Any resemblance Geostorm has to reality appears completely accidental. In a disaster movie that makes Armageddon look like a NASA documentary, Gerard Butler stars as the talented but problematic creator of a system of climate-controlling satellites. Fired for having standards and speaking truth to power, Jake Lawson (Bulter) is recruited back into the program by the same estranged brother (Jim Sturgess) who fired him when things start to go wrong.
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It’s almost like making a $100,000,000 movie based on a half-forgotten series of trading cards was a bad idea. Tim Burton‘s 1996 adaptation of the early 60s trading card series offers ten minutes or so of really great visuals recreating classic scenes from the series chronicling Earth being invaded by Martians. The trouble is, those 10 minutes are spread out over the film’s 106-minute runtime.
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Released in 1999, “The Sirens of Time” audio drama brought together the Fifth Doctor (Peter Davison), Sixth Doctor (Colin Baker), and Seventh Doctor (Sylvester McCoy) for their first adventure together. All three original actors returned for the role, although they are only finally brought together in the final chapter of a story that crosses all three timelines.
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Whether or not 1996’s The Arrival works for you or not will likely boil down to whether or not you can accept the premise of Charlie Sheen as a scientist who stumbles into, and becomes lost in, a vast conspiracy of aliens on Earth altering the planet for their own ends. It’s B-movie sci-fi to be sure, but it’s held up fairly well over the years even if the film struggles at times balancing the higher-minded scientific ideas with the rampant paranoia.
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Conceived out of Disney’s attempts to crack the popular disaster film genre of the time, while incorporating space elements as well, 1979’s The Black Hole became Disney’s first PG film as it followed the crew of the USS Palomino (Robert Forster, Ernest Borgnine, Yvette Mimieux, and Joseph Bottoms) who encounter the long-lost USS Cygnus anchored in the wake of a gigantic black hole.
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