{"id":1271632,"date":"2022-02-04T15:53:10","date_gmt":"2022-02-04T20:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1271632"},"modified":"2022-02-04T15:53:15","modified_gmt":"2022-02-04T20:53:15","slug":"moonfall-review-sexless-mindless-disaster-movie-made-by-china-appeasers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/moonfall-review-sexless-mindless-disaster-movie-made-by-china-appeasers\/","title":{"rendered":"&#039;Moonfall&#039; Review: Sexless, Mindless Disaster Movie Made By China Appeasers"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmoonfall-review-sexless-mindless-disaster-movie-made-by-china-appeasers%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1271632&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Watching Roland Emmerich\u2019s latest disaster epic <em>Moonfall i<\/em>s like entering an alternate universe where Jerry Falwell Sr. and the Moral Majority won the culture wars.<\/p>\n<p><em>Moonfall<\/em> is as sexless as <em>Leave it to Beaver<\/em>. It is so sterile, such a violation of human nature, and self-consciously so, it feels awkward.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Why plop an actress as jaw-droppingly gorgeous as Halle Berry into a piece of disaster-epic cheese and waste her in this way? Berry is a solid actress, no question, but WTF?<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19753994\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/15-moonfall-first-look-H-2022.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-19753994\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/15-moonfall-first-look-H-2022.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1100\" height=\"619\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Halle Berry and Patrick Wilson in \u2018Moonfall.\u2019 (Lionsgate)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>We get nothing from <em>Moonfall <\/em>that resembles even the smallest acknowledgment of human sexuality. No one acknowledges Berry\u2019s stunning looks. No one does a double-take. Even though she and co-star (Patrick Wilson) both play characters who are divorced, there are no sparks, no banter, no nothing, even with all the heightened emotions around the end of the world.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>John Bradley plays K.C. Houseman, an overweight, lonely nerd, and you\u2019d think Berry was his sister.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s no cleavage, no leg shot, no shot of an underwear-clad Berry stepping into a spacesuit, and no wish-fulfillment romance between her and Wilson.<\/p>\n<p>What the hell are we doing to ourselves? I\u2019ll tell you what we\u2019re doing. We\u2019re censoring and destroying our own art to appease the sexless Nazis in China. Hollywood and its artists are eagerly whoring out their artistic integrity, hoping China will accept ready-made propaganda into their theaters.<\/p>\n<p>The China appeasing doesn\u2019t even stop there\u2026<\/p>\n<p>After the American government has pretty much given up on saving the world, a bizarre piece of exposition informs us that China is sending help. Oh, and then there\u2019s Chinese actress Kelly Yu who teaches Berry\u2019s young son to speak Chinese in-between all of her brave heroics.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Good heavens, even in the heightened days of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Motion_Picture_Production_Code\">Production Code<\/a>, movies were not sexless and sterile. I kid you not\u2026 This is not hyperbole\u2026 Abbott and Costello never made a movie as weirdly sexless as <em>Moonfall.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Watch below:&nbsp;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n[embedded content]\n<p>An industry that once took great (and deserved) pride in ridding itself of the Production Code is now bending over as quislings for the Nazis in China.<\/p>\n<p>What a humiliation for all involved.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>And the sad thing is that other than his hermetically sealed world where no one has hormones, <em>Moonfall <\/em>isn\u2019t half bad. It\u2019s dumber than Joy Behar and saddled with some of the worst dialogue you\u2019ll hear outside of a 19-year-old playwright, but the story zips along, offers a few surprises, and a whole lot of money shots: floods, fires, flaming comets, etc. There\u2019s even something called a \u201cgravity wave,\u201d which was pretty cool.<\/p>\n<p>The moon goes out of orbit. K.C. Houseman, a conspiracy theorist who believes the moon is a mega-structure built by aliens,&nbsp; is the first to discover this. Naturally, no one will listen to him, including disgraced astronaut Brian Harper (Wilson). Eventually, NASA catches on and it\u2019s up to Deputy Director Berry to save the day. But she\u2019s blocked at every turn. What\u2019s going on? How can this be?<\/p>\n<p>Well, in a one-shot role that harkens back to his unforgettable work in Oliver Stone\u2019s <em>JFK<\/em>, Donald Sutherland wheels in to explain the conspiracy, which sends Berry off to get the job done.<\/p>\n<p>On the ground, Berry\u2019s and Wilson\u2019s loved ones struggle through exploding comets and rednecks to find safety.<\/p>\n<p>At the halfway mark, the movie manages to just barely avoid shitting the bed with a ludicrous plot turn\u2026 But<em> ludicrous<\/em> is half the fun.<\/p>\n<p>Everything is green-screened to death. Everything is CGI\u2019d to death. The relationships are just as artificial. Nevertheless, <em>Moonfall<\/em> is never boring and manages to do a whole lot in just 130 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>If only <em>Moonfall<\/em> had been made by human beings and artists instead of Nazi appeasers.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Follow John Nolte on Twitter <\/em><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NolteNC\"><strong><em>@NolteNC<\/em><\/strong><\/a><strong>. <em>Follow his Facebook Page <\/em><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/JohnNolteNC\/?skip_nax_wizard=true\"><strong><em>here<\/em><\/strong><\/a><strong><em>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watching Roland Emmerich\u2019s latest disaster epic Moonfall is like entering an alternate universe where Jerry Falwell Sr. and the Moral Majority won the culture wars. 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