If anything, the movie kind of fell down at portraying how scientists now try to get out a lot of information on Twitter and sharing knowledge that way -- I'm thinking of Trevor Bedford at the very start of the pandemic -- but that actually would have been hard to film, and taken away from the comedy.
They showed that, but yeah, it's just not very visual.
People also seem to be ignoring that the other countries do try a launch at one point which results in a terrible disaster, and the actual NASA launch is CANCELLED when Not!Elon Musk finds out there's potential profit, and the launch at the end is of his unproven private mining missile which doesn't work either.
Yes and it's strongly implied to be sabotage. Like one of my friends posted that the only thing unrealistic is that in this specific instance, China would have built something to blow it up in 4 hours, which is true. But...it's a movie, specifically intended to get Americans to do things.
Yeah no. IDEFK. -- And his character isn't comic, he is very clearly a Holy Fool type, and at the end he recites the blessing over their literal last supper and is told "you got church game!" It's a small part, but it's not just a goof. In fact I would argue almost nothing in that movie was a throwaway goof.
It's very intentional, and he took the part because of it, apparently (they'd initially offered him a bit role and he was like...maybe? and then after some talk about what was missing in the film, he agreed). Utterly brilliant character imo.
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Date: 2022-01-03 05:52 pm (UTC)They showed that, but yeah, it's just not very visual.
People also seem to be ignoring that the other countries do try a launch at one point which results in a terrible disaster, and the actual NASA launch is CANCELLED when Not!Elon Musk finds out there's potential profit, and the launch at the end is of his unproven private mining missile which doesn't work either.
Yes and it's strongly implied to be sabotage. Like one of my friends posted that the only thing unrealistic is that in this specific instance, China would have built something to blow it up in 4 hours, which is true. But...it's a movie, specifically intended to get Americans to do things.
Yeah no. IDEFK. -- And his character isn't comic, he is very clearly a Holy Fool type, and at the end he recites the blessing over their literal last supper and is told "you got church game!" It's a small part, but it's not just a goof. In fact I would argue almost nothing in that movie was a throwaway goof.
It's very intentional, and he took the part because of it, apparently (they'd initially offered him a bit role and he was like...maybe? and then after some talk about what was missing in the film, he agreed). Utterly brilliant character imo.