The Film Experience

Chris here. It's been a long time since we got a good old fashioned disaster flick, right? Luckily Geostorm is here to fill the silly void this fall.

The film stars Gerard Butler (as if you had to ask) in a world where satellites help ward off the perils of global warming. When the system gets hacked (or something, science is hard), Butler and crew is sent into space to investigate while Jim Sturgess is our hero on the ground. From the looks of the first trailer, there is a whole lot going on, from explosions to tornado armies to an Andy Garcia president. Naturally, I have some thoughts:

I wish this was narrated by Aja's Princess Dizastah.
Is the only Pandora station available in space the 60s rock station or do filmmakers just not have any musical imagination?
I wonder if Gerard Butler gets tired of saving things.
This is why I avoid the beach. Giant ice waves.
Adepero Oduye alert! We need her in much larger roles than "woman who hangs head at awkward space meeting". Swap her into Butler's role and we'd be positively stoked!
Every superhero movie for what's seemed like year involved some morbid global cataclysm, so at least they're going for some unself-serious fun here.
[plane freezes mid-crash and shatters like ice] ... maybe not.
Wait, it's space disaster and earth disaster and there's a president kidnapping heist? My neck hurts.
Bonus points if you can name the last time Andy Garcia played a character that wasn't Andy Garcia.
If you don't believe global warming exists, you should be denied a ticket to this.

Geostorm opens October 20. Your thoughts?