Sentences with phrase «point of a disaster movie»

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

Not exact matches

Yet it's beside the point: The achievement, at any age, is not simply to make a movie, which - as «The Disaster Artist» proved — is mostly a function of funding and persistence.

I still have at this point only heard bits of the real Wiseau speaking, and that's during the end credits of the movie, when they show the side - by - side scenes of the original film and The Disaster Artist's version.

An old - fashioned disaster movie, this film describes the all - too - plausible calamity of a collapsing fjord creating an all - destroying tsunami (which actually has happened several times in the past and will surely happen again at some point).

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.

Even the above - average cast — with Paul Giamatti livening things up as the requisite concerned - scientist / exposition - delivery - machine — can't seem to make it work as anything more than a series of reasons to get from point A to point B. Which should be fine, given that it's how disaster movies generally play, but Peyton can't sustain suspense past the first earthquake scene, set at Hoover Dam.

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.