People love a good con film or heist movie or caper flick. They also love Robert Redford and Paul Newman. What happens when you put that all together? You get 1973’s “The Sting.” While the movie is a throwback in many ways, it was still a big success at the time and has continued to have a fine reputation.
With "Geostorm" poised to lay waste to multiplexes this Friday, now's as good a time as any to ask why we love watching the utter obliteration of vehicles, buildings, cities, continents and whole planets.