History Film / Greenland

* WhileRomeBurns: John comes across a group of twenty somethings partying on the roof of a building. As yet another fragment of Clarke hits Earth they actually raise their drinks in a toast, mocking the comet.

* ApocalypseHow: Civilization is wrecked, but humanity survived.

** The fragment that hits Tampa, being as large as a football stadium, apparently manages to make landfall without anyone knowing about it until it actually hits. In real life, NASA and other space agencies around the world can accurately track the trajectory of most objects larger than a house, so something the size of the fragment in question would be quickly identified and its movements estimated.
*** Given that the entire "recruit people to re-establish society after the end" plan would have taken lots of time to implement, it seems plausible that the government had some idea of how bad things were going to become, and may have known that Tampa would be hit - but kept quiet to reduce societal disruption.

* DidntSeeThatComing: Crossing with ArtisticLicenseAstronomy, Clarke is only discovered as a cluster of objects about to impact Earth right as it's arriving in the orbit and one of its pieces (the size of a stadium, mind you) obliterates Florida. Apparently nobody knew this was going to happen, including all of NASA and the people literally watching it, until it landed.
** The call for evacuees from Homeland Security coming immediately after this disaster is televised provides a subtle hint that the government did indeed see this coming, and was preparing. The public is caught completely by surprise, however.

''Greenland'' is a 2020 disaster film directed by Ric Roman Waugh.

No relation to the [[NonIndicativeName barren]] [[UsefulNotes/{{Denmark}} Danish]] colony of the same name

** After an impact of that magnitude the people in the bunkers wouldn't be coming out to an inhabitable Earth in 9 months. The primary effects alone (the firestorms, extreme temperatures, ashfall) would take ''years'' to resolve. The secondary effects (ash in the upper atmosphere, a new Ice Age, huge amounts of toxic gasses released into the atmosphere) would take ''decades to centuries''. And even after that, the planet still would be mostly lifeless except in the deep seas and the tiny number of protected enclaves. Humanity might survive, but it would be a very, very hard road ahead, and it would be quite possible that ''generations'' would have to live their lives underground before it was safe to emerge.

** After an impact of that magnitude the people in the bunkers wouldn't be coming out to an inhabitable Earth in 9 months. The primary effects alone (the firestorms, extreme temperatures, ashfall) would take ''years'' to resolve. The secondary effects (ash in the upper atmosphere) would take ''decades''. And even after that, the planet still would be mostly lifeless except in the deep seas and the tiny number of protected enclaves. Humanity might survive, but it would be a very, very hard road ahead, and it would be quite possible that ''generations'' would have to live their lives underground before it was safe to emerge.

** Sydney, Australia, is shown as one of the destroyed cities, along with Chicago and Mexico City. For these three cities to be wiped out, presumably by a shockwave, the comet would have to be substantially larger for the shockwave to remain strong enough to devastate these locations... and for quite obvious reasons, humanity probably wouldn’t survive such a collision that led to effects in such disparate locations.

** If you were close enough to see a meteor ''nine miles'' in diameter blazing across the sky at the altitude depicted, you would be dead just from the shockwave its passage would bring. ''Nobody'' still above ground who witnessed that would live to tell the tale. One of the few times where RuleOfDrama is involked, as the sight of Clarke's largest fragment screaming toward impact is one of the most striking in the movie.

** If you were close enough to see a meteor ''nine miles'' in diameter blazing across the sky at the altitude depicted, you would be dead just from the shockwave its passage would bring. Nobody above ground who witnessed that would survive.

* OnlyTheWorthyMayPass: The US evacuation is only for those both in good health and with knowledge/skills that will be useful in the post-apocalypse. Out of shape, disabled, unskilled? You stay behind and jAust die.

* DeadlineNews: When the first meteor fragment is landing, a news helicopter has its eye on to watch the fragment pass over. It doesn't, and instead, the crew gets caught in the shockwave before the broadcast cuts out. Also happens to someone livestreaming the aftermath of another impact when a second meteor comes down right on top of them.

* OnlyTheWorthyMayPass: The US evacuation is only for those both in good health and with knowledge/skills that will be useful in the post-apocalypse. Out of shape, disabled, unskilled? You stay behind and just die.

* WhileRomeBurns: John comes across a group of twenty somethings partying on the roof of a building. As yet another fragment of Clarke hits Earth they actually raise their drinks in a toast, mocking the comet

* StuffBlowingUp: When rocks are falling from space and burning up in the atmosphere, ''and'' they are large enough to reach the ground, this tends to happen.

* RecycledInSpace: It's ''Film/TwentyTwelve''... WITH METEORS!

* RestrictedRescueOperation: The US rescue operation is ''very'' restricted, hand picking only the citizens that are both in near-perfect health ''and'' have a skill useful for rebuilding the world. One soldier informs the group that over 99% of even military personnel are being left to die.

** The ending sequence shows that the comet itself slams somewhere into Eastern Europe, sending a gigantic shockwave rushing across the continent and towards Greenland, yet the aftermath shows Paris destroyed, but still recognisable; in reality, Paris - along with great swathes of Europe - would have quite literally been wiped off the map, leaving nothing but dust and hunks of scattered molten metal and rock.

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: The meteor hits, and practically annihilates all life on Earth. However, 9 months later, the ash and fallout begins to settle. We not only see the survivors of the Greenland bunker emerge and find a flock of birds flying about, but can also hear radio chatter of five different bunkers around the world beginning to communicate, signaling that society will rebuild.]]

* StuffBlowingUp: When rocks are falling from space and burning up in the atmosphere, ''and'' they are large enough to reach the ground, this tends to happen.
* WhatAnIdiot: [[spoiler:Ralph's pathetic plan to save himself and his wife would have failed one way or another.]]
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** The ending sequence shows that the comet itself slams somewhere into Eastern Europe, sending a gigantic shockwave rushing across the continent and towards Greenland, yet the aftermath shows Paris destroyed, but still recognisable; in reality, Paris - along with great swathes of Europe - would have quite literally been wiped off the map, leaving nothing but dust and hunks of scattered molten metal rock.

* DirtyCoward: [[spoiler: Ralph. When he realises Allison and Nathan both have wristbands on (meaning they were selected) he decides to kidnap Nathan and steal Allison's so he and his wife can pose as Nathan's parents, abandoning Allison by the side of the road. Fortunately thanks to Nathan, he's swiftly caught by soldiers at the first checkpoint they come across.]]

* KnowWhenToFoldEm: Judy Vento's husband Ralph [[spoiler: kidnaps Nathan and steals Allison's wristband to their way onto a plane. Judy reluctantly keeps up the façade, but when the gig is up, she doesn't bother trying to keep it up and tells the military to just get Nathan onto a plane to safety]].

* SceneryGorn: Yup. That's the Sydney Opera, the Metropolitan Cathedral, the Eiffel Tower, and Wrigley Field in the aftermath shots following the impact.

* RecycledInSpace: It's Film/TwentyTwelve... WITH METEORS!

* ActionDad: John. [[spoiler: He ''kills'' a man who tries to take his wristband.]]

* SceneryGorn: Yup. That's the Sydney Opera , the Metropolitan Cathedral, the Eiffel Tower, and Wrigley Field in the aftermath shots following the impact.