Okay Jerks -
The mean cyber gods kept me off of the intertubes for a few days, so I am kicking off our annual August #ButlerFest in proper fashion.
Allow me to walk you through the CLASSIC that is GEOSTORM. This is a film that demands to be seen, to be appreciated - to be loved.

This is the one sheet from the release. Looks damned dramatic, eh? That wave is what, 50 feet tall, 100 feet? ? ?
Well, we'll never know.
The studio sold the film with an image that never takes place in the movie itself.

Things open in dramatic fashion -- with a voice-over. The film is rooted in the threat of global warming, with all the dire perils and all of the science needed to save us from ourselves.

So they give us stock footage of bad weather, and a lecture from an eight year old girl.

After we are told that the planet is besieged by BOTH floods and droughts, the globe was saved by thousands of satellites that were launched to form a web and controlling the weather. This was spearheaded by the United Nations.
Sooooo....this IS science fiction.

With all the import placed on the global consortium, and how over a dozen nations banded together to save us, this effort was spearheaded by a force of nature himself.
All of this was guided into place and ultimately the planet was saved by ONE MAN!

Yes, @GerardButler is THAT MAN. Well, he's Jake Lawson, and Jake rushes to a Senate hearing to get yelled at by politicians. Yes, that's how you treat a man who saved the planet.
Imagine Chuck Schumer yelling at Sully Sullenberger for drinks spilled while landing in the Hudson.

In three years the US is turning over control of the satellite system, dubbed ''Dutch Boy'', because cultural appropriation is cool when the government does it.
Since Jake is the single mastermind the Senators are angry at him and he is fired. Imagine - a hero who is troubled.

CUT TO
Three years later-
In the desert of Afghanistan UN troops stop in the sand to find a village that has been flash frozen, with the villagers and donkeys now ice statues.
In the desert.
Because of course that happens.
It explains while ''global warming'' fell out of favor.

There is a lot that needs to be explained.
Why did a malfunctioning satellite cause this?
Why did this severe ice storm only affect the area inside the village borders?
Why are the residents killed by sub-zero temperatures but the troops have no cold weather gear?