January 10 - Where Are They Now? Wednesday - Disaster Movies
This week’s WHERE ARE THEY NOW? WEDNESDAY is DISASTER MOVIES.
What ever happened to them? There seemed to be a couple made each year, but not recently. The only recent disaster films were documentaries about the Asian Tsunami and Hurricane Katrina.
Disaster films typically feature large casts and multiple intertwined plotlines. The story focuses on the protagonists' attempts to avert, escape, or cope with the disaster. Along the way, he (it’s ususally a man) will lose a buddy, yet recover from the loss in time to fall in love.
The last good one was Twister and that was made almost 10 years ago. Some may argue that The Day after Tomorrow from 1994 was a good one. But seriously, besides Al Gore, does anyone really buy into that Global Warming thing?
The reason I thought about disaster movies was that my eight-year old daughter is going off to see Grandpa and Grandma this weekend in Los Angeles. Before her head gets filled with all those “California Dreaming” thoughts, I wanted her to see another side of LA.
The last two nights we watched Volcano and Towering Inferno.
Volcano (1997) stars Tommy Lee Jones and Anne (“I’m gay, no, I’m crazy, no I’m straight, but still crazy”) Heche. After a seemingly minor earthquake one night in Los Angeles, a giant burst of lava is released from the La Brea Tar Pits, resulting in the birth of a new volcano under the city. Hundreds die, a dog is saved, and Jones and Heche fall in l
ove.
Towering Inferno (1974) had tons of stars: Paul Newman, Steve McQueen, William Holden, Faye Dunaway, Robert Wagner, Fred Astaire, Richard Chamberlain, and the great humanist, O.J. Simpson. It features a fire in a skyscraper. Hundreds die, a cat is saved, and people fall in love.
If after seeing these movies, my daughter still wants to get on the plane, I rented Earthquake and Snakes on the Plane for the flight out to California.
For those that may wonder about my parenting techniques, I would offer this argument.
What if Mr. and Mrs. Dahmer had let little Jeffrey watch Alive? Alive was the true story of plane crash survivors resorting to cannibalism in order to survive. Maybe Jeffrey Dahmer would have become a vegetarian instead of a cannibal. Just food for thought.
In the end, I’m just trying to influence my daughter’s decision-making and educate her on the mysterious effects of Mother Nature. Class Over.
What ever happened to them? There seemed to be a couple made each year, but not recently. The only recent disaster films were documentaries about the Asian Tsunami and Hurricane Katrina.
Disaster films typically feature large casts and multiple intertwined plotlines. The story focuses on the protagonists' attempts to avert, escape, or cope with the disaster. Along the way, he (it’s ususally a man) will lose a buddy, yet recover from the loss in time to fall in love.
The last good one was Twister and that was made almost 10 years ago. Some may argue that The Day after Tomorrow from 1994 was a good one. But seriously, besides Al Gore, does anyone really buy into that Global Warming thing?
The reason I thought about disaster movies was that my eight-year old daughter is going off to see Grandpa and Grandma this weekend in Los Angeles. Before her head gets filled with all those “California Dreaming” thoughts, I wanted her to see another side of LA.
The last two nights we watched Volcano and Towering Inferno.
Volcano (1997) stars Tommy Lee Jones and Anne (“I’m gay, no, I’m crazy, no I’m straight, but still crazy”) Heche. After a seemingly minor earthquake one night in Los Angeles, a giant burst of lava is released from the La Brea Tar Pits, resulting in the birth of a new volcano under the city. Hundreds die, a dog is saved, and Jones and Heche fall in l
ove.Towering Inferno (1974) had tons of stars: Paul Newman, Steve McQueen, William Holden, Faye Dunaway, Robert Wagner, Fred Astaire, Richard Chamberlain, and the great humanist, O.J. Simpson. It features a fire in a skyscraper. Hundreds die, a cat is saved, and people fall in love.
If after seeing these movies, my daughter still wants to get on the plane, I rented Earthquake and Snakes on the Plane for the flight out to California.
For those that may wonder about my parenting techniques, I would offer this argument.
What if Mr. and Mrs. Dahmer had let little Jeffrey watch Alive? Alive was the true story of plane crash survivors resorting to cannibalism in order to survive. Maybe Jeffrey Dahmer would have become a vegetarian instead of a cannibal. Just food for thought.
In the end, I’m just trying to influence my daughter’s decision-making and educate her on the mysterious effects of Mother Nature. Class Over.
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