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By Jonathan Klotz
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A really bad movie is a work of art, like Scheme 9 From Outer Space or ManosMovies that are so bad watching them is considered an experience that every cinephile must experience at least once. You can’t fully appreciate great movies without knowing how bad things can go when a director’s vision exceeds his budget. The greatest modern example of these films is Geostormthe nonsensical sci-fi disaster movie with Gerard Butler that makes no sense when you explain and even less when you try to watch it, but has become an ironic cult classic.
Gerard Butler, Scientist
For starters, Butler plays Jake Lawson, a satellite designer whose name might as well be “Good guy,” who returns to the project he started three years earlier to find out what’s going wrong. with a weather system. – control of satellites. Satellites can freeze a village in the desert and unleash fire tornadoes in Hong Kong in a sequence that sounds like it should look awesome but comes off as a screensaver. Even the mystery of what happens in it Geostorm hardly interesting on the surface level, with Jake immediately suspecting that a member of the satellite crew is a traitor.
It’s fine, of course, and as you watch Geostormyou’ll learn that Jake is never wrong, right down to identifying the exact key US official responsible for the whole mess. In a testament to how bad the movie is, in the best way possible, you can even break the plot by looking at the cast list. That and the solution to a rogue satellite network is to knock the satellites out of orbit by using other satellites as weapons, and at least that looks as ridiculous as it sounds.
Geostorm is a film that moves a mile a minute, with something happening all the time, and yet, thanks to some of the worst dialogue of the modern era and a mind-bogglingly inconsistent pace, it also feels like nothing is happening. When the geostorm finally hits, in bland scenes of mass destruction that have less weight to them than the characters orbiting the plant in zero gravity. And yet, you need to see this film to fully understand how amazingly evil the whole project was.
The Best B Movie In Years
The cast is stacked, from Butler to the ever-underrated Abbie Cornish, Ed Harris, Andy Garcia, Mare Winningham, Zazie Beetz, and Into the Badlands’ star Daniel Wu. Behind the camera, Dean Devlin, the man behind the fun adventure shows The Librarians a Leverage is making his directorial debut, and he’s trying really hard. In fact, you can tell that everyone is giving it their all Geostormby chewing the scenery and delivering the most lifeless technobabble with a straight face, it’s that passion and visual effort that makes this a true B-movie classic.
Geostorm is the most boring sci-fi disaster movie ever made, and in a way, it’s also the best because it’s so big, so gross, and tries so hard. There are better movies out there, thousands of them, maybe a million, but very few movies hit that sweet spot that makes for the perfect viewing with friends as you all shout at the screen. You should never, ever watch this movie alone because then the horror hits you full on, but with friends doing your best Mystery Science Theater, this is the best movie of the last ten years .
best of all, Geostorm now streaming on Tubi, so you don’t even have to pay to watch it.
