Posts: 4731 From: Sierra Vista, Arizona Registered: Nov 1999
posted 12-22-2020 09:12 AM
This looks like fun:
A family fights for survival as a planet-killing comet races to Earth. John Garrity (Gerard Butler), his estranged wife Allison (Morena Baccarin), and young son Nathan make a perilous journey to their only hope for sanctuary.
Amid terrifying news accounts of cities around the world being leveled by the comet’s fragments, the Garrity's experience the best and worst in humanity while they battle the increasing panic and lawlessness surrounding them. As the countdown to global apocalypse approaches zero, their incredible trek culminates in a desperate and last-minute flight to a possible safe haven.
In "Greenland," the space-impact disaster movie gets a makeover in response to new science and new social realities...
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 Member
Posts: 6239 From: Geneva, Switzerland Registered: May 2006
posted 12-22-2020 09:35 AM
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 Editor
Posts: 45310 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
posted 12-22-2020 10:10 AM
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 Member
Posts: 1229 From: Honolulu, HI Registered: Sep 2010
posted 12-22-2020 02:05 PM
I'm in!
Robert Pearlman Editor
Posts: 45310 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
posted 12-22-2020 03:13 PM
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 Member
Posts: 3243 From: Belfast, United Kingdom Registered: Feb 2002
posted 12-22-2020 09:48 PM
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 Editor
Posts: 45310 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
posted 12-22-2020 10:04 PM
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 Member
Posts: 3243 From: Belfast, United Kingdom Registered: Feb 2002
posted 12-23-2020 08:44 PM
Yes of course! The famous glaciers of Georgia.
p51 Member
Posts: 1697 From: Olympia, WA Registered: Sep 2011
posted 12-24-2020 11:39 AM
I'm just a little tired of apocalypse movies in general, especially right now...
quote:Originally posted by Blackarrow: Yes of course! The famous glaciers of Georgia.
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 Member
Posts: 1126 From: Perth, Western Australia Registered: Apr 2015
posted 12-24-2020 05:29 PM
quote:Originally posted by p51: I've never understood why there seems to be some unwritten law in Hollywood that you cannot film a movie where it takes place.
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 Member
Posts: 1311 From: Boston, MA Registered: Jul 2003
posted 12-24-2020 05:59 PM
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 Member
Posts: 1295 From: Registered: Apr 2008
posted 12-24-2020 06:49 PM
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.
posted 12-22-2020 09:12 AM
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