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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.
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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.
Not exact matches
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.
As he did with Saving Private Ryan and the war movie, Spielberg injects a genre we take for granted — the disaster epic — with the revivifying power of moral seriousness.
«The Towering Inferno» laid the foundation for good disaster movies to come, both in being huge budget and cast wise, and with great special effects that accompany a story that makes you glad you're not one of the people you're watching on the screen.
Fortunately for most audiences — although perhaps unfortunately for midnight - movie sadomasochists — The Disaster Artist leans heavily toward the latter, its sublime storytelling and central performances courtesy of Franco (as Wiseau) and his brother, Dave (as Sestero), twisting and then elevating The Room's ultimate legacy into something approaching high art.
However, San Andreas is a great example of how to put a disaster movie on film, the basic thin story and characters aside, this film definitely provides a great workout for your home theater system.
Apart from this one minor note, The Disaster Artist is the movie that The Room fans and lovers of movies about movies have been waiting for.
Half the pleasure of giant - monster movies is allowing our suspension of disbelief to buckle like a bridge in Godzilla's path, and true to form, the film saves a few gonzo twists (including one especially outlandish bonus mutation) for the grand finale — an extended set - piece in which the three creatures converge on Chicago, which has typically gotten off easy where natural disasters are concerned.
Unusually for a true story tragedy movie of its kind, it shows you the disaster from every angle it can think of
As The Disaster Artist (both the book and the movie) details, he made all sorts of bizarre, incompetent decisions, like shooting his movie on 35 - millimeter and digital film simultaneously at prohibitive expense, building elaborate and pricey sets for locations he could have filmed on for free, and firing crew members without cause at the drop of a hat.
The case could be made that The Disaster Artist is a little too sunny for a movie about a clearly damaged man whose lifelong drive to create something beautiful only led to his becoming a symbol of grand - scale failure.
THR finds the film to be «one of the most emotionally realistic disaster movies in recent memory — and certainly one of the most frightening,» and the AV Club's Noel Murray writes, «The Impossible confirms that Bayona is a major talent, with a skill for shooting and constructing sequences that build tension masterfully.»
Just in time for Geostorm, here is our ranking of natural disaster movies in the past 25 years.
It's certainly the most apt representation of the viewing experience for this Dwayne Johnson — starring creature feature, an epic disaster movie that sees a mutated gorilla, crocodile, and wolf tear apart downtown Chicago.
It is the director's respect for his audience and the lack of over sentimentality that makes this disaster movie an intriguing and satisfying addition to the genre.
Paul W.S. Anderson must have had «Titanic» playing on a loop for his cast and crew during the making of «Pompeii,» because the director's sword - and - sandals / disaster movie borrows heavily from the James Cameron drama.
These are some of the best parts of Peter Berg's workmanlike disaster movie: riggers checking in at a heliport before being flown out for their 21 - day shifts; a sore, tired - looking guy in safety - orange coveralls cracking a dumb joke; middle - aged men who pronounce «cement» as «see - ment» talking construction timetables; a visiting executive being asked to remove his magenta tie because of industry superstition.
It opens at a retirement party for a longtime mine worker, so we don't miss the Disaster Movie Irony of the old - timer nearly being buried alive on his last shift.
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.
«The Disaster Artist» takes a curiously long time to get to the actual making of «The Room,» and one might expect all that lead - up — during which Sestero and Wiseau move to L.A., where they share the latter's one - room pied à terre — to serve in establishing the foundation for the dysfunctional buddy movie this really ought to be.
Because that's what people to go the movies for, to see big budget recreations of disasters that are all too real.
It's also perfect for an action movie — chaos and disaster and all kinds of things for the remaining heroes to fly around trying to solve.
The star of last year's consensus anti-favorite once again demonstrates his unerring talent for finding lousy material — in this case, a singularly unthrilling disaster movie that sat on the shelf for two years after test audiences interpreted «disaster movie» another way.
For their other plot flaws, Peton and Cuse forget the golden rule of a disaster movie: no one is safe.
I thought it would be great for the movie to tell the story of what that disaster was.
A decade and a half after its disastrous Los Angeles premiere, «The Disaster Artist» is redemption for the best - worst movie of all time.
The last movie I want to mention before I hand off the mic to Amy is James Franco's The Disaster Artist, another film that performed the generous service of allowing me to forget everything else for a funny, moving, technically impressive two hours.
One of the most thunderously applauded entries in Toronto this year was itself a fascinating film about failure: «The Disaster Artist,» which revisits the making of that 2003 bad - movie classic, «The Room,» is a triumph for its prolific director and star, James Franco, best known of late for clogging the festival circuit with wan adaptations of «In Dubious Battle» and «The Sound and the Fury.»
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.
The discs open with trailers for upcoming disaster movie Geostorm and prequel comic book Skull Island: The Birth of Kong, followed by a promo for 4K Ultra HD.
In the Avengers movies, you actually welcome the long stretches where he's Bruce Banner, which was never quite the case for, say, the unfortunate Eric Bana, star of 2003's Ang Lee disaster.
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.
In that time the spoof genre has been repeatedly molested, with the likes of STAN HELSING, MEET THE SPARTANS and DISASTER MOVIE showing an absolute disregard for what was once known as comedy.
While the plot for the next San Andreas movie is top secret, the sequel is expected to include an even larger disaster including the Ring of Fire.
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.
From the alleged debate over the film's final cut between star Edward Norton and the studio, to the recent announcement that Norton would be snubbed a writing credit for his polish of Zak Penn's script, the movie was gearing up to be a publicity - fueled disaster.
There are plenty of cheesy TV movies that have cornered that market, and more than a handful of films that feature a meteor shower as the catalyst for disaster: NIGHT OF THE COMET (1984) brings about zombies, THE BLOB (1958, with the remake out in 1988) hitches a ride on a meteorite, THE MONOLITH MONSTERS (1957) delivers killer crystals, and a rogue comet in Stephen King's MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE (1986) prompts machines to come alive and attack uof cheesy TV movies that have cornered that market, and more than a handful of films that feature a meteor shower as the catalyst for disaster: NIGHT OF THE COMET (1984) brings about zombies, THE BLOB (1958, with the remake out in 1988) hitches a ride on a meteorite, THE MONOLITH MONSTERS (1957) delivers killer crystals, and a rogue comet in Stephen King's MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE (1986) prompts machines to come alive and attack uof films that feature a meteor shower as the catalyst for disaster: NIGHT OF THE COMET (1984) brings about zombies, THE BLOB (1958, with the remake out in 1988) hitches a ride on a meteorite, THE MONOLITH MONSTERS (1957) delivers killer crystals, and a rogue comet in Stephen King's MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE (1986) prompts machines to come alive and attack uOF THE COMET (1984) brings about zombies, THE BLOB (1958, with the remake out in 1988) hitches a ride on a meteorite, THE MONOLITH MONSTERS (1957) delivers killer crystals, and a rogue comet in Stephen King's MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE (1986) prompts machines to come alive and attack us.
Despite accusations of being a film snob, he has a weakness for dance movies and disaster flicks.
Looking at Anderson's recent credits — and really his entire resume for that matter — it's tough to imagine «Pompeii» being of a certain quality, but who can argue with a volcanic disaster movie starring John Snow?
James Franco for The Disaster Artist The Golden Globe - winning director and star of the comedy about the worst movie ever made was on a roll going in to the Oscar nominations, having picked up a Golden Globe, a Critics» Choice Award and a Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for playing the heavily accented auteur of The Room, Tommy Wiseau.
Such bad taste is par for the course in this Wayans Brothers production superficially patterned after Scary Movie, their hilarious spoof of horror films that inspired a host of take - the - money - and - run parodies of other genres, including Not Another Teen Movie, Date Movie, Epic Movie, Superhero Movie, Meet the Spartans and Disaster Movie.
The trailers were right for once — Alfonso Cuarón's disaster movie set in space is one of the year's best.
Tim Burton's latest fantastical oddity, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, earned a hefty $ 28.5 m at the US box office in its first weekend on release, but Peter Berg's acclaimed disaster movie Deepwater Horizon, about the 2010 oil rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico, failed to attract an audience.
Aaron Sorkin's directorial debut tells the fiendishly complicated story of how a very smart 26 - year - old named Molly Bloom (Chastain) came to operate a high - stakes gambling ring that pulled in Hollywood celebrities, Wall Street billionaires and Russian mobsters — a recipe not only for a very expensive disaster but also for a sensationally entertaining movie that maintains a tight grip on the audience over nearly 2 1/2 hours.
The movie star was onstage to accept the award for best actor in a comedy or musical for The Disaster Artist, in which he plays Wiseau during the making of The Room.
Typical for a disaster movie the cast is a cache of A-listers, B - listers and craggy types you have not seen in years (yep, George Segal certainly has changed from those late night Rollercoaster repeats).
A24 has unveiled the first trailer for the film The Disaster Artist, a fictional account of the making of the «best worst movie ever made» - The Room, as directed by Tommy Wiseau.
A24 has debuted the full - length official trailer for James Franco's The Disaster Artist, the film telling the story of infamous filmmaker Tommy Wiseau and his worst - movie - ever - made The Room (released in 2003).
A24 has released another new official trailer for James Franco's The Disaster Artist, the film telling the story of infamous filmmaker Tommy Wiseau and his worst - movie - ever - made The Room (released in 2003).