The Chinese come to the rescue of NASA and the movie literally concludes with one of the American heroes fist-bumping a Chinese astronaut on a joint mission back to Mars. It's a sad reminder of how bad the new cold war has become in just a few years.
2015: :wholesome: We can explore space together! :solidarity:
2022: President Xi is going to invade Taiwan at any moment LAUNCH THE NUKES NOW! :guts-rage:
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Jackie Chan should do a martial arts remake of a fistful of dollars and call it Beijing Bucks.
Isn't he like in his 80s?
He's almost 70, yeah :sadness:
He has like 4 movies coming out this year, lol. Idk what recent Jackie content is like, I imagine he's not still putting his body through the stuff he did in the 80s and 90s tho.
They still need that money and go out of their way not to offend Beijing. Funny example is Maverick. The hogs loved that the film kept Maverick's jacket with the Taiwan flag on it. Unlike the first film where we were clearly doing battle with the Soviet Union, in Maverick China is non existent. I don't think Maverick played in China, but Paramount did not face the wrath of the Chinese Film Bureau and chose Iran as the antagonist.
I choose to believe Maverick exists in some alternate universe. Since while the target makes sense as Iran, Iran doesn't have Su-57s.
Love how he just suddenly knows how to fly an old Soviet aircraft better than people trained in it and equipped with Su-57s
The plane they stole was an F-14 Tomcat which is an American plane, I think it was the primary jet in the original movie. After a brief google search the Iran connection may be stronger than I thought, I guess the US gave a bunch to the Shah before the revolution and Iran continues to operate them. So the Su-57 is the only thing making me think not Iran since they're Russian and they don't have very many.
At no point did anyone in the movie question the fact that the people they were fighting had American planes?
Nope lol But hey, cool jets! Don't think about the consequences of US imperialism.
A WW2 movie, but the Nazis are all driving Ford trucks and no one questions it
That did happen:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_V-3000-Serie
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Germany#Ford-Werke_AG_later_Ford-Werke_GmbH
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Yeah it was kind of hamfistedly shoved into movies - honestly it doesn't really seem like it serves an important plot point in The Martian either.