Greenland - Leonidas vs Deep Impact

https://youtu.be/vz-gdEL_ae8

Will it be as turn-your-brain-off fun as 2012? We can only hope.

I am so in.

So an abridged Lucifer’s Hammer?

I almost got a Melancholia vibe there for a minute, but I guess this is going in a different direction?

Just watched it. Its definitely not a Geostorm like dumb action movie. Similar to Deep Impact with lots of screaming people. Its portrayal of human anarchy seems pretty realistic…

Can’t say its a great film, but it was diverting for evening. The pandemic is pretty horrible, but at least its not wiping out 99% of the planet!

I really enjoyed Deep Impact, so I’m tempted by this. Especially since it’s getting good reviews.

I saw this about two months ago. Yeah, I’d say it’s a serviceable disaster movie, but watchable. Nothing groundbreaking, mostly by the numbers. It’s more grounded than let’s say Geostorm and the tone of it is pretty much comparable to Deep Impact. Unlike your usual Emmerich movie or Armageddon, there’s no attempt to add levity with comic relief/stereotype characters.

This movie is wildly implausible. At a certain point, Gerard Butler says he weighs 180 pounds and the person he says it to believes him. As if.

-Tom

Fat shaming, Tom. That’s not like you. :)

I mean, the dude does have an admitted eating disorder…

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Gerard is NOT fat. He’s a burly 6’2" Scotsman. And one hell of a loveable one at that! But if he tried to get on my overloaded plane and he told me he only weighed 180, I’d laugh in his face. Even 300 Gerard.

-Tom

Woof, this looks like a dumb movie to watch when I’m home on my own, but I have 2 young kids now and don’t know if I can watch these Family in Peril movies.

I’ll stick with Godzilla: King of the Monsters which was so egregiously stupid my brain leaped out of my mouth to strangle me while watching. Can’t get messed up by Family Peril when every character is terrible!

Heads up Mr 8man. This is coming to HBO tonight (and therefore HBO Max).

I actually loved this movie - definitely the best of the many Asteroid/Comet/Meteor movies, although they’re all generally awful. The family stuff is still terrible, and it gets increasingly contrived, but the disaster porn stuff and just general imagery is engaging

For sure. I’ve always just wanted Lucifer’s Hammer, and this movie does incorporate elements of that movie, particularly the beginning - which really could be the exact same story from a different viewpoint than depicted in the novel.

Considering the scope of the book it would probably turn out badly. Like a movie version of The Mote in God’s Eye. No way to really do it justice.

Not to be the “actually” guy, but the dude he says that to does not in fact believe him. His response is an exasperated look and “Come on, man!” Gerard then says he’s 220. You may have missed it because it happens during a lot of yelling and plane prop noise.

I think I sorta liked this. Not loved, but liked. It’s definitely more Deep Impact than Armageddon in that Gerard just plays a normal dude and doesn’t do anything crazy action-movie heroic. I think the closest he comes to doing something out of a typical Roland Emmerich movie is when he runs over to a burning car during a fiery meteor shower and kicks a window in to pull an unconscious guy out. Oh, and I suppose navigating a lot of bureaucracy is cool, too.

I have no idea why they had their marriage in trouble to begin with. It’s such a cliche, and it basically was dusted over in the movie.

It’s not as if trying to save your family from extinction isn’t dramatic enough.

I also rolled my eyes at this point:

“It’s nine hours to Canada and six hours to Greenland. We can make it, but we have to go now!”

Wife nods.

Next scene. Wife gives kid a bath and Gerard Butler hangs out with Grandad as they get things off their chest.

The family drama was terrible, and that includes the whole thing with the diabetic kid.