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The whole movie was trash tier - more slop for the Nolan dudebros who desperately want to be perceived as intelligent.
Except The Fly kept the audience's suspension of disbelief and felt grounded no matter how weird it got. The Substance progressively got more over-the-top and ridiculous until it went full retard by the end.
Because Crew-9 is a full multi-month mission to the ISS with other astronauts. Before launching in September two of the original crew were removed to accommodate Butch/Suni - this wasn't some specific rescue mission launched for the sole purpose of their return, it was an upcoming mission that was modified for a secondary purpose. This all takes tremendous planning and launching crew to space is highly complex, it's not as simple as "well just send an extra rocket up there".
They do these missions in rotation, so once Crew-10 arrives, that's when 9 will return to Earth. This plan has not changed since August:
https://x.com/NASA/status/1827396382702878966
https://x.com/Commercial_Crew/status/1827400923154366799
If you want a lot more details though, feel free to read this post by Everyday Astronaut (someone who was originally going to fly on Starship until Dear Moon was cancelled, and has done numerous technical interviews with Elon on spaceflight): https://x.com/Erdayastronaut/status/1884673172533903481
Wouldn't surprise me in the slightest, seeing how utterly clueless you are about this topic. Some of us have been following SpaceX since its inception in the early 2000s, boy.
Considering that I've been a fan of SpaceX and Elon likely before you even knew they existed - yes. I don't hope however that Elon is successful with bizarre lies like this one, seemingly pandering to the uninformed and pushing false narratives in no way dissimilar to the left. Props to you for course correcting on the topic.
I'm also glad Trump has already begun to reverse some of the insanity of the Biden administration, but I will call out any and all bullshit regardless of wherever it's shat out from.
I was glad when SpaceX originally altered the seating of Crew-9 for that purpose, months ago. Are you going to acknowledge reality that this has literally nothing to do with Trump, or are you going to continue to behave like a mindless automaton?
This is actually complete bullshit on Musk's part - the Dragon spacecraft (Crew-9) that's going to take them home is already docked at the ISS and has been since September. Two of the original crew were removed in order to accommodate Butch/Suni after Starliner returned unmanned.
It has literally nothing to do with Trump coming into office. Trump may be uninformed about the issue, but Elon certainly isn't... and he chose to blatantly lie about it anyway. As I've said before, I've defended him for many years against smear campaigns and the like, but there's really no defense for this. It's straight BS.
If only he had gone a bit more remote and stayed away from this turd of a script entirely, and anything even vaguely involving Mark Wahlberg. For shame, Mel.
Damn, dude was a true artist - time to do a bunch of rewatches. RIP
Plenty of bullshit narratives get pushed about Elon which I'll defend him against, but this is pretty cut and dry. Dude is blatantly getting juiced to the gills by one or multiple other people on the account, which would be fine if he didn't give the opposite impression.
No real defense to be had here - it's dishonest and lame. That said, the people waving their arms around about it like it's some gigantic deal are almost equally as lame.
Now if only they could remove his character from the film entirely.
The Batman is "widely considered" to be better than Batman Begins and The Dark Knight? From where are you extracting this information exactly? Your ass?
Correct - although there were definitely some low points, I enjoyed quite a few pre-Endgame Marvel films. With that said though, I don't find myself rewatching them.
There is only evidence of abiogenesis occurring once however, which means it might not be inevitable in similar circumstances. My personal opinion is that life itself is rare, multicellular/complex life is very rare, and intelligent technology-creating life is almost impossibly rare - which would explain the Fermi paradox and why we see no signs of it in the universe.
What justifies such a long wait for a sequel to a movie that was mostly a mediocrity? Are they spending the extra time to actually write a good script? Yeah, I doubt it.
Marvel is utterly pathetic.
The points I've made seem to be totally flying over your head, so I'm not even going to attempt to explain it in a different way.
So now only the intention matters for some reason? If someone intends to write a novel but ends up writing a screenplay of the idea instead, the fact that they intended to write a novel now means that the eventual movie is "unoriginal"? Again, you're not making any sense.
Also, while not entirely relevant to the point here, you're wrong about the details of the screenplay: "Jonathan got the idea for the story from his general psychology class at Georgetown University. He pitched the idea to his brother Christopher during a cross-country road trip from Chicago to Los Angeles. His brother responded to the idea, and encouraged him to write a first draft. After Jonathan returned to Washington, D.C., to finish college, he sent his brother a draft two months later, and Christopher set to work on a screenplay, while Jonathan began finishing the short story."
So, they were working on it simultaneously. This isn't to mention that the screenplay ended up being significantly different than the short story as well, which is similar to what happened with Interstellar - Jonathan wrote the original script, and Chris rewrote it with a multitude of changes. So basically you're implying that not a single thing can be considered "original" if there's even an inkling of inspiration from another source involved. Which is of course, ridiculous.
So basing it off an unpublished short story written by his co-writer makes the film "unoriginal"? How? If someone brings a director a unique script, and they proceed to make the film, that film is immediately retroactively unoriginal simply because the script existed beforehand? You're not even making sense.
There's plenty of things to criticize Nolan about without resorting to total nonsense.