In the Disaster Zone – Disaster Movies Episode 8
July 29th, 2009
After a tough day, Tomas takes a look at the appeal of Disaster Movies. Films featured: Deep Impact, Armagedon, Sunshine, The Towering Inferno, War of the Worlds, The Poseidon Adventure (1972), Earthquake (1974), and the trailer to Roland Emmerich’s ‘2012′
Tags: 2012, Armagedon, Deep Impact, Disaster Films, Disaster Movies, Roland Emmerich, ShowloonTV, Sunshine, The Towering Inferno, War of the Worlds
Pfft, the Mayans aren’t anything like our oldest civilisation.
The 2012 trailer looks like mindless fun, I guess, but a little exactly-the-same as all of Emmerich’s other films. And I don’t mind the occasional movie where you have to switch your brain to a lower setting to enjoy it, but films like Independence Day and The Day After Tomorrow just feel like someone blew the GDP of a small country on two hours of active stupidity. It’s no wonder some people don’t want to take global warming seriously if they think it entails escaped manic wolves and ice that chases you down corridors.
I also preferred Deep Impact to Armageddon. I think I remember Armageddon getting on my nerves for the same reason Independence Day did…all that smug, needless patriotism. Though with Deep Impact, I was also slightly suspicious of the fact that a small section of the U.S. was about all that was left at the end.
“La gente dice que hay un millón de formas de rodar una escena, pero yo no estoy de acuerdo. Hay dos, y una es incorrecta”. David Fincher.
Concuerdo con vos David.
Interestingly, I think that part of the success of ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ in the Cinemas could be due to the slate of Climate Disaster movies (but not very serious) that preceded it. AIT is certainly a film about a disaster looming!
Rob Dougan (occasional ShowloonTV Admin)
Classic. Best yet, Tomas.
Need to see more of the switch between you and cheesy moments in flicks. Think that Aerosmith reference/vid will go down in the Showloon relics, perfect comic timing. Still to catch Sunshine, but off to see ‘Moon’, good reviews sofa.
Some cool linkies:
The Trailer voice-over guy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPBvFXf9Q2U
Disaster Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZW2qxFkcLM0
There really needs to be a great parody disaster movie. Aside from Airplane! “See a broad who get all booty-eyed, lay’em down and smack’em yack’em”.
The Junkies loves the destruction. It is like the violence and the extreme beauty, has the continuous necessity to put itself in podio but high, reasons are many, but all part of the insecurity and if Freud saw east today nonevitaria type of films directly relate it to the sexual thing, the destruction like a manly element.
Perhaps as much “virilidad” in the cinema of action and American disaster in truth speaks of “not being able” of a “not solved impotence” in the content emptiness. I do not have content but I saturate to you with “attractive images” (supposedly attractive, there is much conscientious or inconciente cliche). The present American cinema is that, a beautiful model of 1,90 of height, blonde, that beams to speak if it do not coordinate two together words and are equal to the other blondes that happen you forget, it before the new blonde turn.
I am trying to think a disaster film that I have liked and the truth does not happen one to me… I like the beginning of Extermination but soon it is not so good.
1. Please not more Aerosmith nor in joke that is not nothing graceful. I once again listen to that song of Aerosmith with that fright of video right of perpetual ownership that somebody is going to die. 2.They take prisoner to that sketcher!
3.Good week.
Los Junkies aman la destruccion. Es como la violencia y la belleza extrema, tienen la necesidad continua de ponerse en el podio mas alto, motivos hay muchos, pero todo parte de la inseguridad y si Freud viera este tipo de peliculas hoy no evitaria relacionarlo directamente con lo sexual, la destruccion como un elemento viril.
Tal vez tanta “virilidad” en el cine de accion y catastrofe estadounidense en verdad hable de un “no poder” de una “impotencia” no resuelta en el vacio de contenido. No tengo contenido pero te saturo con “imagenes atractivas” (supuestamente atractivas, hay mucho cliche conciente o inconciente). El cine estadounidense actual es eso, una hermosa modelo de 1.90 de altura, rubia, que si la haces hablar no coordina dos palabras juntas y es igual a las otras rubias que pasan, la olvidas ante la nueva rubia de turno.
Estoy intentando pensar una pelicula de catastrofe que me haya gustado y la verdad no se me ocurre una… Me gusta el comienzo de “Exterminio” pero luego no es tan buena.
1.Por favor no mas Aerosmith ni en chiste que no es nada gracioso. Si vuelvo a escuchar esa cancion de Aerosmith con ese espanto de video juro que alguien va a morir.
2.Lleven preso al dibujante!
3.Buena semana.
2012 trailer music info:
Two Steps From Hell – Master of Shadows.
Apparently from the album Power of Darkness, not yet released.
@CJ Sounded a lot like Clint Mansell’s ‘Requiem For A Tower’ which is phenomal by the way @all Greaaaaaaaat Weekend!
Ah ha “they are not like yoohoo lets do this!” love it! good work Tomas. yeah I’ll check the Emmerich film when it comes out