Zhang Tianyuan has vivid memories of this movie.
The main reason is simply because it is indeed quite new.
It was released shortly before he traveled through time.
Although it flopped at the box office and had a clichéd and melodramatic story, the special effects were solid. It's just that my butt was a little numb from sitting in the theater.
President Zhang recalled the main plot of the movie.
Astronaut Brian encountered aliens during a satellite maintenance mission in 2011. They were a swarm of flying, bee-like, nanoscale structural weapons composed of small, retractable structures.
Abbreviated as Swarm.
The Swarm attack resulted in the tragic death of one of the two teammates. Brian, along with the remaining female teammate who had already passed out before even seeing the aliens, used his superb skills to successfully land the nearly wrecked Space Shuttle Endeavour.
This landing was a remarkable feat, and Brian was hailed as a hero.
However, his good fortune didn't last long. Because he refused to play dumb with NASA and pretend he hadn't seen the aliens, he was quickly framed and falsely accused of causing the accident due to his operational error, and that his teammate had died because of him.
As a result, Brian, who was a hero one day, was completely disgraced the next.
A year and a half later, he also lost his family; his wife divorced him and took their only son Sonny.
Brian drifted along from then on, relying solely on his astronaut title to make money by attending science events or giving speeches, and dabbling in cars and motorcycles, often falling behind on rent.
Ten years passed in the blink of an eye.
Then fate dealt this middle-aged man a heavy blow: his son Sonny, who grew up, was arrested for speeding in California and, as was customary, even appeared on live television at the time.
Then, Brian, desperate to get his son out of prison, tried everything he could, but his efforts backfired. He offended the judge by shouting in court, causing his son's trial to be postponed.
Then he argued with his ex-wife and her current husband, and they blamed each other—a typical middle-aged loser...
But at this very moment, the moon's orbit silently shifted.
Most space agencies discovered this immediately, and also found a large, unexplained hole on the moon, suggesting that the moon's shift might be related to this.
The matter concerns the large hole, and they have begun discussing countermeasures.
Even a little earlier than these space agencies, a nerdy, overweight man Houseman led the discovery of lunar orbit.
As a "heretic" who firmly believes that the moon is a giant man-made structure, the fat man tried every means to contact NASA, but received no response.
Even if he managed to find Brian indirectly and inform him of the news, he would still not be trusted.
In this context, NASA and the European Space Agency collaborated to launch a probe to the moon in an attempt to explore the large hole.
As soon as they reached lunar orbit, they were attacked by Swarm again, and the mission was declared a failure.
At this time, news that the moon's orbit had shifted and that it would perish along with the Earth was spreading like wildfire across the globe, causing a great uproar.
The changes in tidal fluctuations also caused a huge disaster, with coastal areas suffering severe damage.
At this point, the female teammate Brian had saved years ago also deduced that the Swarm attacked people based on electronic signals.
Then, through top-secret NASA documents, they learned that as early as the Apollo moon landing period, they had already discovered Swarm, and even later developed electromagnetic pulse bombs specifically designed to target Swarm.
So the female team members decided to find Brian, this formidable player.
After all, it was he who manually brought the space shuttle back from near-scrap metal, and the space shuttle at that time certainly didn't have electronic signals.
So now Brian can continue to safely approach the Swarm in his space shuttle, which has no electronic signals, and then use an electromagnetic pulse bomb to destroy the Swarm.
At this point, Brian also believed the fat man's words and thought he made sense. The two became friends, so when it came time to recruit, Brian brought the fat man to NASA as well.
Then, by a series of coincidences and thanks to the protagonist's halo, the female team member, Brian, and the fat guy formed a three-person team and together they piloted the space shuttle and rocket into space.
Meanwhile, people on the ground also began to flee.
Sonny, the son of an astronaut and the current stepson of a wealthy man; the black son of a NASA administrator and a general; and a Chinese exchange student staying at the NASA administrator's house—various second-generation rich kids also embark on their escape journeys...
On the other side.
Brian's trio made a perilous journey to the moon.
They also entered the moon's interior and discovered Swarm and a vast energy source within it.
The core, and the man-made devices surrounding it, confirm that the moon is indeed man-made.
Then the three of them fought the Swarm again, and just when it seemed like a battle was about to end, their spaceship was taken over by the AI that controlled the moon, and they were separated from the Swarm.
Then Brian learned from the Moon AI that billions of years ago, humanity was an extremely advanced civilization in the Milky Way.
Then it talked about the love-hate relationship between Galactic Humans. It was nothing more than the development of society to the point where AI was everywhere and everything depended on AI. Then came the AI crisis, and humanity was beaten up and almost wiped out.
So the remaining Galactic Humans created the moon, letting it find a suitable place to spread human DNA and allow the species to continue.
Therefore, the moon found the Solar System, and through a series of dramatic transformations, it turned a pile of cosmic debris into a planet. Then, it seeded DNA onto the planet, and after countless years of evolution, humankind emerged.
Until recently, a small swarm of Swarm that had been hunting Earth and the Moon in space found them again and began drilling into the Moon. After decades of this, they finally penetrated the Moon's core, disrupting its internal workings...
This led to the crisis of the moon's orbit going out of control.
As for the ending, of course, the three of them saved the whole world, and then the whole family was reunited.
The only problem is that the stepfather takes a lot of damage; the wealthy stepfather who stole the protagonist's wife sacrifices himself during the escape, as is customary.
Thinking of this, Zhang Tianyuan suddenly remembered that the director of " Moonfall " was also the director of "2012".
Does this person harbor some deep-seated hatred towards their stepfather?
Also, what happened to that stepfather from the 2012 timeline?
Is he still healthy?
Has it already been sent to the Legend Spacetime?
Could they have been killed remotely by some unseen force of the director?
President Zhang felt it necessary to study the impact of the director's obsession on the changes in the film's timeline.
But the next second, he shook his head.
wrong.
This doesn't seem to be something he should be concerned about right now.
What he should be concerned about is that the moon in this timeline of Moonfall seems quite nice, doesn't it?
The situation in the game world is becoming increasingly complex, and modern technology may no longer be able to handle it. If we could get our hands on that moon, it might be helpful in the future...