TIL there’s a GREENLAND movie starring Gerard Butler.
It’s actually pretty good. Not amazing, but good.
My opinion: The first two acts had some amazing palpable tension as you wait for the world to end. A really engaging depiction of people and society leading up to, and during the end of everything.
The last act is a somewhat typical telling of the main characters trying to survive everything. Important to the story, but nothing that keeps you on edge.
I think that’s a fair assessment. I remember interviewing the director for my old job and it seemed like he was mostly focused on the world-building piece.
I believe I read that it was something like a darker more violent and less hopeful version of Deep Impact.
Assuming there really is a movie franchise named GREENLAND, why would they show it in cinemas in the US but not in Canada?
Yes, there really is a movie called “Greenland 2: Migration” releasing in US theaters this Friday.
And the reason it’s not getting a theatrical release in Canada is because of Canadian politics involving Trump. Read more here.
I’m aware of the political situation.
I chose to read this archived version of above article and it does not mention the movie at all afaics.
I assume because Canadian consumers are less likely to support an American movie by that title just now, and it just isn’t worth opening a fairly small movie in theaters if nobody is going to go.
Reminds me of the Tim Allen movie after 911 that had to reshoot the ending because it involved a plane crashing into buildings.
There was also Lilo & Stitch that has that whole sequence that needed to be redrawn with a spaceship-over-rural theme instead of a plane-over-urban theme.
Interesting. I listen to a podcast that debunks Alex Jones’ podcast, and so I know that the imagery of a big plane crashing into a skyscraper predates 9/11 by years.
Also, the guy with the ice cream was a nice detail in that movie.
“Counter-podcast podcast” is a hell of a mood
It’s the only way I can digest various nutjobs’ content.
Do you mean Big Trouble? It wasn’t reshot and didn’t have a plane crashing into buildings. It was just delayed because it was originally going to release on September 21, 2001 and they thought showing people smuggling a bomb onto an airplane would be a little unpalatable 10 days after 9/11.
Great movie though. If you want to see what airport security was like just before 9/11, this is probably the last depiction of it.
Genuinely thought I was the only one who remembered that movie prior to this thread.
That movie being so kicked around post-9/11 was a shame. I thought it was a perfectly charming little flick with a great cast. The book was much better but who knows how much the reshoots contributed to that?
This wasn’t a shit post?
