Sentences with phrase «of a disaster movie»

To say that 2012 is the «mother of all disaster movies» would be both a true statement and an insult to disaster movies.

The point of a disaster movie is to have exactly the same script as every other disaster movie.

Shouldn't a film called Disaster Movie involve, oh I don't know, some kind of disaster movie parodies?

Independence Day director Roland Emmerich appears to have stumbled into an entirely different sort of disaster movie as LGBT organizations are calling for a boycott of his new film, Stonewall.

What do you do when you put Titanic, Gladiator, all sort of disaster movies into a blender... Well, you'll get Pompeii, a film that is so utterly derivative of all films that have gone before it, but somehow made with such enthusiasm by Paul W.S. Anderson, the king of «schlock» cinema that you'll find it somewhat enjoyable.

Say what you will about Peter Berg's determination to be the Patron Saint of American Grit, he made one hell of a disaster movie for the final 40 minutes of Deepwater Horizon.

Alas, 34 1/2 minutes in, it instantly assumes the makings of a disaster movie as an earthquake strikes the Valparaíso hot spot where the guys are mostly striking out.

tape the paper to your tv and haver the most annoying person in the world read the script you banged on ur keyboard and u have an Oscar worthy film if an Oscar judge just walked out of disaster movie.

PS: It was the premiere of disaster movie and I felt the movie had cost me a fortune to see it.

A lot of the action sequences are lifted straight out of Resident Evil, and its basic tropes are a somewhat unstable mixture of disaster movie and political thriller.

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As much as «Everest» trades in a kind of authenticity, it also trucks in the most banal of disaster movie clichés; for instance, one of the principal characters in the trek is leaving behind a pregnant wife.

San Andreas works as both a disaster movie and as a stirring appreciation of disaster movies of the past.

Of course, these are minor victories and Left Behind can only be categorized as a disaster of a disaster movie.

This spoof comedy takes shots at the slew of disaster movies that were released in the 70s.

For their other plot flaws, Peton and Cuse forget the golden rule of a disaster movie: no one is safe.

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

One of the few noteworthy offerings following the post-70s boom of disaster movies was the thoughtful and still entertaining Deep Impact (1998).

Neither does «Pompeii,» an epic without stars that staggers along as a bad version of «Spartacus» (the cable show, not even the movie) before turning into a videogame version of a disaster movie, all tiny running figures and big fiery projectiles.

It's funniest when the film - makers appropriate the filmic language of the disaster movie, in a savage sequence set in a suburban kitchen.

The monster is also the secondary focus of writer / director Hideaki Anno's screenplay, much in the same way that the earthquakes, tornadoes, hurricanes, meteors, etc. of disaster movies are just a narrative rationale for drama.

Once again, Friedberg and Seltzer prove they didn't even try (I'm almost certain I said the same thing about these guys in my review of Disaster Movie).

As for the script, though, you almost suspect the film of playing arch games with the flatness of disaster movie dialogue, daring us to yawn or giggle:

But that ham - fisted approach feels at home in the territory of the disaster movie — its largeness and its wide universality make that it seems oddly satisfying.

Things improve a bit when the school slides into the storm - tossed ocean, and director Shaw is able to tack his quips and gags on to the frame of a disaster movie.

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).

Then there's the fish - out - of - water English boy abroadBen (Hugo Johnstone - Burt — actually Australian and another Home and Away alumni), and his pubescent younger brother Ollie (Art Parkinson), both thrown in to appeal to the younger members of the audience and to create a little teenage angst in this rather messy, too - heavy - on - the - CGI (which is very ropey in places), cheesy dialogue - laden, Michael Bay-esque monster of a disaster movie.

With last week's rather dismal performance by Wolfgang Petersen's remake of «The Poseidon Adventure» — Josh Lucas gnashed his teeth so much, he looked like a rabid dog — it appears that we have seen the death of the disaster movie for the foreseeable future, if not for good.

Before the New Wave of disaster movies launched in 1996, it was all about the Ebola.

Adapted from the first book in Rick Yancey's 2013 - 2016 trilogy, The 5th Wave opens with a bit of post-apocalypticism, then journeys back to normal times, then takes on the form of a disaster movie to explain this apocalypse.

You're scurrying around inside a modest iteration of a disaster movie, pushing forward when instructed, waiting when instructed, holding the triggers and buttons when instructed.

It's hardly the stuff of disaster movies.

That in turn set Mark thinking about the heyday of the disaster movie...

An asteroid of this size might make one think of disaster movies, such as «Armageddon»; however, «rather than destroying the Earth, it could be used to help mankind,» Bewick said.

Outside of the context of a disaster movie, we probably can not expect a comparably dramatic resolution to our feelings of envy, instead we can practice productively engaging with the emotion.

He also talks about how this is a different kind of disaster movie than «San Andreas», working with real gorillas, and more.

The mother of all disaster movies (and the father, and the extended family) spends half an hour on ominous set - up scenes (scientists warn, strange events occur, prophets rant and of course a family is introduced) and then unleashes two hours of cataclysmic special events hammering the Earth relentlessly.

What do you do when you put Titanic, Gladiator, all sort of disaster movies into a blender... Well, you'll get Pompeii, a film that is so utterly derivative of all films that have gone before it, but somehow made with such enthusiasm by Paul

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.

Along the way, «2012» becomes the mother of all disaster movies, with a little «Poseidon Adventure» here, a little «Earthquake» there, a dash of «Airport,» a whole lot of «Towering Infernos.»

It's foolish to expect anything too serious from one of his disaster movies.