Review of The Wandering Earth (2019) by Abm0 — 18 May 2019

Chinese Hollywood-style action-scifi/disaster movie with shallow character development and lots of flashy visuals. I did like some of the plot twists, they were just surprising enough, not the same tired crap that US-Hollywood keeps throwing at us, but I especially liked two big refreshing aspects:

1. It underscores how everyone has to unite behind a single large-scale plan to effectively tackle large-scale problems (typical Western individualism and competitive attitude will not solve Earth-scale or humanity-scale problems, if anything such attitudes will be - or are already - an obstacle in themselves).

2. Its vision is actually imaginative and ambitious, it's not just the boring old "let's restore life to exactly what it was before the Big Problem hit us (let's get back to business-as-usual)". It's a huge project that will not produce any benefits for hundreds of years and yet is still presented as the right thing to do and the heroic endeavor to believe in, vs. the usual quick-payoff short-term goal to "just return life to normal" of jaded Western scripts.

Hope to see more of this type of vision in future movies, because Hollywood stuff these days is just completely uninspiring crap - all they can show in their sci-fi is the world going to s**t and humans unable to stop it and just ending up with some dystopian BS as the new normal.