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The movie succeeds by adopting a less-is-more approach, which allows more room for both realistic science and realistic drama. The object from space doesn't seem hellbent in targeting international tourist attractions: No well-aimed fragment strategically takes out the Eiffel Tower or the Statue of Liberty. Making the object an interstellar comet also offers at least a fig-leaf of plausibility about why scientists have so little advance warning that the object is incoming, and so much difficulty predicting its exact path. (Earth may in fact have been hit by small interstellar meteors in the recent past.) There is a refreshing lack of techno-babble about nonsensical save-the-world schemes. And the film's focus on the mounting dread of those trying to survive feels true to our pandemic-informed moment. | ||||||||
| cspg | Seen Deep Impact? Nothing new under the Sun, same old idiotic let's-blow-everything-into-pieces, but the family survives, type of movies. I'll pass. | |||||||
| Robert Pearlman | My first reaction was along the same lines — oh no, not another impact film. But "Deep Impact" was more than 20 years ago. A lot has changed since then, including what the public understands about near-Earth objects and how films like this are made. I haven't seen "Greenland" yet, but dismissing it outright because other movies in the same genre were made two decades ago seems a tad unfair. | |||||||
| mode1charlie | I'm in! | |||||||
| Robert Pearlman | The cast of "Greenland" includes Scott Glenn, who played Alan Shepard in the 1983 film "The Right Stuff." He recalls being cast for that role and his interactions with the real astronaut in this video, which reviews his career up to and through "Greenland." | |||||||
| Blackarrow | I'll watch anything about Greenland, having spent a number of spectacular walking and dog-sledging holidays there, but I can't help wondering if scenes showing Greenland were actually filmed in Alaska. | |||||||
| Robert Pearlman | Most of the filming was done in and around Atlanta, Georgia, but according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Iceland was used for Greenland in a few scenes since that country has a more developed base of film crews. | |||||||
| Blackarrow | Yes of course! The famous glaciers of Georgia. | |||||||
| p51 | I'm just a little tired of apocalypse movies in general, especially right now...
quote: I've never understood why there seems to be some unwritten law in Hollywood that you cannot film a movie where it takes place. Yeah, there are tax breaks and such for some places, but I've read where movies would have bene cheaper to film where they take place but the production takes up shop somewhere else for the heck of it. It gets really silly sometimes. My Dad was a background extra (with a short speaking role, which is hilarious as he's such an introvert and was asked to do the scene) in the film, "Something Wild," with Ray Liotta. They filmed most of the movie in North Florida, standing in for New York to Virginia, and not looking like any of these places. | |||||||
| oly | quote:Many times it is because approvals and permits to film in locations cannot be gained, or logistically it is impossible to do. Imagine if every film set in New York streets were filmed on location, the streets would always be closed for filming. | |||||||
| Larry McGlynn | Oh Thank God, Gerard Butler saves the world again. In the spirit of the Christmas season are there any Christmas movies out there with Gerard Butler or Kanue Reeves? I would love to see a "John Wick Christmas" or maybe "Christmas has Fallen." | |||||||
| 328KF | This is where collectSPACE needs a 👍🏻 or 😆 option to click. That said, without going into an in-depth review, I watched the film with my family and enjoyed it. | |||||||
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