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Post by politicidal on Oct 17, 2018 15:23:15 GMT
Can it be done? Or was this strictly a 70s thing with a brief turn of the millennium revival thanks to Al Gore and Roland Emmerich? Edit: excuse me, wrong auteur director.
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Post by Rey Kahuka on Oct 17, 2018 15:26:56 GMT
My favorite disaster movie is Deep Impact. The only way to make disaster movies interesting (at least to me) is when you focus on the people instead of the spectacle of it all.
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Post by politicidal on Oct 17, 2018 15:30:09 GMT
My favorite disaster movie is Deep Impact. The only way to make disaster movies interesting (at least to me) is when you focus on the people instead of the spectacle of it all. You're onto something. Twister was on for the tenth time this week and I remember the cast more than like anybody from 2012 or Geostorm or San Andreas. Even Armageddon has a more memorable cast than recent examples. |
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Post by Popeye Doyle on Oct 17, 2018 15:34:30 GMT
I'm sure in a few years time there will be an award winning movie about the Trump presidency. Possibly titled "Very Stable Genius". |
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Post by Rey Kahuka on Oct 17, 2018 15:35:54 GMT
My favorite disaster movie is Deep Impact. The only way to make disaster movies interesting (at least to me) is when you focus on the people instead of the spectacle of it all. You're onto something. Twister was on for the tenth time this week and I remember the cast more than like anybody from 2012 or Geostorm or San Andreas. Even Armageddon has a more memorable cast than recent examples. That's why Deep Impact sticks out to me. Granted the Frodo gets married storyline is incredibly hokey, but the movie isn't so much about the disaster as it is how people cope with impending doom. It's a much more compelling story to me. Most disaster films from the 90s and 2000s are just CGI schlock without substance. I'm surprised that they're kind of making a small comeback lately, I thought the audience had evolved beyond that stuff. |
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Post by politicidal on Oct 17, 2018 15:37:31 GMT
You're onto something. Twister was on for the tenth time this week and I remember the cast more than like anybody from 2012 or Geostorm or San Andreas. Even Armageddon has a more memorable cast than recent examples. That's why Deep Impact sticks out to me. Granted the Frodo gets married storyline is incredibly hokey, but the movie isn't so much about the disaster as it is how people cope with impending doom. It's a much more compelling story to me. Most disaster films from the 90s and 2000s are just CGI schlock without substance. I'm surprised that they're kind of making a small comeback lately, I thought the audience had evolved beyond that stuff. I think Geostorm killed it to be honest. Unless they just incorporate it into different genres like superhero films or the latest Dwayne Johnson vehicle like Rampage or Skyscraper. |
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Post by vegalyra on Oct 17, 2018 17:51:18 GMT
I think my favorite of all time is Towering Inferno, but Earthquake was pretty great with Charlton Heston tooling around town in his boss Chevy Blazer...
I guess the one that killed the genre the first go round might have been the Swarm but I might have my film releases off.
I'd like to see a proper comeback of the disaster flick.
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Post by lowtacks86 on Oct 17, 2018 17:54:58 GMT
Were they ever that good to begin with? I've never seen stuff from the "Golden Era" (1970s), pretty much all the stuff I've seen was from the 90s (Dante's Inferno, Independence Day, Twister)
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Post by bravomailer on Oct 17, 2018 18:07:08 GMT
Hollywood is far too creative for that.
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Post by Spike Del Rey on Oct 17, 2018 18:17:24 GMT
The great thing about the 70s disaster movies (that a few more recent ones have been able to replicate) was the all-star casts, and the fun of trying to figure out which ones weren't going to make it to the closing credits. The 70s movies also remembered the golden rule of storytelling, and that was presenting characters who while they might be "stock" or "cliched", were unique enough that we cared about them, thus given the audience an interest in who lived and died. The ones who didn't make it out of the SS Poseidon still bothers me, and I've seen that movie countless times since my childhood. (It's my annual New Year's Eve flick  ) |
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Post by HumanFundRecipient on Oct 17, 2018 22:36:23 GMT
I think my favorite of all time is Towering Inferno, but Earthquake was pretty great with Charlton Heston tooling around town in his boss Chevy Blazer... I guess the one that killed the genre the first go round might have been the Swarm but I might have my film releases off. I'd like to see a proper comeback of the disaster flick. This is why a certain movie should be titled "The Rock Saves His Family"- with special guest star Paul Giamatti. Much more accurate, where random extras without scripted lines are mostly the ones who perish in a disaster. |
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Post by Popeye Doyle on Oct 18, 2018 2:41:54 GMT
We got a remake of The Poseidon Adventure in 2006 and it sucked donkey dick.
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Post by anthonyrocks on Oct 18, 2018 2:44:27 GMT
Can it be done? Or was this strictly a 70s thing with a brief turn of the millennium revival thanks to Al Gore and Roland Emmerich? Edit: excuse me, wrong auteur director.
Of course it can still be done, Did you see " GRAVITY" ? That was basically a Disaster Movie in Space. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 19, 2018 7:24:38 GMT
I like some of the Disaster/ Mockbuster Mayhem movies that are made in Canada and air on the Syfy Channel and we watched a lot of those over the years but most of the recent major budget movies made in America haven't been as good despite having much larger budgets to work with and bigger actors. 
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Post by Archelaus on Oct 19, 2018 14:28:29 GMT
The great thing about the 70s disaster movies (that a few more recent ones have been able to replicate) was the all-star casts, and the fun of trying to figure out which ones weren't going to make it to the closing credits. The 70s movies also remembered the golden rule of storytelling, and that was presenting characters who while they might be "stock" or "cliched", were unique enough that we cared about them, thus given the audience an interest in who lived and died. The ones who didn't make it out of the SS Poseidon still bothers me, and I've seen that movie countless times since my childhood. (It's my annual New Year's Eve flick ) You perfectly nailed my view on the disaster movies after I watched The Towering Inferno and The Poseidon Adventure over the summer. When a disaster movie just sticks to the characters, there's always the chance of conceiving stock characters in order to gin up relational tensions for the movie. Some movies do it to a good use like The Poseidon Adventure while others don't. |
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Post by politicidal on Oct 19, 2018 14:31:01 GMT
One recent example which I thought harkened back to the golden age of the genre was Peter Berg's Deepwater Horizon. It's too bad it flopped.
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Post by teleadm on Oct 19, 2018 18:49:29 GMT
In some of the older disaster movies some main character could actually die, something that couldn't happen nowdays since modern disaster movies is built around one well-payed (or over-payed) star who obviously can't die.
Thinking old The Towering Inferno, a Newman, McQueen, Dunaway might not be impossible, but were would you find a Holden, Astaire, Jennifer Jones, Chamberlain, Vaughan, Wagner nowdays that has the same aura and history as those?
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