Sentences with phrase «of disaster flicks»

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.

Laying siege to Earth's most beloved locations, this is Roland Emmerich's most perfect replica of the disaster flicks of the 1970s.

Irwin Allen hit on a temporary solution with his series of disaster flicks.

Arriving in the pre-9 / 11 wave of disaster flicks, this scene pretty much rewrote the rules.

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.

Not exact matches

You could see when that little knob was flicked — coming to the rescue during times of disaster, like floods, fires and other emergencies.

The 2007 Season, the most glorious disaster flick of all.

During an early screening of Roland Emmerich's latest disaster flick 2012, which opens today, laughter erupted in the audience near the end of the film thanks to corny dialogue and maudlin scenes (among the biggest guffaw getters: a father tries to reconnect with his estranged son on the telephone, only to have the son's house destroyed just before he could say anything).

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.

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.

It's just a recital of the disaster - flick images we've seen so many times before.

A workmanlike cross between a disaster movie and a caper - chase flick... the film never rises to the promise of its awesomely literal title.

The best of the 1990s disaster - flick revivals, and certainly a solid effort by the usual standards of its star (Stallone) and its hack director (Rob Cohen).

Most of the acting is atrocious and the special effects are bargain basement but if you enjoy either disaster flicks or thrillers it's okay.

Thanks to USA Today, we've got a couple of new images from director Brad Peyton's (Journey 2: The Mysterious Island) upcoming disaster flick San Andreas, featuring Dwayne Johnson (Hercules) alongside Carla Gugino (Wayward Pines)... «After the infamous San Andreas Fault finally gives, triggering a magnitude 9 earthquake in California, a search and rescue helicopter pilot -LSB-...]

The disaster flick was one of the biggest hits of 1996 (second only to «Independence Day») and featured a good mix of thrills, laughs and some incredible special effects for its time.

Because it's Disney, and because of heavy promotion, people will flock to see this by - the - numbers disaster flick.

Films like these and performances like these are really nothing more than the type of acting required in a torture porn movie or a disaster flick.

The new movie Dante's Peak displays all the elements of the classic Hollywood disaster flick, circa 1975 Irwin Allen (with stomach - turning dialogue to match).

Daddario's presence alongside Johnson conjures the spirit of San Andreas, a disaster flick defined by its inadvertent hilarity.

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.

Entertainingly laughable 70s disaster flick full of hysterical women and gruff manly men trying to escape a capsized ship.

Film Review by Kam Williams Spectacular Disaster Flick Depicts Real - Life Events Surrounding BP Oil Spill On April 20, 2010, the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig, located 41 miles off the coast of Louisiana, exploded when high - pressure methane gas blew out the drill pipe.

Those characters then do the same things they did in the other films, confirming the suspicion that this film could have been written by a computer programmed with the plots of the last hundred disaster flicks to make the screen.

Sci - fi sequel Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials, last week's top film, slipped to third place in its second week of release with $ 14m, for a total of $ 51.6 m. Disaster flick Everest opened in wide release at fourth place with $ 13m.

The particular thing that The Disaster Artist is adding to the annals of sib flicks is a winking riff that's palpable.

DVD Review by Kam Williams Disaster Flick Revisits Coast Guard 1952 Rescue off Cape Cod On February 18, 1952, one of the worst nor'easter s in history hit New England.

The Chilean mining disaster of 2010 becomes a tacky but agreeable genre flick led by Antonio Banderas.

There are some amazing special effects that look like some of the better disaster flicks in the last few years.

Actor Dwayne Johnson returns to the big screen with the newest disaster flick San Andreas, a film that will no doubt continue Johnson's string of high budget, low payoff films that have plagued his career Read More →

The pair star in the new flick, The Disaster Artist, a behind - the - scenes look at the making of The Room, with James also directing the film.

The Bottom Line: My favorite pick because it's more a monster movie than a disaster flick, this intriguing tale from 1962 (based on the 1951 novel by John Wyndham, who also penned THE MIDWICH CUCKOOS that spawned VILLAGE OF THE DAMNED on the big screen) begins with a meteor shower that liberally spreads killer crawling plant creatures around the globe — with everyone who has seen the celestial show going permanently blind.

parodies isn't one that most of us new mutants on the block remember: the Airport disaster flicks.

Despite accusations of being a film snob, he has a weakness for dance movies and disaster flicks.

«The Wave» — This is a creative concept for a thriller as it presents a scenario that's devoid of general disaster - flick cliche.

Master of disaster Roland Emmerich screened the first clip from his ultimate global destruction flick 2012.

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.

Easily the breeziest of the Marvel flicks, Ant - Man had all the makings of a disaster.

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.

«Dance Flick» should, theoretically, set itself apart from «Epic Movie,» «Disaster Movie» and every other sub-subpar genre parody of recent years.

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.

There are countless tales to relate from this tragedy, and rather than focus on several in the schlocky manner of a»70s disaster flick, director Juan Antonio Bayona elected to center on the true - life story of María Belón and Enrique Alvarez, a Spanish couple on holiday with their three boys in Thailand when the tsunami hits.

An inconsistent but mostly interesting disaster flick, The Day After Tomorrow demonstrates the usual strengths and weaknesses seen in the films of Roland Emmerich.

A workmanlike cross between a disaster movie and a caper - chase flick (complete with a climactic 18 - wheeler duel on an endless stretch of straight road that wouldn't be out of place in the more recent Fasts and Furiouses), the film never rises to the promise of its awesomely literal title.

The Wave (R for profanity and shocking images) Disaster flick, set in the fjords of Norway, about a geologist's (Kristoffer Joner) race to save a tourist retreat nestled in a narrow valley from a giant tsunami about to crush everything in its path.

The reality, however, is that this is still nothing more than a big - budget Hollywood studio disaster flick about gargantuan genetically mutated animals destroying Chicago, and trying to say the picture is more than that would just be a waste of breath.

Peerce was already years ahead of American culture's comfort curve by 1967 (in the ensuing decades, his more prominent titles include a meager attempt at mounting Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar, the Oscar nominated disaster flick Two Minute Warning and the two The Other Side of the Mountain films).

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.

Ensemble disaster flicks give me what I want: a bunch of actors I like and shit getting destroyed.

The observance of Independence Day: Resurgence has just begun, but Roland Emmerich is already working on his next disaster flick.