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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.
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Shawn Levy, who directed such lucrative disasters as the Steve Martin remakes of The Pink Panther and Cheaper by the Dozen, has been brought in by Steven Spielberg to make this conflation of The Champ (the 1931 tearjerker about a drunken boxer redeemed by his long - estranged son, Jackie Cooper) and Rollerball, the futuristic action flick built around a violent popular sport.
The film is bound by studio convention and thus operates much more simply, but intelligently, as a grim summer disaster flick.
But that newborn's crying is as aurally violent as anything you'll hear in a disaster flick or an action movie.)
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.
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.
«The Wave» — This is a creative concept for a thriller as it presents a scenario that's devoid of general disaster - flick cliche.
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.
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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.
is based on a rather unsavory series of trading cards released by Topps in the 1950s, and it takes its cues from the same sources as this summer's Independence Day — old alien invasion flicks, disaster movies, and big - budget special effects extravaganzas.
James Franco stars as the filmmaker while his brother Dave Franco plays Greg Sestero in «The Disaster Artist»; a comedic retelling of Sestero's 2013 memoir and a look at the making of this iconic flick.
Maybe the myth of the Hollywood disaster - action flick has been exploded one too many times in real life on tv, YouTube and the video phone to function as cathartic of our repressed fears and internalized anxieties.
This week on Alcohollywood, we're watching the 1997 disaster flick Dante's Peak, starring Pierce Brosnan and The Terminator «s Linda Hamilton as a rockstar volcanologist and -LSB-...]