Thu May-09-19 01:40 PM

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4. "I was so confused!"
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But if Liu is involved, I'm in.


Apparently a Chinese studio tried to make a movie of The Three Body Problem but it was a disaster. (Either that or the Chinese government wasn't happy with how the Cultural Revolution is treated in the story.)

Last news was that Amazon bought the rights to it and was planning to spend a BBBBillion dollars turning it into a series. But that was the rumor over a year ago and nothing has happened since. I'm honestly a little skeptical that 3BP could be adapted well as a movie or a show, but I'll be excited if it happens.

  

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Nopayne
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5. "RE: I was so confused!"
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and I kinda hope it doesn't happen.

As much as I love the trilogy, it's so fuckin' weird. I don't see it translating well to the big screen (or Western markets).

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calminvasion
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9. "Same. loved the books though"
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>and I kinda hope it doesn't happen.
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>As much as I love the trilogy, it's so fuckin' weird. I don't
>see it translating well to the big screen (or Western
>markets).

  

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stravinskian
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10. "Yeah."
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I'm only about a third of the way through the second book at the moment, but I think I largely agree.

I LOVE the fact that LIU made an effort to make the Trisolarans distinctly non-humanoid. But at the same time, the thought of seeing CGI blobs on the screen, communicating through some kind of holographic projections of their thoughts, that could get embarrassingly corny, really fast.

Also, I definitely needed all the footnotes to explain the cultural and historical references, many of which are crucial to the story. It would take some really good writers to balance all that without the explanations seeming ham fisted and contrived.

  

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6. "MY BAD."
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11. "it’s a damn good novella."
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3. "This ain't Three Body. "
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7. "My BAD."
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benny
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8. "saw it in theaters earlier this year"
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it's got thrills but gotdamn was the comedy bad. Made me regret the lame zingers from the MCU
Also the editing was kinda suspect. I did enjoy the story though, not as mind-blowing as the 3 Body books but very solid and tightly done

Still, I go see Chinese movies once in a while at my local AMC and the propaganda aspect to them is getting more and more blatant. It's basically what the Republicans always accuse Hollywood of doing in terms of having an agenda, except real

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12. "Watched yesterday, that Dad is a traitor to humanity"
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Save them embryos, so selfish. I would have enjoyed more world building and less action.

  

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13. "so was Burke"
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>Save them embryos, so selfish. I would have enjoyed more
>world building and less action.
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