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Greenland
2020 · Film · 120 min
Directed by Ric Roman Waugh
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 levelled, the Garritys 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.
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It was hilarious when I checked the movie listings for this week and found Greenland 2 in its opening run.
So I went to YouTube and rented Greenland (2010). It was a hoot! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenland_(film)
I wrote "it's the second funniest rom-com I've ever seen". But seriously, it was filmed in close collaboration with the United States Air Force. (Much like Mission: Impossible was a collab between US Gov and US Mil units.)
It is kind of a fun ride if you're willing to suspend that much disbelief.
But I just found it hilarious that a pair of films named and set in Greenland should be produced in this way, while the actual country is in our news cycle now. I almost feel like it's a "PR buzz campaign".
No. In the in-movie fiction both the tunnel and the entrance was in Greenland.
But in reality they were shooting the entrance scenes somewhere else. In Iceland in this case.
This happens quite frequently in movies. Toronto or Budapest frequently stands in to all kind of other cities for production reasons. (A subway escalator from Budapest even shows up on the space station of Alien: Romulus)
This is featured prominently in the great movie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenland_(film) with Morena Baccarin, though they filmed the entrance in Iceland, not near Thule. https://maps.app.goo.gl/vxknuDCxRSGtJ4j88
Greenland is one of those spin-off movies that is part of the cinematic universe, but is generally considered to be non-canon.
Greenland is surprisingly good, and scandalously overlooked: https://www.google.com/search?q=greenland+movie&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-us&client=safari
For your B-movie viewing entertainment: Greenland
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7737786/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
features an interstellar comet (those go much faster than regular comets, you know) which has broken into fragments, and they're all slamming into Earth. One of the fragments is bigger than the Chicxulub asteroid, so it's curtains for everybody! Everybody except the special few who've been selected to go to a military bunker near Thule air base in Greenland to ride it out and then rebuild civilization after it's all blown over.
Since all disaster movies have to feature a parent being separated from their child and/or spouse and frantically trying to find them amidst all the chaos, I'm probably not giving anything away when I mention that plot element.
Not trying to being sceptic here, but before and after seeing the latest Greenland movie, I think USA owns already Greenland de facto for all practical purposes. Denmark just has it on paper and pays the costs. If Russia wanted to take Greenland (why?), then USA will fight of course because it is already theirs.