I'm notorious for interrupting movies so I can point out how ridiculous *this* or *that* is. Mr. G and I rarely watch movies together because he loves this stuff and I can't bite my tongue lol.

These disaster movies are my guilty pleasure. Tornados, earthquakes, tsunamis, asteroids, the moon crashing into the Earth. Hell, I'll even sit through Sharknado. The more far-fetched the plot, the better I like it. Moonfall did have some good effects. 

Nothing beats a rainy Sunday afternoon, the house to myself, a glass of peanut butter whiskey and a far-fetched disaster movie!

15 hours ago, Mrsgnomie said:

I'm notorious for interrupting movies so I can point out how ridiculous *this* or *that* is. Mr. G and I rarely watch movies together because he loves this stuff and I can't bite my tongue lol.

We can't be friends anymore. Tell Mr. G I'll make the popcorn. 

24 minutes ago, kbois said:

These disaster movies are my guilty pleasure. Tornados, earthquakes, tsunamis, asteroids, the moon crashing into the Earth. Hell, I'll even sit through Sharknado. The more far-fetched the plot, the better I like it. Moonfall did have some good effects. 

Nothing beats a rainy Sunday afternoon, the house to myself, a glass of peanut butter whiskey and a far-fetched disaster movie!

I like a good disaster movie, but skipped this one.

When I was a kid, we had a pair of them that came out and set the standard for disaster movies: The Towering Inferno (1974) and Earthquake (1974).

What made them both scary to me as a kid, they were plausible. A fire in a skyscraper or a big, nasty earthquake in Southern California are completely believable.

What's NOT believable was the moon falling. That's just not going to happen. It may eventually fly out of earth orbit and leave us, but the law of conservation of momentum will not be repealed. Now, write a script for what would happen if we lost the moon, and that might be interesting.

2012 is another one where the "science" was so butchered, it ruined the movie (for me). If you remember the plot, the earth was going geologically rabid because neutrinos were heating the earth's core. Neutrinos just do not work that way. They are exceptionally difficult to detect because they are just so... neutral.

Authors: it's one thing to take creative liberties. It's quite another to be so completely ignorant of the science in your sci-fi to actually be embarrassing.

I was looking through our Amazon purchased movies tonight and noticed that Mr.Gnomie bought Moonfall. Not rent, but BOUGHT it, as in, paid real money for it.

You think you know a person.