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Impacts and Insights of Gorkha Earthquake in Nepal
Book
Impacts and Insights of Gorkha Earthquake in Nepal offers a practical perspective on disaster risk...
Merissa (12822 KP) created a post
May 20, 2022
Geotechnics for Catastrophic Flooding Events
Book
Geotechnics for Catastrophic Flooding Events presents the keynote lectures (book, 264 pages) and...
Sheridan (209 KP) rated 2012 (2009) in Movies
Jul 12, 2017
Special Effects (1 more)
Cast
Overdone Disaster Film Concept (1 more)
Unoriginal Storyline
An Overdone Concept.
So this 'the world is going to end because we treated Earth like a garbage can' concept, while a very valid point, is severely overdone. I liked this film because the special effects were very good and I enjoy these type of disaster films. The storyline is very 'old hat' but the cast did a good job at pulling it off despite this. Would I watch it again? Maybe.
Dianne Robbins (1738 KP) rated Into The Storm (2014) in Movies
Jun 1, 2019
Acting (2 more)
Script
Scenarios
It's not great
I love disaster movies. Unfortunately, this is a disaster of a movie. The scenarios are not realistic. The supposed professionals do not react in the way they should. Anyone living in tornado alley would be so much more savvy about weather patterns and predictions and know how to take them seriously. This movie is probably cool for younger folks without much experience with extreme weather but it's pretty lame for us older folks.
Dean (6927 KP) rated Airport (1970) in Movies
Mar 17, 2018
The first of the Airport disaster films. I remember seeing most of them on Sunday afternoons on TV as a young kid. Big budget blockbusters for the time with an all star cast! I think there were three sequels in the end Airport '75, '77 and '79 concorde! Check them out, still pretty good films and few disaster films about planes have been made since to this standard.
Not too mention it inspired two of the funniest spoof films (Airplane) as well!
Not too mention it inspired two of the funniest spoof films (Airplane) as well!
Emma @ The Movies (1786 KP) rated Thirteen Minutes (2021) in Movies
Feb 25, 2022
A new disaster film, cue excitement. Even a low budget disaster film can be good…
Life is disrupted when a storm turns its eye on a small town. Residents are tested, and they must put their differences aside to help each other make it through safely.
... that thing I said above about even low budget disaster films being good? Yeah, I don’t know how much this cost (I’m assuming not a lot), but it was not good.
This could have been a great short that ran 13 minutes, instead, it’s 1 hour and 48 minutes long. Those extra 95 minutes are made of bloated storylines, and while they overlap, none of them really have any weight. Removing a couple could easily have allowed the others more time to develop and actually let the viewer become more invested.
Out of the cast I can’t really call out anyone. There are faces you’ll recognise from other things, and they’re generally solid actors, but in this... there wasn't really a lot for them to work with.
There are many moments that defy sensible behaviour, as you'd expect from a disaster film. Only one amused me, while the others were mainly annoying.
You either need to take yourself seriously, or embrace the inevitable ridiculousness behind the idea. If this had leaned hard into the ridiculousness it could have been great. 13 Minutes disappointed on so many levels that adding truly terrible effects may actually have helped! I won’t need to watch this again, a disaster film that barely has a disaster in it was not what I signed up for.
[Side note: Initially I gave this 2 out of 5 stars. I have since retracted a star for this film's sheer audacity.]
Originally posted on: https://emmaatthemovies.blogspot.com/2022/02/13-minutes-movie-review.html
Life is disrupted when a storm turns its eye on a small town. Residents are tested, and they must put their differences aside to help each other make it through safely.
... that thing I said above about even low budget disaster films being good? Yeah, I don’t know how much this cost (I’m assuming not a lot), but it was not good.
This could have been a great short that ran 13 minutes, instead, it’s 1 hour and 48 minutes long. Those extra 95 minutes are made of bloated storylines, and while they overlap, none of them really have any weight. Removing a couple could easily have allowed the others more time to develop and actually let the viewer become more invested.
Out of the cast I can’t really call out anyone. There are faces you’ll recognise from other things, and they’re generally solid actors, but in this... there wasn't really a lot for them to work with.
There are many moments that defy sensible behaviour, as you'd expect from a disaster film. Only one amused me, while the others were mainly annoying.
You either need to take yourself seriously, or embrace the inevitable ridiculousness behind the idea. If this had leaned hard into the ridiculousness it could have been great. 13 Minutes disappointed on so many levels that adding truly terrible effects may actually have helped! I won’t need to watch this again, a disaster film that barely has a disaster in it was not what I signed up for.
[Side note: Initially I gave this 2 out of 5 stars. I have since retracted a star for this film's sheer audacity.]
Originally posted on: https://emmaatthemovies.blogspot.com/2022/02/13-minutes-movie-review.html
Rams (2020)
Movie
A decades-long feud between two sheep farming brothers comes to a head when disaster strikes their...