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2022 · sci-fi · adventure · action · disaster

Moonfall

Directed by Roland Emmerich2h 11m2022
ElsewhereIMDb5.2112kRT35%Metacritic41
  • kinetic
  • extreme
  • inventive
  • epic-stakes
Movie DNA

Neutral, breathless, extreme sci-fi / adventure, inventive in texture. Redemptive, epic, tender, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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A mysterious force knocks the moon from its orbit around Earth and sends it hurtling on a collision course with life as we know it.

Our read · Moonfall (2022) reads as a neutral, breathless, inventive sci-fi · adventure · action entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You want gloriously absurd disaster sci-fi to riff on together.

ends triumphantyou’ll be fine aftergrabs you earlygrips from the openattention 2/5feels its length
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around

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DNA · twelve axes

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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