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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.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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.

I get a kick out of the meteor / asteroid disaster movie subgenre, so here are a few fave guilty pleasure picks of the deadly fireball variety.

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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.

The only nominee that now looks out of place in such company is The Towering Inferno, a big budget, star - studded disaster movie from producer Irwin Allen, whose previous effort The Poseidon Adventure was more deserving of such acknowledgement.

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.

But who would have thought his adaptation of Greg Sestero's «The Disaster Artist,» an outrageous blow - by - blow account of the actor - turned - author's friendship with the aggressively untalented and infinitely enigmatic creator of one of the worst movies of this century — «The Room» writer - director - star Tommy Wiseau — would turn out to be the best and most professional entry on his own résumé?

The Disaster Artist, which is directed by James and out in wide release Friday, is a comedy chronicling the making of 2003's The Room — the film written by, starring, and directed by Tommy Wiseau, which has been christened both the worst movie ever made and, in the years since, a cult classic.

That is, until I talked to our own Zach Gayne and then read his review out of SXSW, which concluded: «The Disaster Artist is not only far funnier than you might expect, it's also far deeper than a film about the worst movie of the 21st century has any right to be.»

Nicolas Cage is twenty - one year vet McLoughlin while Crash - saint Michael Pena is rookie Jimeno; Maria Bello and Maggie Gyllenhaal, respectively, are their wives, and the events of the day play out in the style of an Irwin Allen disaster movie.

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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.

The documentary - style film isn't the kind of project that usually commands a nine - figure budget, but the 2010 oil rig disaster had elements straight out of a movie.

Video game maestro Chris Roberts should beat a hasty retreat to the computer monitors of the world as movie goers who unfortunately pay out good money will undoubtedly amaze themselves that they made it through this disaster, 1999's variation on Lost in Space.

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.

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Quick summary of stuff I've found out since: The making - of movie is based on a book by Tommy's best friend, Greg Sestero, who plays Mark in The Room (and who's played by Dave Franco in The Disaster Artist).

Good thing Hollywood didn't bite, because if they'd made it big, Tommy and Greg wouldn't have felt put - out and desperate enough to make their own movie, in which case there'd be no cult of The Room to speak of and, thus, no excuse for James Franco to do whatever the hell it is he's is doing in The Disaster Artist.

The man who made the abominable As I Lay Dying will surely be kept out of the Best Director race, but A24 giving The Disaster Artist an early December release date is proof they believe the movie can pick up nominations elsewhere.

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.

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.

What Get Out handles in its brief runtime and B - movie machinations is no less than the weight of all this dyed - in - the - wool American racial disaster.

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.

They stagger through the early reviews, then the claws come out for Disaster Movie, the most accurately named film of the year.

If you don't know the man behind the blacked out shades who made tuxedo football a midnight movie phenomenon, it helps to have a working knowledge of him and «The Room» before taking in «The Disaster Artist.»