Moonfall (2022) Review
Moonfall (2022) rates 3 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Roland Emmerich spent around a hundred and forty million dollars of independent money on a film where the moon is a hollow alien megastructure, and it is the most…
Earthquakes, floods, fires, and collapsing everything. Disaster movie reviews from someone who has managed a real one, which changes how the genre reads.
ActionMoonfall (2022) rates 3 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Roland Emmerich spent around a hundred and forty million dollars of independent money on a film where the moon is a hollow alien megastructure, and it is the most…
ActionThe Day After Tomorrow (2004) rates 5 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Roland Emmerich froze the northern hemisphere in about a week, which is roughly ten thousand times faster than any climate model permits, and produced the most…
DisasterGravity (2013) rates 8 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Cuaron opens on a thirteen minute unbroken shot and then destroys everything in it. The technical achievement is genuine and permanent. The dialogue keeps explaining a film that was…
ActionBeyond the Poseidon Adventure (1979) rates 3 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. A sequel that kept the upturned hull and threw away the reason it worked. Michael Caine, Sally Field, Telly Savalas, and no idea what to do…
ActionSpeed 2: Cruise Control (1997) rates 3 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. The sequel that removed the one thing making the original work. A cruise ship cannot go fast, and the whole premise was speed.
DisasterTitanic (1997) rates 8 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Cameron built the ship at ninety percent scale, sank it, and hung the oldest story in the world off the side of it. The door problem is real. The…
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ActionRoger Donaldson's 1997 volcano disaster. Pierce Brosnan as volcanologist.
Disaster
DisasterGeorge Seaton's 1970 airline disaster film. Burt Lancaster, Dean Martin, Helen Hayes Oscar.
DisasterJames Bridges' 1979 nuclear plant near-meltdown. Released twelve days before Three Mile Island.
ActionJan de Bont's 1996 tornado-chase. Foundation for every storm-chasing production since.
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