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A Beautiful Planet (2016)
Great pictures, and great Information
The documentary is narrated by Jennifer Lawrence and directed by Toni Myers. IMAX Entertainment teamed up with NASA to produce this extraordinary film. It begins with a long introduction with a slow zoom in of a galaxy with the voice of Ms. Lawrence. The film begins with a vast number of videos and pictures of space, planets, and the one we live on, Earth. The film then begins to show who is taking those photos, the astronauts. The astronauts staring in the film were living in the ISS. The astronauts from around the world are Virts, Cristoforetti and Anton Shkaplerov. The astronauts are NASA are Kjell Lindgren, Butch Wilmore, and Scott Kelly. It was interesting when the movie began to zoom around the globe and show what different parts of earth look like from space. Sometimes when I watch movies of circling around earth, I am unsure of where it is, so it does not seem as captivating. This film does a good job of describing exactly what you are looking at as they are showing it. There are a few times it feels they want to fill screen time with random photos, but every photo is a masterpiece within itself. I enjoyed listening to the astronauts, and cosmonauts talk about their daily lives, and what they go through. The entire film flashes between inside the ISS, and outside the ISS. I believe they should have shown some of the more exciting stuff that goes on around the ISS, like genuine interactions and more dialogue. Every picture of the film has the name "Jennifer Lawrence" all over which is a great branding technique for those people who watch films for the actor not the plot. I am sometimes ones of those people as well, and I fell for it too. I felt that if this company can hire such a famous actor into voicing the film, then this film must have money into it as well. I don't believe you need money to film something great, but for a documentary it allows for more ability to get better shots. In this case the photographers were NASA, and the team on the ISS. At the end Jennifer gave the audience a guidance into keeping the beautiful planet clean, and safe. Overall, the documentary was great I was just surprised it was only 40 minutes. This was a well-kept film that I enjoyed watching.
Geostorm (2017)
Good movie
The film begins by explaining what climate change has done to the world. It shows heat waves, cold front, natural disasters, and extreme storms killing millions of people. This forces all the world leaders to come together, and fight back against climate change. All the countries of the world put all their smartest individuals together to build a system of satellites that engulfs earth in this forcefield. These satellites help humans control Earths climate. When a heat wave occurred, the satellites would make it colder. If an intense storm appears the movie showed tiny missiles shot into the storm to make it disappear. The satellites appear to be working perfectly until a village is frozen to death, and Hong Kong gets destroyed from molten lava exploding from the ground. The main character. The two brothers, Jake and Max know that this is not accidental. The brother Jake goes to the space station, while the brother, Max, stays at the white house where he works for the president. The bad guy in the movie is the head of the secret service. He is trying to destroy Earth except for America by creating a Geostorm. The brother, Max, rescues the president and gets the codes to send to his brother, Jake, to stop the satellites. The space station explodes just as Jake can turn off the satellites. He hops in a space shuttle and gets rescued by another spaceship. In the end the satellites controlling earth are destroyed, so they will have to build a new one.
The climate change disasters were spot on in the beginning of the movie. Climate change is predicted to cause heat waves able to kill people, frequent and intense storms, and the rise of sea level. This is all shown in the movie, and is a real possibility. The validity of the portrayal fades when the high-tech satellites can control the weather of earth, and stop climate change. Shooting a storm cloud with missiles is not going to make the storm disappear in real life. Climate change has many different variables that go into it not just the atmosphere. Climate change effects the oceans, and the crust. A huge part of climate change is pollution. Water, soil, and air pollution. The movie never addresses how the earth was able to decrease pollution. The film gave the idea that people do not have to worry about climate change, because we can just build a space station to fix it. Producing all this high-tech machines will only produce more pollution which in turn worsens climate change. Where did all the carbon dioxides particles go? In conclusion the portrayal of the climate change was valid it just shows the most extreme circumstance. The Portrayal of the advancement in technology is not valid due to missiles and a big heat lamp in space can not change climate.
In a real event, I think some nations would go to war before siding with the United States. If a Geostorm occurred, it would be only certain parts of the Earth that are affected first. It would be a slow, and gradual increase. A warm region on Earth would become too dry and hot to live, so those residents would have to relocate. The only thing humans could do during a "Geostorm" would be to adapt to the situation. This means protecting yourself in any way possible. This can be moving to a new location, or change the infrastructure of society to better battle the effects of climate change. The best possible solution would be to stop climate change in its tracks by decreasing pollution.
The lessons learned from human responses involves better planning, and adaption to a crisis. Most of the people died who were in the region of an intense natural disaster. The buildings collapsed, and everything was destroyed. This is a lesson to humans to prepare now, so when that situation does occur, we will not just be sitting waiting to die.