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Guess we'll just have to settle for the OTHER "future tech goes crazy and causes disasters" film this year.
Oh wow that poster lol. And that's the guy from The Guest
Guess we'll just have to settle for the OTHER "future tech goes crazy and causes disasters" film this year.
The previous movie based on a Nesbö book was legit good af. Headhunters. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1614989/
Sigh, im getting dragged to this for a reunion with friends....the options were this and IT and I couldn't convince anyone else to choose the better movie.
Oh god, this is now one of my favorite Kermode reviews. "More stupid than Angels & Demons." I can't wait.
Yep. Devlin & Emmerich (and Gerard Butler to a lesser extent) were born to make our sunday afternoons a lot more fun.
Guess we'll just have to settle for the OTHER "future tech goes crazy and causes disasters" film this year.
Rating: 2 out of 5 stars"Actually, my brother and I were born in the U.K.," drawls Gerard Butler in this disaster thriller, as if to explain away any accent wobbles from him and onscreen sibling Jim Sturgess. Now in the States, Jake (Butler) is a satellite designer, while Max (Sturgess) works at the White House, where his job mostly seems to involve asking what the hell is going on.
Rating: 30 out of 100 (Metacritic)As if we didn't have enough problems on Earth, Hollywood keeps inventing new ways for things to go catastrophically awry. The science-fiction spectacle "Geostorm" introduces an astonishing piece of fictional technology dubbed Dutch Boy — a network of satellites that stabilize our climate. And then the best the filmmakers can think to do with it is to wreck stuff.
Rating: 25 out of 100 (Metacritic)Putting the ”mental" in ”environmental," the not-screened-for-critics ”Geostorm" is less a scare picture about ignoring climate change than a cautionary flop about trying to do too much in conjuring a perfect storm of genres: end-of-the-world porn, save-the-world triumphalism, space adventure, political thriller, family drama, and workplace romance.
Rating: 20 out of 100 (Metacritic)If I had to spend a global meteorological catastrophe with anyone, I don't think Gerard Butler would be my first choice. But of course I don't have a choice. Mr. Butler's character, Jake Lawson, has a job to do, and so do I. Jake's is to fix the space-based weather-control system he designed and built, racing against a digital clock that counts down the minutes until ”geostorm." Mine involves counting the minutes until ”Geostorm" is over and then offering a comprehensive damage assessment. To quote something Jake says to a grandstanding senator (Richard Schiff) who dares to question his expertise: you're welcome.
Rating: 16 out of 100 (Metacritic)Back on Earth, we're treated to bloodless flashes of destruction, such as a frozen cargo plane crashing into Brazil and... well, actually it's hard to think of too many others. The last 20 minutes notwithstanding, this is more of a Geomist than a Geostorm, and the storytelling is so disjointed that only a small handful of set pieces emerge intact. First-time director Dean Devlin was clearly inspired by the decades he's spent writing and producing for Roland Emmerich, but he seems not to have learned that humans — even the glorified extras whose entire arcs are squeezed into a single sequence — are the lifeblood of a good disaster movie. Here, there isn't any weight to what's happening; Millions of people die, and you hardly feel a thing. ”Geostorm" is terrible entertainment, but it's a remarkably effective window into Donald Trump's soul.
Sigh, im getting dragged to this for a reunion with friends....the options were this and IT and I couldn't convince anyone else to choose the better movie.
Here, there isnt any weight to whats happening; Millions of people die, and you hardly feel a thing. Geostorm is terrible entertainment, but its a remarkably effective window into Donald Trumps soul.
Mark Kermode actually..... liked it (because of how stupid it was)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQ6hF_GyEAw
Says it was the dumbest movie he's ever seen. His review is brilliant.
If it's like San Andreas I'll love it.
I love disaster movies. I even almost nearly enjoy The Core.
I'll be honest. 21% on RT is higher than anticipated.
he planetary-disaster-film equivalent of a two-hour call to tech support, Dean Devlin's Geostorm boils down to that classically annoying hail-mary bit of advice: Have you tried shutting it down and rebooting? Big, dumb, and boring, it finds the cowriter of Independence Day hoping to start a directing career with the same playbook but forgetting several rules of the game. The result isn't the end of the world, but it's certainly not Armageddon either.
I love disaster movies. I even almost nearly enjoy The Core.
I'm hoping against hope this is part of the Gerard Butler cinematic universe.
Is that the VHS rental cover art?Guess we'll just have to settle for the OTHER "future tech goes crazy and causes disasters" film this year.
Mark Kermode actually..... liked it (because of how stupid it was)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQ6hF_GyEAw
Says it was the dumbest movie he's ever seen. His review is brilliant.
Guess we'll just have to settle for the OTHER "future tech goes crazy and causes disasters" film this year.
What other movies are part in it? Gamer? 300? The Bounty Hunter? PS i Love you? Law Abiding Citizen? Gods of Egypt?
Guess we'll just have to settle for the OTHER "future tech goes crazy and causes disasters" film this year.
Guess we'll just have to settle for the OTHER "future tech goes crazy and causes disasters" film this year.
I enjoyed the red herring ofthe brown airlock guy seeming like a saboteur but he wasnt. Baddies were white! Progress?
Rating: 1 ½ /5 starsThere has been some question as to whether now is the proper time to release a film like ”Geostorm" and not just because it arrives in theaters bearing all the hallmarks of a cinematic disaster in the making: numerous release date changes, reports of extensive reshoots that eliminated some characters entirely while introducing new ones, and the presence of Gerard Butler in the lead role. No, the question is whether the general public will be in a mood to see a movie in which the entire planet is threatened with attacks of extreme weather in the wake of all the meteorological chaos of the last few weeks. As it turns out, people who were leery of going to see it for that reason can rest easy because, despite the ad campaign to the contrary, the film is actually an utterly idiotic and oftentimes boring amalgamation of ”The Day After Tomorrow," ”San Andreas," ”Gravity," ”The Manchurian Candidate" and the lesser Irwin Allen productions. ”Geostorm" fails to work either as awe-inspiring spectacle or as campy silliness.
Rating: 2/5 starsWhen writer-director Dean Devlin titled his handsomely budgeted new action tentpole Geostorm, he entered into an unspoken pact with his prospective audience. He chose a goofy, make-believe word, and in doing so, promised a goofy, make-believe movie. Nobody's walking into the auditorium looking for lofty insights on the complexities of the human condition, or even a commentary on how the timebomb that is climate change continues ticking away due to political gridlock. It ain't Citizen Kane and it ain't An Inconvenient Truth, and there's no sport in expecting it to be. All parties involved should understand the terms of this tacit agreement, an ”if you build it, they will come" proposition in which ”it" refers to nothing short of a natural apocalypse. All Devlin needed to do was deliver a storm, and no ordinary storm – a storm of geo-proportions. To put it in the parlance of our times, you had one job.