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Snowpiercer is your garden variety sci fi movie. Misdirected science ushers in the apocalypse, in this case a super ice age. Noah’s train houses all that is left of humanity, however this no biblical story, hence it has tyrant, an upsurging hero, good vs the bad, drama, intelligent lines along the way, a few scientific …
The writing of sci-fi movies in Hollywood must be going something like this, so it is, there is a big problem, a grand science/tech solution is envisaged, it causes grander (unintended! unforeseen) complications resulting in lots of VFX done disasters, which is followed by a neat trick to stop it, close shave in the climax, …
Cassandras of the world carry the age-long curse; nobody believes them. Leonardo Di Caprio and Jennifer Lawrence are the modern-day Cassandras in 'Don't Look Up.' As research scientists exploring the cosmos, they discover a new asteroid. The elation of having a celestial named after them turns sour when they calculate that the asteroid is headed …
