Sentences with phrase «disaster films»

These are not natural disaster films where the destruction is devastating, instead the Godzilla pictures end happily as Godzilla defeats another monster that threatened to destroy the Earth and he swims back to his isolated sanctuary on Monster Island; in the next movie Japan is rebuilt with no mention of its previous downfall.

In his new series of work for the Video section, multidisciplinary American artist Jacolby Satterwhite explores blockbuster movie tropes, disaster films and queer eroticism in a futuristic suite of films En Plein Air Abstraction (2016), featuring floating mechanics glidi ng over sci - fi inspired global disaster zones.

There is the danger of any agglomeration of stuff tipping over into what Saltz called «clusterfuck esthetics» — «the practice of mounting sprawling, often infinitely organized, jam - packed carnivalesque installations,» which, he wrote in 2005, «is making more and more galleries and museums feel like department stores, junkyards, and disaster films.»

Eiji Ishida: I decided to make Antarctica the stage for this game to pay respects to the vaunted tradition in science - fiction disaster films where the majority of the «unprecedented danger» starts in Antarctica.

The documentary film Cane Toads covers the subject, and it is one of the most entertaining disaster films you are ever likely to witness; I highly recommend it.

Like many other disaster films that came before it, Rollercoaster features an all - star cast, although in this case, it's not quite as impressive as most.

Roland Emmerich, the king of disaster films makes yet another falling building, explosion filled action / comedy extravaganza with White House Down.

Every list of disaster films needs a volcano movie, and when you get right down to it, the competition is really only between this and «Dante's Peak.»

Where most disaster films will follow many storylines, San Andreas essentially has two.

Maybe L.A. is always a target in disaster films because, well, this is where films are made, so there's an affinity.

Some people have been calling The Day After Tomorrow a throwback to the Irwin Allen disaster films of the 1970s (The Poseidon Adventure, The Towering Inferno), but in reality, it is more of a throwback to the disaster films of the 1990s (Armageddon, Deep Impact).

Whereas Allen's films were primarily epic tales of human valor in the face of certain calamity, the new crop of disaster films are meant merely as a showcase of mind - blowing, earth - shattering special effects first, while the little stories of personal peril are merely filler to tie together the prolonged scenes of mass destruction.

While following the format of recent pre-wedding disaster films such as Bridesmaids (Paul Feig, 2011) and The Hangover (Todd Phillips, 2009), Bachelorette is possibly better thought of as a darker and more painful spin on films such as Romy and Michele's High School Reunion (David Mirkin, 1997).

A throwback of sorts to the disaster films of the 1970s, «Sanctum» follows a group of Australian divers exploring an underwater cave in Papua New Guinea.

More pathogen canisters might be out there, and the Golden Gate Bridge always takes it on the concrete chin in disaster films.

The real story behind one of the most notorious disaster films — and not the kind Dwayne Johnson saves the world in.

The characters are a microcosm brought together for survival, like a precursor to the many disaster films that would become a staple of cinema in future decades.

But while summer spectacles have grown ever larger in recent years, the monster movie — the original city - smashing genre — has mostly ceded the multiplexes to superheroes and more apocalyptic disaster films.

One of the things that San Andreas benefits from is that it only focuses on a few different characters instead of the usually large amount that populate these disaster films; spending more time with them makes it easier to root for the likable ones.

In the 1970's Kennedy appeared in the popular disaster films (the «Airport» franchise, Earthquake, etc), before turning his career on its ear by jumping into the Naked Gun spoof films.

There are the usual situations in disaster films, such as pregnant women, children, pets and missing people, but here you find unusual incidents to keep your interest.

Love me some good disaster films.

Maybe I'll check it out one day, disaster films at sea aren't really my thing though.

One of the principal differences between the new disaster films (at least those not directed by Wolfgang Petersen) and the originals is that the new ones anthropomorphize their disasters.

2012 is a film in keeping with such formulaic disaster films as Independence Day, Godzilla and The Day After Tomorrow.

San Andreas doesn't have much interest in the lives lost during its sequence of catastrophes, but it does dole out plenty of the large - scale spectacle that matters in disaster films of this type.

The best disaster films leave you wondering how you would cope faced with such tremendous adversity and impossible odds on survival in the wake of a completely unexpected event.

As is the case with most disaster films, this screenplay provides an ample selection of characters — storm - fodder, if you will.

There are no escapist thrills like the pre-9 / 11 disaster films, but a cloying message of what matters most.

But in terms of critical and commercial success, the important disaster films are solemn events.

Granted, there are still some fun disaster films out there.

It sounds silly, but the point of older disaster films is the disaster itself, not the characters who succumb to it.

Disaster films, or films about fresh national wounds, do not have to be this way.

Now lets be honest here, there is a standard setup for disaster films which is usually always followed and somehow keeps on working.

Under the category of adventure films, we can include traditional swashbucklers, serialized films, and historical spectacles (similar to the epics film genre), searches or expeditions for lost continents, «jungle» and «desert» epics, treasure hunts and quests, disaster films, and heroic journeys or searches for the unknown.

Todd knows what he's talking about, and The Wave is certainly one of the most intelligent disaster films of recent years.

Curiously, bar the middling Opening Night Eurasiapudding, A Prayer for Rain (Ravi Kumar), none of the disaster films from this section that I caught were terribly well attended.

This is definitely one of the most effective and emotionally affecting disaster films I've seen in a long time.

Disaster films take no prisoners.

How are Hellboy, Iron Man, Incredible Hulk, Juno, High School Musical, Kung Fu Panda etc. disaster films?

The Towering Inferno is a brawny blockbuster of a movie, by far the best of the mid-1970s wave of disaster films.

The Towering Inferno is one of the first of many disaster films that followed during the 1970's.

Their disaster films follow the same strict formula as every disaster film that came before.

For all the ethical abandon with which some disaster films kill off their characters, the perspective they can afford is accurate.

But in our rush to turn every conceivable conflict into a colossal one, we've forgotten what disaster films, at their best, can offer.

Disaster films nearly always contain some not - so - subtle commentary on our mistreatment of the environment, but this one was so topical upon its release that it could have been shown as a double - feature with An Inconvenient Truth.

And though it's difficult to imagine Tarkovsky lining up for a Roland Emmerich film, his aphorism describes the potential toward which great disaster films can aspire.

No list of disaster films would be complete without some Bayhem.

It's the season of the disaster film.

Independence Day set the stage for the modern disaster film, lending new levels of visual spectacle (the film picked up an Oscar for visual effects) and global appeal to the genre.