Geostorm full movie5/31/2023 ![]() It’s a disaster movie far too ridiculous to generate any real gravitas, but it’s also just glum enough to suck any fun out of watching the beaches of Rio de Janeiro freeze over in an instant. Geostorm finds itself in the curious position of simultaneously taking itself too seriously and not enough so. To take it too seriously is to misunderstand the foundation on which it’s built, one of optimism pitted against the fetishistic joy of watching an unseen, unforgiving god of destruction lay waste to so many global cities like a kid demolishing a LEGO metropolis at the end of the day. It’s hard to deliver an unironically enjoyable disaster movie to consider the gravity of the destruction caused is to cast a pall over what’s supposed to be a genre that allows for escapist tales of survival against impossible odds, at its best. ![]() Far more often, you get the incidental absurdity of vehicles like San Andreasor 2012 or any number of disaster “classics” going back to The Towering Inferno and other luminaries of the early era. Every so often, you get an Independence Day, a film which uses the cinematic language of bombast to speak to something oddly poignant about the power of unity. ![]() ![]() Even within the pantheon of American disaster movies, there are films which elevate the genre and there are films that confirm the worst suspicions of skeptics.
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