Moonfall | February 3, 2022 | Lionsgate | Roland Emmerich | Movie about the moon on a collision course with Earth | Not releasing in Canada

[lorddemaxus]

Lol Moonfall twitter account liking all the tweets that say this looks better than Don't Look Up (which it does).

[Eric Atreides]

I wish Timothee was in this

[The Panda]

17 minutes ago, Eric Smith said:

I wish Timothee was in this

We do not want to taint lord Timmy with this trash

[dudalb]

3 hours ago, lorddemaxus said:

Lol Moonfall twitter account liking all the tweets that say this looks better than Don't Look Up (which it does).

Oddly enough I agree with this. Done Look Up looks like a incredibly pretenetious and painfully obvious attempt at satire which will shove it's main point (the comet as a allegory for global warming) in you face  where as Moonfall at least has no pretensions and  is pretty clear about it being "disaster porn".

Edited January 8, 2022 by dudalb

[Cap]

They’re playing Bad Moon Rising in the TV spot trailers, and tbh, I am sold. Lmfaoooooo.  They saw the opportunity, and they took it. 

[AJG]

This gives me ‘straight to VOD in 7 days’ vibes.

[filmlover]

This is gonna flop. There's no money shots here that make it stand out from the plethora of disaster movies we've seen over the decades and the fact the studio released the opening scene of the movie months before it came out (a marketing tactic usually reserved as a last ditch effort) indicates even they know it has zero buzz and aren't expecting much.

[dudalb]

They are using the cheesiness of the movie as a selling point..which is an interesting strategy.

Main problem is Emmerich took the Apocalypse genre about as far as it could go with 2012.

[el sid]

Bad Moon Rising is such an earworm. Terrible 😉. 

Maybe it's because I'm from Germany and Emmerich etc. but I don't have such a bad feeling.

At least I'm looking forward to track it (and after the underperformance of Matrix 4 I'm warned when it comes to IMAX screens - but this movie won't get only 1 or 2 shows/day and has no damn HBO Max competition).

 

I also guess with its 150M production budget (according to imdb) and sadly under so bad circumstances it doesn't have a real chance to turn into a hit. But IMO, this has more of a MEG feeling (if only the conditions would be better!).

Personally I was fully convinced that I won't see another Emmerich movie in theaters after Independence Day 2 but now - after the third trailer - I indeed plan to see this movie. 

 

By the way, it's true that he himself set standards which are hard to surpass but at least WW that's also an advertisement and e.g. 2012 was ok but I don't remember much to be honest and the space itself is far more exciting (again only IMO of course but look at movies like Gravity or The Martian or Independence Day, of course other movies didn't work like e.g. Ad Astra but that was to expect).

 

But ... that's all grey theory till the tracking starts and even then, many surprises can happen as we know, hopefully this time in a positive way.

Edited January 21, 2022 by el sid

[ando]

How is Roland Emmerich getting these budgets still lmao. 

[dudalb]

On 1/21/2022 at 6:39 PM, ando said:

How is Roland Emmerich getting these budgets still lmao. 

Good question, given how 2012 was hia last real hit.

Apocalusptic films are a dime a dozen nowdays.

[Eric Atreides]

 

 

I guess Roland's fascination with world destruction in his movies was a sign all along. 🤔

[dudalb]

5 hours ago, Eric Riley said:

 

 

I guess Roland's fascination with world destruction in his movies was a sign all along. 🤔

Problem Emmerich has is not only has he done it so often, but now everybody is doing it.

[Eric Atreides]

 

[AJG]

Reviews slowly coming in.

 

2012 era Emmerich has returned?

 

 

 

[TheDude391]

 

2 hours ago, AJG said:

Reviews slowly coming in.

 

2012 era Emmerich has returned?

 

 

 

Oh man Brad Jones now that's a trip down memory lane, I didn't realize he was still going. I've found his opinions (esp for schlocky stuff like this) lines up with mine pretty well so I'm hyped to find out what's really going on with the moon.

[DAJK]

Hearing rumblings that studio doesn’t know what to do with this movie  delay incoming?

[cookie]

35 minutes ago, DAJK said:

Hearing rumblings that studio doesn’t know what to do with this movie  delay incoming?

...Wrong thread?

[DAJK]

1 hour ago, cookie said:

...Wrong thread?

Funny enough, nope

 

I could absolutely be wrong though. Sale to a streamer wouldn’t surprise me either.

Edited January 27, 2022 by DAJK

[Eric Atreides]

1 hour ago, DAJK said:

Hearing rumblings that studio doesn’t know what to do with this movie  delay incoming?

...it's coming in a week dude.