Sentences with phrase «disaster flicks»

Apparently grad students are to disaster flicks what Security people are to away - teams.

Curious zeitgeist we find ourselves in, this mad desire to erase the past (and note a recent run of disaster flicks as well) and start anew.

I grew up watching disaster flicks like the Towering Inferno, Earthquake, and the Poseidon Adventure.

Let's face it, we all must love disaster flicks because Roland Emmerich still has a job.

When you venture into made - for - TV disaster flicks, you're swimming in some seriously crap - infested waters.

Disaster flicks, most of them apocalyptic and fantastical, are usually laced with cheap thrills and mediocre acting.

Despite some engaging disaster porn, it's still pretty overlong, and you can see entire characters and plot progressions lifted wholesale from Emmerich's previous disaster flicks (Independence Day, Godzilla, and The Day After Tomorrow).

Laying siege to Earth's most beloved locations, this is Roland Emmerich's most perfect replica of the disaster flicks of the 1970s.

They were cheapies, by and large, although with The Swarm director Irwin Allen tried to pull off the same broad settings and large aging - star cast he'd managed in his previous disaster flicks.

Ensemble disaster flicks give me what I want: a bunch of actors I like and shit getting destroyed.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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...

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.

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 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.

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.