An Intense Impact Event Thriller: “Greenland” (2020) ☄️😱

[Christopher Hitchens]

Synopsis:
“John Garrity, his estranged wife and their young son embark on a perilous journey to find sanctuary as a planet-killing comet hurtles toward Earth. Amid terrifying accounts of cities getting leveled, the Garrity's experience the best and worst in humanity. As the countdown to the global apocalypse approaches zero, their incredible trek culminates in a desperate and last-minute flight to a possible safe haven.“



This was pretty damn good! It’s not a movie I would watch twice but it’s pretty tense. I also have a soft spot for end of the world, apocalypse, society breaking down type movies. I don’t know why, well I have some speculations, but I do. This one was a rollercoaster, but not a groundbreaker.

 

[(G.O.A.T.) Tubemonkey]

Fuck off you boring pompous gaylord

 

[The anarchist]

I've seen it several times and it is a damn good movie imo👍😉

 

[Fry_Swatter]

...When you said "Thriller", I had something better in mind...

 

[djdeeds]

I always found it puzzling that Greenland isn't very green.

 

[Russellmark11]

I always found it puzzling that Greenland isn't very green.

Greenland is a mistranslation of meaning. The Norse discovered it and wrote "Hann gaf nafn landinu ok kallaði Groenland."
Landinu translates as "wasteland." Groenland is referring to a "mown or cut field." So it was being described as "an empty barren land."

 

[Clendenon]

This is what as known as a formula movie.

 

[djdeeds]

Greenland is a mistranslation of meaning. The Norse discovered it and wrote "Hann gaf nafn landinu ok kallaði Groenland."
Landinu translates as "wasteland." Groenland is referring to a "mown or cut field." So it was being described as "an empty barren land."

This should have been corrected by some kind of authority somewhere ages ago. Someone with a bunch of framed certificates on the wall and a fancy suit should have just said "I declare thee "Barren Land - arse end of the Earth" while stabbing a flag pole into the ground.

 

[dudebroseph]

"Butler gave a tour-de-force performance"- NYT

 

[Christopher Hitchens]

I always found it puzzling that Greenland isn't very green.

It’s one of those ironic names. Like the country Turkey has no turkeys.

Greenland is a mistranslation of meaning. The Norse discovered it and wrote "Hann gaf nafn landinu ok kallaði Groenland."
Landinu translates as "wasteland." Groenland is referring to a "mown or cut field." So it was being described as "an empty barren land."

That’s awesome!

This is what as known as a formula movie.

Yea that’s why I said it wasn’t groundbreaking but the formula is brewed up very well. Good purity.

Fuck off you boring pompous gaylord

I’ll fuck you till’ you love me you braindead incel. Hey tell me, what’s it like to be a person who hears radio static in his brain instead of thoughts?

 

[Russellmark11]

This should have been corrected by some kind of authority somewhere ages ago. Someone with a bunch of framed certificates on the wall and a fancy suit should have just said "I declare thee "Barren Land - arse end of the Earth" while stabbing a flag pole into the ground.

It's more along the lines of how a words meaning changes over time. Back in 960 AD when it was named, people knew what it meant. You have to remember English wasn't a complete language until around the 1400's. And at first people used "green" to describe someone as sickly. Then it was used to describe people who were "unseasoned or new." Then it became associated with a meadow land when a meadow land meant a field that had been cut down and turned to hay. Later meadowland was used to describe new green fields.

 

[riza]

I like this one better…

 

[Jizdrop1]

Hey up Eric you do know their is already a long running thread called "Movies you've watched" How come you posted a seperate one?
https://goregrish.com/threads/last-movie-you-watched.71/EDIT= here it is 366 pages long

 

[Christopher Hitchens]

Hey up Eric you do know their is already a long running thread called "Movies you've watched" How come you posted a seperate one?
https://goregrish.com/threads/last-movie-you-watched.71/EDIT= here it is 366 pages long

i guess I could do that but I assumed that was for short posts, like the title and maybe poster, and that’s all.