Sentences with phrase «disaster movies»

Then Vic Matus took his place, and we talked»70s disaster movies, sitcoms, and the depiction of male - on - female cinematic assault among other things.

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.

Even though director Jean Pellerin milks as much suspense out of the script and characters as possible, anyone who remembers those cheesy ABC Movie of the Week disaster movies from the early seventies and «Daylight» with Sylvester Stallone will recognize every plot point.

Their post-2008-crash descendants, such as Margin Call, are more akin to disaster movies.

Disaster movies, which pre-date the zeitgeist's fascination with a world falling apart around us, are always great measures of the state of the Hollywood art of special effects.

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.

Surely they get American disaster movies in Norway, but maybe we should forgive the man who's worried about the tourist trade, because it's possible there isn't a movie theater in the village.

And underground, we have the stalwart chosen leader alternately battling his comrades in between giving them inspirational talks, as well as the standard personality conflicts separating some of the miners and the usual setbacks associated with these kind of disaster movies.

The CG spectacle just leaves me cold and even within this shoddy genre there was a kind of microcosm of humanity displayed in those early disaster movies that really isn't present in these newer versions.

This is a spoof of the airport disaster movies.

In the past decade, film spoofs have all been a bit too obvious — scary movies, superhero movies, disaster movies (which apparently include Juno, go figure).

Maybe the little Indian boy's dog doesn't die when the big bad tornados threaten all of Mumbai — despite our general acceptance of millions of humans biting the dust in these things — but disaster movies might have just flatlined with director and co-writer Dean Devlin's chaotically stupid bid to emulate his old partner, catastrophe peddler Roland Emmerich.

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When an uncredited A-lister turns up to kickstart the third act, Interstellar begins to feel more like those disaster movies that Irwin Allen used to make, bulging with enough star wattage to keep our eyes on the screen and not rolling to the back of our heads.

Director Robert Zemeckis is no stranger to air disaster movies (recall «Cast Away» with Tom Hanks).

You've got your Volcano and Dante's Peak, you've got Deep Impact and Armageddon, and for those of you who don't see Disaster Movies as the be-all end - all of the cinematic form you've got Capote and Infamous... in which that southern writer was tossed at New York Society like a killer meteorite from outer space.

The great critical mind Roger Ebert observed that «disaster movies always have little vignettes of everyday life.»

Perhaps even watching clips from disaster movies?

Not content with a lack of disaster movies, Mr Dwayne Johnson is bringing it back - Faults and all - as SAN ANDREAS looks...

However, The Day After Tomorrow also comes with a recommendation (albeit a half - hearted one) because it has one vital ingredient that Emmerich's other disaster movies sorely lacked: A sense of fun and bouncy spirit.

In spite of the film's subject, it is very slow - moving and lacking in the excitement of the big disaster movies.

After all, the story does have a love triangle and some scenes of societal decay that Hollywood disaster movies specialize in and hey!

Disappointingly, the revelations of the beginning have been better handled in several recent disaster movies, the much - pilloried Independence Day one of them.

Reading The Day After Tomorrow as a 9/11 film, in fact, adds another level of polemical discussion in that the film's Vice President Becker (Dick Cheney ringer Kenneth Welsh) emerges as the «I don't believe you» villain endemic to disaster movies and, in this way, at least partly responsible for the number of casualties suffered on behalf of his myopia.

San Andreas doesn't follow the playbook used by the likes of Towering Inferno and The Poseidon Adventure (or more recently, Into The Storm), the cast - attrition disaster movies where a group of survivors is whittled away one by one, often via heroic sacrifice or cowardly mistakes.

With a solid R rating in a decade of safer disaster movies, there's still plenty of good reasons to go back into the lake.

I guess it's not all that different from one of our slasher or disaster movies, but it's just so short on class, taste, and intelligence.

After the dramatic real - life disaster of September 11 2001 there was a lot of speculation in the media about how Hollywood would probably lay off making disaster movies like Deep Impact and Independence Day for a while.

One of the most famous instances occurred in the summer of 1996 when two dueling disaster movies, «Armageddon» and «Deep Impact,» arrived on the movie scene within two months of one another.

First doesn't always mean better in terms of release dates (both the disaster movies and Snow White films battles above prove that), but there's always the danger that audiences will view a second similar movie as a copycat.

Although disaster movies don't resonate particularly well in the theaters, it doesn't stop studios from making them.

Audiences seem to want disaster movies, and Twister delivers the typical formula: Tiny plot — big action.

If you enjoy shots of dogs leaping to safety from flaming near - doom in disaster movies, steel your eyes.

It seems Godzilla, Independence Day and The Day After Tomorrow didn't satisfy his yearning to destroy everything in his path, given Roland Emmerich has attempted to return disaster movies to their earlier glory with 2012.

Disaster movies such as Airplane!

The tropes are familiar from disaster movies.

Time was when virtually all disaster movies were essentially character studies, and examined (with varying degrees of success) how extreme circumstances bring out the best and the worst in human beings.

The film sets up some of the main characters early on pretty much in the same way we've seen in countless disaster movies, but it takes a real turn after the bombing and chronicles the incredibly complex and far - reaching operation that immediately went into effect.

Monster movies, disaster movies, chick flicks, tearjerkers, conspiracy thrillers, they all have people who love them regardless of their financial viability at the box office.

Now that «B» movies have moved into «A» positions — films based on comic - book characters, etc. — it's more difficult to find guilty pleasures, but I still have a soft spot for most disaster movies.

This utterly formulaic throwback to the disaster movies of yesteryear is 1997's good volcano movie, the one in which a big ol' volcano pokes its nose out from the La Brea tar pits and vomits lava all over some pricy downtown Los Angeles real estate.

Why are disaster movies so frequently disasters?

This seems to be the first of many studio tent - pole disaster movies heading our way this summer, with the likes

-- the clever spoof of those omnipresent 1970s disaster movies.

Released: March 4th Cast: Kristoffer Joner, Thomas Bo Larsen, Fridtjov Såheim Director: Roar Uthaug (Escape) Why it's great: There was a time when «epic» disaster movies didn't rely on the end of the world.

Because disaster movies are easy.

If you like disaster movies, you might as well give this one a look; it's not like there's a bunch of great ones to watch instead.

But Allen did perfect the survivalist formula that propelled many disaster movies (and countless horror movies since), in which an assortment of characters band together under the leadership of one shrewd and decisive individual to escape from an enclosed space before time runs out.

Sure, this is cheesy, but it's also pretty fun - like all disaster movies should be.

Disaster movies!