Book was better by a long shot. The plot thread he’s referring to is how the virus spread from China via the black market organ trade. Also there’s a chapter about how celebrities try to hole up in a mansion/fortress and film a reality show about them surviving the crisis only to be massacred by the scared and starving common folk when they storm the house.
Check out the author's book. It's a series of interesting stories rather than a single narrative. The Zombie Survival Guide is also worth checking out for a quick read.
Every movie panders to China now in some way. This weekend I watched a couple of seamonster movies, Underwater and The Meg.
In The Meg, half the cast is Chinese, the Chinese characters are all incredibly smart, and if they die it always has to be a noble death... on the flip side, Americans are portrayed as cowardly, idiotic, greedy, and must die horrible, meaningless deaths.
In Underwater, the American men are all useless bitches that need to be saved, mostly by the crop-haired dyke. Along comes the chinese girl, and the focus basically shifts to saving her. In the end, they make it to the escape pods, which are of course made by the Chinese, and the white American girl sacrifices herself to save the Chinese girl.
That Matt Damon movie a few years ago, The Martian, also was heavy on the Chinese pandering. When the Americans start a rescue mission, they cut corners and end up exploding on the launch pad because of their incompetence... then they have to beg the Chinese to save the day, because as we all know... America SUCKS at space and Chinese is A+ Number One Best Chinese Space Program!
In Gravity, the movie starring Michael Jackson's corpse... er, I mean Sandra Bullock... the incident that causes all the space mayhem is when Russia launches a missile to destroy one of their defunct spy satellites, causing a Sharknado of space debris that flies around the planet, hunting down hapless spacecraft. Of course, this is something the Chinese had actually done in reality the previous year, but they changed the story of the movie so as not to offend the Chinese.
In that Mars television series, it's the Chinese who are in charge of everything, most of the technology used is Chinese, and the Americans just came along to witness the glory of the amazing Chinese space program.
In the Top Gun sequel, which should be a story about American exceptionalism... Hollywood caved in to China again and removed the Taiwan and Japanese flags from Maverick's jacket at the behest of their big invester... TENCENT. Tencent is a massive Communist Chinese tech firm that deals in censorship. In fact, Tencent was responsible for censoring much of the information on the Wuhan Flu.
Notice the trend yet? When it comes to technology, America dumbdumbdumb, China smrtsmrtsmrt. Whether it's underwater, in space, or in the modern military... everything is now about Chinese greatness and American cuckoldry to it.
Great analysis. The only one I've seen is the Martian but I never noticed the Chinese influence.
One I noticed was "A Dogs Journey" The good guy love interest was Chinese American so straight away I checked the credits and sure enough one of the producers was Chinese. (Great film though)
Any time I see a Chinese person with a prominent part I always check the credits to find out who funded it. Shame, they could have got the part on merit but just like affirmative action it causes me to question everything.
I could write a whole book on everything wrong with Gravity. The only way ANY of that movie makes sense is if the entire thing is Sandra Bullock's oxygen deprived hallucination in the last seconds of her life. Every single thing that happened after the initial strike on her shuttle was one impossible scenario after another not just an "improbable situation that can be survived if we try hard enough", no... IMPOSSIBLE. Yet people kept praising it as the most realistic space movie ever made. It was Sharknado in space.
The writer's understanding of how space works is on par with what J.J. Abrams' understanding of space in Star Trek and Star Wars. Example: Watching in real time, with the naked eye, a space laser striking a planet and several moons... from thousands of lightyears away. Gravity... hell, I can't think of a poorer example of how space works in a movie that was supposed to be "realistic"... you have to go into the realm of space fantasy before you see a worse portrayal of orbital mechanics and physics.
What's his name flying around in the MMU they never use anymore , wasting fuel, chatting like an idiot and taking stupid risks was in the opening. Then the debris from the explosion or whatever would never have made it to the ISS. Plus Sandra's supposed to be an astronaut. Those people are highly trained, very smart and know their shit. No way she would have been so stupid and clueless like she was in the movie. There's probably a shit ton more to bitch about between the opening ad the incident, but I refuse to watch that hot garbage again.
I like your "oxygen deprivation shortly before death" theory better.
Ironic that in the book world war Z a pandemic spreads across the globe because Chinese communist government is more concerned with controlling information and controlling the virus.
The video game Crysis in 2007 also altered the country occupying the South China Sea island to North Korea. You can tell from the weapon & vehicle models of the enemy forces that it was originally supposed to be Chinese military. The enemy helicopters are Z-10s. Only China uses that helicopter. The series spawned two more games, at which point it became a full-on alien invasion story and completely dumped the China/North Korea enemy in favor of a generic American PMC as human enemies.
The video game Homefront in 2011 did the same thing... pre-emptively. From the beginning it made no secret of the fact that the army that conquered all of Asia and invaded America was North Korea. Everyone laughed at the notion that NK could conquer all of Asia. The game turned out to be a sales disaster. The reboot, Homefront: The Revolution in 2016, at least tried to come up with a plausible story about how North Korea grew powerful by using an alternate timeline where a brilliant Steve Jobs-like innovator propelled the NK economy to incredible heights in the 1970s and allowed North Korea to become the dominant economic power of the Korean peninsula in the 1990s while South Korea remained stuck as an impoverished military dictatorship. This game also sold horribly and killed its studio.
Crysis 2 was the biggest disappointment for me... I'll never understand why they dropped the plot of the first game and didnt' expand on that story, and instead turned Crysis into a series of "alien invasions of the week" with an entirely new story each time.
Hollywood does that dumb shit because chyna only allows a couple American movies in per year. So the idiots circlejerk chyna for the opportunity for a big customer base boost for the movie. Too many companies doing stuff like that to grab hold of the untapped customer base. It is not unique to America either.
Yeah, in the book, patient zero is from some village in China. The first chapter is a doctor investigating it, before they understood what was going on.
I find myself agreeing with Cruz a lot these days.
Nothing (too) personal, but PLEASE no more lawyers for president for the next 100 years.
I enjoy myself too much with a President who is not a lawyer and actually doesn't just says things I agree with, but actually does them!
Imagine if every country was...a lot less war and more mutually beneficial deals.
Run by a good businessman. Soros is a businessman, you know, right? I don’t want to America run by just any businessman.
Soros is an ideologist first and a businessman second.
True, but my point still stand.
Ya, john gotti was a businessman. I think we need HONEST people as President, and that precludes lawyers
Dude, the more he talks the more I like him. Trump has taught him well
Wasn't the Red Dawn remake altered to change the invading country from china to Cuba? You know, because Cuba is powerful enough the invade the USA...
China to North Korea I think
The original red dawn was the soviets and cubans, the remake was china but changed to north korea
China makes sense. North Koreans would be so happy to have a good meal that they'd not want to fight.
World War Xi
Life imitates art.
Predictive programming.
Great movie, by the way!!
If you like zombies and also Asians, check out Train To Busan.
I'l second this, Train to Busan is the best Zombie flick I've seen in a long time.
Book was better by a long shot. The plot thread he’s referring to is how the virus spread from China via the black market organ trade. Also there’s a chapter about how celebrities try to hole up in a mansion/fortress and film a reality show about them surviving the crisis only to be massacred by the scared and starving common folk when they storm the house.
Check out the author's book. It's a series of interesting stories rather than a single narrative. The Zombie Survival Guide is also worth checking out for a quick read.
Every movie panders to China now in some way. This weekend I watched a couple of seamonster movies, Underwater and The Meg.
In The Meg, half the cast is Chinese, the Chinese characters are all incredibly smart, and if they die it always has to be a noble death... on the flip side, Americans are portrayed as cowardly, idiotic, greedy, and must die horrible, meaningless deaths.
In Underwater, the American men are all useless bitches that need to be saved, mostly by the crop-haired dyke. Along comes the chinese girl, and the focus basically shifts to saving her. In the end, they make it to the escape pods, which are of course made by the Chinese, and the white American girl sacrifices herself to save the Chinese girl.
That Matt Damon movie a few years ago, The Martian, also was heavy on the Chinese pandering. When the Americans start a rescue mission, they cut corners and end up exploding on the launch pad because of their incompetence... then they have to beg the Chinese to save the day, because as we all know... America SUCKS at space and Chinese is A+ Number One Best Chinese Space Program!
In Gravity, the movie starring Michael Jackson's corpse... er, I mean Sandra Bullock... the incident that causes all the space mayhem is when Russia launches a missile to destroy one of their defunct spy satellites, causing a Sharknado of space debris that flies around the planet, hunting down hapless spacecraft. Of course, this is something the Chinese had actually done in reality the previous year, but they changed the story of the movie so as not to offend the Chinese.
In that Mars television series, it's the Chinese who are in charge of everything, most of the technology used is Chinese, and the Americans just came along to witness the glory of the amazing Chinese space program.
In the Top Gun sequel, which should be a story about American exceptionalism... Hollywood caved in to China again and removed the Taiwan and Japanese flags from Maverick's jacket at the behest of their big invester... TENCENT. Tencent is a massive Communist Chinese tech firm that deals in censorship. In fact, Tencent was responsible for censoring much of the information on the Wuhan Flu.
Notice the trend yet? When it comes to technology, America dumbdumbdumb, China smrtsmrtsmrt. Whether it's underwater, in space, or in the modern military... everything is now about Chinese greatness and American cuckoldry to it.
CHINA IS ASSHOE.
HOLLYWOOD IS ASSHOE.
DON'T TRUST HOLLYWOOD AND CHINA!
Yeah, I remember one of the Transformers has the American military asking China for help because they couldn’t do it alone.
Turned it off after that. There’s no way the largest military in the world needs second-rate counterfeit tech
Great analysis. The only one I've seen is the Martian but I never noticed the Chinese influence.
One I noticed was "A Dogs Journey" The good guy love interest was Chinese American so straight away I checked the credits and sure enough one of the producers was Chinese. (Great film though)
Any time I see a Chinese person with a prominent part I always check the credits to find out who funded it. Shame, they could have got the part on merit but just like affirmative action it causes me to question everything.
You forgot that in Gravity, she makes her way to the Chinese space station (nevermind scale or orbital mechanics!) and returns in their capsule.
I could write a whole book on everything wrong with Gravity. The only way ANY of that movie makes sense is if the entire thing is Sandra Bullock's oxygen deprived hallucination in the last seconds of her life. Every single thing that happened after the initial strike on her shuttle was one impossible scenario after another not just an "improbable situation that can be survived if we try hard enough", no... IMPOSSIBLE. Yet people kept praising it as the most realistic space movie ever made. It was Sharknado in space.
The writer's understanding of how space works is on par with what J.J. Abrams' understanding of space in Star Trek and Star Wars. Example: Watching in real time, with the naked eye, a space laser striking a planet and several moons... from thousands of lightyears away. Gravity... hell, I can't think of a poorer example of how space works in a movie that was supposed to be "realistic"... you have to go into the realm of space fantasy before you see a worse portrayal of orbital mechanics and physics.
What's his name flying around in the MMU they never use anymore , wasting fuel, chatting like an idiot and taking stupid risks was in the opening. Then the debris from the explosion or whatever would never have made it to the ISS. Plus Sandra's supposed to be an astronaut. Those people are highly trained, very smart and know their shit. No way she would have been so stupid and clueless like she was in the movie. There's probably a shit ton more to bitch about between the opening ad the incident, but I refuse to watch that hot garbage again.
I like your "oxygen deprivation shortly before death" theory better.
Ironic that in the book world war Z a pandemic spreads across the globe because Chinese communist government is more concerned with controlling information and controlling the virus.
I memeber. They implied it came from India.
The video game Crysis in 2007 also altered the country occupying the South China Sea island to North Korea. You can tell from the weapon & vehicle models of the enemy forces that it was originally supposed to be Chinese military. The enemy helicopters are Z-10s. Only China uses that helicopter. The series spawned two more games, at which point it became a full-on alien invasion story and completely dumped the China/North Korea enemy in favor of a generic American PMC as human enemies.
The video game Homefront in 2011 did the same thing... pre-emptively. From the beginning it made no secret of the fact that the army that conquered all of Asia and invaded America was North Korea. Everyone laughed at the notion that NK could conquer all of Asia. The game turned out to be a sales disaster. The reboot, Homefront: The Revolution in 2016, at least tried to come up with a plausible story about how North Korea grew powerful by using an alternate timeline where a brilliant Steve Jobs-like innovator propelled the NK economy to incredible heights in the 1970s and allowed North Korea to become the dominant economic power of the Korean peninsula in the 1990s while South Korea remained stuck as an impoverished military dictatorship. This game also sold horribly and killed its studio.
Crysis 2 was the biggest disappointment for me... I'll never understand why they dropped the plot of the first game and didnt' expand on that story, and instead turned Crysis into a series of "alien invasions of the week" with an entirely new story each time.
I if I remember correctly they did the same thing with the Red Dawn remake. Fucking scum
Zombie Apocalypse is on the table folks! GET YOUR SHOTGUNS HERE! Step right up, step right up!
Hollywood does that dumb shit because chyna only allows a couple American movies in per year. So the idiots circlejerk chyna for the opportunity for a big customer base boost for the movie. Too many companies doing stuff like that to grab hold of the untapped customer base. It is not unique to America either.
And it was literally a huge plot point in the book.
Yeah, in the book, patient zero is from some village in China. The first chapter is a doctor investigating it, before they understood what was going on.
The Top Gun remake is also edited, changing Tom Cruises leather jacket from the original for China.
I read the books though. Brooke's zombie virus pops up all over the world at various points in history.
Best part of the movie. Disavowed CIA agent explains how Norks pulled the teeth of all 22 Million people in 48 hours.