It just opened yesterday, and already Hollywood movie analysts are blasting its plot and performance.
When catastrophic climate change endangers Earth’s very survival, world governments unite and create the Dutch Boy Program: a world wide net of satellites, surrounding the planet, that are armed with geoengineering technologies designed to stave off the natural disasters. After successfully protecting the planet for two years, something is starting to go wrong. Two estranged brothers are tasked with solving the program’s malfunction before a world wide Geostorm can engulf the planet.
From Variety:
“Geostorm,” a weather disaster drama starring Gerard Butler and directed by Dean Devlin, is heading towards a disaster of the fiscal sort for Warner Bros. Though the film is projected to over-perform just barely with a modest $12.5 million at 3,246 venues compared to a projected $10 to 12 million, it’s also carrying an estimated $100 million budget. The film has been released internationally and garnered roughly $7.4 million on Friday, bringing the global cumulative total to $29.8 million in addition to Friday’s domestic $4.3 million.
From The Independent
Geostorm review round-up: Is this the worst film of the year?
‘Uses digital technology to lay waste to a bunch of cities and hacky screenwriting to assault the dignity of several fine actors’
Which is precisely what Geostorm may be doomed to become, roping in Independence Day‘s producer Dean Devlin for a feature film debut that is predicted to flop hard at the box office.
The film sees Gerard Butler star as the architect behind an elaborate natural disaster defense system, which sees a series of climate-controlling satellites surrounding Earth, centered around the International CIimate Space Station.
Can Hollywood films about climate change make a difference?
But, is Geostorm truly the worst film of the year, especially with the (also) disastrously received The Snowman lurking in the shadows of cinema complexes everywhere?
Here’s what the critics thought. – read the review here
The trailer (the most ridiculous part, in my opinion, is the frozen airliner falling out of the sky):
There is one element of truth in the movie: Humans can’t control the climate.
At least Al Gore isn’t in it.
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If anyone is under the delusion that Bill Nye is not going to follow in the footsteps of “Geostorm” and Al Gore documentary sequel, well….think again. A documentary featuring the really-not-a-science-guy is coming out later this month:
https://www.billnyefilm.com/.
Quote:
“……The documentary follows Nye’s journey as he launches a solar-propelled spacecraft with his Planetary Society organization, bears witness to what he’s told is “raising sea levels” and “drowning Miami eventually,” and confronts deniers of climate change, evolution, and — more generally — a science-based worldview…..”.
And guess who else is in it? Neil deGrasse Tyson.
Fortunately, it does not appear as though the film is going to be widely shown across the U.S. judging from the screening list in the linked article above. But hey, Al and Bill have to feed their giant egos somehow, don’t they?
I will enjoy watching this movie! I know, there’s very little science in this sci-fi, but it will still be entertaining. I haven’t seen either movie yet, but from the reviews that I’ve read, the movie Mother already has Worst Film of the Year locked up. I’ve heard it’s the worst film of the decade. Which is a shame because I enjoy watching Jennifer Lawrence as an actor.
I thought it was a new original SyFy movie when I saw the ad for it.
A much better movie is Kingsman – The Secret Service. The villain is a madman greenie who wants to save the world from global warming by killing most of the population.
In contrast to the movie under discussion, Kingsman did well at the box office. Normally I don’t attend movies but someone on WUWT suggested it. Thanks!
… Oh, you mean it is a true story.
Let us hope that this epic will not be shown in interminable re-re-re-runs like “The Day after Tomorrow,” which was shown twice just this past week, 13 years after its debut, complete with monster hurricanes that managed to grow despite well-below-freezing air temperatures, and leaving (only) the northern hemisphere covered in ice. I do believe it has been shown more often than “The Ten Commandments.” Makes me wonder whether George Soros is paying to have it shown, without cost to the advertisers
A boring movie, Whereas 2012, as unlikely as anything imaginable, is fun ride and a movie the family always says they don’t want to see again and then enjoys it thoroughly. Likewise San Andreas, the earthquake movie. It takes a horrendously likely event and turns it into a family adventure film with extremely unlikely catastrophic elements. The difference is these movies were all fun and had compelling family plots.
Disaster movie plots work best when they don’t focus on the disaster, but rather the people who find themselves in the middle of it. That’s where the drama and interest is.
Speaking of odd re-runs, what the heck is the deal with Cinemax and Waterworld? They still show it at least 3 times a week.
Humans can’t control the climate, sure, but maybe Al Gore can?
So a handful of manmade satellites are controlling Earth’s weather and climate?
What a hoot!!!
What’ll the huckster science fiction writers come up with next for horror-scare story entertainment???
Maybe 1 extra GHG molecule per 10,000 molecules?
Oh, wait….
Stop hurricanes? And exactly how is rain to get into interior continental areas that actually rely on cyclonic weather systems.
Think I’ll skip Geostorm and wait for Weinstorm to hit the movie theaters.
It’ll be a short subject…
Did you ever stay after a movie and watch all the credits to the end….?
Hundreds of artists, animators, computer designers, graphic artists, in addition to the drivers, stunt people, caterers, etc – the credits can roll for 5-10 minutes…
They better have a good writer for the screenplay or whatever, and great actors,etc. a tough business now.
Also a plot that people are interested in… JPP
Maybe they should roll the credits first, so that people will realize what went into this film.
/sarc…
Marvel puts scenes in the credits, to link other stories.
Pixar is pretty good at including little scenes during the credits.
Unfortunately, I’m watching the scenes, not reading the credits.
It just dawned on me…Maybe current climate science is science fiction. sarc/
Perhaps it’s a parody, but thanks to cAGW nowadays there is no way to tell.
A big money climate movie flop should be helpful…… It might scare the entertainment people enough to get them out of the climate science business.
Lots of people have ignored movies this summer for two reasons: a) The actors opened their mouths off screen and insulted their fans intelligence, beliefs, military service, America, etc. b) We are tired of leftist drivel written into Hollywood scripts.
Going to a theater has gotten expensive. I can use the money elsewhere and enjoy myself without being insulted. It’s the thing that the NFL doesn’t get, either. If you want my money quit politicizing entertainment. I’ve learned to spend Saturdays and Sundays at the park watching my grandchildren grow up. It has caused me to realize that Hollywood, the NFL, and even the MSM are irrelevant to me now. I hope they have to drain the Hollywood cesspool some time soon.
+10
We only go to $5 showings.
The last time my wife picked up a bunch of movies at Walmart or BJ’s or wherever, I was going to complain about the unnecessary cost. Then I got to thinking, each DVD was less than the cost of two adult tickets. With two boys in tow, plus candy and soda, a night out can run you the high to very high side of $50. Luckily, I managed to keep my mouth shut.
They know not what they do!
This flick will assist with AGW industry demise.
Puts all the rubbish in the one make-believe basket.
I preferred the Core- No one knows what is the centre of the Earth- geophysics is not as amazing as it made out to be- it assumes what you trying to find out- nothing has gone there/mining has barely scratched the Earth’s surface. The limits of geophysics are why there are test wells in petroleum exploration.
Scripted by Griff and starring him???
Griff can’t script anything as well thought out as this movie. In any case, he would have copied someone else’s work.
When you try center an action movie around political messages, it doesn’t go well. Look at Social Justice Wars.. I mean Star Wars 😀
Writing for movies these days is awful. A well written dialogue between to good characters is infinitely better than an 20 hours of CGI effects.
Hollywood movies these days leaves nothing to the imagination, they try put it all out there.
Technology has in part ruined science, and has also ruined movies.
We are letting computers be the primary provider in science and movies, instead of the human mind, and therein lies the problem, computers have no creativity, no logic (outside of the box).
Mathematics replacing thought and physics.
Ugh UGH!
After four years of brainstorming special effects for +1 F heatwave and inch-tsunami, I’m betting they included them all in the trailer.
“A well written dialogue between to good characters is infinitely better than an 20 hours of CGI effects.” – That’s a very good point and it is very true. If it were not so, we might be asking ‘Shakespeare? Who?'” Instead, it’s “Oh, that this too, too solid flesh would melt….”
+1
Not a popular subject, then! No surprise there – they should have checked with WUWT before investing / wasting their money.
It’s more like megadisaster movies are SOOOOO overdone now that the genre is just not holding up very well. Algore’s latest attempt to scare us was a complete floppy.
It’s much more interesting to people to go to a movie like “300” or ‘Spartacus’ or ‘Gettysburg’ because they can dress up in costumes and go to re-enactments or Renaissance Faires. The comparison is that the Lord of the Rings trilogy cost $281 million to produce and the box office take was $2.917 billion, not including the current income total from DVD sets. The production cost of the movie “Excalibur” was $11 million and the box office take was $35 million.
This very stupid movie is already losing money and cost almost as much to produce as the LOTR series, but has barely passed the income for “Excalibur”. That should tell you something about what people really want to see. And the real judge is the bottom line: cost versus income, which comes from the viewing audience.
Movies of this type always fail, and doom storms are so 00s. Sharknado is better than this
Calling Mel Brooks!
Calling Mel Brooks!
Screen play needed, could you make this comedic disaster movie into a musical?
Bring on the dancing tornadoes…
Set to Wagnerian music.
Absolutely!
“Entry Of The Gods Into Valhalla” redone as ‘Entry of the Climate Scientists into Subsidy Heaven’. But the overall themes to the music from Richard Strauss’s ‘Tod und Verklärung’ mixed with Hector Berlioz’s ‘Te Deum’ but with a doubling or orchester/choir/organ (See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Te_Deum_%28Berlioz%29 ).
And the whole darn stage-play/musical spread over a 28 day cycle.
As reviewed by Mark Kermode(film critic)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05khm6n
“i could feel myself getting dumber as I watched the film”
“It takes stupid to a whole new level”
A clip from the film – “Its’s worse than we thought”
LMAOOOOOOOO
Numb to the doom.
Ecocatastrophe is now officially too boring.
Watch out for hordes of barbaric Islamists throat cutting their way across the burbs…
Or I-phones containing deadly killer sonic attack malware. (whatsapp?).
Oh, you’ve been to Cuba, then? How about a movie about someone coming back from Cuba with a bout of turista that has no biological origin? Happening now. It would be a lot more interesting watching the Castros say ‘nothing to do with us’ while they imprison the Russians who promised them it would work.
It did work. For the Castro brothers.
Shhh Mark W, dont diss Trudeau’s dad
Justin and dad
http://www.theamericanmirror.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Trudeau-Castro-crop.jpg
Justin’s prolific groupy mom with Fidel, Daddy
So you know why Canada is going down the ….er
Communism
I was thinking that the most ridiculous film of this sort of over dramatic genre I had ever seen was ‘Independence day’. Then I saw it had the same producer as this one.
Can’t wait to see it for free on television in a couple of years time in order to see if it is as over the top as its predecessor.
tonyb
Hey, wait a minute! Independence Day was just pure fun! Get out of your cardboard box once in a while and get into the shoot-shoot-bang-bang against the alien hordes thingie.
After all, the “wow” message has turned out to be comets in the hydrogen transmission spectrum, so there wasn’t any alien ship watching us. If you want over the top, dig up Orson Welles’s radio play broadcast of ‘War of the Worlds’ on October 31, 1938. It didn’t scare everyone but did give the heebie-jeebies to a lot of people who didn’t catch the opening sequence.
it can be fun AND ridiculous can’t it? Just see any of Al Goes films…. 🙂
tonyb
No, thank you, tonby. I want to keep my brains intact.
I suppose that Algore’s promise to bore us to death isn’t advertised, but it’s part of that package. I’d rather have to fight off those giant alien cockroaches on LV247.
Just roll a couple of canisters of CN20 into the nest.
The math may be that they gross only $40 million (with foreign sales) meaning they’ll lose $80 million. One of the few feel good facts about the Hollywood cesspool that has emerged recently.
And how about how they steal scenes for old movies. I think that scene from Independence day in NYC has been repeated in nearly every disaster movie and they likely stole it from some older flick.