{ "interaction_id": "00b7ce03-bf1a-4a99-8775-8ef75d68c843", "search_results": [ { "page_name": "'Geostorm' Trailer: Satellite-Controlled Weather Goes Wrong in ...", "page_url": "https://www.space.com/36044-geostorm-trailer-weather-goes-wrong.html", "page_snippet": "A new trailer for the film "Geostorm" shows worldwide havoc when weather control goes awry.In a world where satellites control the weather, what happens when that control ceases? Tornadoes and massive tidal waves are just some of the effects, if we're to believe a new teaser trailer for \"Geostorm,\" which comes to theaters in October. \u00b7 There's a lot happening in only 1 minute and 41 seconds, so let's unpack what we see. The first thing to understand is that this natural disaster, unlike many portrayed in films, is caused by human-made machines, according to the Warner Bros. website. More intriguingly, we see shots of a space platform firing canisters into a hurricane and (appearing to) start to dissolve the massive storm. It could be a process similar to cloud seeding, a real strategy scientists have considered for engineering Earth's weather and climate \u2014 but how useful it is in affecting rainfall is still under debate. In \"Geostorm,\" human control of the weather goes badly wrong. (Image credit: WarnerBros.UK/YouTube) Elizabeth is also a post-secondary instructor in communications and science at several institutions since 2015; her experience includes developing and teaching an astronomy course at Canada's Algonquin College (with Indigenous content as well) to more than 1,000 students since 2020. Elizabeth first got interested in space after watching the movie Apollo 13 in 1996, and still wants to be an astronaut someday. Mastodon: https://qoto.org/@howellspace", "page_result": "\n\n\n\n\n\n'Geostorm' Trailer: Satellite-Controlled Weather Goes Wrong in New Thriller | Space\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSkip to main content\n
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'Geostorm' Trailer: Satellite-Controlled Weather Goes Wrong in New Thriller

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In a world where satellites control the weather, what happens when that control ceases? Tornadoes and massive tidal waves are just some of the effects, if we're to believe a new teaser trailer for \"Geostorm,\" which comes to theaters in October. 

There's a lot happening in only 1 minute and 41 seconds, so let's unpack what we see. The first thing to understand is that this natural disaster, unlike many portrayed in films, is caused by human-made machines, according to the Warner Bros. website.

\"After an unprecedented series of natural disasters threatened the planet, the world's leaders came together to create an intricate network of satellites to control the global climate and keep everyone safe,\" studio representatives said in the film's description. [Space Movies to Watch in 2017]

\"But now, something has gone wrong — the system built to protect the Earth is attacking it, and it's a race against the clock to uncover the real threat before a worldwide geostorm wipes out everything … and everyone along with it,\" the description read.

It's not clear in the trailer what the satellites are controlling, but the effects that occur when they lose that control are devastating. The opening shot of the film gives viewers a glimpse of four tornadoes bearing down on a crowded market as people flee. Coastal areas seem particularly hard hit, as a tidal wave topples buildings like dominoes, sending beach walkers scrambling for higher ground. Later, birds drop from the sky — followed by a passenger jet. 

In \"Geostorm,\" human control of the weather goes badly wrong. (Image credit: WarnerBros.UK/YouTube)

Watching over the events is a haggard, bearded Gerard Butler (\"Jake\"), who appears to be in a control room of some sort. And he and his colleagues are horrified by what they're seeing. Other stars in the film include Katheryn Winnick (\"Olivia\") and Ed Harris (\"Dekkom.\") 

We miss Harris' leading-man days when he marshaled mission control into rescuing Apollo 13 (\"Apollo 13,\" 1995), or rode to space as Mercury astronaut John Glenn (\"The Right Stuff,\" 1983). While those films also showed people grappling against the elements, at least the scenarios were based on real science. But, hey, the end of the world is always riveting to watch. Especially if you use explosions.

There are some glimpses of space tech in \"Geostorm,\" which takes place at an undefined time in the future. Oddly, it appears the newest space station uses an updated version of the space shuttle to ferry supplies and astronauts back and forth. (Don't tell SpaceX — its Dragon spacecraft's trips to the space station are pivotal in its plans to demonstrate that the craft is awesome enough to send people around the moon or to Mars.)

More intriguingly, we see shots of a space platform firing canisters into a hurricane and (appearing to) start to dissolve the massive storm. It could be a process similar to cloud seeding, a real strategy scientists have considered for engineering Earth's weather and climate — but how useful it is in affecting rainfall is still under debate.

\"Geostorm,\" which is not yet rated, will hit theaters on Oct. 20.

Follow Elizabeth Howell @howellspace, or Space.com @Spacedotcom. We're also on Facebook and Google+. Original article on Space.com.

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Elizabeth Howell (she/her), Ph.D., is a staff writer in the spaceflight channel since 2022 covering diversity, education and gaming as well. She was contributing writer for Space.com for 10 years before joining full-time. Elizabeth's reporting includes multiple exclusives with the White House and Office of the Vice-President of the United States, an exclusive conversation with aspiring space tourist (and NSYNC bassist) Lance Bass, speaking several times with the International Space Station, witnessing five human spaceflight launches on two continents, flying parabolic, working inside a spacesuit, and participating in a simulated Mars mission. Her latest book, \"Why Am I Taller?\", is co-written with astronaut Dave Williams. Elizabeth holds a Ph.D. and M.Sc. in Space Studies from the University of North Dakota, a Bachelor of Journalism from Canada's Carleton University and a Bachelor of History from Canada's Athabasca University. Elizabeth is also a post-secondary instructor in communications and science at several institutions since 2015; her experience includes developing and teaching an astronomy course at Canada's Algonquin College (with Indigenous content as well) to more than 1,000 students since 2020. Elizabeth first got interested in space after watching the movie Apollo 13 in 1996, and still wants to be an astronaut someday. Mastodon: https://qoto.org/@howellspace

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\n 1.\n \n The Avengers\n (1998)\n

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\nTwo British Agents team up to stop Sir August de Wynter from destroying the world with a weather-changing machine.

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When secret agents Steed and Mrs. Peel investigate stolen technology, they uncover the plot of the evil mad scientist De Wynter. He plots to hold the world for ransom by charging nations for rain and clear weather, and punishing others with bad weather. If he had succeeded, instead of turning to God for good weather, we'd have to turn to Scotland.

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The year is 1997, and World Peace seems to have come, with most classic weapons of mass destruction having been abandoned. However, orbiting the Earth there is the European/American space station FLORIDA ARKLAB, capable of controlling the weather at any location on the planet underneath. A civil project by nature, it might be abused as an offensive weapon, since it could deliver devastation to any potential adversary simply by creating natural disasters such as storms and floods. No wonder the space station soon becomes the central point in rising political tensions between East and West, next stop World War 3 (as indicated by the tagline "The end of our future has already begun"). We follow the main protagonist Billy Hayes, an astronaut aboard the station, as he wades through a plot of secrecy and sabotage trying to tell friend from foe in the process.

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When MIB investigates a missing alien relic called the Light of Zartha, they encounter Vasquez, a pizza ship waitress. When they finally uncover the truth about the Light, they discover she is the light. She thinks she always cries when it rains, but in reality, it rains because she cries.

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In the James Bond parody Our Man Flint, the evil GALAXY organization (it's bigger than SPECTRE!) blackmails Earth with a weather control machine able to produce all sorts of natural disasters from volcanoes to earthquakes and hurricanes to tornadoes. Derek Flint (James Coburn) , the world's greatest secret agent, must track down and destroy the machine while making time to woo women, restart a man's heart with a light bulb and karate chop dozens of bad guys. The Jerry Goldsmith score and distinctive "ringtone" of Flint's boss are still popular, more than fifty years after Flint blew up GALAXY's secret volcanic island.

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\nAn insurance salesman discovers his whole life is actually a reality TV show.

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Hancock is an alcoholic superhero who thinks he's the last of his kind until he meets Embrey. Embrey seems like a normal housewife, but is really another superhero. When she gets angry, thunderstorms form in the sky. So don't call her that word. Just don't.

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\n 10.\n \n Frozen\n (I) (2013)\n

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\nWhen the newly crowned Queen Elsa accidentally uses her power to turn things into ice to curse her home in infinite winter, her sister Anna teams up with a mountain man, his playful reindeer, and a snowman to change the weather condition.

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\n Directors:\nChris Buck, \nJennifer Lee\n | \n Stars:\nKristen Bell, \nIdina Menzel, \nJonathan Groff, \nJosh Gad\n

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\n 11.\n \n The Thief of Bagdad\n (1940)\n

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\nAfter being tricked and cast out of Bagdad by the evil Jaffar, King Ahmad joins forces with a thief named Abu to reclaim his throne, the city, and the Princess he loves.

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\n Directors:\nLudwig Berger, \nMichael Powell, \nTim Whelan, \nAlexander Korda, \nZoltan Korda, \nWilliam Cameron Menzies\n | \n Stars:\nConrad Veidt, \nSabu, \nJune Duprez, \nJohn Justin\n

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Genie does interesting things with the weather

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\nA secret military project has created a device to manipulate the weather, but something goes wrong.

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Through his Atmospheric Research Institute, Robert Terrell (Treat Williams) has finally fulfilled his lifelong dream of completing "weather creation" technology, which has been a landmark event.

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\n 14.\n \n Thor\n (2011)\n

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\nThe powerful but arrogant god Thor is cast out of Asgard to live amongst humans in Midgard (Earth), where he soon becomes one of their finest defenders.

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\n Director:\nKenneth Branagh\n | \n Stars:\nChris Hemsworth, \nAnthony Hopkins, \nNatalie Portman, \nTom Hiddleston\n

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\nSynthetic kryptonite laced with tar splits Superman in two: good Clark Kent and bad Man of Steel.

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\n Director:\nRichard Lester\n | \n Stars:\nChristopher Reeve, \nRichard Pryor, \nMargot Kidder, \nJackie Cooper\n

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\n 16.\n \n Flash Gordon\n (1980)\n

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\nA football player and his friends travel to the planet Mongo and find themselves fighting the tyranny of Ming the Merciless to save Earth.

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\n Director:\nMike Hodges\n | \n Stars:\nSam J. Jones, \nMelody Anderson, \nMax von Sydow, \nTopol\n

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\nA group of martial-arts warriors has only six days to save the Earth from an extra-dimensional invasion.

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\n Director:\nJohn R. Leonetti\n | \n Stars:\nRobin Shou, \nTalisa Soto, \nJames Remar, \nSandra Hess\n

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\n 18.\n The Bionic Woman (1976\u20131978)\n
\n Episode:\n Kill Oscar\n (1976)\n

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\nA renegade scientist is after a weather controlling device and employs his army of Fembots to get it.

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The epic three-part Six Million Dollar Man/Bionic Woman crossover event "Kill Oscar" united Steve Austin and Jaime Sommers to fight Soviet-hired mad scientist Dr. Franklin (John Houseman) who tries to seize control of a US-made device capable of controlling the weather. Franklin replaces government personnel with robot replicas, including female versions with tearaway faces, the now infamous "fembots". (Classic 70s dialogue: Dr. Franklin: Yes, the girl is valuable. But my Fembots can do anything she can. Russian Money Man: Not quite. As a human being, she can think for herself. Dr. Franklin: Since when is thinking for herself an asset\u2026 in a woman?) Jaime and Steve try to destroy Dr. Franklin's evil island lab with an atomic submarine, despite its being protected by a deadly hurricane and even more fembots. As the island implodes, Jaime rescues Dr. Franklin from his doomed facility, causing him to rethink his position on the value of women.

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\nA young woman must journey through the seasons to rescue her boyfriend who has been kidnapped by the evil Snow Queen.

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The Snow Queen created the world of eternal winter where the polar wind cools human souls and clearness of lines obscure emotions. A girl named Gerda, her pet ferret Luta, and Orm the troll must save her brother Kai and the world.

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\n 20.\n \n The Even Stevens Movie\n (2003 TV Movie)\n

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\n TV-G\n | \n 93 min\n | \n \nComedy, Family \n

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\nDream vacation Dream on! Ren, Louis, and the entire Stevens family battle ferocious squirrels, angry natives and one another on the adventure of a lifetime.

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\n 21.\n \n Son of Godzilla\n (1967)\n

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\nA reporter stumbles upon weather experiments on a tropical island, discovering giant mantids, a cast away woman, and an infant monster that Godzilla must adopt and learn to raise as one of his own.

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\n Director:\nJun Fukuda\n | \n Stars:\nTadao Takashima, \nAkira Kubo, \nBibari Maeda, \nAkihiko Hirata\n

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\nTwo F.B.I. Agents, Fox Mulder the believer and Dana Scully the skeptic, investigate the strange and unexplained, while hidden forces work to impede their efforts.

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\n \n Stars:\nDavid Duchovny, \nGillian Anderson, \nMitch Pileggi, \nWilliam B. Davis\n

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In "The Rain King," Mulder and Scully investigate a mysterious drought in a small town. They discover mild-mannered Holman Hartz unknowingly has the power to control the weather, and his unrequited love for his high school sweetheart is causing the drought. Getting the girl leads to perfect weather.

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\nThe GI Joe team must face Cobra's latest plot to conquer the world using a device that can control the weather.

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Cobra weapon-master Destro creates the ultimate weapon in the form of the Weather Dominator. With the Joes' laser core, the Dominator can wreak havoc all over the world with storms, hurricanes, and snow. The only thing it couldn't handle was lightning.

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\nSmart is called back to duty as KAOS is back causing trouble again with a 'weather machine'.

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\n Director:\nGary Nelson\n | \n Stars:\nDon Adams, \nBarbara Feldon, \nBernie Kopell, \nDick Gautier\n

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Get Smart, Again! brought back Maxwell Smart and Agent 99 nearly twenty years after the original series (and nine years after The Nude Bomb) to fight a KAOS plot to blackmail the US government via another weather control machine. (And as this site points out, the "weather machine" is actually an IBM AN/FSQ-7 mainframe.) Max is stymied by a KAOS mole inside CONTROL (Star Trek's Q, John de Lancie), but he eventually uncovers the plot's mastermind, the publisher of 99's memoirs, Nicholas Demente, played by Harold Gould. The evil publisher is done in by his own machine, foiling his attempt to increase readership of his books by making the weather so awful that everyone will stay in and read. Get Smart, Again! introduced the Hover Cover (helicopters overhead drown out secret meetings) and the Hall of Hush (spoken words transfer silently into type), as the Cone of Silence was now suspended over Max and 99's bed.

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Cloud Kings: 'Geostorm' Film Imagines Human-Controlled Weather

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A new extended trailer for the upcoming disaster-flick \"Geostorm\" portrays a future in which humans alter the weather, something real-world scientists have tried to do.

In the world of \"Geostorm,\" humans have built spacecraft that can deploy flocks of satellites to dissipate clouds and subdue other violent weather patterns, thus saving civilization from the devastating effects of hurricanes, tornadoes and other natural disasters. But things go wrong when one of the spacecraft apparently malfunctions and deploys satellites that initiate a disaster rather than stop one. 

Putting aside for a moment the awful dialogue (and plot devices, and characters), the movie appears to draw an interesting premise from a real-world concept called weather manipulation. 

One area of weather manipulation given significant attention by scientists is called cloud seeding, in which salts or other chemicals with crystalline structures are injected into cloud systems. This is done to essentially pull precipitation out of the clouds. Researchers thought the method could be used to provide water to drought-stricken areas. Although researchers have investigated the practice for many decades, they have not shown it to be sufficiently reliable or predictable enough to become a regular practice. 

More recently, scientists have been discussing the need for what is being called \"geoengineering\" or \"climate engineering,\" which would aim to alter the Earth's atmosphere in order to combat the effects of climate change, caused by the huge volume of greenhouse gasses that humans have pumped into the atmosphere. Some potential approaches might include spraying particles into the atmosphere to reflect sunlight and thus reduce atmospheric heating. But astronomers have raised the concern that this could harm Earth-based observations of the cosmos by blocking or scattering certain wavelengths of light. 

Satellites launched from the International Space Station help humans control the weather in the new movie \"Geostorm.\"

Satellites launched from the International Space Station help humans control the weather in the new movie \"Geostorm.\" (Image credit: Google)

Scientists could also develop geoengineering techniques for Mars, rather than Earth. Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk has publicly discussed his vision to terraform Mars, which would mean making the planet fit to host plants, animals and humans (outside of climate-controlled habitats). 

Some weather manipulation isn't necessarily aimed at preventing natural disasters. Last week, scientists launched a rocket carrying a system capable of creating colorful, artificial clouds. The purpose of those clouds, however, is to trace the motions of particles in the ionosphere, not to create artificial weather patterns. The faux clouds could help scientists trace otherwise-invisible particles in the atmosphere, and better understand phenomena such as aurorasj, according to NASA. 

That's not to say that \"Geostorm\" will accurately represent real-world efforts to manipulate the weather — or that it will even respect the most basic laws of physics — but perhaps the movie will surprise audiences with a nod to real-world atmospheric science. 

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After an unprecedented series of natural disasters threatened the planet, the world's leaders came together to create an intricate network of satellites to control the global climate and keep everyone safe. But now, something has gone wrong: the system built to protect Earth is attacking it, and it becomes a race against the clock to uncover the real threat before a worldwide geostorm wipes out everything and everyone along with it.

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The summer of his high school freshman year, Hodaka runs away from his remote island home to Tokyo, and quickly finds himself pushed to his financial and personal limits. The weather is unusually gloomy and rainy every day, as if taking its cue from his life. After many days of solitude, he finally finds work as a freelance writer for a mysterious occult magazine. Then, one day, Hodaka meets Hina on a busy street corner. This bright and strong-willed girl possesses a strange and wonderful ability: the power to stop the rain and clear the sky.

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Reporter Goro Maki stumbles upon scientists conducting weather experiments on Sollgel Island in the South Seas. He discovers the island is inhabited by giant mantis and a woman named Saeko who's been cast away since the death of her father. The pair soon find a helpless infant monster that Godzilla must adopt and learn to raise as one of his own.

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A series of freak weather occurrences around Washington D.C. reunites two estranged brothers who are the sons of a once prestigious climate scientist. One of them suspects their father is behind it and upon further investigation, they discover that all of their father's enemies are dead - victims of freak weather accidents.

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When 13-year-old Allie Thompson and her best friend Sam happen upon a weather-making machine discarded by none other than Santa Claus, they use it to cause a snow day in Los Angeles. But when the machine gets out of hand, it threatens to ruin Christmas.

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The year is 1997, and World Peace seems to have come, with most classic weapons of mass destruction having been abandoned. However, orbiting the Earth there is the European/American space station FLORIDA ARKLAB, capable of controlling the weather at any location on the planet underneath. A civil project by nature, it might be abused as an offensive weapon, since it could deliver devastation to any potential adversary simply by creating natural disasters such as storms and floods. No wonder the space station soon becomes the central point in rising political tensions between East and West, next stop World War 3 (as indicated by the tagline \"The end of our future has already begun\"). We follow the main protagonist Billy Hayes, an astronaut aboard the station, as he wades through a plot of secrecy and sabotage trying to tell friend from foe in the process.

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The U.S. Government has a new ground-based \"Star Wars\" weapon which is being tested in the remote bush country of Alaska. This new system manipulates the environment in a way which can: * Disrupt human mental processes. * Jam all global communications systems. * Change weather patterns over large areas. * Interfere with wildlife migration patterns. * Negatively affect your health. * Unnaturally impact the Earth's upper atmosphere. The U.S. military calls its zapper HAARP (High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program). But this sky buster is not about the Northern Lights. The device will turn on lights never intended to be artificially manipulated.

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The Weather War is a documentary/art film about man\u2019s attempts to control the weather and harness it for his own purposes. In a blend of land art performance and road movie, artist duo Bigert & Bergstr\u00f6m travel to the US tornado belt with their special machine-sculpture, the Tornado Diverter. The goal: To stop a tornado. Along the way, we see historical examples of how the science of meteorology developed in symbiosis with military goals and how these visions evolved into modern ideas of geo-engineering. Controversial ideas with socio-political consequences, spotlighting the big question of who is really entitled to modified weather.

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Psycho directed by Alfred Hitchcock has a scene where a person is flushing a toilet. This fact provided some shock effect, since toilets were virtually never seen in American cinema in the 1960s.

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Like the title of this question says, I want to know: which was the first movie to feature a person sitting on a toilet?

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Why I'm asking this? I think it's an interesting and funny fact.

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As a starting point, IMDB has a rather marvelous feature called \"keywords\" where users create tags for possible features of a film then tag films that contain such scenes or elements. It's a fun way to explore questions like this.

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Sitting on a toilet (126 titles) is indeed such a tag. If we sort that list by date, the earliest \"sitting on toilet\" film is, apparently, a 1968 French comedy about cannibals who run a vegetarian restaurant (no, really!), called A Taste For Women.

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If we take the list simply tagged \"toilet\" and sort it by date, IMDB believes the earliest film containing a toilet-related scene or plot was a German drama from 1924 called The Last Laugh, about a hotel doorman trying to deal with the indignity of being demoted to washroom attendant.

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Here's a list of the dizzying, worrying variety of IMDB keywords that contain the word \"toilet\", which range from Head in a toilet (32 titles) to Toilet twerking (just one title...).

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If you ever wanted to know the most popular film where toilet paper makes a notable appearance, according to IMDB, it's V For Vendetta. No, I don't remember the toilet paper scene, either, but some diligent IMDB user has tagged 148 films that include toilet paper. The internet is a wonderful and terrifying thing.

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Researching this question has given me a very strange recent internet browsing history... Fun fact: I found out about this feature after a talk by director Edgar Wright, who described reading his own films' IMDB profiles and cracking up in baffled hysterics on discovering which elements the people of IMDB felt worth tagging. For example, Shaun Of The Dead has among its \"plot keywords\" \"Cricket bat\", \"Arab grocer\" and \"Hip hop montage\".

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In the movie 'Fun with Dick and Jane' 1977, Jane Fonda sits down on a toilet whilst Dick is in the bathroom with her and the conversation is accompanied by the sound of pee hitting the water. I'm not sure that this was the first toilet but it's the first time I have heard a woman pee on a movie soundtrack.

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\n answered Jan 5, 2016 at 23:19\n
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1958 \"In the middle of the night\" with Frederick March and Kim Novak. There is even toilet paper in the shot too!

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\n answered Jun 28, 2017 at 1:59\n
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