Sentences with phrase «emmerich disaster flick»

The 2007 Season, the most glorious disaster flick of all.

During an early screening of Roland Emmerich's latest disaster flick 2012, which opens today, laughter erupted in the audience near the end of the film thanks to corny dialogue and maudlin scenes (among the biggest guffaw getters: a father tries to reconnect with his estranged son on the telephone, only to have the son's house destroyed just before he could say anything).

Check it out if you want to see a CGI sword - and - sandal disaster flick, but perhaps skip it if you bemoan any scientific inaccuracies whatsoever in modern cinema.

Probably the only film in recent months that has been even a little bit consciously political was the environmental disaster flick The Day After Tomorrow.

Featuring an all - star cast (Paul Newman, Steve McQueen), the movie delivers the goods of a well - crafted disaster flick, but strangely, it was nominated for the Best Picture Oscar.

The film is bound by studio convention and thus operates much more simply, but intelligently, as a grim summer disaster flick.

Disaster flick crosscutting reveals that — what are the odds?

But that newborn's crying is as aurally violent as anything you'll hear in a disaster flick or an action movie.)

Overwought and thinly sketched disaster flick but buoyed by a cast that delivers better than decent performances.

Most of the acting is atrocious and the special effects are bargain basement but if you enjoy either disaster flicks or thrillers it's okay.

The Rock (Dwayne Johnson, Furious Seven, 2015) is on a roll and makes big moves in the 3 - D disaster flick, San Andreas.

Thanks to USA Today, we've got a couple of new images from director Brad Peyton's (Journey 2: The Mysterious Island) upcoming disaster flick San Andreas, featuring Dwayne Johnson (Hercules) alongside Carla Gugino (Wayward Pines)... «After the infamous San Andreas Fault finally gives, triggering a magnitude 9 earthquake in California, a search and rescue helicopter pilot -LSB-...]

The disaster flick was one of the biggest hits of 1996 (second only to «Independence Day») and featured a good mix of thrills, laughs and some incredible special effects for its time.

Because it's Disney, and because of heavy promotion, people will flock to see this by - the - numbers disaster flick.

Films like these and performances like these are really nothing more than the type of acting required in a torture porn movie or a disaster flick.

This time around we take a look at Mamoru Hosoda's The Girl Who Leapt Through Time in a deluxe Blu - ray edition from FUNimation, Michael Felsher's Just Desserts in a stand - alone Blu - ray from Synapse Films, Jeremy Saulnier's critically acclaimed Green Room from Lionsgate Home Video, and finally Norwegian disaster flick The Wave from Magnolia Pictures.

The new movie Dante's Peak displays all the elements of the classic Hollywood disaster flick, circa 1975 Irwin Allen (with stomach - turning dialogue to match).

Daddario's presence alongside Johnson conjures the spirit of San Andreas, a disaster flick defined by its inadvertent hilarity.

Entertainingly laughable 70s disaster flick full of hysterical women and gruff manly men trying to escape a capsized ship.

Film Review by Kam Williams Spectacular Disaster Flick Depicts Real - Life Events Surrounding BP Oil Spill On April 20, 2010, the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig, located 41 miles off the coast of Louisiana, exploded when high - pressure methane gas blew out the drill pipe.

In the advertising for Brad Peyton «s natural disaster flick San Andreas, there's an unspoken promise.

Dwayne Johnson is about to light up our screens in new disaster flick SAN ANDREAS, and in the very near future the former wrestler...

The rest of the film can be rejected, even at the intellectually contemptible level of disaster flicks, for such inept conceptions as a volcano that throws fireballs nowhere except straight at the hotel, and a tidal wave that must be only about one block wide, for all that the tranquil sea views from just up the beach indicate; and for trembly special effects the like of which hasn't been seen since the DeLuxe Color Allens at the turn of the Sixties.

Those characters then do the same things they did in the other films, confirming the suspicion that this film could have been written by a computer programmed with the plots of the last hundred disaster flicks to make the screen.

Sci - fi sequel Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials, last week's top film, slipped to third place in its second week of release with $ 14m, for a total of $ 51.6 m. Disaster flick Everest opened in wide release at fourth place with $ 13m.

«Pompeii»: This Carrie - Ann Moss and Kit Harington disaster flick about ancient Rome feels like ancient history, but it actually hit theaters in Feb. 2014.

DVD Review by Kam Williams Disaster Flick Revisits Coast Guard 1952 Rescue off Cape Cod On February 18, 1952, one of the worst nor'easter s in history hit New England.

When: August 8th Why: It's been nearly 20 years since «Twister» was released in theaters and it still looks better than this CG - fueled disaster flick, which doesn't appear to be particularly interested in its human characters at all.

There are some amazing special effects that look like some of the better disaster flicks in the last few years.

Actor Dwayne Johnson returns to the big screen with the newest disaster flick San Andreas, a film that will no doubt continue Johnson's string of high budget, low payoff films that have plagued his career Read More →

The ten original numbers were composed by Al Kasha and Joel Hirschhorn, a team that had recently won Oscars for their collaborations on Irwin Allen disaster flicks The Poseidon Adventure and The Towering Inferno.

Arriving in the pre-9 / 11 wave of disaster flicks, this scene pretty much rewrote the rules.

Irwin Allen hit on a temporary solution with his series of disaster flicks.

The Bottom Line: My favorite pick because it's more a monster movie than a disaster flick, this intriguing tale from 1962 (based on the 1951 novel by John Wyndham, who also penned THE MIDWICH CUCKOOS that spawned VILLAGE OF THE DAMNED on the big screen) begins with a meteor shower that liberally spreads killer crawling plant creatures around the globe — with everyone who has seen the celestial show going permanently blind.

parodies isn't one that most of us new mutants on the block remember: the Airport disaster flicks.

Despite accusations of being a film snob, he has a weakness for dance movies and disaster flicks.

This indie disaster flick isn't bad, but as you can see in my review here, it's missing that extra bit that would result in a recommendation on my part.

overused effects but a great action / disaster flick.

Unfolding like a classic Seventies disaster flick, San Andreas serves up a smorgasbord ofreadily - identifiable archetypes: the musclebound hero, the effete coward, the damsel in distress, the terminally - nerdy professor, and so on, each played with perfect aplomb by a talented cast.

If you were afraid to swim in the ocean after watching Jaws, you might be just as reluctant to visit San Francisco after seeing this spectacular disaster flick.

San Andreas DVD Review by Kam Williams Earthquake Disaster Flick Released on DVD If you were afraid to swim in the ocean after watching Jaws, you might be just as reluctant to visit San Francisco after seeing this spectacular disaster flick.

It's just that, despite being based on fact, at times, the movie feels and plays like a formulaic disaster flick, with Banderas as the dynamic hero archetype.

That's because his performance helps elevate a film that is part transport disaster flick, part courtroom procedural - as the crash is investigated by sceptical authorities challenging the decision not to head to a nearby airport - into something better than the sum of its parts.

Pompeii wants to be a disaster flick but does a terrible job projecting the bone - chilling fright that should come with impending disaster.

There are countless tales to relate from this tragedy, and rather than focus on several in the schlocky manner of a»70s disaster flick, director Juan Antonio Bayona elected to center on the true - life story of María Belón and Enrique Alvarez, a Spanish couple on holiday with their three boys in Thailand when the tsunami hits.

This disaster flick depicts characters in very perilous situations and includes some sad and disturbing moments.

Baltasar Kormákur's EVEREST occupies a strange middle ground between insightful character study and over-the-top disaster flick, never quite succeeding at either.

Four years after his last effort - 2000's The Patriot - director Roland Emmerich returns with a big - budget disaster flick.

An inconsistent but mostly interesting disaster flick, The Day After Tomorrow demonstrates the usual strengths and weaknesses seen in the films of Roland Emmerich.

The Wave (R for profanity and shocking images) Disaster flick, set in the fjords of Norway, about a geologist's (Kristoffer Joner) race to save a tourist retreat nestled in a narrow valley from a giant tsunami about to crush everything in its path.