"Greenland" Wasn't a Disaster

May 24, 2021

 

I watched a disaster movie the other night. A comet heads toward Earth, breaks up in the atmosphere, and pretty much wipes out most of the life on Earth, but not all at once; people have to live through it in stages.

I was expecting a typical disaster movie: Cheesy plot, great special effects, impossible rescues…You know the drill.

Instead, it had decent special effects, and a family-drama trope; but instead of multiple impossible rescues, it did an excellent job of showing how people would behave in that situation. Some were very nice, and some were very bad.

At first I was sorry that it wasn’t the mindless adventure I’d signed on for—I had thought that it would be more fun. But I ended up being impressed with how they portrayed the people; so it wasn’t a total disaster.