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Jon O'Brien

5 years ago, the silliest disaster movie ever set an unintended precedent


The whole premise for 2017’s Geostorm was inspired by a question first-time director Dean Devlin’s seven-year-old daughter Hannah asked about climate change: “Why can’t we just build a machine to fix this?” By the end of the bombastic yet boring disaster movie, you’re left wondering whether the youngster had been tasked with the script, acting coaching, and VFX, too. You’re also left wondering whether she’d recently seen Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs.

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