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Greenland - A Gerard Butler Disaster Movie

  • 31-03-2020 10:18pm
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 61,252 ✭✭✭✭




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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,077 ✭✭✭Mr Crispy


    That's why Trump feckin' wanted to buy it. :mad:


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,558 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dades


    Oh, I love a good Gerry Butler blow em up!

    Hopefully this might see an early home release.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,501 ✭✭✭✭Slydice


    I'm guessing they might be thinking of postingponing it cos it seems to have been taken down from it's offiical channel

    just in time for it to have been copied and uploaded onto almost all the other trailer channels..



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,673 ✭✭✭✭MJohnston


    It came for the Brits anyway:
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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,545 ✭✭✭tunguska


    After watching den of thieves I've now found myself becoming a fan of Gerard butler. So I'm in....


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,501 ✭✭✭✭Slydice


    Both trailer links dead. I've googled 'greenland trailer removed' and this article with it's trailer came up tops:
    https://www.firstshowing.net/2020/first-trailer-for-comet-apocalypse-movie-greenland-with-gerard-butler/
    Trailer has been removed at the request of the studio. Sorry folks.

    So guessing it's the studio changing the release date. Just checked imdb there and they had a lot of countries releasing on 11/12 June so that makes sense:
    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7737786/releaseinfo


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 36,711 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    That's still weird. Why pull the trailers at all, even if the movie is being moved? Don't see the value in that, unless they want part of that sweet algorithm calculation in YouTube.


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,558 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dades


    tunguska wrote: »
    After watching den of thieves I've now found myself becoming a fan of Gerard butler. So I'm in....
    Great movie. Proper gritty.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 88,854 ✭✭✭✭JP Liz V1


    Dades wrote: »
    Oh, I love a good Gerry Butler blow em up!

    Hopefully this might see an early home release.

    Straight to VOD?


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 36,711 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    JP Liz V1 wrote: »
    Straight to VOD?

    Presumably given the desire to scrub the trailer from the internet, the studio has plans to retry a cinematic release later on. Otherwise an early VOD makes the trailer deletion all the more curious.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,843 ✭✭✭✭gmisk


    Gerard Butler's new disaster flick...looks like trashy fun!

    https://youtu.be/1AyxdYP1SNc


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 88,854 ✭✭✭✭JP Liz V1


    gmisk wrote: »
    Gerard Butler's new disaster flick...looks like trashy fun!

    https://youtu.be/1AyxdYP1SNc



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,854 ✭✭✭✭silverharp


    looks fun, but interesting if disaster movies aren't top of people's lists these days?

    A belief in gender identity involves a level of faith as there is nothing tangible to prove its existence which, as something divorced from the physical body, is similar to the idea of a soul. - Colette Colfer



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,501 ✭✭✭✭Slydice


    Scott Glenn! :eek:


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,558 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dades


    silverharp wrote: »
    looks fun, but interesting if disaster movies aren't top of people's lists these days?
    Given the trending of Contagian and Outbreak over the last few months I'd say they are. :p


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,077 ✭✭✭Mr Crispy


    Isn't every Gerard Butler movie a disaster movie?




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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 692 ✭✭✭unhappys10


    Looks alright, plus it has Morena Baccarin, I'm in!


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 36,711 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    Mr Crispy wrote: »
    Isn't every Gerard Butler movie a disaster movie?




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    His is such a weird career: I don't think he's a bad actor, but either by accident or design seems to have carved a very distinct niche for himself. The goto lead for those B-movies that aren't quite trash enough to summon Nicholas Cage onto set, but equally not big enough for a ubiquitous release. Least that's now it feels. He has done all right for himself mind you, not bad for a guy from Paisley.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 61,252 ✭✭✭✭Agent Coulson


    Hit's VOD on October 13th.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,063 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    A comet named Clarke? Maybe that's supposed to be a Rendezvous With Rama reference, I don't know ...

    Rated PG-13: "Intense sequences of disaster action, some violence, bloody images and brief strong language". Isn't Gerard Butler from the Glasgow area? With the Earth getting grated like an onion, we should be expecting prolonged episodes of strong language. :eek:

    You are the type of what the age is searching for, and what it is afraid it has found. I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

    ―Oscar Wilde predicting Social Media, in The Picture of Dorian Gray



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 61,252 ✭✭✭✭Agent Coulson


    It has been moved again now it's down to be on VOD on December 18th.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,854 ✭✭✭✭silverharp


    Dades wrote: »
    Given the trending of Contagian and Outbreak over the last few months I'd say they are. :p

    a bit late in the reply here, but those movies are found in the documentary section now :pac:

    A belief in gender identity involves a level of faith as there is nothing tangible to prove its existence which, as something divorced from the physical body, is similar to the idea of a soul. - Colette Colfer



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 61,252 ✭✭✭✭Agent Coulson


    A decent end of the world disaster flick with some nice bits of tension.

    Butler is better when it comes to one man army killing machine movies though.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,843 ✭✭✭✭gmisk


    A decent end of the world disaster flick with some nice bits of tension.

    Butler is better when it comes to one man army killing machine movies though.
    I enjoyed it I have to say, cheesy and predictable with the usual tropes. Not half as OTT and stupid as Geostorm or similar. But special effects when used were solid.
    I am glad Butler has seemingly given up on the american accent...it's probably for the best!
    the broken marriage trope....as well as the annoying kid with the insulin thing zzz


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,550 ✭✭✭ShineOn7


    unhappys10 wrote: »
    Looks alright, plus it has Morena Baccarin, I'm in!


    I was on the fence, but that's made up my mind to watch tonight

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    100% on RT so far too. It's only from 6 reviews but still, that's very good for a Disaster popcorn flick


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,550 ✭✭✭ShineOn7


    Absolutely ridiculous with cliché after cliché, it was basically the 2012 movie redux

    I saw it for free and I still want my money back


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,293 ✭✭✭MayoForSam


    Load of auld bunkum. Still, it's watchable and made a nice change from our current existential threat.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,770 ✭✭✭larchielads


    Watched it last nite, have to say i enjoyed it. Luv an aul disaster movie and ones about the end of the world too


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,989 ✭✭✭cdgalwegian


    ShineOn7 wrote: »
    Absolutely ridiculous with cliché after cliché, it was basically the 2012 movie redux

    I saw it for free and I still want my money back
    :D
    Haven't a clue what it's about, and actually don't want to know. Anything with Gerard Butler for past number of years means 'disastrous movie'.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,854 ✭✭✭✭silverharp


    At least it was a slightly different take in that it didnt have have the view from the government side, though it did seem a little implausible that people werent worried or panicking earlier

    A belief in gender identity involves a level of faith as there is nothing tangible to prove its existence which, as something divorced from the physical body, is similar to the idea of a soul. - Colette Colfer



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,071 ✭✭✭✭cena


    I thought it was a great movie


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,391 ✭✭✭olestoepoke


    What a load of garbage, Butler couldn't act the egit. Cliche after cliche, of course the kid had diabetes and who'd have guessed they lost his medicine. They just don't make movies like they used to. I haven't seen a good movie since Gene Hackman retired lol.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,337 ✭✭✭rockatansky


    Thought it was great fun!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,469 ✭✭✭JoeA3


    It was mediocre tbh. As a stand-alone movie it was “ok”. It passed 2 hours. But it brought absolutely nothing to the genre, so you’d wonder what was the point? All the usual cliches and tropes as others have said. Lots of movies, particularly from the 1990’s (Independence Day, Armageddon, deep impact...) all did this far better and they still stand up to repeated viewings. This one won’t.


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 36,711 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    This was entertaining, if not particularly good. The plot hit the clichés pretty hard, but one welcome narrative twist was how the various side characters were not universally awful when the excrement hit the fan; good people helped others amid the chaos, which made for a nice change from the usual nihilistic impulses of these kind of disaster films.

    The real let down was the FX: they were OK, but frequently just fake enough to break the suspension of disbelief. In particular, the use of obviously CGI flames during a car crash completely robbed the scene of any danger.


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    Totaly unbelievable, dude does the dirt on Morena Baccarin?
    Not buying it


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,621 ✭✭✭Homelander


    It's very unoriginal and painfully cliche, but I still enjoyed it, it's one of those popcorn munchers that is visually very satisfying and moves along at a good clip the whole time.

    Doesn't really have the re-watch factor of something like 2012 - and isn't much more than a much lower budget version of that movie really - but for once-off entertainment it's fairly decent.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,103 ✭✭✭✭expectationlost


    did he get his pancakes?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,687 ✭✭✭✭Skerries


    I think he has more than pancakes lately


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,954 ✭✭✭Banjaxed82


    Not the disaster movie you're expecting. Enjoyed it.

    I'm not going to tear into a movie cause it's cliched. I'll tear into it cause it's cliched and sh!t (or worse mediocre). This is cliched and good.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,601 ✭✭✭Mal-Adjusted


    It's decent. a very low-key end of the world film. I watched Geostorm recently and found it odd that there was no big money shot or anything as the trailer certainly suggested as much.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 46,733 ✭✭✭✭Mitch Connor


    I couldn't get over how nice everyone was for the most part.

    Soooo many times I would have expected people to be told to F off or shot in real life, but everyone was just so helpful.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,854 ✭✭✭✭silverharp


    I couldn't get over how nice everyone was for the most part.

    Soooo many times I would have expected people to be told to F off or shot in real life, but everyone was just so helpful.

    on that, the Black NPC's were great and helped our heros along the way, the looter in the Pharmacy and the guy in the truck. the dodgy NPC's where white, white suburban couple will steal your kids Yo! and the white racist in the truck that had a beef because our hero was Scottish :pac:

    A belief in gender identity involves a level of faith as there is nothing tangible to prove its existence which, as something divorced from the physical body, is similar to the idea of a soul. - Colette Colfer



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 526 ✭✭✭Full_Circle_81


    silverharp wrote: »
    on that, the Black NPC's were great and helped our heros along the way, the looter in the Pharmacy and the guy in the truck. the dodgy NPC's where white, white suburban couple will steal your kids Yo! and the white racist in the truck that had a beef because our hero was Scottish :pac:

    I don't know if its a good thing or a bad thing that I actually noticed that about the random characters.
    I thought the film was surprisingly effective in parts. It could have been improved by removing the unnecessary husband/wife issues, and also replacing Gerard Butler with any other actor *at all*.


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 36,711 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    Yet the pivotal Kind Stranger role, the one who most demonstrably saved the family from immediate death, was a white Canadian. If we're going down that road. Though the Canucks are genetically kinder anyway ;)

    A fairer read would be along class lines IMO. Not without reason it was those already on the edges of society, before the meteor fell, that helped the leads. Those already living on charity and desperation finding it easier to pay it forward than the suburban middle class who turned into monsters at the first sign of trouble. THAT'S a theme seen loads of times previous.

    Butler's dad of course being the "salt of the earth" working man, more pragmatic in the face of annihilation. The film had an angle on class, not race - though the two are inextricably linked in America IMO


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,854 ✭✭✭✭silverharp


    pixelburp wrote: »
    Yet the pivotal Kind Stranger role, the one who most demonstrably saved the family from immediate death, was a white Canadian. If we're going down that road. Though the Canucks are genetically kinder anyway ;)

    A fairer read would be along class lines IMO. Not without reason it was those already on the edges of society, before the meteor fell, that helped the leads. Those already living on charity and desperation finding it easier to pay it forward than the suburban middle class who turned into monsters at the first sign of trouble. THAT'S a theme seen loads of times previous.

    Butler's dad of course being the "salt of the earth" working man, more pragmatic in the face of annihilation. The film had an angle on class, not race - though the two are inextricably linked in America IMO

    Im not sure I'd want to test that theory in real life but far as the film goes my comment was specifically about the random characters they bumped into, i wouldnt include the pilot as they were seeking him out or the dad in that group, plus in the truck the white working class guy was the racist.

    A belief in gender identity involves a level of faith as there is nothing tangible to prove its existence which, as something divorced from the physical body, is similar to the idea of a soul. - Colette Colfer



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,854 ✭✭✭✭silverharp


    I don't know if its a good thing or a bad thing that I actually noticed that about the random characters.
    I thought the film was surprisingly effective in parts. It could have been improved by removing the unnecessary husband/wife issues, and also replacing Gerard Butler with any other actor *at all*.

    you seem to have the same opinion as all of his film wives :pac:

    A belief in gender identity involves a level of faith as there is nothing tangible to prove its existence which, as something divorced from the physical body, is similar to the idea of a soul. - Colette Colfer



  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 36,711 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    silverharp wrote: »
    Im not sure I'd want to test that theory in real life but far as the film goes my comment was specifically about the random characters they bumped into, i wouldnt include the pilot as they were seeking him out or the dad in that group, plus in the truck the white working class guy was the racist.

    So what you're saying is both our readings are flawed, and that "Greenland", the Gerard Butler film, mightn't be as clever or subtextual as we might assume ;)

    Naw, the pilot has to count given he
    decided to take the family, despite the fact the plane was overweight already and they were late to the airport. Heck Butler's character played chicken with the plane, I can't say I'd have been so accommodating after trying to kill everyone.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,854 ✭✭✭✭silverharp


    pixelburp wrote: »
    So what you're saying is both our readings are flawed, and that "Greenland", the Gerard Butler film, mightn't be as clever or subtextual as we might assume ;)

    Naw, the pilot has to count given he
    decided to take the family, despite the fact the plane was overweight already and they were late to the airport. Heck Butler's character played chicken with the plane, I can't say I'd have been so accommodating after trying to kill everyone.

    eehh , they were seeking out someone that clearly had good intentions, as you mentioned above it was in Canada so kind of lends itself to the character type. I'm not saying they went out of their way to make a racist film , all the main characters were White and decent people, it was like they had to throw a bone where they had a little bit of freedom.

    A belief in gender identity involves a level of faith as there is nothing tangible to prove its existence which, as something divorced from the physical body, is similar to the idea of a soul. - Colette Colfer



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,850 ✭✭✭silliussoddius


    Maybe the character was Canadian because it added the factor of distance as an obstacle and it’s closer to Tir Glas. What aboot that, eh?


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