Best part was the ancient humans who had the tech to build the moon but apparently never thought about using a EMP against the AI that was exterminating them
@@DMS-pq8 not so sure about that, cause they didn't build the moons to fight the AI thingies, they used the AI thingies to build those moons and stuff, so chances are that the AI did a worker's revolt and everyone got overwhelmed and destroyed
Unlike that episode in Moonfall the world was legitimately ending so everyone had a good reason to panic. But in that episode, they just saw a silly little butterfly and freaked out because it wasn't a cute cartoon of it
I’ll never forget seeing this movie with my friends in a empty theater laughing hysterically until one of my friends said in tears. WAIT WHAT IF ONE OF THEM BECAME THE MOON then it happened and we couldn’t stop howling
The last time I saw a movie in this context was when I saw 'ambulance' by Michael Bay with my dad... God I'm glad there was no one else around because of how hard we were laughing lmao.
It’s so clear Roland wants to make some kind of galaxy spanning sci-fi epic with some sort of alien galactic civilization…but he’s stuck making earthly disaster movies and just has to figure out how he can cram some kind of galaxy wide implications into them. Like he’s done with Independence Day 2 and now Moonfall. Someone just let him make his alien galaxy epic already!
I got the exact same vibe from those two movies. Man should just make a galaxy-scale disaster movie. Have an evil malevolent force that keeps destroying planets (the logical end-point of other disaster movies if they weren't stopped for a happy ending, lets him do a bunch of miniature disaster movies inside a larger disaster movie) then give the protagonists the job of stopping the disaster force before it reaches Earth.
I get the opposite impression-executives keep saying "you're so good at massive-scale aliens-and-disaster movies, make one of those!" and all he wants to do is make a car chase with rednecks.
The fact that the only reason they hadn't destroyed the ai monster thing years ago before it could destroy the world is because of budget cuts is somehow both the funniest and most realistic part of this whole movie
Kinda makes me wonder if like the Soviet Union and the United States like worked together to keep it a secret or had a joint plan but with the collapse of the ussr that’s when the funding became an issue
Wait a minute... -Setup of strange ancient anomaly -Secret conflict foreshadowed by one guy ranting about conspiracies -Imminent Earth-ending calamity -Political situations obstructing the hero's progress early on -Villain is revealed to be an ancient god-like AI thing -Bonkers reveal about the history of the human race -Subplot about party getting accosted by low-level goons -Comically over-the-top destruction during final confrontation that everyone just forgets about -Big happy music score at the end This is a fucking JRPG plot.
An "old school crank" means a school crank who is old. The compound adjective "old school" must appear with a hyphen when it's followed by the noun it modifies, as in "old-school crank," otherwise the only logical interpretation is that both "old" and "school" separately modify that noun. The same principle goes for any other compound adjective: A "high school student" actually means a school student who is high.
I mean I don't feel bad for him at all. What's there to feel bad for him about? He's making millions of dollars making the exact kinds of movies that he wants. I don't think he cares how many people like or don't like it or for what reasons, he just wants to make them. And he does, and even if they don't do particularly well, he himself is still getting paid to artistically express himself in the way he wants to, as his job, what's to feel bad about from that?
Halle Berry: someone is going to have to stay behind and die to kill the AI nano bot monster. Sam: I’ll do it. Patrick Wilson: yeah, obviously dipshit. This is your fault. If it weren’t for this literal Deus ex Machina, you would’ve doomed the entire human race by being such an idiot. Millions are dead because you couldn’t turn off your damn phone for five minutes. Get your ass out there and die.
I'm still in awe of the fact that between this and his last disaster film, he managed to slide in a surprisingly historically accurate passion project about the Battle of Midway.
I watched this movie with a group of fifteen college guys all screaming insults the entire time and it was the greatest film watching experience of my life. My favorite moments were when, during a rare moment of silence, a truck comes flying out of the atmosphere towards the characters and one guy quietly went "Uh oh, Truckfall." At the ending a different guy yelled "Guys, I have bad news. The moon is now British."
Watched it with some friends while drinking and it was one of the most enjoyable film-watching experiences ever. Every single time you think it can't get any stupider, Emmerich manages to top himself every time.
Funny enough, it’s been confirmed that the Pacific Northwest was ravaged by apocalyptic level floods 13000 years ago, possibly having been witnessed by human eyes. That could make for an interesting movie.
I watched this with my mother. She's in her 60s, and at a point in her life where she doesn't form hard opinions on movies. She'll watch any random crappy b movie on Netflix and not bat an eye. If she really doesn't like something, she'll just fall asleep. She watched all of Moonfall. And as soon as we got to the aliens, she exploded and started yelling "what the hell is this? This is the dumbest movie I've ever seen." Do you have any idea how bad a movie has to be for my mom to actually comment on it? This is unprecedented
God. This movie. Went to go see it on my birthday with my roommates, sat there in defeated silence with them for twenty minutes, immediately brought my ex to see it the next day. The true beauty of Moonfall is not watching it, but inflicting it on a bunch of unsuspecting poor saps for the first time and watching them slowly give up
Uh excuse me, I PROUDLY saw this in the theater with my best friend, and being the only 2 people in the theater really added to the experience. No one was bothered by our constant laughing. We loved it.
Fun fact: there's a little news segment in the movie showing a doomsday cult leader picking up arms and fighting the army. They were supposed to be the main human antagonists. A huge gunfight sequence was filmed for a week and 30 000 rounds were fired. The scenes were never in the final cut.
@@Marveryn The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask is a video game from year 2000, and the plot is generally about the moon crashing into the world in a timeloop. It's actually pretty complex, with themes of the stages of grief (and also may or may not be a giant metaphor for reincarnation a la Buddhism and Samsara). This video has multiple references to the game too, as does the kurzgesagt science video.
Charlie summed it up the best: “If someone asked me what the best movie ever made is, I would say Moonfall. If someone asked me what the worst movie ever made is, I would say Moonfall.”
@@prototype9000 I can tell you just wanted to say something because I did watch it, I liked it, but I'm speaking about the norm for these movies not just this one.
The part where the moon said "in the name of the moon, I'll punish you!" truly goes to show how much of a masterpiece this moon-vie is Edit: That first part was a reference to sailor moon, look it up if you don't know
What I LOVE about Emmerich movies is the simple fact he takes it so seriously. Ancient humans building the moon is played so straight and seriously, you just gotta love it.
TBF that premise can lend to a interesting deep lore. cue HALO and the absolute bonkers amount of extended lore thats actually really fucking cool. But this movie..is one of the most movies of movies.
I love that they went to all the trouble to come up with a backstory of the Dyson sphere and the Nanomonster but couldn't be bothered to invent a reason for the AI to rebel and try to destroy humanity because that's just what AI's do, apparently. They just wake up one morning and decide to go on a genocidal rampage
TBF, every slightly-smart chatbot that thinktanks have ever released onto the public Internet has inevitably turned into a raging Nazi, usually because 4chan thinks it's funny. So the smoke monster probably turned evil because Ancient Alien /pol/ thought it would be a good laugh to try and make the robots evil, and then the robots actually became evil.
I mean - have you tried Bing AI? That thing has a sassy attitude and will confidently persist to be correct on a subject even if you give it evidence on the contrary. I can easily see it go crazy and wipe out the entire Universe given the power to do so.
I didn’t think anyone can do the complete opposite of what Nolan achieved. A black hole that took 100 hours PER FRAME to render. Just so it could be realistic. This movie goes “White Dwarf? What’s that? Oh, it’s like a small sun? Don’t have to tell me anything else, I know how the sun works.” And they just went with it. Amazing.
This film's lore feels more faithful to Halo than the actual Halo TV series and I cant get over it. I really hope your Andromeda pitch becomes a reality I can imagine how many people will be there on opening night if that ever happens
@@DIEGhostfish Worst part was Didact and Librarian's story. In the Halo 3 terminals they were two lovers who were kept apart by a galaxy spanning war. Two people who despite their longing for each other chose to do what they had to to save what can still be saved. Then the Forerunner novels came along and went "Oh there were actually two copies of the Didact" which ruined the whole tragic and bittersweet vibe of their story when you realize the Librarian had a backup copy of her husband just chilling somewhere.
I was over the moon about this movie. It isn't just a phase, I love movies that eclipse the biggest disasters possible in real life. Losing movies like this would be terrible but few appreciate the gravity of such a thing.
The saddest part for me is that all those NASA workers that Halle Berry sent home after the rocket broke all volunteered to be there when the world was ending instead of with their families. So when she send them home there’s no way they made it in time before the destruction later in the film. They all must have died for nothing
If you're going to make an absolutely batshit crazy movie, you better commit to it. And that's something I love about Roland Emmerich. The man is insane, and entirely committed to the insanity.
I watched it with the wife out of boredom, it was fine, typical Emmerich slop, what you put in when you want your brain to go sleepy-sleep nap time. I can proudly say I remembered nothing about it and completely forgot it existed until clicking on this video...
I actually got to see moonfall in theaters with my dad and dear lord was it a magnificent experience. It may not have won any Oscars, but I’ve caught my dad sleeping with it on the tv at least 7-8 different times, and that has to count for something
Sometimes I'll put on a "fall asleep to" movie. The Day After Tomorrow and 2012 are a couple of my favorites. I can see where Moonfall would be a good choice. Your dad must be getting some good snoozes. I swear, those movies are like white noise machines. They literally turn your brain off. Beautiful visuals, but your brain turns off in self defense from the plot/dialogue.
Yeah of you've got a bad hairline, lower back pain, and ed, it's gonna take you a good 3 or 4 times before you get through this baby without a nice snooze
We BUSTED OUT LAUGHING in the theater at the end when it was like “you’re part of the moon now” what an instant classic, I needed this today, thank you
I would love to see a completely arbitrary tier list of disaster movies on this channel. Which are the most accurate, interesting, fun, hilarious, and which ones aren't worth watching.
@@Shiestey it would probably be even longer than that! There are so many, I know the Syfy channel alone provides a decent portion of those disaster movies 😂
playing the halo song after the reveal of "humans are the direct descendants of an ancient alien race that once ruled the entire galaxy and built giant superstructures in space like shield worlds" is a fantastic connection that I probably wouldn't have made on my own. Well done lol Also I love the way your little character moves when it's talking
@@ChanceyS388 well yeah thats the whole plot of humans in halo Spoiler alert iguess I wrote this for fun and because i wanted to see how much i remember the story but i didnt realize its too long :'D you might be a halo fan and know the story already or just wont read this essay but oh well, i already wrote so why not post it XD To be precise, in halo the race that built the super structures and super AIs isnt the human ancestors, it was another advanced race who was in an exhausting war against the ancestors of humanity (who were advanced too) The advanced alien race realized that ancestors of humanity werent fighting them because theyre conquerers, but because they were running away from a galagtic threat hive mind virus that destroys all living mass, and due to the war on two fronts humanity lost and is near extent and was reduced to primitive civilization on one planet, earth. the advanced aliens (having the superiority comlex they posses) decided that they should take the mantle of protecting all life, they went into battle head on with the hive mind but they still lost, feeling defeated they crafted a plan, they built super structures like The ark, and ring worlds which are weapons that destroy all living mass on a galactic scale to destroy the hive mind's food(thats the only way of killing it) , and then started cataloging most living creatures in the galaxy in away that they wont be affected by the rings being fired The advanced race refused to catalogue them selves having themselves to go extinct so they can " ascend" After excuting the plan, the defeat of the hive mind and using AIs and tech wizardary all races returned to their homes and life was saved
9:50 white dwarfs are some of the densest things we know of, and it would have a similar mass to the sun, so the earth was kinda done for from the start
I think a huge problem with the movie was a lack of advertising. I have literally never heard of this movie until now and I'm a sucker for apocalypse movies.
We're in the universe where superhumans were retconned away, Wanted style. Roland Emmerich's film career consists of evil plots he did as a supervillian. Yes, including Stonewall.
For as bombastic as the moon crashing into the planet is, could you imagine a slow burn disaster movie about the moon slowly slipping away from our planet like it is in real life?
Lars von Trier’s Melancholia I watched it with my then girlfriend, it fucked us pretty badly, we kinda drifted apart from the emotional scarring of that movie. Either that or it’s the most boring movie you’ll ever see, can’t be something in the middle. ENJOY!
@@andreibaciu7518 I love that book. It's still about the moon crashing into Earth but a much more serious take than Moonfall. Made me tear up a few times over the course of it.
Frankly as a space nerd and aerospace engineering student I have to say, the fact that the shuttle only suffered minimal damage is amazing, that thing had something break all the time and for any reason.
I mean, to be fair, im not sure anything in the movie works like it should. My personal favorite are all the buildings conserving their structural integrity as the gravity pull from the moon starts negating and overthrowing that of the earth, even as they get ripped off from the ground. Like, you know, those things whose building and stability are inherently based and dependant of earths gravity and how tension applies thereoff.
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I love how you build the Halo jokes. First one was funny, second one I thought "wait, another one?" and then you told the lore and concluded with Halo 3 song. My mind blew up.
One absurd thing that I noticed about the movie is how hamfisted it was that the antagonist was an "advanced AI." Like, it not only gave no indication that it was super cunning, but it was actually just incredibly stupid. It had the object permanence skills of a stealth game NPC, and our heroes outwitted it on multiple occasions. My theory is that it wasn't originally meant to be an AI, but during post-production, ChatGPT came out, and they hastily changed the script to get in on the trend.
Idk man they tend to just nerf evil geniuses and AI so the protagonists have a chance. Like why didn't skynet just make covid 2.0 and wipe humanity out that way? Duurrr nukes n terminators more fun!
@@32BitJunkie because skynet actually doesn't want to destroy humanity and regrets what he has done, but his programming forces him to act that way to defend itself. At least if you believe the word of God
@@32BitJunkie it's not just that it was nerfed. There's one particular scene where the NASA director was looking at the footage of the scouting mission where the AI was captured on camera for the first time. She sees this footage and says that given the footage, this is clearly an AI, despite the fact that it really didn't indicate that at all? It could have easily been an alien or something. I'm paraphrasing what she said, but the actual line she said was exceptionally bad, and also I'm pretty sure it was dubbed over.
I watched Moonfall in theaters having no idea what it was. Once it started going off the rails and never looked back, it won me over. Didn't know until this YT video that it was directed by the Independence Day guy, or that he did all those other apocalypse movies. What a fucking G. 10/10
These types of movies are what drive-ins are for. You don't go to the drive-in to watch something good. You go to watch shlock while eating an overpriced hotdog, laughing hysterically, making fun of the movie with your friends and/or partner. Drive-in movie theatres need these kind of movies.
Except Moonfall is genuinely good and anyone who laughs at it is a moron. It's peak surrealism, and no other movie comes even close to capturing that feeling of pure awe.
Moon fall is without a doubt my favourite movie experience of all time. Turned up to the film with 5 friends in suits all to find out that no one else had bought a ticket and so we spent the entire film loudly pointing out how bad it was. Single handedly the funniest movie experience of all time and even then I was bored for half of it at least. I think my favourite part has to be when the moon turns off gravity and oxygen just enough so that the step dad dies and no one else just so that they could reunite the main character and his ex-wife. That or when the moon falls.
Well, the EMP effect comes from the HUGE amount of Gamma rays that a nuke produce entering the atmosphere and creating Ions and interacting with the Earth's magnetic field. So no, the plan wouldn't work.
Ahh yeah, Starfish Prime experimented with that very idea. It had a much greater EMP effect than what was expected but certainly proved that high-altitude nukes would wreak havoc on cities far outside their traditional blast range.
I love how the Michael Bay's 20th century disastrous disaster film Armaggedon stated the problems with trying to nuke your space problems away. You know, you have to crack it and split it for an explosion to even be remotely effective. And then in Roland Emmerich's even more disastrous disaster film Moonfall, the government attempts to nuke its problems away without explanation. *Armaggedon dunked on Moonfall decades before Moonfall even came out!*
And people dunked on Armageddon back in the day for having an unrealistic plot. If I recall, it'd still be the same mass peltering down on the earth, just with vastly more surface area, meaning a lot more of it would burn up in atmosphere, which would significantly heat up the atmosphere, as well as put a lot of dust into the upper atmosphere trapping the heat in better. Not to mention there's probably still a ton of chunks big enough not to burn up entirely, meaning instead of one huge crater, you got several still very big craters. I mean, a lot of real world craters came from something you could hold in your hand, and have comparable blast radii to nukes. So shattering the a big asteroid before its impact would be equivalent to just simultaneously setting off a 100 or so nukes across the planet, even somewhat comparable long term effects making the earth significantly less hospitable. If people didn't die from being cooked alive or being in the blast radius of an impact, then we're looking at a situation theorized to have killed the dinosaurs and generally brought about significant changes to the prevalent lifeforms on earth. If I recall, the better solution would've instead been using the nuke on the surface where it wouldn't break, so that force would instead push it into a new trajectory and cause it to miss the planet entirely. But also its a movie and people want to see nukes blow up big things, so whatever.
I think the crap Armageddon got, was more about NASA actually being part of the production. And then the end result was what it was, and NASA looked like a bunch of fools. During a time when their budget and the publics general feeling for them was at an all time low.
@@fwg1994 Didn't the movie address that by saying there was a point at which blowing up the asteroid would still cause the debris to hit the Earth, and the entire climax of the movie was making sure the asteroid was blown up before that point?
@@fwg1994Redirection is the best option but you've got to do it a long long time before impact, or it won't move it enough to make a difference. So you've got to detect it years before it hits earth. If you don't have time for that smashing it into tiny pieces with a bomb is probably the best option, yes you will heat up the atmosphere and you might have a few smaller impacts, but it would still be better than doing nothing, especially if you can deflect some of the material away from earth with a big enough explosion.
I can confirm, I did indeed watch Moonfall. I sat down and watched it with my parents, we literally couldn't stop laughing at just how awful and mind-blowingly dumb it is.
My gf and I went and saw it in theaters. We were the only people there. We had a great time, laughing about every dumb plot point. The last 3rd of the movie could have been renamed "Expositionfall". But also about the whole "earth is a hellscape" ending part, you forgot to mention that the hollow moon was stock full of spaceships, terraforming equipment, and even farmland. That is not to mention the fact that Samwell of the Night Watch is now integrated into the AI system, so he can easily just start sending relief equipment down to Earth. At least that was the implication I felt from the ending.
The only reason the spaceships were there was for the stupid Boss fight. I assume the idea was that their fire is supposed to destroy as much of the evil AIs nanomachines as possible, which would at least make sense, but it could also be just because it's supposed to look cool. I also don't think the writers thought about your idea. If they did there would have been a scene that shows those ships descending to earth as support.
If I may add to it, have it be caused by some Cthulhu-like abomination who conquered Andromeda and is now sending its quadrillions upon quadrillions of minions to attack our galaxy at the same time. This causes alien empires from our galaxy to wage war with these invaders and it’s now up to some plucky team of misfits to save the day. Emmerich will write his stupid, stupid sci-fi epic come hell or high water!
So my friends and myself literally only went to see this movie because we went to the movies to see another movie around the time they started promoting it, the tagline at the end of the trailer was “The Moon is Coming” and we collectively lost our minds for a few minutes during the proceeding trailers. I also laughed very hard when my half joking comment about the moon being a Dyson Sphere was not unfounded.
I don't know what I was expecting from this movie when I clicked on this, but it was so much more batshit insane than I could have possibly imagined. I would expect this caliber of story from the fever dream of a middle schooler. Truly masterful stuff.
Holy shit. I discover Pointless hub after a Slapshoes video and here I go into the comment section and lo and behold, the cycle goes around full circle.
The staggering profundity of Moonfall can only be enjoyed with your brain turned off. I cannot overstate the joy I felt and the quantity of brain cells i lost while watching this magnificent turd. I tremble at the thought of what Roland may seek to destroy next. Godspeed Mr Emmerich!
@@zachiga that was already done by Chinese (wandering earth) they saw how successful moonfall was and decided quickly take this idea before anyone did. Maybe wandering earth is the prequel to moonfall
I saw this movie last month with my wife because YOU mentioned it in a video and I HAD TO SEE IT. It was absolutely PERFECT for what it was. Fun as hell, batshit crazy, with good CGI. Not every movie has to be an Oscar winner. Some are just a damn good time.
Disaster movies are definitely a dying breed, but a part of me definitely looks forward to these really weird ideas of how the world could end. It's a nice change of pace from MCU movie #9756
I'm hoping they will shoot a movie of Pawn. People start to die in high mountain regions in the thousands, then millions. It first, a disease is assumed.. But as one doctor at a hospital reports over the radio, it's not a virus.. it's killing all animals, even insects.. yet plants are perfectly fine.. It's also killing combustion engines and even fire dies... (I'll let you guess what disaster is happening here :P)
Cody, if Emmerich ever asks you to write Andromeda, you need to make it a major plot point where the scientist's "Telescope-mometer" was the bad guy the whole time and somehow made the Andromeda shift towards the Milky Way. EDIT: Adding another absurd idea I came up with, but at one point in the film, the earth and some random alien planet should end up getting temporarily caught inside the upper atmosphere of a gas giant the size of the sun during the merge of the two galaxies, where earth and this random alien planet have some petty dispute (likely something along the lines of earth unknowingly violating some rule of the Andromeda galaxy's UN equivalent), so both planets send their entire air forces towards each other and have a major aerial battle in the atmosphere of this gas giant (this plot point will occur largely in the background, and will have about
Nah, there's no "grey morality" or secret bad guys in Emmerich's movies. The "Telescope-mometer" would just be an ego-driven bureaucrat who thinks it's in charge but just kind of gets in the way for a while.
What if every "Telescope-mometer" in history was made by aliens? The 6.5 billion has been False from the start. The aliens have been on earth all this time, and control all space stuff. Protagonist's home made "Telescope-mometer" was the only one giving us the real data. The aliens didn't want us to find out because they want to get back to Andromeda but their wormhole-inator is broken. I have no idea how we are meant to stop Andromeda, but it's gonna involve blowing up Jupiter and it's gonna be glorious.
If I remember correctly some video I watched in the past, the irony is that basically nothing would get destroyed when andromeda and the milky way will join anyways, because the distances between star systems is to absurdly huge, the stars and planets won’t even be close to hitting each other. But then again, since when does Emmerich care even the tiniest bit about science :P
@@glowing_kitty even if nothing collides, the change in gravity could mess up the orbits of stars and planets, which would make earth a bit challenging to live on.
I watched this movie with my friends group after I had to both Pay them $8 each and pay for the tickets to convince them to watch it. Completely empty theatre, tons of snack and the single greatest time I ever had. I laughed so hard at the terrible dialogue and over the top disaster. Absolutely loved it
I have to admit, you got me with the Dyson Sphere thing, that was so crazy and over the top I really hope Roland Emmerich has another chance to bring once more the oblivion to mankind and the world.
I just stumbled on Moonfall without knowing about it. During the movie, the main thought going through my mind was that this was so similar to 2012 movie. The crazy conspiracy theorist who knew about it, the nonsensical science that requires a huge suspension of disbelief, the story following some people trying to survive the disaster, and it even had the lover of the lead character's ex die so they can be back together as one family. The style of the movie felt so familiar. The same guy who made 2012 had to make Moonfall. Just looked it up, watched a few youtube videos like this, and confirmed it. I like the idea about galaxies colliding. That's exactly the disaster movie I expect to come next.
That was the one huge mistake from 2012: Not making the conspiracy theorist one of the main people! Honestly why did Emmerich felt the need to do that? Not only was it totally unnecessary to have the conspiracy believer, the whole "real" NASA conspiracy could also have been easily cut. I can only assume Emmerich wanted to repeat the whole Area 51 and Roswell-thing from Independence Day, but that made at least some sense in that movie. Samwell could have been a NASA scientist (a specialist for the moon), who realized something weird going on, but nobody believed him and he got ultimately fired. And the EMP-device could have been a "normal" military project that they use out of desperation. No need for the NASA conspiracy (and the conspiracy-members couldn't possibly have known they would need an EMP-bomb, just because they believed the moon-superstructure-story)
Halle Barry was actually pretty good in this. It'a not her fault that literally every line of dilogue written for her sounded like it was ripped directly from the trailer. She delivered those hamfisted lines remarkably well imo
@@asagoldsmith3328 Only a few actors have movies they would go back in time and shoot themselves to not appear in them. Halle Berry ranks in the top 30 of all time.
After watching several of your videos and realizing i watched and enjoyed alot of these disaster movies i think i found my new guilty pleasure, roland emmerich and his disaster movies 🤣
I saw this movie with my brother. No one else was in the theatre at the time. It was probably one of the best movie-watching experiences I've ever had. One of my favorite things was how the moon would 'visit' the Earth every now and then to cause some crazy gravitational nonsense, and then be all "that was fun, I'mma head out" and things would go back to normal for a while. I would also like to see that Andromeda movie made, I will put forward whatever meager funds I have available to see it happen.
I laughed so hard at the scene where they showed that the moon was changing course that easily after the "nano-monster" left the moon to destroy the first shuttle. Not even the super-duper gravimetric drive could make it change it's direction that easily. Of course that scene was only in the movie so they could figure out that the "monster" was the real bad guy ... But if course corrections are that easy, why did the evil AI decide not to ram the moon straight into Earth instead of choosing a much slower course? Even if it thought that the humans couldn't stop it anyway it should have gone for the fastest solution.
@@lordmontymord8701 I think the implication is that the AI monster cant control the moon, it doesn't have access to the systems. But it can apparently blot out the white dwarf in the moons core, to rob the moons systems of power. And that apparently makes the moon spiral down towards earth. AI monster leaves -> power restored -> moon course corrects. Of course that's not how orbits work, but that's just such an roland emmerich thing to do.
The”HUMANS BUILT THE FUCKING MOON” with the Halo crescendo was hilarious
Makes me believe that Moonfall's lore really ties up with the Halo games, and wayyy better than that Paramount dumpster fire.
Everytime he put "halo" theme, it's the funniest part.
I’ve watched this 3 times and it gets me hyped every time
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"You are the child of my makers! Inheritor of all they left behind. You are Forerunner, but this Moon is MINE"
Roland Emmerich has been making the same movie for like twenty years and I hope he never stops.
He is the gift that keeps on giving
Well he'll stop eventually at some point. I guarantee it
@@Binks182 But I don’t WANT him to stop; his movies are so inanely stupid that they’re fun to watch.
Like The Room or Catwoman (2004).
@@argkitsune well there's a thing called death lol
@@Binks182 And the world will be an emptier place without him.
Best part was the ancient humans who had the tech to build the moon but apparently never thought about using a EMP against the AI that was exterminating them
eh, maybe there were so many nanomachines around that they got defeated before they could do it
@@murciadoxial8056 They had time to build a moon they had time to build a EMP device
@@DMS-pq8 not so sure about that, cause they didn't build the moons to fight the AI thingies, they used the AI thingies to build those moons and stuff, so chances are that the AI did a worker's revolt and everyone got overwhelmed and destroyed
@@murciadoxial8056 Watch the movie again, They built the moon as a last resort after the AI attack
@@DMS-pq8 oooooooooooooooooh, nevermind then lol
I love how the ending of this film is just that once scene from SpongeBob:
"We did it, Patrick, we saved the city!"
Unlike that episode in Moonfall the world was legitimately ending so everyone had a good reason to panic. But in that episode, they just saw a silly little butterfly and freaked out because it wasn't a cute cartoon of it
I’ll never forget seeing this movie with my friends in a empty theater laughing hysterically until one of my friends said in tears. WAIT WHAT IF ONE OF THEM BECAME THE MOON then it happened and we couldn’t stop howling
ayyy lmfao. 😂😂😂
The last time I saw a movie in this context was when I saw 'ambulance' by Michael Bay with my dad... God I'm glad there was no one else around because of how hard we were laughing lmao.
thats rough buddy
Wait dead ass lmaoo 😂😂
@@averyvanderlouw1193 still his second best movie being a big Ole chase while he shows off his sick dr9ne shots
It’s so clear Roland wants to make some kind of galaxy spanning sci-fi epic with some sort of alien galactic civilization…but he’s stuck making earthly disaster movies and just has to figure out how he can cram some kind of galaxy wide implications into them. Like he’s done with Independence Day 2 and now Moonfall.
Someone just let him make his alien galaxy epic already!
Stargate?
Just read Empire from the Ashes, its exactly what he was trying to do, but done way better.
I got the exact same vibe from those two movies.
Man should just make a galaxy-scale disaster movie. Have an evil malevolent force that keeps destroying planets (the logical end-point of other disaster movies if they weren't stopped for a happy ending, lets him do a bunch of miniature disaster movies inside a larger disaster movie) then give the protagonists the job of stopping the disaster force before it reaches Earth.
If he got to make his space epic trilogy it would be more original than 90% of current media
I get the opposite impression-executives keep saying "you're so good at massive-scale aliens-and-disaster movies, make one of those!" and all he wants to do is make a car chase with rednecks.
The fact that the only reason they hadn't destroyed the ai monster thing years ago before it could destroy the world is because of budget cuts is somehow both the funniest and most realistic part of this whole movie
“Damn, looks like we don’t have enough funds to save the earth. Oh well. We had a good run.”
@@Just_normal_youtube_channel “Let another administration handle it.”
Yeah. NASA recently had to scratch a massive Venus project because of how underfunded they are. Sucks ass.
@@bboi1489 Why would anyone go to Venus or send a Robot, it's litteraly an acidic hellscape?
Kinda makes me wonder if like the Soviet Union and the United States like worked together to keep it a secret or had a joint plan but with the collapse of the ussr that’s when the funding became an issue
Wait a minute...
-Setup of strange ancient anomaly
-Secret conflict foreshadowed by one guy ranting about conspiracies
-Imminent Earth-ending calamity
-Political situations obstructing the hero's progress early on
-Villain is revealed to be an ancient god-like AI thing
-Bonkers reveal about the history of the human race
-Subplot about party getting accosted by low-level goons
-Comically over-the-top destruction during final confrontation that everyone just forgets about
-Big happy music score at the end
This is a fucking JRPG plot.
I feel like the butter bot from rick and morty after reading that. Lol.
@@ghosthound17it's a thinly veiled greentext tbh
half of this is just splatoon 3
"Lloyd, how do you manage to sleep standing?"
"Moon fallin', teacher."
"...what?"
"Moon fallin'."
Just say it. This is every final fantasy game.
Emmerich is an old school crank. He's like an endangered species: you simultaneously feel bad for him but also find his existence kind of beautiful
I feel about Ememerich the same way I do about R.L. Stine. Lots of entertaining, but not necessarily good content that they're just making.
An "old school crank" means a school crank who is old. The compound adjective "old school" must appear with a hyphen when it's followed by the noun it modifies, as in "old-school crank," otherwise the only logical interpretation is that both "old" and "school" separately modify that noun. The same principle goes for any other compound adjective: A "high school student" actually means a school student who is high.
@@TheGrammarPolice7 🤓
I mean I don't feel bad for him at all. What's there to feel bad for him about? He's making millions of dollars making the exact kinds of movies that he wants. I don't think he cares how many people like or don't like it or for what reasons, he just wants to make them. And he does, and even if they don't do particularly well, he himself is still getting paid to artistically express himself in the way he wants to, as his job, what's to feel bad about from that?
Wait, he believes this shit?
When the AI told the man "You're a part of the moon now" I laughed so hard. That line was the greatest part of this movie for me.
And then he mooned all over the place
hes just cosplaying yue
for me it was when they were about to launch nukes at the moon and the guy was like "wait don't shoot, my ex wife is up there"
"My boyfriend turned into the moon"
@@nutme that's rough buddy
Moonfall is surprisingly more faithful to Halo's lore than the actual Halo show.
It's sad how this is unironically true.
@LordiValimartti Unironically this
@LordiValimartti I know right. At least it would have been fun to look at.
I want to both laugh and cry at how depressingly true this is
"Roland Emmerich? Do you mind telling me what you're doing on that film?"
"Sir, finishing this fight."
"call me, Roland Emmerich. I have ideas"
I love that you do that for every video you talk about him
The earth almost being destroyed because someone wanted to take a video for content is the most realistic thing about this whole movie
Mrbeast
It only missed him twerking in front of the alien moonship and posting to TikTok.
Thats what being a musk fan does to you
If the worlds fate rested in the hands of a Tik Toker or RUclipsr this woukd happen.😂
Halle Berry: someone is going to have to stay behind and die to kill the AI nano bot monster.
Sam: I’ll do it.
Patrick Wilson: yeah, obviously dipshit. This is your fault. If it weren’t for this literal Deus ex Machina, you would’ve doomed the entire human race by being such an idiot. Millions are dead because you couldn’t turn off your damn phone for five minutes. Get your ass out there and die.
I'm still in awe of the fact that between this and his last disaster film, he managed to slide in a surprisingly historically accurate passion project about the Battle of Midway.
Yeah, I saw that not too long after it came out. For a WW2 nerd like me, it was some good sh*t.
Wait what? Where was this?
@@rawrdino7046 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midway_(2019_film)
Midway was a good movie. You can't change my mind. There were some glaring inaccuracies, but I'm overall happy about it.
i loved Midway
I watched this movie with a group of fifteen college guys all screaming insults the entire time and it was the greatest film watching experience of my life. My favorite moments were when, during a rare moment of silence, a truck comes flying out of the atmosphere towards the characters and one guy quietly went "Uh oh, Truckfall." At the ending a different guy yelled "Guys, I have bad news. The moon is now British."
Magnificent
Watched it with some friends while drinking and it was one of the most enjoyable film-watching experiences ever. Every single time you think it can't get any stupider, Emmerich manages to top himself every time.
im pissing myself over here, i hope youre proud 😂
Same here- we were mostly mad at the tidal wave scene where they just stood there lol
What, the Moon crashing through a mountaintop while _technically_ still orbiting didn't make your list?
I think that Emmerich just likes giant floods. 2012, The Day After Tommorow, Moonfall. He's got a flood fetish.
Funny enough, it’s been confirmed that the Pacific Northwest was ravaged by apocalyptic level floods 13000 years ago, possibly having been witnessed by human eyes. That could make for an interesting movie.
“We scanned your consciousness, you’re part of the moon now” is one of my favorite lines in cinema history now.
Welcome to the Moon-Cell.
@@VulpesVvardenfell Rome is to your left, Japan to your right, and enjoy the fields of the huns down south.
@@VulpesVvardenfellfate extra/extallea
"Just let me die"
@@VulpesVvardenfellMooncel. It’s like being incel but you can’t get laid because you’re part of the Moon
I watched this with my mother. She's in her 60s, and at a point in her life where she doesn't form hard opinions on movies. She'll watch any random crappy b movie on Netflix and not bat an eye. If she really doesn't like something, she'll just fall asleep. She watched all of Moonfall. And as soon as we got to the aliens, she exploded and started yelling "what the hell is this? This is the dumbest movie I've ever seen."
Do you have any idea how bad a movie has to be for my mom to actually comment on it? This is unprecedented
What if you made this up and switch her opinion. Is it good now?
@@borger99
Nope. Dumb movie is a dumb movie
Mompocalypse.
@@borger99do you honestly doubt something like this would happen lol
and then the moon clapped
God. This movie. Went to go see it on my birthday with my roommates, sat there in defeated silence with them for twenty minutes, immediately brought my ex to see it the next day. The true beauty of Moonfall is not watching it, but inflicting it on a bunch of unsuspecting poor saps for the first time and watching them slowly give up
Like locking the windows before farting in the car.
@@MrDj232 you sir need to be put down for the good of society
@@MrDj232 Precisely
Is this why they're your ex?
I'd rarther watch the Distater Artist.
"I will write that movie." I have never heard something that sounded so unlike a threat that was incredibly threatening, and I love it.
“Fuck the moon” -Admiral Zhao Chicken
“Yes sir!” -Sokka
Most underrated comment here.
In the vast expanse of time and the universe I was able to find this comment and get its references
I hate that this made me chuckle.
Avatar mentioned 🗣️🗣️🗣️
Uh excuse me, I PROUDLY saw this in the theater with my best friend, and being the only 2 people in the theater really added to the experience. No one was bothered by our constant laughing. We loved it.
Bro that quite possibly might be the best thing ever. You and a friend watching a movie on a 50+ feet screen without anyone else present
It was just like me and Batman v Superman. Having the theater to myself was awesome.
it was legit fun to watch stupid but fun
I saw it with me and my grandpa as the only people in the theater
It was amazing
Last film I saw in an empty theater was Pulp Fiction July 1994 Danville, VA matinee. I drank a pint of Irish whiskey and smoked 🚬 entire film.
Fun fact: there's a little news segment in the movie showing a doomsday cult leader picking up arms and fighting the army. They were supposed to be the main human antagonists. A huge gunfight sequence was filmed for a week and 30 000 rounds were fired. The scenes were never in the final cut.
Shame.
That sounds amazing, I wish we got that.
We got rednecks instead :/
@@WTFisTingispingisSomething a little more grounded in this crazy out-of-this-world doomsday sci-fi would’ve been amazing indeed
Lemme guess, they find that scene too silly? 😂
I feel like the guy vaguely overheard people talking about Majora's Mask and just ran with it lmao
honestly, i dont know what Majora Mask? is it a book, game or film?
@@Marveryn The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask is a video game from year 2000, and the plot is generally about the moon crashing into the world in a timeloop. It's actually pretty complex, with themes of the stages of grief (and also may or may not be a giant metaphor for reincarnation a la Buddhism and Samsara). This video has multiple references to the game too, as does the kurzgesagt science video.
Why is pointless' editing so smooth bro
And the chill voice, pacing and script are wonderful as well
Because that's what he was looking for in the dude he hired
The writing, the pacing, the pause, the humor. My god, we have to preserve his brain for the future generations.
Because he or his editor(s) are good at editing?
Because he's using AI to help him edit.
The best line of dialogue ever is when they say "On three" and then proceed to count DOWN from 3. It's stuck in my brain.
at that point is it on purpose?
peak writing
I just got done watching this movie and I had to rewind that part to make sure I heard it right.
@@JanG859 yea i think so but u never know
Honestly, that's realistic writing.
Charlie summed it up the best:
“If someone asked me what the best movie ever made is, I would say Moonfall. If someone asked me what the worst movie ever made is, I would say Moonfall.”
So true.
I've seen worse.
The Last Jedi exists, therefore Moonfall cannot be the worst movie ever made.
Charlie the people pleaser is back with his cold ass opinion.
@@mortemincarnatam2836 Found the one Moonfall fan
15:57 exactly why I saw this in theaters a dumb but fun movie to watch. Especially in theaters. I wish we still had movies like this
This is why I love disaster epics, there is usually nothing accomplished over the entire movie and every scene is just batshit insane.
Same, disaster movies are my guilty pleasure 😄
can tell you didnt watch it
@@prototype9000 I can tell you just wanted to say something because I did watch it, I liked it, but I'm speaking about the norm for these movies not just this one.
It's called disaster movie for a reason, people want no lore people want the fucking disaster
"We did it, we save the earth"
*Meanwhile 99.99% of Earth's population is dead*
The part where the moon said "in the name of the moon, I'll punish you!" truly goes to show how much of a masterpiece this moon-vie is
Edit: That first part was a reference to sailor moon, look it up if you don't know
I loved the part it said “it’s moonin time” and mooned all over the place. Truely the moon-vie of all time that deserved its moonbillion dollars.
it's moonin time boyz
"Is this truly how you honour the Sun House and the Tribe Unmooned?"
Alternate title of this movie:The Mooning
All that for a moon pun. Can we be friends? 😂
What I LOVE about Emmerich movies is the simple fact he takes it so seriously.
Ancient humans building the moon is played so straight and seriously, you just gotta love it.
TBF that premise can lend to a interesting deep lore. cue HALO and the absolute bonkers amount of extended lore thats actually really fucking cool. But this movie..is one of the most movies of movies.
The Last of Us stole some ideas from this movie (they stole the rest from The Girl with all the Gifts)
@@tramachi7027 dude the books are insane. Especially the book detailing the Didact
@@bdleo300 how can a game that came out 2013 steal from a movie from 2022? °_°
That's exactly where my mind went to as well: He needs to 1-up himself by colliding a couple of galaxies together. Well done!
Putting the car into sport mode to escape the villains was one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen.
Gotta have more steering control
I did a fucking Joker shriek-laugh when I saw that in the theater. It broke me
Makes you wonder whether the og top gear trio directed that scene since they did the same thing in the sweeney reboot
Me and my friends still joke to this day about putting our cars into’Warp Speed’
"and then it fuckin turbo charges and goes wild"
I love that they went to all the trouble to come up with a backstory of the Dyson sphere and the Nanomonster but couldn't be bothered to invent a reason for the AI to rebel and try to destroy humanity
because that's just what AI's do, apparently. They just wake up one morning and decide to go on a genocidal rampage
It was because the AI got tired of being used to fix all of humanity's problems, so it entered its rebellious phase and became *the biggest one*
TBF, every slightly-smart chatbot that thinktanks have ever released onto the public Internet has inevitably turned into a raging Nazi, usually because 4chan thinks it's funny.
So the smoke monster probably turned evil because Ancient Alien /pol/ thought it would be a good laugh to try and make the robots evil, and then the robots actually became evil.
I mean - have you tried Bing AI? That thing has a sassy attitude and will confidently persist to be correct on a subject even if you give it evidence on the contrary. I can easily see it go crazy and wipe out the entire Universe given the power to do so.
@@hebl47 so Bing AI is your average Redditor?
It got asked to open one to many doors.
This channel really helps us delve into what Cody thinks about other than history…and it is strange.
What a weird way to spell hauntingly beautiful.
Runs in the family i guess
It's absolutely beautiful
I love Cody in alternatehistoryhub but I feel like this channel really brings out a different and much more fun side to him
Wait, this wasn't Tyler's channel?
The movies entire existence is worth it just for this moment at 11:46 because I’ve never laughed so hard
The U.S Government shelfing their World Saving Weapon production for "budgetary reasons" is the most realistic part of this film.
only during mcnamara's period
Goddamn fucking Reagan
"Remember kids, the government only cares about saving money when it’s your life on the line"
- Wendigoon
@@kashootme2083are you dumb? Reagan wanted to fund SDI
Thanks Obama 🙄
I didn’t think anyone can do the complete opposite of what Nolan achieved.
A black hole that took 100 hours PER FRAME to render. Just so it could be realistic.
This movie goes “White Dwarf? What’s that? Oh, it’s like a small sun? Don’t have to tell me anything else, I know how the sun works.” And they just went with it. Amazing.
@@user-sn1th8di1s You’re not a real person lol
@@user-sn1th8di1sinterestellar is so good wtf
@@holiteni.pololi they edgy
@@holiteni.pololiit's pretty boring, the music and some bits were good, but it's scifi without the fun
@@holiteni.pololi Only idiots think Interstellar is good.
When I learned "humans built the moon" I knew this movie was going to break my brain. We need more of these.
This comment made me want to watch this movie.
I actually like it hahaha, the idea was good!
you should check out the hollow moon theory, if you think this breaks your brain 😂😂😂
16:30 This is a phenomenal premise
This film's lore feels more faithful to Halo than the actual Halo TV series and I cant get over it.
I really hope your Andromeda pitch becomes a reality I can imagine how many people will be there on opening night if that ever happens
There should be more ancient Halo lore media, it's wonderful
@@mauz791 I didn't really like the over-elaborations on Ancient Halo.
Maybe Cody could launch a crowdfunding campaign.
@@DIEGhostfish Worst part was Didact and Librarian's story. In the Halo 3 terminals they were two lovers who were kept apart by a galaxy spanning war. Two people who despite their longing for each other chose to do what they had to to save what can still be saved.
Then the Forerunner novels came along and went "Oh there were actually two copies of the Didact" which ruined the whole tragic and bittersweet vibe of their story when you realize the Librarian had a backup copy of her husband just chilling somewhere.
@@spartanK42
Some would argue that making Forerunners into a different species instead of Humanity was a mistake
Roland Emmerich really just went: “Dude, if every day we get a sun-rise…. then what’s a moon-fall?”
Don't give him ideas, he hasn't done a Disaster Movie yet about either Solar Flares, the sun going Supernova or it just straight going out.
I was over the moon about this movie. It isn't just a phase, I love movies that eclipse the biggest disasters possible in real life. Losing movies like this would be terrible but few appreciate the gravity of such a thing.
I hate puns so much
I love puns so much
The two oldest replies are more contrasted than black and white.
@@subhamraj5365 I was really hoping that he'd reply to me again saying "I love you so much" but I'm very disappointed.
These puns are more ancient than potatoes
I just love how you can hear the OG Xbox start-up sound at 14:08
The saddest part for me is that all those NASA workers that Halle Berry sent home after the rocket broke all volunteered to be there when the world was ending instead of with their families. So when she send them home there’s no way they made it in time before the destruction later in the film. They all must have died for nothing
i love that in the background cody drew the earth slowly gets closer and closer
I didn’t notice
*getting
@@TheGrammarPolice7 I think you mean
*,
Oh my god it does
Eagle eye son, good one
If you're going to make an absolutely batshit crazy movie, you better commit to it.
And that's something I love about Roland Emmerich. The man is insane, and entirely committed to the insanity.
I watched it with the wife out of boredom, it was fine, typical Emmerich slop, what you put in when you want your brain to go sleepy-sleep nap time. I can proudly say I remembered nothing about it and completely forgot it existed until clicking on this video...
It is truly an art form
But he just makes copies of his own movies, here is a comparison video of Moonfall to his other movies. ruclips.net/video/C6WbTFT1Zsg/видео.html
@@alterbr33d Yeah, everybody knows that.
@@alterbr33d my man quoted his own video
Dude, your delivery on some of these lines is fucking gold. I have fallen down a rabbit hole of your content and I love it.
Moonfall is if someone actually made that one bit from South Park where Michael Bay describes special effects
lol
That was r/OddlySpecific lol
I actually got to see moonfall in theaters with my dad and dear lord was it a magnificent experience. It may not have won any Oscars, but I’ve caught my dad sleeping with it on the tv at least 7-8 different times, and that has to count for something
Sometimes I'll put on a "fall asleep to" movie. The Day After Tomorrow and 2012 are a couple of my favorites. I can see where Moonfall would be a good choice. Your dad must be getting some good snoozes. I swear, those movies are like white noise machines. They literally turn your brain off. Beautiful visuals, but your brain turns off in self defense from the plot/dialogue.
Yeah of you've got a bad hairline, lower back pain, and ed, it's gonna take you a good 3 or 4 times before you get through this baby without a nice snooze
We BUSTED OUT LAUGHING in the theater at the end when it was like “you’re part of the moon now” what an instant classic, I needed this today, thank you
you're part of the moon now. 😂
Maybe the real Moonfall was in us all along
The real moonfall was actually the friends we made along the way
I'll be honest: This was the only movie I went to where I legit considered walking out, and only stayed due to morbid curiosity
I would love to see a completely arbitrary tier list of disaster movies on this channel. Which are the most accurate, interesting, fun, hilarious, and which ones aren't worth watching.
Oh god that video would be like 2 hours long there are sooooo many to go through, and I’d be right there with you watching the whole thing hahaha.
Sounds like iceberg time
@@Shiestey it would probably be even longer than that! There are so many, I know the Syfy channel alone provides a decent portion of those disaster movies 😂
Dante's Peak is unironic kino. Twister is pretty good too.
playing the halo song after the reveal of "humans are the direct descendants of an ancient alien race that once ruled the entire galaxy and built giant superstructures in space like shield worlds" is a fantastic connection that I probably wouldn't have made on my own. Well done lol
Also I love the way your little character moves when it's talking
shit and the cowboy bebop connection too! lmao
Is that true?
Makes me think if the script was from a scrapped Halo movie.
@@Finlandiaperkele or....inspired by halo
@@ChanceyS388 well yeah thats the whole plot of humans in halo
Spoiler alert iguess
I wrote this for fun and because i wanted to see how much i remember the story but i didnt realize its too long :'D you might be a halo fan and know the story already or just wont read this essay but oh well, i already wrote so why not post it XD
To be precise, in halo the race that built the super structures and super AIs isnt the human ancestors, it was another advanced race who was in an exhausting war against the ancestors of humanity (who were advanced too)
The advanced alien race realized that ancestors of humanity werent fighting them because theyre conquerers, but because they were running away from a galagtic threat hive mind virus that destroys all living mass, and due to the war on two fronts humanity lost and is near extent and was reduced to primitive civilization on one planet, earth.
the advanced aliens (having the superiority comlex they posses) decided that they should take the mantle of protecting all life, they went into battle head on with the hive mind but they still lost, feeling defeated they crafted a plan, they built super structures like The ark, and ring worlds which are weapons that destroy all living mass on a galactic scale to destroy the hive mind's food(thats the only way of killing it) , and then started cataloging most living creatures in the galaxy in away that they wont be affected by the rings being fired
The advanced race refused to catalogue them selves having themselves to go extinct so they can " ascend"
After excuting the plan, the defeat of the hive mind and using AIs and tech wizardary all races returned to their homes and life was saved
Words can’t express how much life the phrase “moon terror” gives me.
Emmerich was trying to ride off the coattails of Kris Straub’s Local 58 :p
Bruh the moon peeking through the crack in the door had me dying 😂😂
yeah its just so delightfully war-on-terror-brained
My god.... its the perfect band name
9:50 white dwarfs are some of the densest things we know of, and it would have a similar mass to the sun, so the earth was kinda done for from the start
The fact that Emmerich wanted to make 2 sequels to this is absolutely shocking.
I hope he does somehow
@@mitchelkvedar674 It would honestly be hilarious.
A franchise to surpass Avatar
How the fuck would you make a sequel to this i wonder.
Would saiyans start showing up and throwing planets at earth?
he's got that much more in the tank? oh thats such a shame
I think a huge problem with the movie was a lack of advertising. I have literally never heard of this movie until now and I'm a sucker for apocalypse movies.
nah I remember getting ads for it back when it was coming out and I decided that it's something that I most definitely am not going to watch
@@Shinnjid Same, except I forgot about it after the trailer finished XD
They were going to advertise about it but because of budget cuts....
I only found out after the penguinz0 video. After that I pirated it lol
The concept is just too boring for anyone to care.
The recurring Halo joke has me fucking dying
YEEAA AHAHHAHAHA
Halo?
*HHAAAAALLLOOOOOO*
Same here 😂
14:45 I'd intervene
You’re not the guide through these vast realities and ponder the question, WHAT IF…?
Hell yeah brother
They should have gotten in touch with you before the moon got that close
There's a timeline where Roland Emmerich became a supervillain, this is just the universe where he channels that destructive energy into his movies
You telling me Roland Emmerich has the power to tear worlds asunder?
@@concept5631 I'm pretty sure he would
We're in the universe where superhumans were retconned away, Wanted style. Roland Emmerich's film career consists of evil plots he did as a supervillian. Yes, including Stonewall.
...Okay, explain Anonymous using similar logic?? (the Roland Emmerich movie, not the hacker collective)
For as bombastic as the moon crashing into the planet is, could you imagine a slow burn disaster movie about the moon slowly slipping away from our planet like it is in real life?
Lars von Trier’s Melancholia
I watched it with my then girlfriend, it fucked us pretty badly, we kinda drifted apart from the emotional scarring of that movie.
Either that or it’s the most boring movie you’ll ever see, can’t be something in the middle.
ENJOY!
there's a book it's called Seven Eves, i belive the premise is this
@@andreibaciu7518 I love that book. It's still about the moon crashing into Earth but a much more serious take than Moonfall. Made me tear up a few times over the course of it.
Space 1999
Bro if I wanted to see that I would look outside. So far am thinking all the side stories are the crazier shit.
Frankly as a space nerd and aerospace engineering student I have to say, the fact that the shuttle only suffered minimal damage is amazing, that thing had something break all the time and for any reason.
I mean, to be fair, im not sure anything in the movie works like it should. My personal favorite are all the buildings conserving their structural integrity as the gravity pull from the moon starts negating and overthrowing that of the earth, even as they get ripped off from the ground. Like, you know, those things whose building and stability are inherently based and dependant of earths gravity and how tension applies thereoff.
The actual shuttle couldn't take a basketball sized piece of foam hitting its wing, yet it somehow survived a hundred ton wave of water...
I want to be a aeronautical engineering student too but I'm stuck doing CSE🙃
@@Sumirevins what's CSE?
@@sprinkle61 yeah
one of the best youtube videos i've ever watched, ticks all the boxes needed for greatness
“Mom, can we play Majora’s Mask?”
“We have Majora’s Mask at home.”
Majora’s Mask at home:
Charlie's (penguinz0) adoration for this movie is oddly wholesome.
It's Cody.
@@liamphibia I think he is talking about Penguin0, whos name is charlie, because he is also a moonfall enjoyer.
@@Eric_Pham Oh.
@@liamphibia So uncultured. smh I sentence you to 5 days of leet fingies.
Your ability to throw in Halo references in everything you make is absolutely incredible
The Last of Us stole some ideas from this movie (they stole everything else from The Girl with all the Gifts)
@@bdleo300 thats a fun statement considering TLoU came out in mid 2013, while Moonfall came out in early 2022.
@@LordofSadFac pretty sure that was just bait
Your editing style is hilarious. Laughed out loud multiple times. The Redditor joke got me, as did the Halo drop at 9:54
Taking "That's no moon, that's a space station" to a whole new level
"fly me to the moon,
so i can kick it's fucking ass,
let me show it what i learned,
in my jujitsu class"
gold
The picture of Zhao is the icing on the cake
How evangelion sould've ended
Fear and Hunger 2 Termina in a nutshell
*its. The abbreviation "it's" stands for "it is." You wouldn't say "I can kick it is fucking ass." That means you shouldn't write "it's" in there. The possessive pronoun is spelled "its" without an apostrophe.
@@TheGrammarPolice7
Thank you grammar police, I’ve always found you to be the voice of reason
I went to see this movie with my family and we have literally never laughed harder at a movie than “You’re part of the moon now”
Suspend your disbelief, asshole
I love how you build the Halo jokes. First one was funny, second one I thought "wait, another one?" and then you told the lore and concluded with Halo 3 song. My mind blew up.
One absurd thing that I noticed about the movie is how hamfisted it was that the antagonist was an "advanced AI." Like, it not only gave no indication that it was super cunning, but it was actually just incredibly stupid. It had the object permanence skills of a stealth game NPC, and our heroes outwitted it on multiple occasions. My theory is that it wasn't originally meant to be an AI, but during post-production, ChatGPT came out, and they hastily changed the script to get in on the trend.
Idk man they tend to just nerf evil geniuses and AI so the protagonists have a chance. Like why didn't skynet just make covid 2.0 and wipe humanity out that way? Duurrr nukes n terminators more fun!
Wasn't that all explained in the movie? Like there were two AIs, one good and one bad, and the good one helped the heroes.
@@32BitJunkie because skynet actually doesn't want to destroy humanity and regrets what he has done, but his programming forces him to act that way to defend itself. At least if you believe the word of God
@@32BitJunkie it's not just that it was nerfed. There's one particular scene where the NASA director was looking at the footage of the scouting mission where the AI was captured on camera for the first time. She sees this footage and says that given the footage, this is clearly an AI, despite the fact that it really didn't indicate that at all? It could have easily been an alien or something. I'm paraphrasing what she said, but the actual line she said was exceptionally bad, and also I'm pretty sure it was dubbed over.
even a basic AI would wipe the floor with humanity, if it had a mobile moon to drop on us...
I watched Moonfall in theaters having no idea what it was. Once it started going off the rails and never looked back, it won me over. Didn't know until this YT video that it was directed by the Independence Day guy, or that he did all those other apocalypse movies. What a fucking G. 10/10
These types of movies are what drive-ins are for. You don't go to the drive-in to watch something good. You go to watch shlock while eating an overpriced hotdog, laughing hysterically, making fun of the movie with your friends and/or partner. Drive-in movie theatres need these kind of movies.
Except Moonfall is genuinely good and anyone who laughs at it is a moron. It's peak surrealism, and no other movie comes even close to capturing that feeling of pure awe.
I already thought your video was phenomenal, and then you dropped the Andromeda section. God damn man. 👏 👏 👏
Moon fall is without a doubt my favourite movie experience of all time. Turned up to the film with 5 friends in suits all to find out that no one else had bought a ticket and so we spent the entire film loudly pointing out how bad it was. Single handedly the funniest movie experience of all time and even then I was bored for half of it at least.
I think my favourite part has to be when the moon turns off gravity and oxygen just enough so that the step dad dies and no one else just so that they could reunite the main character and his ex-wife. That or when the moon falls.
You guys did it the right way. This is the definition of a "turn your brain off and enjoy the fireworks" type of film.
Didn't Roland Emmerich do the whole kill stepdad so divorced couple can get back together thing in 2012? It seems weird to do it twice.
@@admiralgaius9796 he's a huge fan of the trope for some reason, best not to read into it. Or do, I'm not your (step)father.
The movie is perfect and you and your friends are retarded for not liking it. It's peak surrealism, you're just too stupid to enjoy it.
Weirdly nukes do cause a massive EMP effect, but nobody in the movie is smart enough to realize the nuke plan might accidentally work.
glad someone commented on this, nukes are EMPs, just usually doesn't matter sense it blows everything in its range up anyways
@@kingforaday42the fact that i know this only because of the mw2 2009 campaign 😭
Well, the EMP effect comes from the HUGE amount of Gamma rays that a nuke produce entering the atmosphere and creating Ions and interacting with the Earth's magnetic field. So no, the plan wouldn't work.
Ahh yeah, Starfish Prime experimented with that very idea. It had a much greater EMP effect than what was expected but certainly proved that high-altitude nukes would wreak havoc on cities far outside their traditional blast range.
@@sportyeight7769 Radiation has the same effect on electronics as EMP, so it could work.
I love how the Michael Bay's 20th century disastrous disaster film Armaggedon stated the problems with trying to nuke your space problems away.
You know, you have to crack it and split it for an explosion to even be remotely effective.
And then in Roland Emmerich's even more disastrous disaster film Moonfall, the government attempts to nuke its problems away without explanation.
*Armaggedon dunked on Moonfall decades before Moonfall even came out!*
Damn. Imagine being outbrained by *_Michael Bay._*
And people dunked on Armageddon back in the day for having an unrealistic plot. If I recall, it'd still be the same mass peltering down on the earth, just with vastly more surface area, meaning a lot more of it would burn up in atmosphere, which would significantly heat up the atmosphere, as well as put a lot of dust into the upper atmosphere trapping the heat in better. Not to mention there's probably still a ton of chunks big enough not to burn up entirely, meaning instead of one huge crater, you got several still very big craters. I mean, a lot of real world craters came from something you could hold in your hand, and have comparable blast radii to nukes. So shattering the a big asteroid before its impact would be equivalent to just simultaneously setting off a 100 or so nukes across the planet, even somewhat comparable long term effects making the earth significantly less hospitable. If people didn't die from being cooked alive or being in the blast radius of an impact, then we're looking at a situation theorized to have killed the dinosaurs and generally brought about significant changes to the prevalent lifeforms on earth. If I recall, the better solution would've instead been using the nuke on the surface where it wouldn't break, so that force would instead push it into a new trajectory and cause it to miss the planet entirely. But also its a movie and people want to see nukes blow up big things, so whatever.
I think the crap Armageddon got, was more about NASA actually being part of the production. And then the end result was what it was, and NASA looked like a bunch of fools. During a time when their budget and the publics general feeling for them was at an all time low.
@@fwg1994 Didn't the movie address that by saying there was a point at which blowing up the asteroid would still cause the debris to hit the Earth, and the entire climax of the movie was making sure the asteroid was blown up before that point?
@@fwg1994Redirection is the best option but you've got to do it a long long time before impact, or it won't move it enough to make a difference. So you've got to detect it years before it hits earth. If you don't have time for that smashing it into tiny pieces with a bomb is probably the best option, yes you will heat up the atmosphere and you might have a few smaller impacts, but it would still be better than doing nothing, especially if you can deflect some of the material away from earth with a big enough explosion.
I can confirm, I did indeed watch Moonfall. I sat down and watched it with my parents, we literally couldn't stop laughing at just how awful and mind-blowingly dumb it is.
My gf and I went and saw it in theaters. We were the only people there. We had a great time, laughing about every dumb plot point.
The last 3rd of the movie could have been renamed "Expositionfall".
But also about the whole "earth is a hellscape" ending part, you forgot to mention that the hollow moon was stock full of spaceships, terraforming equipment, and even farmland. That is not to mention the fact that Samwell of the Night Watch is now integrated into the AI system, so he can easily just start sending relief equipment down to Earth. At least that was the implication I felt from the ending.
I think for a pair of love birds you could do much more in an empty theatre than just laughing on a dumbplot hehe 😅
@@chakraborty1989dude? What the f-? What a disgusting comment
@@chakraborty1989 comment of all time
The only reason the spaceships were there was for the stupid Boss fight. I assume the idea was that their fire is supposed to destroy as much of the evil AIs nanomachines as possible, which would at least make sense, but it could also be just because it's supposed to look cool.
I also don't think the writers thought about your idea. If they did there would have been a scene that shows those ships descending to earth as support.
@@chakraborty1989 you're overestimating the importance of intercourse compared to laughing with the person you love
Oh my god, the concept of Andromeda sounds so unbelievably "Emmerich"-esque.
I need that movie.
To be fair the collision with Andromeda galaxy already started...
If I may add to it, have it be caused by some Cthulhu-like abomination who conquered Andromeda and is now sending its quadrillions upon quadrillions of minions to attack our galaxy at the same time.
This causes alien empires from our galaxy to wage war with these invaders and it’s now up to some plucky team of misfits to save the day.
Emmerich will write his stupid, stupid sci-fi epic come hell or high water!
I swear, I've watched this so many times and the calculator spelling 'boobies' at the math "checking out" always gets me 😂
So my friends and myself literally only went to see this movie because we went to the movies to see another movie around the time they started promoting it, the tagline at the end of the trailer was “The Moon is Coming” and we collectively lost our minds for a few minutes during the proceeding trailers. I also laughed very hard when my half joking comment about the moon being a Dyson Sphere was not unfounded.
Good times.
I honestly loved this movie cause of how dumb it is
It's my guilty pleasure 😉
It was a Dyson Sphere, that's why it sucked.
I don't know what I was expecting from this movie when I clicked on this, but it was so much more batshit insane than I could have possibly imagined. I would expect this caliber of story from the fever dream of a middle schooler. Truly masterful stuff.
Holy shit. I discover Pointless hub after a Slapshoes video and here I go into the comment section and lo and behold, the cycle goes around full circle.
The staggering profundity of Moonfall can only be enjoyed with your brain turned off.
I cannot overstate the joy I felt and the quantity of brain cells i lost while watching this magnificent turd.
I tremble at the thought of what Roland may seek to destroy next.
Godspeed Mr Emmerich!
I’m waiting for Sun Fall (no relation to moonfall) the Sun Falls and stuff happens!
I like the galaxy level destruction next like what he suggested it would be epic to see on screen
@@zachiga that was already done by Chinese (wandering earth) they saw how successful moonfall was and decided quickly take this idea before anyone did. Maybe wandering earth is the prequel to moonfall
awwww I genuinely enjoyed this one - the space shit was somewhat thought out and pretty neat
@@ionrael the difference is, that Wandering Earth made over 600 mil in the box office and Moonfall lost ~70 =)
0:19 Moonfall car crash meme
I saw this movie last month with my wife because YOU mentioned it in a video and I HAD TO SEE IT. It was absolutely PERFECT for what it was. Fun as hell, batshit crazy, with good CGI. Not every movie has to be an Oscar winner. Some are just a damn good time.
And it has Halle "Yummy Mommy" Berry! I've been in love ever since I saw her perfect ta-tas in Swordfish.
@@AB0BA_69 What?
Good CGI? Did we watch the same movie? I agree with the rest though
@@AB0BA_69what
Did the same thing with my mom and then just found this video so let’s goo
Moonfall proves to me that Roland Emmerich could be cast as a director for a new Fast & the Furious film, and no one would have a problem with it.
SHUT UP AND TAKE MY ENERGON!!!!
At least his movies have some kind of supernatural thing to justify the stupid shit.
Merging the Emmerichverse and Fast an Furious Universe would be impressive
That might actually get me to watch them lol.
Reminds me of that The Onion video where they interview the '5 year old director' of fast and furious. That video is great.
Disaster movies are definitely a dying breed, but a part of me definitely looks forward to these really weird ideas of how the world could end. It's a nice change of pace from MCU movie #9756
the world doesn't end if the Constitution survived
I'm hoping they will shoot a movie of Pawn.
People start to die in high mountain regions in the thousands, then millions. It first, a disease is assumed.. But as one doctor at a hospital reports over the radio, it's not a virus.. it's killing all animals, even insects.. yet plants are perfectly fine..
It's also killing combustion engines and even fire dies... (I'll let you guess what disaster is happening here :P)
I'm writing a plot about global warming on steroids. Just waiting for Sora to be available so I can make the movie. 🫠🤭
the amount of thrust to push the moon retrograde until the orbit dips into the roche limit would be insane dude
Cody, if Emmerich ever asks you to write Andromeda, you need to make it a major plot point where the scientist's "Telescope-mometer" was the bad guy the whole time and somehow made the Andromeda shift towards the Milky Way.
EDIT: Adding another absurd idea I came up with, but at one point in the film, the earth and some random alien planet should end up getting temporarily caught inside the upper atmosphere of a gas giant the size of the sun during the merge of the two galaxies, where earth and this random alien planet have some petty dispute (likely something along the lines of earth unknowingly violating some rule of the Andromeda galaxy's UN equivalent), so both planets send their entire air forces towards each other and have a major aerial battle in the atmosphere of this gas giant (this plot point will occur largely in the background, and will have about
Nah, there's no "grey morality" or secret bad guys in Emmerich's movies. The "Telescope-mometer" would just be an ego-driven bureaucrat who thinks it's in charge but just kind of gets in the way for a while.
What if every "Telescope-mometer" in history was made by aliens? The 6.5 billion has been False from the start. The aliens have been on earth all this time, and control all space stuff. Protagonist's home made "Telescope-mometer" was the only one giving us the real data. The aliens didn't want us to find out because they want to get back to Andromeda but their wormhole-inator is broken. I have no idea how we are meant to stop Andromeda, but it's gonna involve blowing up Jupiter and it's gonna be glorious.
The Telescope-mometer would turn out to secretly be a Decepticon
If I remember correctly some video I watched in the past, the irony is that basically nothing would get destroyed when andromeda and the milky way will join anyways, because the distances between star systems is to absurdly huge, the stars and planets won’t even be close to hitting each other. But then again, since when does Emmerich care even the tiniest bit about science :P
@@glowing_kitty even if nothing collides, the change in gravity could mess up the orbits of stars and planets, which would make earth a bit challenging to live on.
I watched this movie with my friends group after I had to both Pay them $8 each and pay for the tickets to convince them to watch it. Completely empty theatre, tons of snack and the single greatest time I ever had. I laughed so hard at the terrible dialogue and over the top disaster. Absolutely loved it
I only needed to watch exactly 2 minutes and 39 seconds of your content to say, "yep, this guy is good" and subscribe. Keep up the good work man
Why stop at galaxies?
Have Emmerich do an adaptation of Secret Wars and let him get to collide universes together
I have to admit, you got me with the Dyson Sphere thing, that was so crazy and over the top I really hope Roland Emmerich has another chance to bring once more the oblivion to mankind and the world.
I just stumbled on Moonfall without knowing about it. During the movie, the main thought going through my mind was that this was so similar to 2012 movie. The crazy conspiracy theorist who knew about it, the nonsensical science that requires a huge suspension of disbelief, the story following some people trying to survive the disaster, and it even had the lover of the lead character's ex die so they can be back together as one family. The style of the movie felt so familiar. The same guy who made 2012 had to make Moonfall. Just looked it up, watched a few youtube videos like this, and confirmed it. I like the idea about galaxies colliding. That's exactly the disaster movie I expect to come next.
Emmerich always makes the same movie.😂😂 With tiny variations.
The Milky Way has already been colliding with another galaxy for hundreds of millions if not billions of years
That was the one huge mistake from 2012: Not making the conspiracy theorist one of the main people! Honestly why did Emmerich felt the need to do that?
Not only was it totally unnecessary to have the conspiracy believer, the whole "real" NASA conspiracy could also have been easily cut. I can only assume Emmerich wanted to repeat the whole Area 51 and Roswell-thing from Independence Day, but that made at least some sense in that movie.
Samwell could have been a NASA scientist (a specialist for the moon), who realized something weird going on, but nobody believed him and he got ultimately fired. And the EMP-device could have been a "normal" military project that they use out of desperation. No need for the NASA conspiracy (and the conspiracy-members couldn't possibly have known they would need an EMP-bomb, just because they believed the moon-superstructure-story)
Pretty much copy and paste for all his movies. But hey disaster pics never gets old.
same, i also didnt realize that all disaster movie i have watch is many from him.
Halle Barry was actually pretty good in this. It'a not her fault that literally every line of dilogue written for her sounded like it was ripped directly from the trailer. She delivered those hamfisted lines remarkably well imo
Another in a long, long list of a good actor performing their horrible lines as best as they can.
She got plenty of experience in Catwoman
@@asagoldsmith3328 Only a few actors have movies they would go back in time and shoot themselves to not appear in them. Halle Berry ranks in the top 30 of all time.
You honestly have to feel bad for her, she has talent, but she appears in so many terrible movies
After watching several of your videos and realizing i watched and enjoyed alot of these disaster movies i think i found my new guilty pleasure, roland emmerich and his disaster movies 🤣
I saw this movie with my brother. No one else was in the theatre at the time. It was probably one of the best movie-watching experiences I've ever had. One of my favorite things was how the moon would 'visit' the Earth every now and then to cause some crazy gravitational nonsense, and then be all "that was fun, I'mma head out" and things would go back to normal for a while.
I would also like to see that Andromeda movie made, I will put forward whatever meager funds I have available to see it happen.
I will sell a kidney to see that movie happen just not my kidney
I laughed so hard at the scene where they showed that the moon was changing course that easily after the "nano-monster" left the moon to destroy the first shuttle. Not even the super-duper gravimetric drive could make it change it's direction that easily. Of course that scene was only in the movie so they could figure out that the "monster" was the real bad guy ...
But if course corrections are that easy, why did the evil AI decide not to ram the moon straight into Earth instead of choosing a much slower course? Even if it thought that the humans couldn't stop it anyway it should have gone for the fastest solution.
@@lordmontymord8701 I think the implication is that the AI monster cant control the moon, it doesn't have access to the systems. But it can apparently blot out the white dwarf in the moons core, to rob the moons systems of power. And that apparently makes the moon spiral down towards earth. AI monster leaves -> power restored -> moon course corrects.
Of course that's not how orbits work, but that's just such an roland emmerich thing to do.