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Post by missannthrope on Oct 7, 2017 12:43:33 GMT
Hi, everyone.
Last night I remembered snippets of some movie I saw back when Hollywood Video was stuffing their horror and science fiction sections full of religious end of the world movies. It was in the 90s and it centered around
the daughter of some rich guy. She was in Los Angeles when the apocalypse came and there were tornadoes happening in the downtown area. It was low budget and that is about all I remember.
I don't remember anyone even semi-famous being in it. The acting was dreadful. But what I can remember is stuck in my head now. Searches on Google, the IMDb and What Is My Movie are turning up nothing.
Does this sound familiar to anyone?
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Post by teleadm on Oct 7, 2017 15:16:39 GMT
Could it have been a dubbed movie from another country, maybe Italian, they did a lot of those movies, and then had english voices dubbed.?
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Post by missannthrope on Oct 12, 2017 8:26:48 GMT
Could it have been a dubbed movie from another country, maybe Italian, they did a lot of those movies, and then had english voices dubbed.? No, it was definitely American, low budget and trying to rip off all the other Y2K movies that were centered on religion. |
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Post by carlcarlson1 on Oct 14, 2017 11:53:59 GMT
Sounds like a mockbuster - a low budget copycat of a blockbuster. For example (The Day The Earth Stood Still ... The Day The Earth Stopped). See www.listal.com/list/mockbusters |
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Post by Vegas on Oct 16, 2017 19:36:19 GMT
I'm gonna guess this:
A bad apocalypse movie - so budgeted, it just reused footage from other movies like Dante's Peak.
Dennis Hopper plays the rich guy.
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Post by MCDemuth on Oct 16, 2017 20:54:48 GMT
At missannthrope : Are you sure it was in the 1990s? The only movie that I can recall seeing that featured tornadoes in Los Angeles, was the movie: The Day After Tomorrow (2004) - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_After_Tomorrow" The Day After Tomorrow is a 2004 American science-fiction disaster film co-written, directed, and produced by Roland Emmerich and starring Dennis Quaid, Jake Gyllenhaal, Ian Holm, Emmy Rossum, and Sela Ward. The film depicts catastrophic climatic effects following the disruption of the North Atlantic Ocean circulation in a series of extreme weather events that usher in global cooling and lead to a new ice age." Here are some other media which came out, around the same time, which had similar themes: Category 6: Day Of Destruction (2004) - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category_6:_Day_of_DestructionCategory 7: The End of The World (2005) - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category_7:_The_End_of_the_WorldBoth films feature Randy Quaid as "Tornado Tommy"... and in Category 6, "three" tornadoes destroy Las Vegas, Nevada The only disaster movies that I can recall, that focused on a " Daughter", that had a somewhat "famous" father was... 10.5 (2004) - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10.5_(miniseries)10.5 Apocalypse (2006) - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10.5:_ApocalypseKim Delaney starred in both mini-series as a Seismologist trying to figure out why the Earth was experiencing massive Earthquakes. In the sequel mini-series, she must team up with her father, played by Frank Langella, as a scientist who, years earlier, had a radical theory: the "Fractal Earth Theory", that predicted the Earthquakes experience in the first mini-series, but that theory was rejected by the scientific community... so he moved to Las Vegas, Nevada to become a gambler. Then there was... Absolute Zero (2006) - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absolute_Zero_(film)that starred Jeff Fahey, who was researching Polarity Shifts, and discovered that when the poles shift on Earth, the temperatures reach Absolute Zero, causing an new Ice Age... As it turns out, the poles on Earth are starting to shift again, and temperatures are dropping... And... Arctic Blast (2010) - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arctic_BlastStarring Michael Shanks (Stargate SG-1). Holes open in the ozone layer, allowing colossal blasts of heavily chilled mesosphere air to spread over the Earth. The holes must be sealed, before the Earth becomes one solid block of ice. Due to the similarities of all these disaster films, it would not be hard to become confused, and to mix the plots from all of them. |
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Post by missannthrope on Oct 17, 2017 16:54:15 GMT
Sounds like a mockbuster - a low budget copycat of a blockbuster. For example (The Day The Earth Stood Still ... The Day The Earth Stopped). See www.listal.com/list/mockbustersThanks. The 90s are very underrepresented on that list, but it was reminiscent of the apocalypse movie on the list, but made earlier. (The store I rented it from went out of business around 2003.) I did look up the trailer. Which caused YouTube to make a bunch of suggestions that I have to check out and see if I can find it. |
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Post by missannthrope on Oct 17, 2017 16:58:55 GMT
At missannthrope : Are you sure it was in the 1990s? The only movie that I can recall seeing that featured tornadoes in Los Angeles, was the movie: The Day After Tomorrow (2004) - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_After_Tomorrow" The Day After Tomorrow is a 2004 American science-fiction disaster film co-written, directed, and produced by Roland Emmerich and starring Dennis Quaid, Jake Gyllenhaal, Ian Holm, Emmy Rossum, and Sela Ward. The film depicts catastrophic climatic effects following the disruption of the North Atlantic Ocean circulation in a series of extreme weather events that usher in global cooling and lead to a new ice age." Here are some other media which came out, around the same time, which had similar themes: Category 6: Day Of Destruction (2004) - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category_6:_Day_of_DestructionCategory 7: The End of The World (2005) - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category_7:_The_End_of_the_WorldBoth films feature Randy Quaid as "Tornado Tommy"... and in Category 6, "three" tornadoes destroy Las Vegas, Nevada The only disaster movies that I can recall, that focused on a " Daughter", that had a somewhat "famous" father was... 10.5 (2004) - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10.5_(miniseries)10.5 Apocalypse (2006) - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10.5:_ApocalypseKim Delaney starred in both mini-series as a Seismologist trying to figure out why the Earth was experiencing massive Earthquakes. In the sequel mini-series, she must team up with her father, played by Frank Langella, as a scientist who, years earlier, had a radical theory: the "Fractal Earth Theory", that predicted the Earthquakes experience in the first mini-series, but that theory was rejected by the scientific community... so he moved to Las Vegas, Nevada to become a gambler. Then there was... Absolute Zero (2006) - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absolute_Zero_(film)that starred Jeff Fahey, who was researching Polarity Shifts, and discovered that when the poles shift on Earth, the temperatures reach Absolute Zero, causing an new Ice Age... As it turns out, the poles on Earth are starting to shift again, and temperatures are dropping... And... Arctic Blast (2010) - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arctic_BlastStarring Michael Shanks (Stargate SG-1). Holes open in the ozone layer, allowing colossal blasts of heavily chilled mesosphere air to spread over the Earth. The holes must be sealed, before the Earth becomes one solid block of ice. Due to the similarities of all these disaster films, it would not be hard to become confused, and to mix the plots from all of them. It was the late 90s, early 2000s. The store where I rented it went out of business in 2003 and I moved out of that area in 2004. And yes, I do remember videos from where I was living at the time. I'm weird that way. It definitely wasn't The Day After Tomorrow. I watched that thinking, "wait a minute. It doesn't work that way." The others are made too late, and no one who was a name was in it that I remember. Unless they gained a bit of fame in the years after. |
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Post by forca84 on Nov 13, 2017 17:57:54 GMT
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Post by missannthrope on Nov 22, 2017 7:35:02 GMT
No, I've seen that a few times. It had much better production values and a few well known people. Plus, I don't remember a kid in the one with the generic blonde that looked like it was filmed on VHS. I thought maybe it was one of those Jack Van Impe movies that my video store kept getting. So I have hunted them down on YouTube and watched them. Not them either. Not the Mark IV movies. Nothing from the Lalonde Brothers at all. So, I am back to square one and learning more about weird fundie beliefs than I ever knew. If it is a post nuclear movie, that was just low key, good god, how many of those were made in the 80s and 90s? I will be looking for a while, I think. |
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