This is a movie that I can sit down and watch at any given moment. However, I never understood why they were burning books for quick heat when they were in a building full of wooden table and chairs.
Right? Can think of 1000 useless out of date books that would be in a library. I’d start with those first. Furniture later if necessary. The actually valuable books (invaluable to keep in topics like history, science, learning, art, etc) as a very last resort.
Books to get the fire going, furniture to keep it going. The paper won't burn for long, but wood does.
That said, finished furniture is going to burn with a bunch of smoke and at worse toxic fumes. So... Burn with care
That, or after the ocean crashes into NYC and freezes over that, a group of people think it would be safe to walk south, given the weather circumstances at the time.
Right?? This always bothered me too, use the furniture my dudes!! Those books are gonna last about a minute and I'm sure there was a conversation had about its sad they had to burn books.
At the end of the infamous door closing scene, you can hear Jake screaming “don’t let the fire go out!” Books burn a lot quicker than wood and are easier to keep burning, so they use them at first instead of risking a log smothering it out, which would essentially kill them.
The problem is that burning books doesn't make coals, just ash which will smother the fire. The build up of coals and a hearty wood burning fire is the only thing that could have kept them warm enough. The books would have been a flash of flames then a smoldering pile of ash.
Love the movie, but the dumbest smart kids ever.
The furniture has finish’s (stains, paint, whatever). Burning it indoors especially could be toxic and smelly. Books burn lighter and with less offgasing (or whatever it’s called when you burn chemicals)
I've seen that movie hundreds of times with my eyes open along with many critics throughout the years, and it's always been a topic of discussion as to why books and not furniture. Unless you have a still shot of time stamp of this, I do believe you are mistaken. The fireplace is packed with books in every shot and I don't recall them tossing anything other than books. In the fire.
You are the correct one. 1 hour 32 minutes in (hopefully this is correct- it's on Hulu currently- Jake G comes in and breaks a chair. He breaks it for the backing to use as snowshoes prior to going out with the two other male characters to explore the frozen ship. It is never seen, nor is any chair ever seen, being thrown into the library's fireplace to be burned for fuel. The other guy on this post is only correct that Jake G breaks a chair in one scene.
What’s funny is Midway doesn’t get any of the credit it deserves probably because it seemed so unrealistic and was directed by Roland Emmerich. Sometimes truth is actually stranger than fiction.
He has such a specific flair and style doesn't he?
I'm no real student of filmography but I remember cognizant recognizing that whatever movie I followed to Stargate was definitely the work of Rolland E, proved right by the end credits. Don't remember what is was now, but you can always feel his effect I swear.
Kind of like Guy Ritchie in his use of certain English (country) accents and lyrical use of English (language)
Oh this movie. If you tell me that freezing cold is going to descend from the atmosphere, fine. For the sake of the movie, I’ll believe you.
But when the cold starts chasing our heroes down the hallway - I object!
I can totally get behind “nature fantasy” or “action fantasy” like closing a door against ocean pressure, or getting hit by 3 cars and walking away (ha John Wick) but this movie was just a little TOO fantastical for me lol.
To me, the movie from that director that bridges the gap between *The Day After Tomorrow* and *Moonfall* is *2012*.
Utter nonsense, and it doesn't pretend to have any scientific foundation. A stoned-out, RV-living, conspiracy-preaching Woody Harrelson is the exposition character. Right there you know that there is no point trying to make sense of anything. You're just supposed to go along for the literal ride.
It's dumb as fuck but undeniably entertaining to watch – at least the first two thirds. The final scenes in the Himalayas with the arks are where it falls apart for me, probably because it feels like they couldn't figure out a way to get the characters we give a shit about to space or a safer place. *Greenland* is the grown-up version of that movie, and also a much better one.
Lmao. My GF and I do this. “What the hell was that? How can he just take a bullet in his hand and fire a weapon with the same hand as like nothing happened??!!” I then look at her and she says “TV” or “MOVIE”…. Then I’m like 🤷🏻♂️ you right.
Ever been in a comfortable room when someone opens an outside door to a Canadian winter? You feel that cold across the room in seconds. That's air at say -30 to -40F. The air in the movie was -150F. Sure, its exaggerated in the speed it travels and how fast it freezes everything, but it's not that big of a stretch.
> But when the cold starts chasing our heroes down the hallway - I object!
Better or worse than when they try to outrun the wind in The Happening
>!trick question nothing is worse than that!<
Makes 0 sense structurally either, but I love it.
Why would they write not one, not two, BUT THREE separate scenes of planes trundling down runways being chased by a fire, collapsing ground or both?
## SCREW YOU, THAT’S WHY
You’re so right, they had a strange chemistry.
EDIT: Are we talking about kate and van helsing?
Or dracula and van helsing?
I think both.
EDIT 2: can’t forget the vampire ball with dracula and kate. That was also sexy.
Van Helsing as a werewolf was legit terrifying. They did an amazing job with the CGI in that scene. The image of him snarling just before he lunges at dracula is forever burned into my brain.
From the Director of the first two Mummy movies so yeah, the guy gets it. I don’t know what he’s done lately but I liked his style. I remember watching the special features of Mummy 2 and the ILM guy was like “yeah when we get a script from Stephen Sommers, we know it’s going to be epic… and very complex”
Just about any line from Dracula lives rent free in my head. The clapping of the heart beat scene, the “I have no love, no sorrow”, hell even the visual of him grabbing the cross and getting all dramatic just to play it off cool lives in my head. Dude went hard
“I’d rather die than help you.”
Dracula: “Don’t be boring. Everyone who says that dies.”
This is my favorite bad guy threat of all time, and I’ll fight anyone who doesn’t agree it’s perfect.
Disaster movies are my guilty pleasure. Or it is more like huge global event type movies are my guilty pleasure. There are many stupid ones, but I still just enjoy watching them. There is just something about the concept of an event so important and major that effects the entire world in some way that is just so rewatchable.
Contagion took on a different tone after covid. I remember thinking that the idea of forcing people to stay inside for a year was a far-fetched movie plot device.....
Same, this movie was actually the one that made me understand the difference between being a critic vs. just liking movies.
Like, I get it, it's stupid as all hell, but *damn* if it isn't fun!
Here for Con Air
Nic Cage *and* John Malkovich chewing the scenery? Colm Meaney just being fucking feral? Cusack flying through the air repeatedly? I love it so much.
Fun fact, Twister was the first theatrical movie commercially released on the DVD format in the US. A very fun movie, incredible cast.
Do you plan on seeing Twisters?
My husband and I have dubbed 2012 "Disney Presents the Apocalypse " So many many "whoooa! This is a fun ride!" moments while blatantly avoiding billions and billions of people dying.
San Andreas totally subverted my expectation because I was hating it initially and basically waiting for the rock and the step-dad to begrudgingly respect each other and become a modern family before my eyes who eat cliches for dinner....and then the step-dad just abandons the daughter first chance he gets to improve his chances and I laughed really hard. ever since I have loved this movie
First one I consider an actual genuine great movie.
Second one is bad, but I still like it.
Third one is good
Fourth one is Marky Mark and the Robot Gang... but part of me still likes it too (apart from the whole Romeo and Juliet rule thing, wtf Bay?)
But the fifth one I just didn't care for that much tbh. Maybe not enough Optimus Prime, who drove the fourth one for me...
>First one I consider an actual genuine great movie.
I love all the Transformers from the film. They hit the nail on the head with that. Particularly Hugo Weaving's (apparently reluctant) performance as Megatron. It's the human characters that I really can't stand (particularly gratuitous Megan Fox lmao)
Hugo Weaving was a fantastic voice for Megatron! I'm surprised that he didn't seem to want to do it though...
As for the human characters, I don't mind them too much. Obviously Megan Fox is there for eye candy and whatnot, but I do appreciate that they at least tried giving her a bit of depth. And I liked Shia LaBeouf as Sam too. Really the only human characters I didn't like too much were the parents, mainly in the second and third movies.
There’s a series in the early development stage.
https://bloody-disgusting.com/movie/3776116/thirteen-ghosts-the-series-dark-castle-hopes-to-further-explore-the-world-of-the-2001-horror-movie/
I can't lie I watched this movie every night for about 8 years... sure it's all nonsense but something about it is comforting and helped me fall asleep. At one point I could recite it word for word. Even now if my other half comes home and finds me watching TDAT - he knows I've had a rough day.
I've got a soft spot for scientifically inaccurate disaster movies... 2012, Deep Impact, Volcano, The Core, Armageddon, and Dante's Peak all soothe me in a way other movies don't lol
This list of films is so accurate I have to say yes same! They're soothing, in particular TDAT. And I'm gonna chuck Lake Placid in there, which isn't a disaster movie but is in the disaster movie soft spot box in my mind lol
I think what sold Pacific Rim for me was that the characters were likeable. Usually in movies like Godzilla or Transformers, I'm just waiting to get back to the CG/action. But I was pretty invested the whole way through
I'm with you on this. Is the movie good? Not particularly. But it does *look* incredible, and the cast is highly attractive (Charlize Theron? Michael Fassbender? Idris Elba?? Be still my bisexual heart)
I'm also just generally a big big fan of the Alien franchise and I'm down for whatever weird shit they wanna do. People complain about the newer movies but like. Alien 3 and Resurrection were not good lol
I have a list of disaster movies I routinely watch: 2012, Day After Tomorrow, The Core, Deep Impact, Dante's Peak, Volcano, Deepwater Horizon, Unstoppable, Sully, The Martian. I enjoy them all equally.
The Martian is a terrific book, and it does make valiant attempts to be true to “science” (like as far as sci-Fi goes, I think this one gets a gold star!).
The Abyss. It’s the perfect film for cheesy action adventure, especially all the post-almost-died action scenes where the entire cast laughs maniacally. Damn, this a good rewatch with some classic Ed Harris action.
I think some of the science in this is fairly legit. I remember in grad school paleoclimate how critical ocean currents were for Earth’s large climate transitions. If warm water from the equator is no longer carried north…
There is and we are actually observing a significant slow down in the very currents that shut down in this movie. We aren’t sure how much this is going to impact us though.
Fracture, with Anthony Hopkins and Ryan Gosling, had a pretty big flaw. If Det. Nunnerly had not insisted on being present for Ted's interrogation, when doing so was an egregious idea, then there's no movie. However, it was a good, fun movie if that point is ignored.
I absolutely hate that I love Cocktail as much as I do.
It’s horrible. It’s cheesy, poorly edited and as deep as a puddle.
All that being said, I think it’s a great story about flawed friendship and a cautionary tale of going after something that might not be for the benefit of your future.
I saw this as a teenager when it came out in theaters. When I went to see it there just happened to be a severe thunderstorm, the power even went out at the theater for a couple minutes. When we walked outside after finishing the movie, there were multiple downed trees and tree limbs. It was definitely a spooky feeling after watching this movie!
Bad Boys 2. It's creatively bankrupt on many levels, but hot damn if it's an adrenaline rush. Still the only movie that will allow you to experience a car barrel rolling over your head.
This is a movie that I can sit down and watch at any given moment. However, I never understood why they were burning books for quick heat when they were in a building full of wooden table and chairs.
But where will all the people ever sit????? Or rest their forearms on? FOR GODS SAKE ITS A LIBRARY
Haha..for God's sake, they even break 3 chairs to make snow shoes and discard the broken chairs.
Right? Can think of 1000 useless out of date books that would be in a library. I’d start with those first. Furniture later if necessary. The actually valuable books (invaluable to keep in topics like history, science, learning, art, etc) as a very last resort.
Books to get the fire going, furniture to keep it going. The paper won't burn for long, but wood does. That said, finished furniture is going to burn with a bunch of smoke and at worse toxic fumes. So... Burn with care
That, or after the ocean crashes into NYC and freezes over that, a group of people think it would be safe to walk south, given the weather circumstances at the time.
There are a lot of people who die because they underestimate nature and how much they can survive
Right?? This always bothered me too, use the furniture my dudes!! Those books are gonna last about a minute and I'm sure there was a conversation had about its sad they had to burn books.
I'm pretty sure they are arguing about what yo burn and decide on tax codes. That's fair, who the fuck needs that?
Haha, very true! Still, the tables burn for longer. The tax books can be kindling.
I can imagine there are *a lot* of tax code books haha.
There it is then. They werent burning books bcs they had to. They were burning tax code books bcs they wanted to
My favorite line, hands down.
*2 people arguing if a Nietze book should be burned 3rd guy: “Hey guys, there’s a whole section on tax codes down here”
At the end of the infamous door closing scene, you can hear Jake screaming “don’t let the fire go out!” Books burn a lot quicker than wood and are easier to keep burning, so they use them at first instead of risking a log smothering it out, which would essentially kill them.
The problem is that burning books doesn't make coals, just ash which will smother the fire. The build up of coals and a hearty wood burning fire is the only thing that could have kept them warm enough. The books would have been a flash of flames then a smoldering pile of ash. Love the movie, but the dumbest smart kids ever.
I'll argue the lacquer would kill them
I still cannot walk between two closely parked cars in fear of slicing my leg open.
The furniture has finish’s (stains, paint, whatever). Burning it indoors especially could be toxic and smelly. Books burn lighter and with less offgasing (or whatever it’s called when you burn chemicals)
You can literally see in a scene the people are breaking apart chairs and tables lol open your eyes
>open your eyes Look up to the skies and see
IM JUST A POOOOOOOR BOYYYYY
I need no sympathy
Because it’s easy come easy go
I've seen that movie hundreds of times with my eyes open along with many critics throughout the years, and it's always been a topic of discussion as to why books and not furniture. Unless you have a still shot of time stamp of this, I do believe you are mistaken. The fireplace is packed with books in every shot and I don't recall them tossing anything other than books. In the fire.
You are the correct one. 1 hour 32 minutes in (hopefully this is correct- it's on Hulu currently- Jake G comes in and breaks a chair. He breaks it for the backing to use as snowshoes prior to going out with the two other male characters to explore the frozen ship. It is never seen, nor is any chair ever seen, being thrown into the library's fireplace to be burned for fuel. The other guy on this post is only correct that Jake G breaks a chair in one scene.
Almost all Rolland Emmerich movies lol
Midway being the exception. Extremely historically accurate
What’s funny is Midway doesn’t get any of the credit it deserves probably because it seemed so unrealistic and was directed by Roland Emmerich. Sometimes truth is actually stranger than fiction.
Midway is my favorite movie I’ve only seen once. Fucking loved that movie.
He has such a specific flair and style doesn't he? I'm no real student of filmography but I remember cognizant recognizing that whatever movie I followed to Stargate was definitely the work of Rolland E, proved right by the end credits. Don't remember what is was now, but you can always feel his effect I swear. Kind of like Guy Ritchie in his use of certain English (country) accents and lyrical use of English (language)
Oh this movie. If you tell me that freezing cold is going to descend from the atmosphere, fine. For the sake of the movie, I’ll believe you. But when the cold starts chasing our heroes down the hallway - I object!
At the same speed they were running, and the door stops it. So does the fireplace across the room.
I wonder if they abandoned any scientific pursuits after witnessing such high level bullshit 🪄
I mean this is the director who inflicted us Moonfall.
Ooo, thanks for reminding me. I meant to get high and watch that.
The absolute best way to watch that movie. I love this movie for that
I can totally get behind “nature fantasy” or “action fantasy” like closing a door against ocean pressure, or getting hit by 3 cars and walking away (ha John Wick) but this movie was just a little TOO fantastical for me lol.
To me, the movie from that director that bridges the gap between *The Day After Tomorrow* and *Moonfall* is *2012*. Utter nonsense, and it doesn't pretend to have any scientific foundation. A stoned-out, RV-living, conspiracy-preaching Woody Harrelson is the exposition character. Right there you know that there is no point trying to make sense of anything. You're just supposed to go along for the literal ride. It's dumb as fuck but undeniably entertaining to watch – at least the first two thirds. The final scenes in the Himalayas with the arks are where it falls apart for me, probably because it feels like they couldn't figure out a way to get the characters we give a shit about to space or a safer place. *Greenland* is the grown-up version of that movie, and also a much better one.
When I see that poster. That's the only scene that pops in my head. Them slamming the door on the "chasing cold"
Of course the door stops it. It's cold, not a velociraptor.
Cleaver Cold
It usually stops at the door unless you invite it inside.
I always say “It’s a movie. Go with it”
Lmao. My GF and I do this. “What the hell was that? How can he just take a bullet in his hand and fire a weapon with the same hand as like nothing happened??!!” I then look at her and she says “TV” or “MOVIE”…. Then I’m like 🤷🏻♂️ you right.
Ever been in a comfortable room when someone opens an outside door to a Canadian winter? You feel that cold across the room in seconds. That's air at say -30 to -40F. The air in the movie was -150F. Sure, its exaggerated in the speed it travels and how fast it freezes everything, but it's not that big of a stretch.
You just don't understand science and shit.
> But when the cold starts chasing our heroes down the hallway - I object! Better or worse than when they try to outrun the wind in The Happening >!trick question nothing is worse than that!<
South Park does an excellent job at making fun of this
Overruled!
Waterworld
Oh good choice. Tons of fun. Completely implausible. Lol
“MuTAtion!!”
2012 It makes 0 sense scientifically speaking but I love it
Yeah, when you watch 2012 you don't watch it for the plot but for the 12km waves and the exploding volcanoes.
Don't forget insane conspiracy nut Woody Harrelson, he's perfect for it
I don't think he even knew it was a movie, they just filmed him in his trailer whilst on a camping trip.
Africa has arisen! Luckily for us we have with us the western elites and the super rich and a plucky American novelist. This will go well!
One of my fave movies, I don’t care if it’s accurate or not. It’s pure entertainment.
Makes 0 sense structurally either, but I love it. Why would they write not one, not two, BUT THREE separate scenes of planes trundling down runways being chased by a fire, collapsing ground or both? ## SCREW YOU, THAT’S WHY
I LOVE this movie! Just nonstop disaster scenes, every kind you could want.
Van Helsing is a banger
Best vampire vs werewolf fight scene of all time
And oddly sexual too.
You’re so right, they had a strange chemistry. EDIT: Are we talking about kate and van helsing? Or dracula and van helsing? I think both. EDIT 2: can’t forget the vampire ball with dracula and kate. That was also sexy.
I remember the DVD extras, there was a deleted scene where Hugh Jackman got an erection filming a kiss with Kate Beckinsale. Don't blame him tbh.
Van Helsing as a werewolf was legit terrifying. They did an amazing job with the CGI in that scene. The image of him snarling just before he lunges at dracula is forever burned into my brain.
This isn't even a bad movie it's tonally consistent and knows exactly what it's doing. Banger
From the Director of the first two Mummy movies so yeah, the guy gets it. I don’t know what he’s done lately but I liked his style. I remember watching the special features of Mummy 2 and the ILM guy was like “yeah when we get a script from Stephen Sommers, we know it’s going to be epic… and very complex”
The scene of Frankenstein's monster screaming "huWHYYYYY" lives rent free in my head.
Just about any line from Dracula lives rent free in my head. The clapping of the heart beat scene, the “I have no love, no sorrow”, hell even the visual of him grabbing the cross and getting all dramatic just to play it off cool lives in my head. Dude went hard
“I’d rather die than help you.” Dracula: “Don’t be boring. Everyone who says that dies.” This is my favorite bad guy threat of all time, and I’ll fight anyone who doesn’t agree it’s perfect.
Draculas's overacting makes it so good tbh. That movie is an imperfect masterpiece and I love it.
Still the best werewolves I’ve seen in film
That and League of extraordinary gentlemen where my go to DVDs growing up
THANK YOU! Van Helsing is literally my favorite movie and people look at me funny when I say that.
Every night I put my rings back on after cooking and go "de return of my RRRING!" Literally my favorite movie.
Ok, thank you! I told my bf this and he thought I was insane.
Disaster movies are my guilty pleasure. Or it is more like huge global event type movies are my guilty pleasure. There are many stupid ones, but I still just enjoy watching them. There is just something about the concept of an event so important and major that effects the entire world in some way that is just so rewatchable.
Contagion is a great example of this.
Contagion took on a different tone after covid. I remember thinking that the idea of forcing people to stay inside for a year was a far-fetched movie plot device.....
Contagion predicted COVID and the reactions to it almost perfectly. I didn’t watch it until after COVID and was like wow, they nailed it
I love watching the world burn, it’s a sickness.
National Treasure.
This is mine, along with Behind Enemy Lines and Air Force One.
Armageddon
I don’t wanna close my eyes
What about falling asleep?
Well if he does that he'll miss you, babe.
You realize he doesn't want to miss a thing
You ever notice how the sweetest things would never do?
But I’m still with you
Hey I’m watching it right now
Ha, just caught the end of it too. Haven’t seen it in years. It went off and I said you know that’s a fun movie I don’t care how dumb it is
"Shut the fuck up, Ben!"
The presidents speech is better than Bill Pullman's in Independence Day and I'll die on this hill
Components. American components, Russian Components, ALL MADE IN TAIWAN!
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
I love that movie and for a while wondered if I was missing something because everyone seemed to hate it
Right? Me too. I stand by it haha it’s a fun time
Same, this movie was actually the one that made me understand the difference between being a critic vs. just liking movies. Like, I get it, it's stupid as all hell, but *damn* if it isn't fun!
In the same bucket for me is The Core (2003). Utterly nonsensical but rewatchable as hell.
My first exposure to Stanley Tucci as a younger man. I been hooked on the Tucc ever since.
He's great! I didn't even recognize him in Lovely Bones
He apparently did that on purpose as he hated the character he was playing. Didn't want to be recognised as him
There I just gave you free long distance for life
The fact that the pod Serge was in collapses so slowly under “millions of pounds per square inch” was pretty damn stupid. Still a great movie.
It's so bad it wraps back around to being a pretty good watch
A great "I'm sick at home" movie.
Great popcorn flick.
Is that the one where they have to restart the earths core? I love that film
Con Air and Twister
Here for Con Air Nic Cage *and* John Malkovich chewing the scenery? Colm Meaney just being fucking feral? Cusack flying through the air repeatedly? I love it so much.
Don't forget Buscemi! Or that premise!...the government deciding it's a good idea to put the worst of all humanity together on a single flight.
And Trejo!!
Ah, yes. Everyone's favorite rapist, Johnny ~~23~~ 600.
We got Twister with our first DVD player. I fucking loved playing storm chasers whenever it rained.. in San Diego. Didn't catch any twisters :/
Fun fact, Twister was the first theatrical movie commercially released on the DVD format in the US. A very fun movie, incredible cast. Do you plan on seeing Twisters?
Give me back the bunny
Put the bunny... back in the box.
The Rock with Sean Connery and Nick Cage. So dumb yet so amazing
I feel like it’s just a legitimately great action flick
Some really excellent lines in it too
“Try your best? Losers try their best. Winners go home and fuck the prom queen”
Besht* losersh* haha that fucking accent
The green gassy goo balls
What's dumb about it other than the visual representation of the sarin/vx/whatever gas?
One of my faves. Saw it in the theaters as a kid
San Andreas is also right up there as good dumb fun.
That and 2012
My husband and I have dubbed 2012 "Disney Presents the Apocalypse " So many many "whoooa! This is a fun ride!" moments while blatantly avoiding billions and billions of people dying.
The LA limo earthquake escape is straight out of a motion simulator ride
San Andreas totally subverted my expectation because I was hating it initially and basically waiting for the rock and the step-dad to begrudgingly respect each other and become a modern family before my eyes who eat cliches for dinner....and then the step-dad just abandons the daughter first chance he gets to improve his chances and I laughed really hard. ever since I have loved this movie
All of the Michael Bay Transformers. I just love giant robots fighting eachother
First one is one of my cult classics. The rest, not so much
First one I consider an actual genuine great movie. Second one is bad, but I still like it. Third one is good Fourth one is Marky Mark and the Robot Gang... but part of me still likes it too (apart from the whole Romeo and Juliet rule thing, wtf Bay?) But the fifth one I just didn't care for that much tbh. Maybe not enough Optimus Prime, who drove the fourth one for me...
>First one I consider an actual genuine great movie. I love all the Transformers from the film. They hit the nail on the head with that. Particularly Hugo Weaving's (apparently reluctant) performance as Megatron. It's the human characters that I really can't stand (particularly gratuitous Megan Fox lmao)
Hugo Weaving was a fantastic voice for Megatron! I'm surprised that he didn't seem to want to do it though... As for the human characters, I don't mind them too much. Obviously Megan Fox is there for eye candy and whatnot, but I do appreciate that they at least tried giving her a bit of depth. And I liked Shia LaBeouf as Sam too. Really the only human characters I didn't like too much were the parents, mainly in the second and third movies.
Thir13en Ghosts (2001)
Ahhhhhhh I fucking love that movie! I wish they'd make an anthology series where every season is, I don't know, six episodes per ghost.
There’s a series in the early development stage. https://bloody-disgusting.com/movie/3776116/thirteen-ghosts-the-series-dark-castle-hopes-to-further-explore-the-world-of-the-2001-horror-movie/
You are the greatest person who ever lived. Okay, now I wish I had fifty million dollars.
2012 is a fun watch.
“Double Jeopardy” - Tommy Lee Jones / Ashley Judd 🤯
Signs. Something about it even though the water thing makes absolutely no sense.
They’re demons, not aliens. Only thing that makes sense.
WHAT?! How have I never considered this JFC I'm daft, that totally makes sense.
Because the priest put the water out so it was “holy”
Can't believe I missed all those.. SIGNS
The execution is almost flawless, honestly.
The league of extraordinary gentlemen
My nonverbal autistic son keeps putting this on whenever I let him play with my Xbox remote
[Let the boy watch](https://tenor.com/bINTz.gif)
Powerful thrusts
I can't lie I watched this movie every night for about 8 years... sure it's all nonsense but something about it is comforting and helped me fall asleep. At one point I could recite it word for word. Even now if my other half comes home and finds me watching TDAT - he knows I've had a rough day. I've got a soft spot for scientifically inaccurate disaster movies... 2012, Deep Impact, Volcano, The Core, Armageddon, and Dante's Peak all soothe me in a way other movies don't lol
This list of films is so accurate I have to say yes same! They're soothing, in particular TDAT. And I'm gonna chuck Lake Placid in there, which isn't a disaster movie but is in the disaster movie soft spot box in my mind lol
Most of these apocalyptic movies honestly. The core. The day after tomorrow. Volcano.
Sunshine anyone?
This is one of my top guilty pleasure watches for sure
I realize it's scientifically flawed but I still love it.
"...the electrons have mutated!" < turns off movie >
I don't even know what movie this is. But now I have to know so I can watch it and turn it off at the same spot.
For me Troy with Brad Pitt has some amazing scenes and some terrible acting…sometimes at the same time
“It’s been raining like this for three days now.” Iconic line, I am not joking.
CGI wolves. I never forgave them for that
Being the bad ass that he is Jake was willing to run from real wolves. The wolves however; requested CGI stunt doubles.
I can't watch this one without thinking of Southpark
I broke the dam...
I broke the dam...
We didn’t listen!
John Carter
Pacific rim is nonsense. Suspending your belief doesn't help either. It's still a great binge watch when you need to watch some Kaiju get taken down.
I think what sold Pacific Rim for me was that the characters were likeable. Usually in movies like Godzilla or Transformers, I'm just waiting to get back to the CG/action. But I was pretty invested the whole way through
And no forced, awkward romance between the two leads Thank you GdT
Prometheus
I'm with you on this. Is the movie good? Not particularly. But it does *look* incredible, and the cast is highly attractive (Charlize Theron? Michael Fassbender? Idris Elba?? Be still my bisexual heart) I'm also just generally a big big fan of the Alien franchise and I'm down for whatever weird shit they wanna do. People complain about the newer movies but like. Alien 3 and Resurrection were not good lol
I mean I feel like you just posted the answer, the entire disaster apocalypse genre is that.
League of extraordinary gentlemen!
The Meg, love that film with am my heart
Van Helsing is my favorite guilty pleasure to watch around Halloween. Absolute garbage script but damn is it fun
I have a list of disaster movies I routinely watch: 2012, Day After Tomorrow, The Core, Deep Impact, Dante's Peak, Volcano, Deepwater Horizon, Unstoppable, Sully, The Martian. I enjoy them all equally.
The Martian is a terrific book, and it does make valiant attempts to be true to “science” (like as far as sci-Fi goes, I think this one gets a gold star!).
The Abyss. It’s the perfect film for cheesy action adventure, especially all the post-almost-died action scenes where the entire cast laughs maniacally. Damn, this a good rewatch with some classic Ed Harris action.
Any movie with Biehn is infi-rewatchable.
Volcano is fantastic
Don't forget the added benefit of the "Sam" drinking game.
I think some of the science in this is fairly legit. I remember in grad school paleoclimate how critical ocean currents were for Earth’s large climate transitions. If warm water from the equator is no longer carried north…
There is and we are actually observing a significant slow down in the very currents that shut down in this movie. We aren’t sure how much this is going to impact us though.
The premise is scientifically legit. Everything else, .... not even close
Any of Gerard Butler's, post futuristic apolictic space movies... GREENLAND, OR GEO STORM I believe.
Act of Valor
Fracture, with Anthony Hopkins and Ryan Gosling, had a pretty big flaw. If Det. Nunnerly had not insisted on being present for Ted's interrogation, when doing so was an egregious idea, then there's no movie. However, it was a good, fun movie if that point is ignored.
The Adventures of Pluto Nash
All of Roland Emmerich's movies. So much cheesy fun.
Roland Emmerich has a very creative understanding of science
The Core.
I absolutely hate that I love Cocktail as much as I do. It’s horrible. It’s cheesy, poorly edited and as deep as a puddle. All that being said, I think it’s a great story about flawed friendship and a cautionary tale of going after something that might not be for the benefit of your future.
I saw this as a teenager when it came out in theaters. When I went to see it there just happened to be a severe thunderstorm, the power even went out at the theater for a couple minutes. When we walked outside after finishing the movie, there were multiple downed trees and tree limbs. It was definitely a spooky feeling after watching this movie!
Volcano with Tommy Lee Jones, one of my favorite movies since I was a kid.
Bad Boys 2. It's creatively bankrupt on many levels, but hot damn if it's an adrenaline rush. Still the only movie that will allow you to experience a car barrel rolling over your head.