“After an unprecedented series of natural disasters threatened the planet, the world’s leaders come together to create an intricate network of satellites to control the global climate and keep everyone safe.” So goes the studio description of the movie, Geostorm, which opened in theaters on October 20, 2017.
Depending on where you live, the aftermath of forest fires, hurricanes, tornados, cyclones, earthquakes, floods, and/or volcanic eruptions may make it difficult for you to get to the theatre. If so watch one of the Geostorm trailers. This will give you enough information on this film to make your decision that you can skip this one.
Geostorm is for men. It celebrates the bond between two brothers, the bond between a father and his daughter and the bond between men and things being blown up and otherwise destroyed.
A man wanting to make a trip to their local mall to see a movie has a choice between films that focus on things blowing up, grotesque horror or people acting stupidly. That’s about it.
If you are a man that wants to take a break from the cinema of comic book characters destroying and preventing destruction and soldiers doing the same, you can consider going to see Geostorm. Here scientists, computer hackers, and deep state politicians get their turn. Their terrible plaything is global weather patterns.
If your home has burned to ashes and the trees around it didn’t like in California. If your car melted where it was parked and the surrounded land looks pretty good like in Portugal. If you are still without electrical power in Puerto Rico. Still without food or rain in the Sudan. Wondering where all of the people who lost their housing in Huston went. Wondering why all of the barbed wire at the closed Walmart store near you.You may want to go and see Geostorm for some diversion.
Nothing bad in the way of weather has hit me yet. I drove to see Geostorm under a typical chemical aerosol sprayed sky. I looked forward to some low-cost entertainment of the visual kind. I thought about, if men were so visual why do so many don’t look up in the sky and notice things peculiar.
I live in an area that thirty-some years ago had a big IBM plant. Now it has lots of restaurants and art galleries. Many are located in long-abandoned factory buildings. Recently it was announced by the Governor that an area municipality would be getting a ten million dollar grant to shore up the local economy. The money was going for improvements to support the restaurants and art galleries, including housing within walking distance.
Traffic wasn’t too bad. There was the usual parade of SUV’s, pick-up trucks and sports cars, most of them probably not yet paid for in keeping with the number one focus of commerce – credit. People typically buy credit along with their purchase. Some purchases will be sold and resold and resold again along with credit, often in amounts much greater than the item purchased. This system makes no sense for those in it. Those in the know, know that many will be devastated by “corrections” soon to come, but chose not to think about it much. I know I don’t.
I take out my credit card and get my ticket. I stop in the men’s room to check out the latest in urinal interior design. Today we have a translucent lime green disc with slots. Urine splashback is minimal.
On the way out I see what is for sale in the Men’s Room vending machine. There are two types of candy mints, one type of pain reliever and two types of temporary tattoos. I am attending the movie alone so have no need to modify the smell of my breath or impress with tattoos. I didn’t have a headache because I hadn’t seen the movie yet. This was all very good because the vending machine didn’t take credit cards.
I watch the movie. The writing and acting were so bad I decided that I wasn’t going to bother writing about Geostorm. Extreme weather chaos and stuff blowing up graphics were quite good and I imagine even better in the 3D version. So I decided I would write about Geostorm.
I’ve read some are calling Geostorm a candidate for the worst movie costing over 100 million dollars to make so far in 2017. I have no argument there.
I’ve read the studio may pull the movie early from theaters. I can see why but have trouble understanding the economics of the movie industry. There were about ten people in the Saturday matinee showing that I attended. I remember as a boy waiting in long lines to see movies and sometimes being turned away due to the movie house being full. Smaller movie theaters waited for bigger theaters to pass along the precious film. If a movie was popular, it got “held over” and the smaller venues just had to wait.
It is not like that anymore. I wonder if movies get supported by people besides theatre goers, smaller screen patrons, and bankers. I wonder if certain Cabal members and space aliens invest in convincing people that things like massive geoengineering only happens in science fiction.
I am convinced that in the USA at least more time is spent looking at screens than is looking at the sky. The weather is still a popular subject for conversations, but only in the context of whether or not you should bring your umbrella to work tomorrow.
It used to be men were primarily responsible for keeping an eye on the sky in order to be able to warn people about what was to come or when to plant seeds. Not so much anymore.
Now men use things like HARRP, Operation Solar Shield and other plots we don’t know the name of, for geo-engineering beyond most peoples wildest imagination.
In Geostorm, our science fiction heroes figure out who is messing with the systems that control the weather. It doesn’t take much to figure out highly sophisticated real weather controlling technology has been around at least since there was talk of “seeding” clouds. Nowadays there is probably no destructive weather that used to occur naturally that hasn’t been weaponized for fun and profit. It is the who that it is doing it and why that is more of a mystery. My guess is that whoever it is, they are at war with each other and nobody is winning, except those who are in it for the chaos.
The hero I hope for to clean up the real-life messes that the new weather is making, probably doesn’t look like a group of men. No, something bigger than that and may it come soon.
In the meantime, the forecast calls for clouds, but no rain today. Maybe I’ll go for a walk.
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