2020 Directed by Ric Roman Waugh
John Garrity, his estranged wife and their young son embark on a perilous journey to find sanctuary as a planet-killing comet hurtles toward Earth. Amid terrifying accounts of cities getting levelled, the Garrity's experience the best and worst in humanity. As the countdown to the global apocalypse approaches zero, their incredible trek culminates in a desperate and last-minute flight to a possible safe haven.
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Deepak Nayar Carsten H.W. Lorenz Robert Simonds Danielle Robinson Nik Bower John Friedberg Adam Fogelson Jonathan Fuhrman John Zois Francois Callens Brendon Boyea
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I have to admit, considering how low my expectations were for a Gerard Butler's end-of-the-world movie going in, GREENLAND definitely exceeded my expectations and boy was i surprised. Despite following some disaster movie cliches, this is a cut above most in this genre. A solid, well-directed & gripping movie, that manages to wring out a lot of tension and exhilarating bleakness from a very familiar premise. It's really grounded & subdued, focused more on characters rather than CGI spectacle, basically the antithesis of what the disaster genre has become. Even the performances are not caricature-ish or over-the-top, they feel very grounded with Gerard Butler giving one of his finest performances in years.
After the hellscape of a year that was 2020, it stands to reason that a disaster movie about a regular guy and his family trying to stay alive as the world goes to shit around them would feel redundant and/or too close to home. Either way, it seems like something that wouldn’t be worth paying for when you can get the real thing for free by looking at your window, turning on the TV, or — and this one is extra fun — just thinking about literally any single aspect of your life as it’s been since March.
And yet it’s precisely because Ric Roman Waugh’s mid-budget “Greenland” eschews Hollywood expectations of its “craggy man vs. a planet-destroying comet” premise…
Frequently silly, of course, but also not-infrequently tense, and surprisingly relatively downbeat. Think the DTV not-too-much-money-for-disaster-VFX version of Spielberg's WAR OF THE WORLDS and you're sort of getting there. Given our current predicament (as of this writing) here in the US, with, what, a third-and-possibly-worst-yet wave of Covid coming on, are you up for a quarantine stream of a movie about impending infrastructural collapse and mass hysteria, rah-rah first-responder heroism, and family? I don't fuckin know. But no matter what this is entirely worth it because Gerry Butler chugs an entire glass of water in it. For the fans.
Maybe I shouldn’t watch end-of-the-world films in 2020 because the reality is much worse… Greenland is about a detached couple, their son, and their chaotic journey in making it to the underground bunker in Greenland, as the world once again gets a factory reset by a dinosaur-killing asteroid. I think I am so tired of the current events and seen so many apocalyptic films that the ‘end of the world due to an asteroid’ concept didn’t work for me as much as I’d hope it to be; like how did no one notice the asteroids months in advance is beyond me, and knowing United States, they would’ve nuked that space object to pieces. But the film redeemed itself with a…
“Why did only John’s phone get it?”
What a beautiful, emotional, frenzy filled ride. Greenland is one of the greatest films I’ve seen in 2020. It’s an epic, I haven’t experienced a film like this in a while. I was consistently at the edge of my seat and prepared to see it all come to an unfortunate bleak end. Everything about this film, from the plot to the characters and visuals. It’s akin to 2012 (2009), Armageddon (1998), The Core (2003), Deep Impact (1998), The Day After Tomorrow (2004), Knowing (2009), and more. Films I can’t get enough of.
Chris Evans was originally set to star in this film & honestly I’m very sad that it didn’t come to fruition. However, I’m…
Authentically upsetting at times and surprisingly even-tempered as natural disaster/Gerard Butler movies go. Not exactly a balm at the end of a frightening year, but it’s solid, mid-shelf pseudo-Roland Emmerich. Garbage Crime veteran Ric Roman Waugh seems to be escalating toward movies that are both more somber and more bombastic than his Snitch roots. Still, Butler kills a guy by lodging the sharp end of a hammer through the skull. So it’s still a Gerard Butler movie. Not quite Garb Crime given the comet and all, though CR and I have been brainstorming on the sci-fi equivalent for a future episode and this is in range.
I thought I was watching Geostorm and it took over an hour for me to realize that it was the OTHER Gerard Butler doomsday movie
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A new disaster movie in 2020. What could go wrong?
Greenland is Gerard Butler's newest attempt at creating a disaster movie after the flop of 2017's "Geostorm". Directed by Ric Roman Waugh and staring the aforementioned Gerard Butler, Morena Baccarin and Roger Dale Floyd, the story follows a family's struggle for survival in the face of a cataclysmic natural disaster that threatens to end all life on Earth...so basically it's similar to every other disaster movie. You get the gist.
In the last few years Gerard Butler has sadly become a synonym for a movie flop. There has rarely been a movie in the last five years with Butler in it that wasn't either bad or completely…
Disaster films use the same template of course,
With a couple on the verge of divorce.
And usually still,
A child that's ill,
With looting and traffic that's hard to enforce.
