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2015 · Film · 94 min
Directed by Tim Johnson
FantasyComedyAnimationScience FictionFamily
When Earth is taken over by the overly-confident Boov, an alien race in search of a new place to call home, all humans are promptly relocated, while all Boov get busy reorganizing the planet. But when one resourceful girl, Tip, manages to avoid capture, she finds herself the accidental accomplice of a banished Boov named Oh. The two fugitives realize there’s a lot more at stake than intergalactic relations as they embark on the road trip of a lifetime.
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My bad. I was thinking of total wealth - not sure where I got the figure back then (took longer than this) but wikipedia has total global wealth at 450 Trillion dollars or 57,000 per person (8bn).
I suspect with PPP or different assumptions 70k is quite feasible. I think my main argument is stronger - if everyone had 70,000 of wealth then houses would be less than 70k.
I am reminded of watching a movie with my kids - "Home" about a group of bumbling aliens who take over earth and move all the humans to Australia. (One girl escapes with a friendly alien and has adventures and learns the meaning of ... etc). It's fun for younger kids.
Anyway, the point is that super advanced (but bumbling and ultimately nice) aliens simply transport every human to Australia and plonk them all down in front of instantly created suburban houses. Some people (elites?) will lose out - their houses will be less nice than pre-invasion, but for the vast majority of people it's a major upgrade - a life changing improvement.
And roughly that's what the "if everyone had 70,000" idea is about. As the plot was not challenging especially on the third rewatch, I would try to imagine what happens next in Australia. Do people live pleasent suburban lives and human happiness is complete, or does it devolve into Haiti-like chaos ?
Sadly my money is on Haiti as what keeps us from not killing or eating our neighbours is a sort of common story about how safe we are, how police and other services are there for us etc
My only upside is that the aliens might do a random sorting of humans. If you were say in Fallujah or Haiti or Yemen and you and your neighbours and society all got moved to the same neighbourhood in Australia, then you take the same social structures, the same pressures of expectation and social performance, the same grudges. Disaster.
But randomly spread (families) out and it seems different - the idea you will hold onto political grudges against a Norweigian neighbour and a Brazilian opposite seems odd - especially now you have to overcome the shock of the chnage and frankly the much nicer living standards you now have.
Also lots of ice cream was available which might have helped
Their documentary Home gets me right in the feels too. Just terrific.
Yeah, it's dark when you go to the office and it's dark when you leave for the day. Luckily I have a couple of colleagues that enjoy a brisk lunch walk, which at least gives some exposure to the sun during the day.
In Sweden, a winter a couple of years ago, I had just dropped off my son at pre-school. I was waiting on an outdoor subway station platform at 8 AM, listening to "Towards the Sun" from the movie Home. When she sings "Turn your face towards the sun" I looked up into the pitch black sky with tiny snowflakes that fell down stretching into infinity. The contrast was so complete that I'll never forget it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdO9cc7WOyE
>They all made money
This is hollywood. Take the budget, double it, and add 50 million dollars and then you have an accurate idea of the true budget. To be "profitable" the reported boxoffice needs to be at least 3X the budget. For example, Sherman and Mr.Peabody had a budget of "150 million", made 300 million, but dreamworks still lost 57 million making the movie.
Known flops of the last two years are : Home, Penguins of Madagascar, Sherman and Mr. Peabody, Turbo, Rise of the Guardians.
Only The Croods and HTTYD were profitable.