Gerard Butler and Abbie Cornish in Geostorm

[Kane52630]

I was thinking as I watched the trailer that it looked like a Roland Emmerich movie, then I saw who was directing.....close enough.

I was about to say the same thing.


Shame though, I wish Abbie Cornish picked better projects.

 

[nite-owl]

It looks like they combined the plot of two different movies.

 

[Pickleweasel]

Can't wait to see how big of a disaster this is going to be

 

[KaijuDude1992]

I'm all for a big, dumb fun disaster movie, but this just looks like a mashup of The Day After Tomorrow and Into the Storm. I wasn't much of a fan of the latter either and the same problem I had with that movie seems to be plaguing this one as well. The special effects, especially on the tornadoes and the tidal wave at the end looks really crappy/dated.

 

[StarLord]

I've been waiting for a movie where the world gets torn apart by 90s CG weather.

 

[dude stannis]

This movie looks beyond stupid as ****. Can't wait to see it.

 

[Hunter Rider]

I was about to say the same thing.


Shame though, I wish Abbie Cornish picked better projects.

I remember Abbie Cornish was invlved with awards type stuff when she first came on the scene.

 

[Blitzkrieg]

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[Symbiotic]

I do think it's an interesting angle to have it caused by someone intentionally sabotaging the satellites.

 

[Kane52630]

Which is kinda the same plot from the last XXX movie. lol

 

[Rowsdower!]

Didn't Sean Connery do something like that in that old Avengers movie too? I know it was something about him controlling the weather.

Anyway, this looks like crap. I'm pretty sure Butler and Garcia are just cashing paychecks at this point. Neither of them look like they are even trying. Sturgess and Cornish look like they're giving it their all; maybe I'd be more interested if they were the main protagonists, but I'm sure the majority of the film will be Butler running around grunting and fighting people while dodging giant hailstones or whatever.

At this point, I'm beginning to think movie studios are actively trying to outstupid each other. We've already had Alien Covenant and Transformers: The Last Knight, so we need something even dumber than both to top them.

 

[Blitzkrieg]

^^ Scott answered it for ya

https://www.forbes.com/sites/scottmendelson/2017/07/06/geostorm-trailer-dont-tell-my-wife-im-as-excited-for-this-as-she-is/#3f04457a108e

Dean Devlin’s Geostorm (not to be confused with Geo Storm, which is a compact automobile) concerns a malfunctioning climate control satellite that creates a deluge of varied disasters and storms. So, it’s a movie version of when you used to play Sim City and randomly crashed planes, caused floods or set Godzilla (or King Koopa) loose on your populace. Try as I might, I could never get the nuclear power plants to melt down by crashing a plane right over one.

It’s also akin to Warner Bros./Time Warner Inc.’s infamous 1998 flop The Avengers (no, not THAT Avengers) where Ralph Fiennes and Uma Thurman had to stop Sean Connery from blackmailing the world by creating manmade weather disasters. That film only had so much time/money to show off the ecological carnage (since it was an action comedy focused on the secret agents and not the supervillain), but this film seems to go all in on the, to quote the MPAA classification of Twister, intense depiction of very bad weather.

This time out, it’s up to Gerard Butler to save our world from huge tornadoes, horrific tsunamis and giant snowballs (sadly not thrown by giant snowmen). Jokes aside, this looks like an old-school B-movie good time, existing in that weird place of both being disreputable and the kind of pure cinema that Martin Scorsese’s Hugo celebrates.

And as much as I tease my wife for her love of this kind of thing, it does give me an alibi to indulge. Heck, my first-ever quote on a DVD box was for SyFy Channel’s classic Mega Piranha (truly The Dark Knight of their trashy monster movies and so much better than any of the Sharknado movies). So as much as I look forward to the stupid grin on my wife’s face when she watches this trailer later today, I’d be lying if I wasn’t psyched to watch Gerald Butler save the world from giant snowballs and other related catastrophes. Butler spends his time in space while Abbie Cornish apparently gets President Andy Garcia to safety.

Yes, I know about the copious reshoots and Jerry Bruckheimer being brought to steer the ship. But my only concern on that score is just how much they are adding to a big-budget movie for a film that was never going to be an artistic masterpiece in the first place. It’s harder than ever for an original, non-IP picture to succeed around the world, and Butler is a name without necessarily being a huge draw. So anything that makes Geostorm a more expensive and thus riskier proposition is, well, a risk.

 

[Blitzkrieg]

Anyway, I love me some destruction porn and this will deliver on that front. Some of the CGI is wonky and it'll not improve but the depictions of the disasters look epic AF. I don't give a damn about the plot, just blow all kinds of s**t up and I'm there.

 

[Lencho01]

Looks just as silly as I thought it would after reading the short synopsis.

 

[Rowsdower!]

LOL, thanks... yeah, I knew it was something like that.

Anyway, I do enjoy destruction porn but I feel like I've already seen this movie with The Day After Tomorrow and 2012. Both of those movies totally sucked but at least they had lead actors with more charisma than Butler.


Also, someone should do a Funny or Die video called GEO STORM, and have it be about a sh**ty little wannabe sports car from the nineties that is somehow causing gigantic natural disasters.

 

[Frankeh]

OH MY GOD.

It looks so **** absurd it might be entertaining.

 

[StarLord]

I hope the weather is a character itself and has a voice like Tony Todd.

 

[Fallen Angel]

This looks so bad but I'm here for the destruction. Gerard Butler still get's work is a mystery but good on ya brother.

 

[Hunter Rider]

[YT]EuOlYPSEzSc[/YT]

Is it me or does this trailer make the film seem a lot more tounge in cheek than the first one? and has Melissa George replaced Abbie Cornish?

 

[harlequinade]

Is it me or does this trailer make the film seem a lot more tounge in cheek than the first one? and has Melissa George replaced Abbie Cornish?

Yeah they are going for 'fun' angle more now which is smart given how horrendously stupid the premise is

 

[Blitzkrieg]

Is it me or does this trailer make the film seem a lot more tounge in cheek than the first one? and has Melissa George replaced Abbie Cornish?

There does seem to be a self aware, wink wink nature to this trailer. I think it's for the best. This is gonna be absurd fun.

 

[Filmfan93]

This looks hilarious

And what is going on this year? Hopkins in Transformers, Harris in this.

Paychecks I guess...

 

[hopeless]

Makes me wonder what if they stole the tech then claimed the credit when they successfully tested a practical model only there's a serious design flaw.
The true inventor is trying to get them to shut the program down, but this whole business of assassinating the president is to implicate the inventor in deliberately sabotaging the satellites when she's actually trying to slowly shut down the program before it fails dramatically causing all that dramatic environmental damage as the planet's weather reverts back to normal.
But that would mean blowing up the satellites would be incredibly bad!

 

[Hunter Rider]

Yeah they are going for 'fun' angle more now which is smart given how horrendously stupid the premise is

There does seem to be a self aware, wink wink nature to this trailer. I think it's for the best. This is gonna be absurd fun.

Yeah I agree, leaning into the ludicrousness is the way to go.

 

[Blitzkrieg]

Yeah I agree, leaning into the ludicrousness is the way to go.

Yup. If you plan on doing it then just commit to the the cause. Go full schlocky entertainment.