Category: Disaster Movies
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Desperate Hours (1990)
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Read more: Desperate Hours (1990)It’s funny to me when the parody becomes much more well known, more important even, than the original.
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Subtext Cinema: Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
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Read more: Subtext Cinema: Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)My sociology degree tells me that director intent doesn’t matter.
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Masters of Disaster: Leslie Neilson in The Poseidon Adventure
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Read more: Masters of Disaster: Leslie Neilson in The Poseidon AdventureHe can hold his breath for a loooong time
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The Poseidon Adventure
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Read more: The Poseidon AdventureI’ve had it with this motherfuckin water on this motherfuckin boat.
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The Poseidon Adventure (Seven Things I Love About…)
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Read more: The Poseidon Adventure (Seven Things I Love About…)7. Gene Hackman Yeah, buddy, I’ll see your Popeye Doyle and raise you a Rupert Anderson. And here’s a Little Bill Daggett to up the stakes. And then maybe you’ll come within a nautical mile of Rev. Frank Scott, to date the most fully realized character in Gene Hackman’s long and storied career, as well…
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World War Z: Movie Review
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Read more: World War Z: Movie ReviewAmerica’s fascination with the zombie apocalypse continues. The latest vehicle to traverse the land of the undead is World War Z, starring Brad Pitt and some implausibly unattractive woman playing his wife. I had never seen her before, except maybe at a Waffle House. Anyway, let’s not allow her mediocre face to be the center…
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Disaster, 70’s Style: Part 6
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Read more: Disaster, 70’s Style: Part 6Movie: When Time Ran Out “This thing’s a goddamn powder keg!” Preamble: In 2019 a load of day-trippers were killed by a volcanic explosion on a New Zealand island. Oops. But, come on, what do you make of tourists who choose to wander around the rim of an active volcano? I guess I’m doing a…
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Disaster, 70’s Style: Part 5
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Read more: Disaster, 70’s Style: Part 5Movie: The Swarm “Oh, my God! Bees! Bees! Millions of bees!” The Swarm (1978) Preamble: The so-called Master of Disaster Irwin Allen produced two of the sub-genre’s biggest hits in Poseidon and Towering Inferno. Suitably pumped up, it was obviously time to handle the directorial reins himself. In doing so he managed to deliver one…
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Disaster, 70’s Style: Part 4
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Read more: Disaster, 70’s Style: Part 4Movie: Avalanche (1978) “I always thought survival meant being king of the mountain.” Avalanche (1978) Preamble: Given the title, can you work out what’s gonna happen? Control freak and shady businessman Rock Hudson, who looks gayer with each passing scene, is busy doing his best to resemble Kim Jong-il’s puppet in Team America: World Police.…
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Disaster, 70’s Style: Part 3
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Read more: Disaster, 70’s Style: Part 3Movie: Airport (1975) “You mean, the stewardess is flying the plane?!” Airport 1975 Preamble: Heart attacks regularly pop up in disaster flicks. They’re convenient, can happen at any stress-related time, and are cheap to film. Here a bloke flying a light aircraft is having ticker trouble. Seconds later his twin-engine motorized gnat crashed into a…