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It should be encouraging for incels around the world. If an old prune like Palpatine could get laid, so can you.
I think the sequel would be set in the near future, too. The thing with that though is that it would be yet another crisis-turned-adventure on an Earth that's still wandering through space with 2,500 years still left to go.
Not that it would be a terribly bad thing business-wise if a series of bombastic sci-fi actioners is what they have in mind for the franchise. They can milk this for all of its worth as action blockbusters like the Fast & Furious films and keep churning them out as long as the market is for it.
solarz
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The mid-credit scene at the end of TWE2 pretty much spells out their plan for TWE3.
So I just watched The Wandering Earth 2 in theatre, I really like it, it's better than the first, the plot/world-building/spectacle is alot thicker this time and I felt more than 99% of all movies these days, I imagine they have a bigger budget and went all out for the sequel this time. Most of the disaster/Sci fi movies these days have me feeling nothing but not this one. It's definitely not a movie that you watch only because you are Chinese, it is perfectly capable of standing on its own and is better than the vast majority of other movies of the same genre.
The few criticism I can give is some of the english voiceovers aren't great, I don't know if it's dubbed in after the fact or something, but it sounds unnatural/ if you understand english. Also, Andy Lau's mandarin voice-acting isn't to the quality of other Chinese actors which undermines the emotional moments of the movie somewhat, but that's understandable.
This one is not a criticism, but the side/support characters are culturally diverse to a comical degree, it's like they a diversity quota pushed up to 11 where each team must contain not 2 person from the same continent.
Also, the unrealistic part of the movie is that random people from the world give a fuck about the project testing the feasibility of saving human existance.
The few criticism I can give is some of the english voiceovers aren't great, I don't know if it's dubbed in after the fact or something, but it sounds unnatural/ if you understand english. Also, Andy Lau's mandarin voice-acting isn't to the quality of other Chinese actors which undermines the emotional moments of the movie somewhat, but that's understandable.
This one is not a criticism, but the side/support characters are culturally diverse to a comical degree, it's like they a diversity quota pushed up to 11 where each team must contain not 2 person from the same continent.
Also, the unrealistic part of the movie is that random people from the world give a fuck about the project testing the feasibility of saving human existance.
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Just want to add little bit more, the Wandering Earth 2 isn't just better but considerably better than the first in every aspect, the first is one isn't terribly ambitious in its story/emotional aspect while the second leaned hard into both the plot and emotional aspect.
I liked the first one but only felt lukewarm after the fact, so I dragged my feet on seeing the sequel because I expected a movie of a similar quality, it easily exceeds my exception. Definitely go see it in cinema even if you are unimpressed with the first.
I say it's better than the vast majority of the movies of the same genre, but I've actually yet to think of a better one in the disaster/space genre.
I liked the first one but only felt lukewarm after the fact, so I dragged my feet on seeing the sequel because I expected a movie of a similar quality, it easily exceeds my exception. Definitely go see it in cinema even if you are unimpressed with the first.
I say it's better than the vast majority of the movies of the same genre, but I've actually yet to think of a better one in the disaster/space genre.
solarz
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I actually prefer the first one for that exact reason. The first movie was more intimate. The story focused on the struggles of one family instead of three distinct plotlines. Both Wu Jing and Wu Mengda's performances were incredible. Wu Mengda especially, was practically unrecognizable in this role.
However it's a bit unfair for the Wandering earth 2 to earn less than wandering earth 1 when it's better in all aspects. Right now 3.6 B RMB it will be hard to gross more than the first movie.
I am actually going to watch WE2 today. So hyped up.
Longer movie though, almost three friggin hours. That alone guarantees that you can’t show the movie as many times in theater. Basic science really.
Going off a tangent here as it reminds me of how some movie "critic" unironically complains that some movies are too long, a good movie is never too long and a bad movie is never too short, most of the top grossing movies of all time are freakin long(by movie standards), I hope movie critics stop saying that movies being too long when it's just them wanting to be somewhere else instead, can't even concentrate for a few hours and these people are supposed to be "movie critics". These are the sort of "criticism" that actively makes movies worse than better and sound identical to corpo speak where they want to compromise the quality for profitability.