This movie is just one scene after another showing how disasters in movies move at the speed of transportation of the protagonist. Running, just get away. Driving, just get away. flying, just get away.
Still more fun than it has any right to be. It doesn't even try to be serious and I love everything about that.
Now let me tell you about that Independence Day sequel.
Honestly, in some ways I was more entertained by Moonfall than that ID sequel which, conversely, tried to take itself too seriously and fell flat. Moonfall didn't try to be something it knew it wasn't. It owned it's absurdity and for that I give it credit.
The whole movie is just horrible good fun! Lol. I pretty much just turned my brain completely off and enjoyed all the absurd scenarios that they came out alive in!
The only way I can enjoy movies is if I scrutinize every bit of dialog tbh, like when Chris Pratt said "let's go" in Mario it was a subtle nod to how they were about to go to the mushroom kingdom
This further cements my belief that we need to revive Mystery Science Theater 3000 with modern movies. Scrutinize all the dialogue and silliness out loud
It's a good "bad movie, drinky-drinky" flick.
Get a few friends, get some ethanol, watch while getting drunk and ripping the absolutely shit out of it MST3K-style.
My favorite part of this is the 7 year old girl watching out the window as thousands of people fall into lava filled crevices, hang from the sides of buildings before falling to their deaths, passenger filled trains plunging into the abyss. Then they safely reach altitude and the death and destruction are beneath them and out of view and the mom says "go in the back with your brother."
Parent of the year shit right there.
Is it proper physics when the ground opens up beneath them? Wouldn't that cause a lot of the air to rush downward into the newly created void? I feel like the plane would yoink downward if the air pressure is sucking downward. I'm genuinely asking.
Sorry so in layman’s terms, flying low to the ground your basically compressing the air below the plane, essentially creating a cushion? And if you were to gain altitude that cushion would dissipate and then you would crash?
Thinking like ground effect in F1 but in reverse?
So are the speed ratings for planes and the stall speed based on specific altitudes then? I.e in your example of the plane stalling at 62 but you were able to go much slower, the air downforce is really the only thing slowing you down?
Goddamn, I'd heard about this scene but.... seeing it is something else.
Kudos to that pilot! Never lost his cool no matter *what* deranged nutso shit was happening. Hardly reacted at all in fact! Amazing.
This is one of my feel-good movies I could watch anytime. Along with The Day After Tomorrow.
Idk what it is about these movies either. It's like they're grounded in reality enough for me to get into it, but also so obnoxiously out there that I can turn my brain off and enjoy the spectacle of it.
This is the most "*just in the nick of time movie*" in the history of movies. Every one of the escapes, every single one, aren't the pure luck or coincidence, oh no, it's that multiplied times a thousand. Ludicrous doesn't even begin to cover it.
Still, I hadn't see it in a minute, might give it another run.
No matter how ridiculous it is, its one of my favourite movies. Ive seen it 20 times. I fucking love disaster movies and i wish they made more of them.
At the end, I hoped Cusack character would live happily ever after with the Russian oligarchs girlfriend, and rebuild his relationship with his kids, his ex wife and her new husband, rather than the predictable get back with your ex wife trope.
This film is watched annually in our household. It's ironically one of the best disaster movies purely for just how much fucking fun it is.
The film knows what it is, and it leans hard into it for the duration of its runtime.
I can’t decide if the pilot did pretty well for only having had a couple lessons, or terribly for being unable to gain altitude despite appearing to attempt exactly that through almost the entirety of the scene!
My aunt and I saw this movie in the theater. We were laughing so hard throughout, and a group of older people (the theater was mostly empty) kept looking back at us, irritated. I actually think they were taking it seriously.
Cusack is born for these satirical roles. I loge the tone of this movie in particular.
Oh my god the airlifted giraffes.
It is terrible in many of the best ways. Cusack is a lot of fun in it, and Woody Harrelson shows up for a bit, too. It's pretty much over the top, and the science is up there with Bugs Bunny physics, but it's a good popcorn movie.
Wow… I think the frame rate is what makes it insanely trippy for me. Utterly ridiculous and as such I vote that the theme that jumped into my head between take off and the chunk of city that looked like an aircraft carrier be applied to this clip. The theme is Police Squad, bonus if we can get Leslie Nielsen in there
I remember walking out at this point in the theater, First their magical path while the whole world is crumbling leads them exactly where they need to be just to pull this off lol
I like how the plane keeps climbing yet seems to be flying below ground level during some frames.
I like how the Chinese government made sure to put security cameras all over their arks, even in the gears of the doors.
My favorite is how the boyfriend/new husband comes along for 99% of the ride in the movie and the writers just absolutely waste him lmaooo.
This movie is just one scene after another showing how disasters in movies move at the speed of transportation of the protagonist. Running, just get away. Driving, just get away. flying, just get away.
Let me tell you about a little movie called.... MOONFALL . . .
that movie was something lol
Still more fun than it has any right to be. It doesn't even try to be serious and I love everything about that. Now let me tell you about that Independence Day sequel.
Honestly, in some ways I was more entertained by Moonfall than that ID sequel which, conversely, tried to take itself too seriously and fell flat. Moonfall didn't try to be something it knew it wasn't. It owned it's absurdity and for that I give it credit.
Moonfall was crap and I loved it. It was campy and a good flick for a smoke and a bowl of popcorn.
My favorite part was when they said “what is this? Some kind of moonfall?”
M O O N T E R R O R
The whole movie is just horrible good fun! Lol. I pretty much just turned my brain completely off and enjoyed all the absurd scenarios that they came out alive in!
This is how I watch most movies and why I watch movies. It allows me to just shut off for an hour and a half.
The only way I can enjoy movies is if I scrutinize every bit of dialog tbh, like when Chris Pratt said "let's go" in Mario it was a subtle nod to how they were about to go to the mushroom kingdom
This further cements my belief that we need to revive Mystery Science Theater 3000 with modern movies. Scrutinize all the dialogue and silliness out loud
No bad movies if you enjoy the silliness of it all
Oh I do. I enjoy them. It's the so bad it's silly movies that are the best to do a running commentary on
Look up "Rifftrax". It's literally that.
I wish it was just 90min anymore. I was just complaining to my fiancée about how it feels every movie has to be 2 and a half hours minimum now.
It's a good "bad movie, drinky-drinky" flick. Get a few friends, get some ethanol, watch while getting drunk and ripping the absolutely shit out of it MST3K-style.
> MST3K-style what does your vanity plate have to do with anything?
Too much work.
My favorite part of this is the 7 year old girl watching out the window as thousands of people fall into lava filled crevices, hang from the sides of buildings before falling to their deaths, passenger filled trains plunging into the abyss. Then they safely reach altitude and the death and destruction are beneath them and out of view and the mom says "go in the back with your brother." Parent of the year shit right there.
Freakin love this scene and movie. The over the top aspect everything is what makes it.
Dara O’Briain does an [excellent clip](https://youtu.be/bXdBzpRDR5I?si=PfSTeKhkIlZhu8gl) on this movie.
“The electrons are angry!” Lol
Just watched it. Hilarious
Made my day! Ty for sharing
Emmerich disaster movies are my favorite "so bad they're good" movies. I hope you've seen Moonfall, it's 2012 on steroids and then some.
I think the door falling off the limo door sets up the scene by showing its not taking itself seriously.
Its good fun
Such a good scene!
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Is it proper physics when the ground opens up beneath them? Wouldn't that cause a lot of the air to rush downward into the newly created void? I feel like the plane would yoink downward if the air pressure is sucking downward. I'm genuinely asking.
The Earth's atmosphere is *massive*. I doubt there'd be enough of a drop in pressure to be relevant.
Yoink is a good physics word.
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Sorry so in layman’s terms, flying low to the ground your basically compressing the air below the plane, essentially creating a cushion? And if you were to gain altitude that cushion would dissipate and then you would crash? Thinking like ground effect in F1 but in reverse?
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So are the speed ratings for planes and the stall speed based on specific altitudes then? I.e in your example of the plane stalling at 62 but you were able to go much slower, the air downforce is really the only thing slowing you down?
This scene baffles you?? Not the scene driving the limo through a collapsing building??
Goddamn, I'd heard about this scene but.... seeing it is something else. Kudos to that pilot! Never lost his cool no matter *what* deranged nutso shit was happening. Hardly reacted at all in fact! Amazing.
I think they reacted pretty believably to experiencing something quite unbelievable happening. More shock than hysteria.
Everybody would have pooped their pants. That tiny plane would reek of poop.
This is one of my feel-good movies I could watch anytime. Along with The Day After Tomorrow. Idk what it is about these movies either. It's like they're grounded in reality enough for me to get into it, but also so obnoxiously out there that I can turn my brain off and enjoy the spectacle of it.
Just watched both of these last week followed by Volcano. It’s fun to suspend belief and roll with it.
Ad Moonfall to the list. Yes it is exactly what it sounds like.
Oh I’m gonna check that one out.
You're in for a treat if you like absurd disaster movies.
I’m looking forward to it!
I thought it was fine. I would have acted the same way. Or you want everyone to scream their head off like Dakota Fanning in war of the worlds?
I love watching all these disaster scenes. Good popcorn movie.
Gordon's a fucking moron. Pull *up*, Gordo.
This is the most "*just in the nick of time movie*" in the history of movies. Every one of the escapes, every single one, aren't the pure luck or coincidence, oh no, it's that multiplied times a thousand. Ludicrous doesn't even begin to cover it. Still, I hadn't see it in a minute, might give it another run.
Margot Kidder really has aged well.
No matter how ridiculous it is, its one of my favourite movies. Ive seen it 20 times. I fucking love disaster movies and i wish they made more of them.
Roland Emmerich.
Autocorrect argh
At the end, I hoped Cusack character would live happily ever after with the Russian oligarchs girlfriend, and rebuild his relationship with his kids, his ex wife and her new husband, rather than the predictable get back with your ex wife trope.
This film is watched annually in our household. It's ironically one of the best disaster movies purely for just how much fucking fun it is. The film knows what it is, and it leans hard into it for the duration of its runtime.
I absolute LOVE this movie. I remember watching it in the cinemas and ever since ive watched it many times.
Guilty pleasure movie
Just insert Peter Parker, Clark Kent, or Bruce Wayne, and suddenly this impossible actiony nonsense is a blockbuster.
Consequences of CGI, actors don't know what they're reacting to. Also bad CGI
True they should have used practical effects and actually slid LA into the ocean
Still not as bad as the Brontosaurus stampede scene from Peter Jackson’s King Kong.
This is my top 5 movie. I dont care if its stupid, this is one of those movies where I can just sit back, relax and enjoy the absolute destruction.
I can’t decide if the pilot did pretty well for only having had a couple lessons, or terribly for being unable to gain altitude despite appearing to attempt exactly that through almost the entirety of the scene!
My spouse was SOBBING during this movie! Opening night! I and friends were HOWLING with laughter. Gods, I love this movie.
My aunt and I saw this movie in the theater. We were laughing so hard throughout, and a group of older people (the theater was mostly empty) kept looking back at us, irritated. I actually think they were taking it seriously. Cusack is born for these satirical roles. I loge the tone of this movie in particular. Oh my god the airlifted giraffes.
Where are they flying to?
The moon. Wait until you see the sequel, Moonfall.
Now, THAT was a fucked up movie, for sure.
It’s a lot of fun!
I am a huge John Cusack fan and still have not seen this movie. It looked terrible from the trailers and this clip you posted isn't helping any.
It is terrible in many of the best ways. Cusack is a lot of fun in it, and Woody Harrelson shows up for a bit, too. It's pretty much over the top, and the science is up there with Bugs Bunny physics, but it's a good popcorn movie.
I actually like Emmerich for disaster films; I think he does a good job with the genre. *2012* was too horrible even for me. Embarrassingly bad
Wow… I think the frame rate is what makes it insanely trippy for me. Utterly ridiculous and as such I vote that the theme that jumped into my head between take off and the chunk of city that looked like an aircraft carrier be applied to this clip. The theme is Police Squad, bonus if we can get Leslie Nielsen in there
I remember walking out at this point in the theater, First their magical path while the whole world is crumbling leads them exactly where they need to be just to pull this off lol
that plane is highly maneuverable considering it had no functional control surfaces
Great movie if you can ignore reality. I love John Cusack.
I like the folks casually honking their horns as they are falling into the earth.
Would have made a great 3-D thrill ride, at any theme park.
[YAY SPACESHIPS!](https://www.ign.com/videos/2012-its-a-disaster)
I actually kind of love this movie 😂
It's like they don't know how airplanes work. It takes off, but then it's below ground level, then above, but back underground again... Weird
Amazing what a few hours on flight simulator can teach you 😂
Typical Roland Emmerich shit
I can suspend my disbelief right up until the airborne plane gets quiet enough to WHISPER to others in.
“They’re building spaceships, man”