San Andreas joins a long
list of disaster movies that have been hurtled our way over the past few years; from the heights of Irwin Allen's epics of the 1960s and 1970s (see The Towering Inferno, Earthquake, The Poseidon Adventure), to the more recent CGI affairs, most of which were thrown at the screen by German director Roland Emmerich (2012, The Day After Tomorrow).
Not exact matches
In the book (full title: The
Disaster Artist: My Life Inside «The Room,» the Greatest Bad
Movie Ever Made), Sestero recounts Wiseau's ridiculous antics during production,
of which there are way too many to
list, so let's just pick the best one.
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.»
The original «Poseidon Adventure» may have preceded it, but make no mistake: no matter where it places on this
list, «Inferno» is still used as a point
of reference for how to make a great
disaster movie.
Thus the failure to carry them along on the
disaster movie script and the
listing of climate change dead last in recent US polls.