The funniest sci-fi blockbuster in years is on the Tube

The author Jonathan Klotz
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A truly bad film is a work of art, for example Plan 9 No Space or In minewatching movies this bad is considered an experience that every cinephile must have at least once. You can't fully appreciate great movies without knowing how bad things can get when the director's vision is bigger than his budget. The biggest modern example of these films is Geostormthe goofy sci-fi disaster movie starring Gerard Butler that makes no sense when you explain it, much less when you try to watch it, but has become an ironic cult classic.

Gerard Butler, scientist

For starters, Butler plays Jake Lawson, a satellite designer whose name might as well be “Good Guy” who is brought back into the project he was cut from three years ago to find out what's going wrong with the weather system. – control satellites. Satellites are able to freeze a village in the desert and unleash hurricanes in Hong Kong in a sequence that sounds like it should look amazing, but it comes off as a screen saver. Even the mystery of what goes on inside Geostorm is barely interesting on a surface level, and Jake immediately suspects that the satellite crew member is a traitor.

He is right, of course, and how you look Geostormyou'll learn that Jake is never wrong in pinpointing the key US official responsible for the whole mess. Proving how bad the movie is, in the best possible way, even you can crack the conspiracy by looking at the cast list. That, and the solution to a rogue satellite network is to knock satellites out of orbit using other satellites as weapons, which at least looks as ridiculous as it sounds.

Geostorm is both a movie that moves a mile a minute, with something happening all the time, and yet, thanks to some of the worst dialogue of the modern era and mind-bogglingly inconsistent beats, nothing seems to happen. When the geostorm finally arrives, it's in unlovely scenes of mass destruction that carry less weight than the characters orbiting the plant in zero gravity. And yet, you have to see this movie to really understand what an amazing misfire the whole project was.

Best B movie in years

The cast is diverse, from Butler to Abbie Cornish, Ed Harris, Andy Garcia, the always underrated Mara Winningham, Zazia Beth and Into the Badlands star Daniel Wu. Dean Devlin, the man behind the hilarious adventure shows, is behind the camera Librarians and Lever debut as a director and he tries hard. In fact, you can say that everyone is giving it their all Geostormchewing up the scenery and delivering the most insane technobabble with a straight face, that passion and visible effort make this a true B-movie classic.

Geostorm is the most boring science fiction The disaster movie ever made, and in a way the best, because it's so big, brazen, and trying so hard. There are better movies out there, thousands, maybe a million, but very few movies match this spot for the perfect viewing experience with friends when you're all screaming at the screen. You should never, ever watch this movie alone because then the horror overwhelms you, but with friends playing your best Mystery Science Theater, it's the best movie of the last decade.

the best Geostorm is now streaming on Tubi, so you don't even have to pay to watch it.