I totally missed the sabotage idea, I'll have to see it again (I loved it, just the last part wrecked me).
the only thing unrealistic is that in this specific instance, China would have built something to blow it up in 4 hours
HAH, absolutely true!
Aww, I didn't know that about the part. I was first kind of ehh about it because I thought Oh no, they might do the "there are no atheist scientists in foxholes" thing, but the movie was actually too smart for that. He's also the one person other than Mindy and Oglethorpe who treats Kate like she has value. (I was pleasantly surprised Oglethorpe didn't die before everyone else did, too.)
-- Oh yeah I also found it weird the critics are like "It's America's job to solve! All the other countries are ignored!" when there were actually a bunch of shots of OTHER PEOPLE AROUND THE WORLD throughout the movie, and also, COLONIALISM! Yes, probably this one giant superpower has the only chance to fix the problem, because it STOLE ALL THE RESOURCES. I remember scientists around the world freaking out when Trump gutted the CDC years before corona showed up. Only a lot of them were worried about a flu pandemic. Hi ho.
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the only thing unrealistic is that in this specific instance, China would have built something to blow it up in 4 hours
HAH, absolutely true!
Aww, I didn't know that about the part. I was first kind of ehh about it because I thought Oh no, they might do the "there are no atheist scientists in foxholes" thing, but the movie was actually too smart for that. He's also the one person other than Mindy and Oglethorpe who treats Kate like she has value. (I was pleasantly surprised Oglethorpe didn't die before everyone else did, too.)
-- Oh yeah I also found it weird the critics are like "It's America's job to solve! All the other countries are ignored!" when there were actually a bunch of shots of OTHER PEOPLE AROUND THE WORLD throughout the movie, and also, COLONIALISM! Yes, probably this one giant superpower has the only chance to fix the problem, because it STOLE ALL THE RESOURCES. I remember scientists around the world freaking out when Trump gutted the CDC years before corona showed up. Only a lot of them were worried about a flu pandemic. Hi ho.