History Film / Geostorm

* MonumentalDamage: Inevitable due to being a DisasterMovie. The Burj Khalifa is toppled when Dubai is flooded, and the Kremlin/St. Basil's Cathedral are fried by a heat laser.
* [[MrExposition Ms. Exposition]]: Max' young daughter Hannah opens the movie with an off-screen narration about the Dutch Boy project's history, [[BookEnds and does so again]] at the end, although with some words about the future this time.

--> '''Palma''' [to Max]: [[FunnyMoments Marry her!]]

* AmericaSavesTheDay: PlayedWith. On one hand, the protagonists are American. On the other hand, they are being helped by a MultinationalTeam. On the ''other'' hand, [[spoiler:Dekkom, Palma's Secretary, is trying to [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt kill off Presidential candidates, and eradicate America's enemies]], and is doing so with the help of his cronies in the Secret Service, and [[EvilBrit Duncan]].]]

* BilingualBonus: After an incident where Jack smashes through solar panels, Hernandez tells him about the damaged stuff, and then adds ''Te chingaste los páneles solares papá!''[[note]]You fucked up the solar panels dude![[/note]]
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:The Dutch Boy satellites are restored, the GovernmentConspiracy is thwarted, and the [[TitleDrop geostorm]] is averted. All the while, millions of people are dead because of the chaos.]]
* BookEnds: The film begins and ends with an off-screen narration from Hannah.

* CoolPlane / CoolStarship: The ISS IV is so important and has such a large crew complement that an entire fleet of nifty orbital shuttles is required to keep it supplied, with at least a dozen occupied launch platforms stretching off into the distance at Cape Canaveral. The shuttles themselves look like much more advanced versions of present-days space shuttles, have enough seats for a platoon, are impressively manoeuvrable, and even come with large panorama windows.

* HoistByTheirOwnPetard: [[spoiler:[[EvilBrit Duncan]]]], TheMole aboard the ISS, [[spoiler:tries to shoot Jake with a pistol when he's found out, only to hit a window instead which promptly shatters and offers him a front-row experience of Earth's low orbit, although not before Jake had safely left the room.]]

* KillSat: A ''very'' unconventional example. The Dutch Boy satellites are orbiting [[WeatherControlMachine weather control machines]] that are meant to ''save people'' by literally [[CaptainObvious changing the weather in a specific area.]] The plot revolves around them doing the opposite (which is made blatantly clear by the trailers). The Moscow satellite plays it particularly straight by attacking the city with a massive heat ray very akin to the (in)famous one in ''Film/DieAnotherDay''.
* LampshadeHanging: When [[spoiler:the ISS' self-destruct system suddenly activates]], one of the guys in the control room asks incredulously why such a system even exists. [[JustifiedTrope Justified example]], though - Jake offers a pretty reasonable explanation[[note]]This version of the ISS is ''enormous'', and the self-destruct was meant as a failsafe to prevent a minor ColonyDrop in case of uncontrolled atmospheric reentry.[[/note]].

* PresidentEvil: US President Andrew Palma is the man behind the misuse of Dutch Boy as a WMD. [[spoiler:[[SubvertedTrope Or so the heroes think at first]]. It's actually [[Creator/EdHarris Leonard Dekkom]], his defense secretary.]]

* SpiritualSuccessor: To ''Film/IndependenceDay'', ''Film/TheDayAfterTomorrow'' and ''Film/TwentyTwelve'', given the fact that Dean Devlin co-wrote them.
** It can also been as this for ''Film/{{Armageddon}}''.

[[SoundtrackDissonance And I think to myself what a wonderful world...]]''

* CoolPlane / CoolStarship: The ISS IV is so important and has such a large crew complement that an entire fleet of nifty orbital shuttles stands ready for duty at Cape Canaveral, with at least a dozen occupied launch platforms stretching off into the distance. The shuttles themselves look like much more advanced versions of present-days space shuttles, have enough seats for a platoon, are impressively manoeuvrable, and even come with large panorama windows.

* CoolPlane/CoolStarship: The ISS IV is so important and has such a large crew complement that an entire fleet of nifty orbital shuttles stands ready for duty at Cape Canaveral, with at least a dozen occupied launch platforms stretching off into the distance. The shuttles themselves look like much more advanced versions of present-days space shuttles, have enough seats for a platoon, are impressively manoeuvrable, and even come with large panorama windows.

* ArtificialGravity: The ISS has solid Earth-like gravity even in sections that aren't spinning, and whatever's generating it can apparently be tuned so precisely that people can instantly go from 1G to zero-G and back simply by crossing any airlock threshold. How that's possible is never touched upon.

* BrickJoke: Jake at one point recounts a tale of him and his brother going fishing with their father when they were young, as a way to transmit a hidden message to Max. In the film's final scene, [[spoiler:Jake, Max and Hannah sit on a pier facing Cape Canaveral]], fishing rods in hand.

* HolographicTerminal: Used quite extensively, from nifty pens that unfold into holographic [=PDAs=], over average-sized computer monitors, to the giant holo-screen aboard the ISS. Most of them are composed of HighTechHexagons for that extra dash of cool.

* ItsAllAboutMe: Considerable parts of the US administration come across as this every time they're bitching about how they'll have to relinquish control over Dutch Boy to the international community soon.

* ArtificialGravity: The ISS has solid Earth-like gravity even in sections that aren't spinning, and whatever's generating it can apparently be tuned to precisely that people can instantly go from 1G to zero-G and back simply by crossing any airlock threshold. How that's possible is never touched upon.

* IDidWhatIHadToDo: Might as well be Jake's CatchPhrase. It seems to be the main reason for his eventual falling-out with his ControlFreak brother.

* TooDumbToLive: Whoever allowed large-bore handguns aboard a civilian (read: unarmored) space station deserves a hefty kick in the nuts. There's a reason even most softer works of fiction arm their space station security personnel with shotguns at worst - their projectiles won't penetrate the station walls or windows in case of a miss, which is exactly what happens the moment some idiots starts shooting aboard the ISS.

* BrickJoke: Jake at one point recounts a tale of him and his brother going fishing with their father when they were young, as a way to transmit a hidden message to Max. In the film's final scene, Jake, Max and Hannah sit on a pier facing Cape Canaveral, fishing rods in hand.

* ApocalypseWow: We see cities getting wrecked in detail. And at one point, [[spoiler:Dubai gets swamped by an ''massive flood'' powerful enough to partially topple the Burj Khalifa.]]
* ArtisticLicensePhysics: The film was made by one of the guys responsible for ''Film/TwoThousandTwelve'', which still proudly defends the title of most scientifically absurd movie ever, so ''Geostorm'' following in its footsteps shouldn't be too much of a surprise. One of the most blatant examples is probably the Hong Kong scene where [[spoiler:a weather control machine ''in space'' somehow managed to heat up subterranean gas pipelines until they glowed red-hot while the people above merely went through a stifling heat wave instead of being cooked alive]]. But hey, [[RuleOfCool it looks awesome, so it's okay]].

* TooDumbToLive: Whoever allowed large-bore handguns aboard a civilian (read: unarmored) space station deserves a hefty kick in the nuts.

* DidNotThinkThisThrough: The BigBad's plan is pretty stupid when you stop to think about it. [[spoiler:Dekkom basically wants to rewind history back to 1945 when America was at the height of its global power, by utterly annihilating its rivals and enemies. Thing is, it's hard to be the shining leader of manking when there's nothing left to lead. What's more, he never explains how he intended to stop the geostorm after killing the only person capable of doing so, and there was no guarantee whatsoever that it couldn't have escalated beyond all predictions.]]

* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: The film is set somewhere in 2019, and while most regular tech looks to be on par with what was common in 2017, electric cars (at least some of them with autopilot) seem to be much more prevalent, and space technology is ''a lot'' more advanced than anything available to mankind when the movie was released.

* ArtisticLicensePhysics: The film was made by one of the guys responsible for ''Film/TwoThousandTwelve'', which still proudly defends the titel of most scientifically absurd movie ever, so ''Geostorm'' following in its footsteps shouldn't be too much of a surprise. One of the most blatant examples is probably the Hong Kong scene where [[spoiler:a weather control machine ''in space'' somehow managed to heat up subterranean gas pipelines until they glowed red-hot while the people above merely went through a stifling heat wave instead of being cooked alive]]. But hey, [[RuleOfCool it looks awesome, so it's okay]].

* DidNotThinkThisThrough: The BigBad's plan is pretty stupid when you stop to think about it. [[spoiler:Dekkom basically wants to rewind history back to 1945 when America was at the height of its global power, by utterly annihilating its rivals and enemies. Thing is, it's hard to be the shining leader of manking when there's nothing left to lead. What's more, he never explains how he intended to stop the geostorm after killing the only person capable of doing so.]]