Ever wonder what'd happen if the Moon crashed into the Earth? No? Well Roland Emmerich did. He's not content destroying just Earth anymore. He can't be stopped. Twitter: / hubpointless End Song: • Fuck the Moon Fly Me t...
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
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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.”
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.
As another only person on earth to see Moonfall, I can vouch for this entire video. For real though, Moonfall flopping was a blessing and a curse. It meant I could see it alone in the theater, which is honestly the best way to experience it. But it also means I'll never get a sequel to watch alone in the theater again.
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="705">11:45</a>-<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="720">12:00</a> I have no idea why this is so funny, but it never fails to make me laugh hysterically.
@@ricardoberrios6137 It’s not really absurd in the context of a sci fi movie and at least in my opinion it’s a cool idea. I just find the idea of the halo theme blaring while some poor sap gets blasted with ancient knowledge hilarious.
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="436">7:16</a> I'm so glad my illustration of SLS Block 1B has made it into a Moonfall review- its an actual honor!
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="706">11:46</a> This has to be the single most absurd sentence as a plot point in a movie, and accompanied by that music has me laughing so hard I'm in actual pain.
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 think you missed the fact that there is an entire moon sized city built by humans for humans to live in. After the ending I always assumed that those bazillions of shuttles we saw were going to go and grab everyone and just move them into the moon.
The moment you played that halo music with the moon reveal i got hit with nostalgs and i was laughing at the same time, such a weird combination of emotions lol
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
@@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.
I was way to stoned when I saw this the first time, felt like a fever dream. Also, the subtle Halo reference never get old. I’m glad we understand the same humor.
I remember seeing this movie with my highschool, it was this or sonic 2. Right near the end of the movie where that one guy sacrifices himself the movie stopped while we were in the theater and we had to go back to school. Thanks Pointless Hub for finally telling me how the movie where the moon hits the earth ends.
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
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.
Somehow, to my great surprise, everything that made "Moonfall" "Moonfall" had me loving it. I had to watch it again with my boyfriend. He had the same response. It's a GREAT movie to discuss over dinner, there's so much to dive into. Moonfall is for lovers, not haters.
I usually listen to your videos in the background, and this movie's plot is so insane, I actually tabbed back in like "what on earth??" as you went over how more and more convoluted it got lol.
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 worked at VFX house Digital Domain when we were working on the effects for 2012. Our boss would read the script to us and laugh so much he cried. I don't know why people don't like Emmerich's movies. They promise mind-numbing shlock, and deliver. What's wrong with that? 2012 was so much fun!
the problem with his movies is that he takes them way too seriously, he legit thinks he's delivering some wisdom to the masses with his movies, so they come across as incredibly pretentious and annoying, him trying to shove a melodramatic message deep into his movies just sucks the fun out of the room
@@mauz791 it's more along the line of doesn't give a sh*t at all and that's why it's so funny, the dry and dead serious tone while also just "alr whatever".
I would’ve SOBBED seeing the Chrysler building like that. It’s been my favorite thing for decades. I held a picture of it when going into surgery. I have pictures and little models of it all over my house. I want to hire someone to knit a Chrysler building plushie for me. My friend who lives in Manhattan texts me every time he’s passed it with a picture of him hugging it for me. I think it’s the best art ever.
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.
havent commented on a single one of the tons of videos ove watched and i just wanna say i appreciate your videos really just helping me during a bad time
i was listening to this in the background while doing the dishes, and then the Fly me to the Moon rendition started playing, i looked over and completly lost my shit at the General Zao pic
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...
But he just makes copies of his own movies, here is a comparison video of Moonfall to his other movies. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-C6WbTFT1Zsg.html
What’s even scarier than the world the main characters will have to live in following the events that unfolded is that I actually bought this movie, at full price, and I don’t regret it.
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
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.
I think my favorite parts of these videos are when Cody can’t stay dry and just laughs or gets confused about details of the film. Or really anything this channel is my favorite thing on the internet
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.
Budget Cuts of all things being one of the reasons behind the endtimes is awe-inspiringly poetic if you’ve been a fan of a particular 2010 flash webtoon for a while
Never let it be forgotten that we may never get the chance of an actually good sequel to an amazing alien film from the late 90's because Emmerich was the one who made a sequel to said film.
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.
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 decided to watch this movie before watching this video when it first came out and I'm so glad I did because I was so excited to see you talk about the ending 😭
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)
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.
You’ve done “Pacific Rim” and you’ve covered Roland Emmerich several times. You have to do “Godzilla” (1998). How can you not? Please, I need a true analysis of this masterpiece.
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.
@@DescendingVelocity 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 😂
I've seen this movie and even purchased this bad boy on Blu-Ray. When you stop trying to take a movie seriously and treat it like a goofy ride they are supposed to be they actually tend to be really fun, who woulda thought. Lmao
I am giving this a like, not only because you spent the time to watch this movie when no one else did... but because you've made such a compelling argument as to why it should be preserved as a piece of humanity's media history.
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.
Earth is toast, the moon is fake, humanity is endangered and they took out ONE AI out of what, thousands? Millions? Sounds like a happy ending to me *cue orchestra*
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="102">1:42</a> Moonfall induced mass amnesia among my family. I was relatively excited to watch it, went with my parents, and personally found it to be a relatively dumb but fun movie. Saw it on the TV a few months ago, and my parents absolutely *cannot remember* seeing this movie, let alone in a theater. Have I dreamed this movie ?
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.
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 on two flights😂 going to Puerto Rico I watched half of it, and coming back two weeks later I watched the second half. It was pretty entertaining for a flight pass time.
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="465">7:45</a> would like to point out the main NASA launch site is in Florida... which has never been hit by an earthquake
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.
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.
Had to do a double take because I saw my home theater @<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="96">1:36</a> lol. Solid video brother, earned a sub for what its worth
It's strange how, I hate the trope where the characters that just helped the main characters die (the helicopter crew just before the shuttle launch), like the movie is trying to tug heartstrings or something. But I really wanted to see more detail when the first shuttle crew got attacked by the mechanical thing. I remember some space movie where the visor of the suit was melted and I'm pretty sure the astronaut's head was caved in. That was a bit better visual. Also, I strangely wish I could live to see the collision between the Andromeda Galaxy and the Milky Way, but that is impossible for so many reasons, so yeah I need to see that movie.
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.
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.
exectly what i was thinking while watching the movie, it's straight out of the 90s - 00s people always say "why don't they make movies like before?" and something like this get made, it just flew over their heads.
