Not exact matches
Big dumb
disaster movies like 2012 and small indies like The Divide (about an underground bunker full
of jerks who fail at survivalism but excel at destroying each other) and the upcoming apocalypse - themed Seth Rogen comedy The End
of The World are all surfing the trending death -
wave.
The Towering Inferno is a brawny blockbuster
of a
movie, by far the best
of the mid-1970s
wave of disaster films.
Audience members who have been trained to expect the «bigger is better» mentality
of modern
disaster movies might be constantly expecting something more — a second
wave, maybe, or, perhaps, a rockslide coming from another mountain in the area.
The past couple
of decades have seen the appearance
of so many gigantic CG
waves in big - budget
movies that they almost qualify as stock henchmen, popping up as bonus
disaster - porn footage in
movies that don't actually take place in the ocean or even on a shoreline.