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It doesnt require any real investment from the viewer.
You dont need to have seen or remember any of the previous installments to enjoy the new one.
(In fact, its probably better if you dont.)
And while the films are of varying quality, Butlers rough charisma is the glue that holds them together.
You feel at ease around him.
This all makes him somewhat antithetical to most of our ideas about movie stars nowadays.
Hes not a superhero, for starters.
Gerard Butler is, in a word, accessible.
He is not a golden god even if he did once literally play a golden god inGods of Egypt.
But even there, something stood out about this actor.
He bit into his part with such snarly, spittle-flecked abandon that it actually achieved a tongue-in-cheek quality.
(It was all so perfect that making the meme your own barely required any wit.
You could just add, Tomorrow, Im thinking Arbys!
to Gerard Butlers frozen shriek about dining in hell and you were off to the races.)
But for many years, he seemed like a star-in-waiting, searching for a niche.
You just kept pulling for the guy.
Mark Wahlberg was headed in this direction, but now seems more interested in doing tales of true-life heroism.
Its not just theHas Fallenseries, however, that make Butler such a throwback.
But dammit, the mix worked.
Ive probably already rewatched it a few times, in bits and pieces.
But Im pretty sure Gerard Butler could have escaped the wreckage even if the movie had been a dud.
(He played, somewhat unconvincingly, the genius scientist who had developed the aforementioned space system.)
Let me be perfectly clear:Geostormis a terrible film.
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